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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Hello Kitty XBox 360 Elite
Here’s Amy with her new(ish) “unofficial” Hello Kitty edition XBox 360 Elite. It’s a regular XBox 360 Elite, but with a large Hello Kitty sticker we bought from the market. Click for bigger images…
Hello Kitty XBox 360 Elite
Amy has a Hello Kitty problem...
Commodore 1084s XBox monitor revisited
As mentioned in my previous post I’ve hooked a Commodore 1084s monitor up to my XBox instead of a knackered old 14 inch telly. As requested, here are some photos of it…
Commodore 1084s monitor connected to an XBox showing XBMC
Rear of a Commodore 1084s monitor from 1992
Braving the Christmas Sales
I went into HMV to see if there was anything cheap the other day, and after squeezing past a few people I lost the will to live and walked out again. There could have been bargains, but I wasn’t in the mood to shuffle around trying to get to them.
Seriously people, when you’re in a shop, keep your spatial awareness turned on! Don’t stand there like a shop dummy, blocking the aisles. Are you queueing for the tills? Stand in a neat line, we’re British, it’s what we do. Women with pushchairs or small children, please tie them up outside so they can’t get in the way or make a mess. And yes, the shop is full of attention-grabbing things and I know it’s hard to stay focused, but please please look where you’re going and stop kneecapping me with your shopping bags and the heads of your bored children.
We did get an Xbox 360 Elite from Cash Converters for £119 though.
New uses for an old Commodore 1084S monitor
Back in the pixellated, pre-Internet days of the late 80s and early 90s, the thing to buy for your computer was a monitor. Unless you’ve been alive during the time when computers plugged into TVs this will seem quite strange, computers have always plugged into monitors, right?
While it’s true PC and Mac computers have always plugged into monitors, before Microsoft took over the planet it was quite normal for computers to plug into normal TVs, with all the fuzzy RF-induced shimmering mess that gives.
But you know all this, so what’s the point?
Well these monitors weren’t VGA, at best they were TTL RGB which is sort of like RGB SCART. Most monitors had composite inputs, or Chroma/Luma inputs – and sound. This makes them excellent monitors for plugging into DVD players or chipped XBoxes running XBMC. Sure, staring at a 14 inch monitor isn’t going to be fun from across the room, but it works really well in my bedroom on a bedside table.
The image is pin-sharp, doesn’t flicker or lose focus in the corners and is a lot better than the TV I was using.