Retro Goodness

I've started assembling my retro gaming rig. Here you can see my Dreamcast, PSOne and SNES hooked up to a 17" Belinea PC monitor. The Dreamcast is hooked up directly, using a dedicated VGA adaptor, and the picture is stunning. The PSOne and SNES are connected to a fabulous Chinese gadget that sucks in a PAL TV signal or composite video and outputs a 640x480 VGA picture for the monitor to display (£13 on eBay - tops). The PSOne also has the official Sony TFT screen attached, and the video output from the Dreamcast goes into this as well. so that if something doesn't support the VGA box I can see an output straight away.

Just to note, on top of the Dreamcast there's a couple of CD cases (for, erm, backups...), the Atari Collection for the PSOne (five quid in Game Station) and Jet Set Radio for he Dreamcast. On the screen is an inter-round animation from Super Mario Kart on the SNES.

I will soon be adding a multi-SCART switchbox thing to take the strain off the little adaptor wire on the VGA box thing, and getting at least one of my Spectrums ("Spectra" perhaps?) hooked up. Just won a ZX81 on an eBay auction, and I'm looking to add an N64, Atari 2600 and a Megadrive to this little lot.

So, my subscription to Retro Gamer is paying off!