Update July 13th. 2009

The past few months have been very nostalgic - getting back to the DOS and early Windows games namely. Many suspicious packages have arrived in the post - mainly from Holland (!) - so there will be plenty to fill the next update! That is not to say that this update is miserable - far from it. The past couple of months have been no less hectic at “DeadPc Towers”, but more inclined towards games and software. Back to some hardcore hardware in the next update, so!

DeadPcTv: In case you missed it on the homepage, my YouTube channel has gained approximately 30 new video clips of in-game footage since the last site update. You will find everything from Toca2 to SWIV 3-D!

PS2: This is among the newer consoles which I now posses.

PS2 games: As the name suggests. I’d even begun buying them before I got a PS2!

PS1 Games: New section, quite a few oldies but goodies!

Videopac Games: 31 scans of classic Philips videopac games, 1978 - 1982

CDi Software: A few strange but interesting titles for the Philips CDi

EuroRomCard: These strange little ‘discs’ cost, as you might have guessed, €1 each. They’re small ( about twice the size of a matchbox ) and very square. Strange indeed ...

Bring back the 1980’s: Live Aid, Espana 82 ... you get the idea

Atari Zone: 5.25 Software added

Good Tubes: Bigger and better: 12 new picks added!

Update 25th. April 2009

It’s that time again ... wow, what a busy couple of months these have been! Space has become a bit of an issue, but that never put me off before and it certainly won’t now. In terms of computers themselves, I have hardly stopped since the last update: the amount of software is really catching up with the Hardware. Expect to see lots more of it both on the site, and in action on my Youtube channel DeadPcTv, in the coming months.

New Category: Children’s: Yes, those vertically challenged people now have a section. Well, I couldn’t think of anywhere else to fit a Vtech Precomputer 2000.

New Category: Atari ST Games: 27 scans for your viewing pleasure

Cover Disks: 85 + new scans / descriptions added. There are now 91 pictures in gallery.

Stichting Pokey’s Magazine: From the early 1990’s, these were club - published magazines / software for the Atari

New category: Playstation One Games: 17 scans

Commodore C64C (#2): No, not production #2, but my second ... actually third ... of this particular model. It varies in a slight and interesting way from the ones I already have ...

Sega Megadrive: This essential console eluded me for quite a while, so I bought it just so that you wouldn’t laugh at me. It’s also great fun :))) 27 Photo’s

Sega Master: The Megadrive before it went on a diet. 16 Photo’s

Big Box Software: 100 photo’s / scans of everything from ‘Interstate 82’ to ‘Dr. Solomon’s Antivirus’, the 1993 version!

Nintendo Game Boy / Games: I picked this one up in late ‘08. The six games got a category of their own too!

PS One: The portable edition of the Playstation 1.

Philips Videopac G7000 (#2): Yet more photo’s of the Videopac ( Genesis ) but different machine. And to think that they talk about ‘duplication’ in these harsh economic times!

Videosports Skylark - 124 TV Sports console: not much to say about this one really. Basic pong, made in the far east. Yawn.

Sega Megadrive + Master Games: A few examples I picked up for both consoles.

DeadPcTv: In case you missed it on the home page, we have quite a few additions here too: Philips Videopac and Sega Megadrive game footage, to be precise! There are also 5 videos of Swiv 3-D, the 1996 PC classic from Sci

Good Tubes: 10 new videos which I have found exciting during my extensive Youtube wanderings.

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Update - 11th. March 2009

This update took some time I’m afraid - mostly down to some ‘migration problems’ between one PC and another. All is well again and the site has been super - tested ( I have the baggy eyes to prove it ). Nonetheless, if you hit on a picture of Pamela Anderson or my cat instead of a computer, it will be entirely coincidental.

It’s been a while ... but I’ve been collecting all of the time, putting many a Beaver to shame. This site is getting big - much bigger than I’d anticipated at the outset - but six months or so on, it’s still fun and getting more and more fun as I learn more about the technology that drives websites. Enough of all that, here’s what’s new!

New Category - Electronic Organizer: Sharp EL-6320 / Sharp ZQ-475 / Casio SF-7200SY / Casio SF S-780

Printers: Citizen IDP - 620 ( Two tone, for VIC-20 )

Consoles: Sinclair ZX80 / Novex TV 9010-C / Commodore Amiga A-500 Plus / Computer Electro ( Dutch ) / Amstrad CPC 6128 / Tandy Air Sea Battle / Nintendo N64

Calculators: Commodore GL 979-D / Texas Instruments TI-1265

Software: A.N.G. ( Atari )

Modems: Hayes Accura 336 Message Modem

Dumb PC: A new dumb-ism spotted!

