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  1. The internet speeds everything up so much it's all lost meaning and importance.

    1. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      Wasn't nearly as bad until smart phones hit the market.

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Just saw the news story about a kid who saved a school bus full of other kids when the driver had a seizure (?) or some kind of medical emergency.  The kid saw what was happening and grabbed the steering wheel and hit the brakes...And they said that Every other kid on the bus was on his/her phone and had no idea what was happening!

  2. Thing about AI is that WE ARE building it. And have been since electronic connectivity. We don't have to. It isn't commanding us to do so. Only basic human emotion of greed is.

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    2. x=usr(1536)

      x=usr(1536)

      @Keatah: agreed re: not writing the code, but AI's basically an arms race at this point.  Nobody's going to stop developing it because the other guy will just keep doing it.

       

      It's weird: growing up in the 1980s knowing that I and everyone I cared about may only have 12 minutes to live was a lot less frightening to me than the implications of this technology.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      HMMMmm,,,

       

       

      *doorbell*

       

      Hold on.  There's a Terminator at my door!  Wait,  Why'd he ring the bell?

       

      Hey IG-88!  Will ya answer that?  Show him your biggest blaster!

       

      **BLAMMO!**

       

      All right!   Who won?

       

      CYLON Voice:   I did!

       

       

      Oh Crap...

       

       

       

      Wait,  ,  CYLON,  Fetch me a Beer!

       

      By YOUR Command!

       

      COOL!

       

       

    4. dwh

      dwh

      I don't know if things are much better than the 80's. I currently live in between a shut down nuke plant with nuclear waste storage (the big ugly CA lie about having no nuke plants) , and an underground natural gas storage center that connects to two large natural gas pipes that run for who knows how many hundreds of miles. Also live right under the flight pattern of jets landing at Sacramento; at least they are still high up there and I do not hear them, and there are less flights due to the covid era. So I am always telling the jets not to crash here or at the two sites mentioned above...

      As far as the computer "experts" that are creating AI, it seems like a sickness,"We just have to develop this AI." 

      And don't even get me started on robots....

  3. Give this man a dollah! Altirra is good enough to be an official virtual machine.
  4. Got the itchies to purge all my vintage PC stuff and parts.

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    2. Keatah

      Keatah

      This isn't 8-bit stuff. All like DOS/WIN 90's stuff.

    3. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      Not my thing, but I thank you all the same.

      It's always treasure to someone.

    4. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      I never understand all this talk of antiques....Resistors,...Tubes...Ya got tubes?  Prolly takes up 2 rooms of the house with almost enough power to run a 10 line BASIC program...My advice is to take it all out back, build pedestals of various sizes using AOL CDs you were sent in the mail,  set your gear upon them, then grab a rifle and go to town.  Then tuck away the shredded refuse into the empty pockets of yer barrel and let the trashman get'em on Friday... ;)

  5. Hopefully. Not likely because people will buy at whatever price is listed. Eventually. And ebayers know that.
  6. FOMO doesn't affect my purchasing habits. Thankfully I grew up in the 70's & 80's, and that means I'm pretty immune to this FOMO nonsense. We learned the value of a dollah and patience and all that. Everything was sold equally everywhere as much as practical. I'm sure there were some mail-order only specials here and there, but the promotion periods were long enough that I didn't have to hustle my gluttonous fat-ass to get them. Today. Just no. No no no. No FOMO purchases for me. Since I am a Doom aficionado I checked LRG's offerings today while reading this thread. What could I get from there today? Nada! Nothing. Everything was either pre-ordered to the point of being sold out or was no longer available. Ok. Close the tab. But on ebay, there was plenty of Doom stuff available. Plenty of stuff that captures the essence of playing it for the first time in the 1990's. So ok! I still didn't buy anything, but I bookmarked/watched a strategy guide for Doom II and Descent. I'll purchase sometime in the coming month. No rush. No worries. No stress. No pre-order countdown clock watching. No fear of missing out. And then I have to ask, what does having a "limited release" version actually do for me? Does it elevate my status at the country club? Does it make me a more elite community member? Do my neighbors bow down to me more often? Do they whisper in hushed tones and meekly point as I stroll by, trembling in awe that I've got a special edition? Pretty sure none of that happens.
  7. Something like that, nope. Not gonna do. I don't mind the DLC model if the content is good, worthwhile, does genuine expansion, or makes the old game seem like a new expanded one. DLC can extend the life of an original work. All one has to do it look at add-on levels for Doom and similar.
  8. So very true. True also. In my case it was a way to build the AIO console I had dreamed about since 1980 - for real! One box that plays it all. And bonus points because it fits inside blanket forts and reading nooks with ease. The money savings are real. No chasing down console hardware, mods, controllers, and maintenance on it all.
  9. Very nicely done. These are really the way home computing is going nowadays. Little modules of compute power, put them where you need them. No need for those big-oxen BeigeBoxes and derivatives (except for gamers and special use situations). They're so easy to move around the house. And of course they run the much-vaunted Windows OS'es - which everyone on the planet is familiar with.
  10. You can set up different configurations by using different .ini files, and by specifying them on the command line. "C:\Program Files\1_classic_system_emulation\a800\Altirra.exe" /portablealt: "C:\Program Files\1_classic_system_emulation\a800\AltirraAuthenticNTSCColors.ini" The command, the /portablealt: switch, and the location of the config file itself. Each ini file, of which you can have hundreds, has all the options stored in it. It's all explained in the documentation. Upon exit, the file is updated. So you can lock it via windows explorer if you want a little more permanency.
  11. Sounds like a lot of work? Anyways, putting the one from Atari Mania through it's paces. So far ok.
  12. Well that is good to know. I'll mark (in my personal library) as a working correctly till proven otherwise. In the Apple II world I've had certain cracks reveal hardware issues - while other cracks of the same game work just fine. I assume the memory mapping is different among them and some just hit the bad bit. Tell me (or post) which version of the planetarium you're using and exactly what I have to do to get it to lock up. I'll test on Altirra and my friend's real hardware.
  13. All this back'n'forth has got me a little confused as to what's the definitive and complete working copy of this. I would assume the one at AtariMania is the gold standard?
  14. Atari OS is all the 8bit rigs ever needed.
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