WTB - working x68000 in the US

[awbacon]

Anyone have one they are willing to part with? Always wanted one + want to do a YT series on the platform.

Lmk.

 

[GutsDozer]

Someone get this man one now. He'll probably do incredible things with it and make awesome videos about it.

 

[awbacon]

Someone get this man one now. He'll probably do incredible things with it and make awesome videos about it.

haha thanks. Appreciate that. I want to do the standard full tear down and overview + do a lot of mod stuff (Pico power supply, max out ram, go SCSI2SD, etc etc)

 

[skate323k137]

SCSI2SD is a godsend.

Good luck on your hunt. I've always been interested in one of these myself but not enough to pull the trigger.

 

[Dr Shroom]

Don't do it.

 

[awbacon]

Don't do it.

lol well I need to keep Esoterica shit on "Esoterica" don't I?

 

[awbacon]

SCSI2SD is a godsend.

Good luck on your hunt. I've always been interested in one of these myself but not enough to pull the trigger.

yeah it's a great device. Especially for arcade stuff. Revived that Crypt Killer pcb with one...so easy

 

[sylvie]

Don't do it.

In fact, it was a Dr. Shroom post I read a few months ago that convinced me to not bother buying a X68.

But bacon is in the bizness, he's got an excuse.

 

[RAZO]

You could probably find a defective one on yaj for a decent price.

Probably just a bad power supply.

 

[awbacon]

You could probably find a defective one on yaj for a decent price.

Probably just a bad power supply.

That was my initial idea but I know 9/10 defective units will just have a shit power supply. I’ll manage to buy the 1/10 that has roaches and electrolytic fluid eating at the board.

I cleaned ONE thing from roach goo once in my years as a collector. Never doing that shit ever again

 

[Dr Shroom]

My first X68k had dead bugs in its keyboard

 

[awbacon]

My first X68k had dead bugs in its keyboard

the worst., Roach goo is just foul

 

[Tw3ek]

My first X68000 had dead bugs inside it and the power supply smelled like low tide at the pier.

Honestly, your best bet is probably to get a junk later model where you won’t have to worry about a NiCad battery on the mainboard

 

[Neo Alec]

My brother's was sold on Yahoo Japan as junk. Luckily it was able to boot games, despite the CMOS error message it always displayed. Never got rid of the message until recently. It was a great find. That was at least a decade ago though.

 

[awbacon]

My brother's was sold on Yahoo Japan as junk. Luckily it was able to boot games, despite the CMOS error message it always displayed. Never got rid of the message until recently. It was a great find. That was at least a decade ago though.

yeah I may just try and grab a "wont power on" junk one on YAJ and assume it just needs a power supply conversion to a Pico