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  2. Posted

    well.. I recently aquired this GIANOURMOUS old gateway 2000 case that I plan on modding for modern hardware. the thing has four 5.25 bays, and four floppy bays on the front.

    so at the very least I can have one optical bay for the FB2.0 card and selectors, and use a floppy bay for the cart port.

    personaly.. I'm no so concerned about showing off guts, but I may throw some wood grain contact paper on there at the controls :D

  3. Posted

    I'm going batty   :P

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    You were already batty the day you started posting here.

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    :lol: :lol: :lol:

     

    I'm getting a couple flashbacks. One I am going to make the slot in the side possibly, most likely in front. We'll see when that time comes. Another, is... going inside of my PC. This weekend I'm heading to Home Depot and get me some plexiglass. I plan on cutting my pc case to the very bare minimum, its all going to be plexiglass. Taking out the dvd-rw, and literally intergrading the flashback 2.0, with a cartridge slot coming out the top, into my computer. Should be fun :)

     

    Might even get some lights and make the thing glow.

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    I plan to shoehorn the whole thing into a 5.25 bay with cart slot, power tap off the computers ps, and pipe the audio and video directly into a cideo capture card

  4. Posted

    i mean woah just look at that guys kitchen table, yikes!

     

    good lord.. so this guy basicly built a VCS from scratch and shoe horned it intoa nomad?

     

    sick bastard, I give it to him.. he has more engineering skills than I, not to mention free time.. but I read design time as four hours.. thats either severe ADD, or cystal meth, or a combination of both.. either way.. nice project

  6. Posted

    I just pulled out a sega cart and found this amazing security screw...

    it looks to be a #2 torx with the pole in the middle..

    so heres what you do... go to a auto supply store..

    these screws are also used on a lot of foriegn cars.. they might have one

    theres also the ability to take a regualr torx driver, crank it down into a vice and using the smallest drill bit you got, possible something dremel, and turn it into your own little security driver

  7. Posted

    i've never seen the show, or have heard about it till now.. I just indtified with the scenerio.. I just have storage sheds behind my building that have been there since at least the fifties, and If they had power in them. then, I most likely would allready have one as a worklshop.. other wise..they are only good to me and the missus for an over flow of crap here in the apartment..

    collectivly..we collect too much crap, and now we're scrambling to find space to to put shit away when we have people in town for the wedding.. , but all the money is tied up in the wedding right now, so no money for the deposit on the unit's that cost $35 a month..

    eeh..what ya gonna do..

  8. Posted

    Hmmm... see "more wife problems" thread ;)

     

    Your not going to limit my ability to enjoy life because you consider it junk. Let's talk about that pink bathroom you've taken so much care to decorate .... and btw, those flowers on the wall are dead :)

     

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    Yeah, I never understood that buying the dead flower parts and then pouring a liquid smelly scent on it idea.

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    I told the woman uncatagorily from the begining, that I do not belive in cut flowers.

    "they area dying or dead things, and I do not belive them to be an appriopriate symbol of affection."

     

    so instead I fill the window boxes with potted flowers, and wildflower seeeds.. throwing down wildflower seeds allows for constant blooming all year 'round, and the anticipation of whats going to come up next is far greater than a vase of wilting dead flowers..

    this takes well with my little ladies practical nature, and her desire for frilly thing, and it give me the props for being thoughtful and practical all a the same time, coupled with the fact that you can pretty much ignore wildflowers and they are still going to do thier thing :D

  11. Posted · Edited by BeerGnome

    I got her snes and the orcana of time for christmas, and she got me an xbox with grand theft auto.

    Sounds like you got the better end of the deal.

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    yeah..$50 as compared to $200.. yeah..it worked out on my end.. :D

    hell. I wanted to play GTA VC so bad, but I wasnt happy with how it looked after I saw some preview shots of the Xbox version, and it sinched the deal on me on wich one to buy.. I';m afrad game cube never entered into my mind onthe current generation of consoles.. once I discovered Halo.. well it was all over from there..

    though I'm sure come next gen we'll be picking up the other two , and a the new xbox

  13. Posted

    All my computers are very stable hobbled together parts fromthe trash.. a good deal of my consoles are hand me downs.. I never stood in line for anything..

