For those Odyssey2 and Videopac fans out there, John Dondzila at Classic Game Creations has come out with a new 233-in-1 Multi-Cart for these systems. You can bet this will be on display at the MGC ’10 show, in the UC area of course!
And it is only $40! You can’t beat that price!
I don’t have time for a few weeks due to some college tests coming up, but I did finally get the Apple IIe enhancement kit. Once I get that put into the IIe, I can start testing and using the MicroDrive I got for that computer. I really want the IIe in the show for 2010, and can hopefully get some great games running on the MicroDrive.
Till then, keep your stick on the ice… 
NPD sales figures for September 2009 (U.S.) show a slight increase in overall sales. The recent price drops helped with console sales figures (numbers, not money), but software sales are moving up to fill that gap.
The biggest change in September was the move of the PS3 to the #2 sales spot. This is of course due to the $299 new base price. I would expect the Wii drop to $199 to change that next month. Overall sales of consoles jumped a lot since the prior month, but the NPD put in an extra week, and that explains some of the jumps.
NPD figures for September 2009 are:
Hardware:
Software (top games for September 2009):
The 360 took most of the top ten for September. No surprise at all that Halo got #1. Nice to see Wii Sports Resort coming in at the #2 spot (yeah, I’m a Wii fan – but not a fan-boy). Also great to see a DS game in there, with Mario & Luigi. I still find it amazing how well the console sells (DS), but very few games make the top ten. As for the rest of the top ten, there is a nice mix.
And there you have it for September 2009. Xmas is getting closer, and I expect the numbers to rise until then.
I had enough time the last week of September to do a bit of testing on the new MicroDrives I bought from ReactiveMicro. I put in the IIgs one (they sell a IIe and IIgs version), and it booted up wonderfully. I copied over the entire contents of my old SCSI drive, which did not take long at all, and so far everything is working like a charm. I’ve been using it a bit for the last week now, and have had no problems at all.
I stumbled across ReactiveMirco.com early this year, and just recently bought the above mentioned MicroDrives. The MicroDrive is an IDE controller card for the IIe or IIgs that is setup to use Compact Flash Cards in place of a hard drive. I can’t vouch for the IIe one yet, but the IIgs version (in particular, the Turbo one) is simply fantastic! It is so wonderful to have my rather noisy old SCSI drive shut off now. Sometimes it is hard to believe the computer is on with the new MicroDrive. Plus the MicroDrive works very well, with an installed 256MB Compact Flash Card, broken up into partitions (since GS/OS cannot handle partitions larger than 32MB at a time). As for overall speed, it is somewhat faster than using my old SCSI drives. I need to play with this thing a lot more, but for now, I’m more than satisfied with this new piece of hardware for my old Apple IIgs. For anyone out there with a working (enhanced) IIe or IIgs, I would highly recommend the MicroDrive!
Thus, at this point, the IIgs is officially in the UC ’10 display. I will need to do some more work on it, and see about adding a few games, but the system is in for sure!
Now all I need to do is get the IIe enhancement chips so I can get the IIe MicroDrive up and running.
