Goodwill, NextStep, or Saint Vincent de Paul. You could also asking the people at Video Game Headquarters for advice on where to find one. They’ve been able to help me track down a variety of random niche gaming stuff.
@dreamsprite @ch0ccyra1n Seconding this. I got my combo CRT + VCR at Goodwill near Thurston.
Don’t know for sure but the best I can think of is the Goodwill Computer Store over on Delta Oaks or the NextStep shop.
Agree with the other respondent; that Goodwill store is the best one I’ve ever been to! Hopefully you also got an A520 modulator with the computer, else you might be limited to the black-and-white composite video signal out the computer’s RCA jack. Tough/expensive to find a display compatible with the 15KHz RGB signal out the 23-pin connector.
@thouartfrugal luckily it did in-fact come with an A520 modulator! Saves me a lot of potential headache.
NextStep recycling or local estate sales
I gotta ask, what are you doing with such an ancient relic? Whatever it is, sounds like a fun project.
@kescusay well, I have a few ideas:
- The Amiga came with a bunch of floppies, including some which were magazine demo disks, some of which haven’t been archived anywhere online from what I can tell so I’m definitely going to back those up.
- Play some of the games that came with it, such as SimCity and the port of Dragon’s Lair II.
- Make some music with ProTracker.
- I might actually try to write a game for it since there’s a lot of documentation specifically about C programming for it and that’s something I have a lot of experience in.
Those are all awesome ideas, especially the game development!
