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Hello to Everyone
dexxy:
Hi BobA, so you remember the fun times :) banging away at those old keyboards, funny but I still have my Apple ][ still running, most of my disks from the 80's still work! Now if I could get past level 4 in Crossfire I'd be set!
Here's a pic of my cnc, took me a year on and off to make it
Nice Carvings Wow! What creativity!!! Man thats funny, I remember many crazy nights similar to that trying to debug old 6502 or apple basic stuff :)
nox771, I use mostly Rhino 3D with RhinoCam and Mach3 on my controller. Seems to work great for most of the things I do. I also have aspire but haven't really made use of it as much as I'd like (its expensive!) but I haven't done much with signs, I wanted to use it more for slicing and dicing things.
I'll post some build pics soon!
mgb:
Hi Dexxy,
welcome to the forum, I look forward to watching your progress. Good luck with the build
nox771:
Nice CNC - that thing is big enough to mill out the whole cab side panel :cheers:
I actually remember Crossfire. I used to do a lot of Apple IIgs assembly coding a long time ago, but it's been a while. Recently someone pointed me to this browser plugin which runs an emulated GS (essentially a Kegs frontend): http://activegs.freetoolsassociation.com/ It can run standalone too, but for non-GS stuff I prefer AppleWin. Back when I first discovered those I burned through a few days playing Rescue Raiders, and found it to be just as hard as it was 20 years ago (still an awesome game though).
BobA:
Nice CNC, you will definitely have the advantage when building your cab(s). Looks like a great machine. Got rid of my Apple collection at a garage sale 7 or 8 years ago. Nice to have but too much space was being taken up by stuff that i never touched. ???
dexxy:
Rescue Raiders hasn't gotten any easier for me too! Great game!!
Here's a pic of my cab in Rhino. I've generated the gcode and just have to get to the lumber store. But I have to figure out my monitor situation. I can get a 32" LCD with VGA input pretty cheap these days, the cab is currently sized for that, but will it be too big? I don't have a 21" crt around and don't really feel like sourcing one. Any opinions on what I should do?
My 12" blue neon rings came in today so I'm all set for hardware. They seem to be getting pretty rare. I have to figure out the marquee and cp graphics but with all the high quality images out there it should be pretty easy.
I got my Indy 500 working great as well!
So its now time for some extra-curricular :)
All the best on this great weekend :)!