    I did have halo2 the day after release, and that was becouse I had reserved it months in advance and wasn't worried about it..

     

    so .. I think I must run it up a bit.. I'm gonna get an Xbox2 on launch just becouse I love my current box, and I want to experience the upgrade.. in its time as NE so eloquently pointed out.

    for gaming I perfer the elegance of games designed for a specific console than constantly upgrading my computers just to play a game.thats why I so perfer the box to any of the others.. and while I'm willing to wait for big blockbusters to be ported over to it becouse I know what I'm going to get on the box is going to be the same game but..so much better.

    it still about the game play.. but..diffren't yknow?

     

    hmm...maybe I'l actually set up a tent outside the store this time, just for the experience...

  14. Posted

    Pretty much all the Nintedo consoles areound here were specificly purchased for the sole purpose of playing any iteration of Zelda. and zelda aint my game. I got her snes and the orcana of time for christmas, and she got me an xbox with grand theft auto.

    overall, she complaigns that her stigmatism keeps her from being co-ordinated enough to play many twitch games.. I was constantly saving her ass in halo.. and any thing that requires driving she is absolutly no good at.. when she plays GTA she walks around all over the place..

    but we often have fun nights where we school each other on tetris worlds, god forbid I run that extra ten feet to hook the box into the router for live for that one..

    but she's hardcore into vintage and antiques.. her primary job is waitressing, but she secondaries at an antique store and our connections in the antiques and vintage community is extensive..

    for her my fasination with antiquated hardware is just an extension of her intrests.. and both of us have far too many hobbies to keep track of.

     

    I keep the older systems back here in the Den of iniquity where I have two T.V.'s rolling with the RF only devices, the network is also back here.. kinda.. home office/ game room..

    all the more "modern consoles" are in the front room on the main entertainment center.

    I'd take some pictures, but I just had to send off the digital cam to the manufacturere becouse it crapped out on me, luckily, I'm just under the warrenty date *phew*

     

    essentially.. we put up with each other on this matter..

  15. Posted

    I will spend some time looking at this tomorrow.  It's also possible that it's not a forum issue, but something with the new server and that some emails are not getting sent.  Although my money right now is on the forum software. :)

     

    ..Al

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    Hey Al,

     

    Any luck...? I still have not had any emails from the site, PM notification or Post notification? :sad:

     

    -Tom

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    'fraid to say I'm also suffering from No E-mail notification of any type, and have reconfirmed all the information.. everything is coposetic except that I'm not getting any notifications at all

  16. Posted

    Star Trek has ruined me. I want a Holodeck. Until a Holodeck is possible, I want a full-body Force Feedback suit (that cannot hurt you) with graphics that look real to the pickiest of the picky that also includes customizable Smellivision so that if you're allergic to something such as the smell of cut grass, you can block that smell or tone it down.

     

    I am with you, although, a "matrix" would suffice. :D

     

    Kind of like what Sony is going to do...

     

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/04/...reut/index.html

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    AH-HAH! so the Soney R&D labs ARE filled with superscience experimented costumed super villians!

    Has the guild of clamitus intent been notified yet?

  17. Posted

    Is it fair to assume that because of the walking on Atari/Infogrames eggshells that goes on here, this game will have to be changed slightly and renamed?

     

    Not sure, but someone must own the rights to the Q*bert name (Atari or otherwise), and changing the name of the game is one way to help divert attention away from it. Some research needs to be done to see who presently owns the rights to the game.

     

    ..Al

     

    I looked this up a while ago, and according to www.uspto.com the trademark for Q*Bert on a video game cartridge belongs to Columbia Pictures. I have no idea why they have it, they must have a subsidiary in video games or something. I don't know about the copyright, but it would seem logical for the same company to also own the copyright.

    well of course a live action Q-bert movie!

    John goodman can be 'bert, Gary Busey, or Dennis Hopper as Coiley..

    hmm..adam sandler and rob schiender as those two green guys...

  18. Posted

    That kit looks prety fun! It might be the perfect idea for that little bartop thing I wanna make.. just a little wooden box with a little gutted B/W tv.. I'm sure I could tap off the tv's PCB for the 4.5v

    now remapping them push button controls, and hooking up a coin box.... :ponder:

  19. Posted

    y'know.. I just havent had the time to complete the single player in HALO 2.. yes.. I know..many a person stayed up for 48 hours straight just to do that on launch date.. but. I kept getting distracted by shit like.. planning the wedding. I know.. prioities and shit..

