Well, the last few days just sort of flew by, apologies for the lack of posts once again! I can show you the reason why I kept forgetting though — we spent most of the weekend doing this!
This is my upstairs study, which most of you probably know as the place I sit to record intros for my videos. It's been a bit of a state for a while — most notably covered in dust since my wife's most recent DIY spree — so this weekend we took some time to give it a proper deep clean, put things away that didn't need to be out, and rearrange the storage space to make the whole thing be a lot more practical. The results are very pleasing indeed!
If you're wondering what the marks on the side of the chair are, they are the result of a certain cat discovering that a Gamer Chair is the ideal thing to use as a scratching post. The perils of living with such beasts.
Here's a closer look at the desk. I've got the 1MB Atari STE out on the left, and the 130XE Atari 8-bit on the right. Both can easily be connected to the 14 inch Trinitron monitor via RGB SCART, as can all the consoles on the shelves behind except for the N64, which doesn't have RGB output. It does have standard SCART output, at least.
Above the desk there's an NES, a SNES, an N64 and a Mega Drive. There's an Atari 2600 atop the TV, too. I still only have two games for that; I should look into grabbing some more.
A look at the shelves. On the left is all Atari ST stuff — mostly games, but there's also some educational, productivity and music software there, too. On the right is mostly PC games, with some boxed Atari 8-bit stuff towards the bottom and on the very top shelf above the consoles.
And finally another angle on the desk. You can just about see the display of Philips Videopac cartridges at the back. The Philips isn't out at the moment as it takes up a lot of space, but it's just inside a cupboard (out of shot to the right) so can be set up at a moment's notice if I fancy a game of Satellite Attack or Munchkin.
The flatscreen TV that's there has a Chromecast attached to it, and I'll likely use it as a sort of second monitor if I'm doing work up here — which I now have space to do, so that will be nice.
Anyway, that's the result of a very tiring weekend! Now I sleep, and hopefully with considerably fewer weird dreams than I had last night!
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