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Non-Working Amiga 2000, potentially cheap yellow space invaders
« on: Sun, 23 March 2014, 19:03:57 »
The keyboard isn't working, but some of you out there may want the opportunity to get a less common space invaders variant and see if you can fix it or swap them over to another space invaders board.  If no one else wants it, I may grab it for myself to mess around with and review.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=321357450363&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:US:1123

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Re: Non-Working Amiga 2000, potentially cheap yellow space invaders
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 23 March 2014, 19:40:46 »
Who made those two dotted RGB stickers? I've seen them on a variety of old boards and it'll be nice to have a new set
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Re: Non-Working Amiga 2000, potentially cheap yellow space invaders
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 23 March 2014, 20:24:15 »
Wow, funky banana Space Invaders! It's kind of a shame that SI switches are such a tiny niche. The black ones I've tried really are nice.
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Re: Non-Working Amiga 2000, potentially cheap yellow space invaders
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 23 March 2014, 20:40:14 »
Here's another with whites.  It makes me wonder if some are yellow and some are that white/clear switch.
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Re: Non-Working Amiga 2000, potentially cheap yellow space invaders
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 25 March 2014, 18:31:07 »
Quote from: Techno Trousers on Sun, 23 March 2014, 20:24:15
Wow, funky banana Space Invaders! It's kind of a shame that SI switches are such a tiny niche. The black ones I've tried really are nice.

It's likely just a function of rarity. While you would have to also buy old stuff for original complicated alps, there were a million clones, and now also matias' new switch. This is sort of just it. I have 3 clicky SI. Personally I think they do what cherry does way better, they are compared to cherry blues alot, but I've recently sold my Das with blues that I never really used.
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Re: Non-Working Amiga 2000, potentially cheap yellow space invaders
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 25 March 2014, 19:31:24 »
I like the clicky ones and would love to have a true ANSI layout (horizontal Enter) but that will not happen.

I have some parts including a bunch of white switches (I replaced 2 dead blacks with whites, for example) and most of a set of caps, including that F8, so if you need something I might be able to help you for a few dollars plus shipping.

Last, I found out that if you mess up the end of a spring, you can cut it off and stretch it out, and it is very hard to tell the difference.
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Re: Non-Working Amiga 2000, potentially cheap yellow space invaders
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 25 March 2014, 19:54:08 »
This is a different one, not the one with a missing key.
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Re: Non-Working Amiga 2000, potentially cheap yellow space invaders
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 26 March 2014, 00:18:01 »
Hmm, since it has the two eyes, and is supposed to be linear, I wonder if it would have the click track on the back like the two eyed white ones do. Whoever gets this look at that.
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Re: Non-Working Amiga 2000, potentially cheap yellow space invaders
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 28 March 2014, 18:37:45 »
So who just got that with one bid?
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Re: Non-Working Amiga 2000, potentially cheap yellow space invaders
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 28 March 2014, 19:53:08 »
Not me, but I let it go when I saw it had one cheap bid.  Hopefully they post about it.
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