Here's an interesting story: We had gotten around most of the car boot and bought nothing but a Dreamcast with a bunch of pirated games (it was a fiver and my old Dreamcast has the annoying reset issue). Then I spied a table covered in Amstrad tapes and 3.5" disks.

"Weren't you here last week?", enquired a voice. I looked up and noticed that it was the child who sold me the Amstrad CPC6128. "Didn't you buy the keyboard?", he continued. "The Amstrad? I did indeed", I replied. "This is the rest of the stuff to go with it - I forgot it last time", came his response.

That's quite a lot to forget.

Everything but the Dreamcast is what he "forgot". 27 issues of Amstrad Action (which he wanted £20 for, last time), hundreds of disks, dozens of tapes, the proper colour monitor for the CPC6128, a few ROM packs, a printer, a monitor cover, a few boxes of blank 3.5" disks and an external 3.5" floppy drive.

The original asking price was £35, but I got it for £25, which seems like a good deal to me. I very nearly didn't buy it, though - because I knew I'd have difficulty making room for it. I'm glad that I did, even if the trip back to the car was painful (I'd parked the furthest away possible). The seller was cool and helped carry some of the stuff!

It all seems to work fine. Well, the CPC6128, monitor and the few 3" disks I tried worked fine. I've not yet figured out how to use the 3.5" drive and disks. I've not even tried the printer (I don't have the lead)...

The Dreamcast turned out to be slightly faulty, much to my annoyance. Not because I paid a great deal, but because I bought it to replace my existing Dreamcast (which is also faulty). The new one often has trouble reading disks (not sure if it's the motor or laser at fault), but does work sometimes - and it doesn't seem to suffer from the resetting problem, which is a bonus. Maybe I'll mix and match the parts to get a working Dreamcast. Or maybe I'll pick up another one from the next car boot. :P