Welcome to the 1980’s: Substantially updated. You can almost see the guys with mascara.

Good Tubes: Endless trawls of YouTube have thrown up 8 new gems for your viewing pleasure!

DeadPcTv: Last but not least, my own YouTube channel, launched January 2009. Some in - game footage from days of yore; many more to come!

Update - 07th. December 2008

DESKTOPS: COMPAQ EVO ADDED. Okay, this is borderline ‘old’, but I just had to include it. This is now among my newer desktops! I picked up this machine at my local dump. I was reluctant to take it from the heap of dead fax machines, Televisions and so on: after all, surely such a good looking machine could not be just dumped for no good reason?

The good news is, for the most part, this was indeed the case! The 20 gb. Hard Drive was clearly dead ( clicking noise ), and strangely it was fitted with incompatible SDRAM memory modules. Apart from these glitches, I have myself a fully functional Pentium 4 / 1.6 ghz.

The only other problem I encountered was an error message about the CMOS battery being dead. I’m currently waiting on 1 GB. of PC133 RAM to wing it’s way from the U.K. to replace the PC100 RAM that was in it. I ‘borrowed’ a 6.4 gb. hard drive from another machine. This Compaq is a lovely design, and even better, and it also has fitted a ZIP 250 drive which I wanted ( they may be low capacity, but at least they don’t scratch like CD-R’s! ). Happy days! I also came away with a C64 Cartridge ‘Terminator 2’, which I already have but I’m greedy.

MORGUE: FIRST PC ADDED. The Morgue has finally got it’s first ‘Victim’. Yes, an unidentified PII with some interesting enough hardware on board. Actually I should rephrase that: “interesting enough hardware for around 1998”. This particular machine came from the very same source as the above EVO. I was bored that week, what can I say ....

NEW SECTION: COMPUTING TIPS. A very, very general page with stuff that I think you can’t live without ( truth: I haven’t learned much, but here it is anyway ).

SITE: Apart from a complete re - vamp of the Homepage, the site navigation buttons have changed yet again - this being the last revision. Navigation on the 2nd. level has been improved: previous structure was a bit messy.

NEW SECTION: WELCOME TO THE 1980’s! It had to happen eventually. I have now officially ‘outed’ myself as a victim of the ‘80’s. While two dots moving across a computer monitor was jaw - droppingly amazing back then, other ‘great’ things were happening too. This section is only getting going, but the aim is to create a ‘themed’ page to reflect that great decade.

NEW SECTION: FREE AND FEATURED. This is now a regular Homepage item: genuinely useful software that I have discovered for free. Near the top of page.

NEW SECTION: GOOD TUBES! As you probably guessed, the customary linkies to You Tube. I’ve spent many hours browsing, so I hope you enjoy the stuff and haven’t seen it all before! Down the side of page a bit.

NEW SECTION: HOT LINK. As per ‘Free and Featured’ my personal favourite links. Bottom left of page, darlings ...

**** Despite the Worldwide ‘Credit Crunch’ I am back in touch with a nice Ebayer in the U.K. who comes up with interesting stuff on a regular basis. Keep an eye out over Christmas! ****

**** Update: I have bought a Sinclair ZX80 from the U.S. My camera has packed in, so I hope to get some decent pics. up over Christmas too. The Sinclair cost more than I could afford, and my God it’s small! ****

FEATURED: C-64, Amiga Games, Internet Setup Disks, Atari 400, Nintendo NES

  Update - October 2008

Games: Amiga games added ( see featured )

PDA: Casio pictures added, EM-500 gallery added, Palm Pilot / V galleries added

Calculators: Several Commodore pics. Added, Atari Calculator gallery added

Consoles – new galleries added: NES, Coleco ( 1975 ), Videomaster Strika 2, Sinclair Spectrum +2, Videomaster Colour Score, C64 Canada Winter Olympics ’88 edition ( see featured ), Goldstar 3DO, MB Microvision Games, Adman Model 2000, Acetronic MPU 1000, Atari 400

Desktops: Apple LcII, Siemens Nixdorf 486

New Category added: Internet Disks ( see featured )

Misc: Modems added

Box Art: 1 photo added – new subpage ‘Other’

Laptops: New photo’s added to Dell XPi gallery / new sub - pages

Several tweaks have been performed: namely, those navigation buttons on the left side. I am well aware that the old ones were hard to define - in fact like a trip to the optician’s, according to some. I’m still not overjoyed with them, but I am sure that you will agree they are easier to read. I’m trying to strike a balance between the fact that the site is getting pretty big, and ‘usability’. The large amount of sections is slightly limiting in terms of how big I can make the buttons / text.

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