    I'm playing the game as if I'm playing out a scifi movie, and tot tell you the truth.. I allready pretty much know how this game ends, butin my minds eye, its just a connecting story... thin k in the long run what this series can do.. imagine if this shit was a movie in the seventies.. star wars would just be a blip in our collective imagination.

    of course.. now I need to bring the box over to the gentlemans crib whom I just set up his home theater at to finish the game..

    looking like its going to be next monday and tuesday I take care of this..

    nowhere near my bed.. but a block from the brewery :ponder:

     

    but of course..my game fuel, is something loads of alcohol, not something with loads of caffine, yes... Im a drunk gamer, but it helps me on the camping sniper standpoint.. ahh...to set up camp, and to take out the opposing team witha head shot as they get to close to the base.... sure.. I know theres a rocket with my name on it but fuck it... I love the serinity of the nest. gimmie that5 sniper rifle.. and I can take out anyone any where on the field its... sick

    I can remeber this one time. when laying the girl in a death match I was able to hit her in ahead shot from accross the board a croc in the branches of a tree.. the only thing visable was the top of the helmet, but that's al it took and she went down after fighting to be out of range for fifteeen minutes.

    but I digress so much its sick

    what I like about Xbox is that it is simply the best console on the market for gaming at the time.. the current generation of pc games is pretty much what xbox was when it came out the first time, and at a budget PC price, PS2 only had tbackwards compitbility going for it.. but why should I get a PS2 just for faster load times, when Xbox was going to rape everyone else on performance?

    the GTA series is what finna;y broke that camels back and you compare the two side to side, and the visuals on x box rape the PS2

    now, theres nothing left for GTA except tp radic;y update thier engine, but I still feel that any more alliterations of the series will stil be Xbox worthy at that point, and I'll still have to wait a year for the xbox 2 version

     

    so bring it on..I'm waiting

  20. Posted

    Xbox 2.. fall release date for hardware.

    big games for christmas

    maybe they hope for several huge christmas block busters that will put culmitave hardware sales to shame?

    so now you get people buying X2 for Xmas ( funny pun ) and the big tittles, and all the people who allready have bought the system buying the big games as well. :ponder:

  21. Posted

    It is certainly *not* bogus. I've seen other hard drive platters of this size but have no idea which systems they originally came out of. I have some specs on the design here: http://www.grandideastudio.com/portfolio/i...hp?id=1&prod=20

     

     

    Joe

    I must say.. I deffintly stand corrected// of course I never ment to offend. I just couldnt fanthom that size being practical..taht much glass is just going to have ass loads of imperfections as a read write device!

    I ned to do a better check on the link.. but whatt was the capicity on that drive?

    I was actually joking around tday with a co worker ( not deligitimaizing the drive. ) but I was saying how I knew of a guy who took a '70s era hard drive platter and turned into a coffee table, and the remebered how my first hard drive was a 2 meg deal.. and compreseed the hell out of the bitch and squeezed 6 megs off of it!

    the coffee table is Kick ass, and if I get a chance to relicate it.. ya darn toot'n I will

    I got the segment saved on my Tivo.. I am envius!

    congrats. and I need to buy that book

    PJ

  22. Posted

     

    Do you recognize that hard driver platter from a System/34? I haven't been able to identify it and only guessed that it is circa 1970. It would be cool to have a better clue of where it came from!

     

    Joe

    I have no idea about all that.. I can only imagine.. in fact..I'm inclined to belive its bogus.. now somewhere around here I do have a early eighties floppy disk.. an 8.5 incher that looks just like the 5.25 floppies.. just...bigger..

    I just say its may be bogus becouse I've never heard of a hard rive that big.. but then again.. most people dont realize that they actually made 8 inch floopy drives either.

    in the 70's the big thing was real to real, or punch card.. and yes .. I had to moretrofit some machines that were computer controled, and when asked to see the original code..they presented me witha filo box of punch cards... this was before I made beer for a living might I add.. I was a industrial control tech before this... my job was to rip out all the old shit, and replace it with new PLC shit.

    there ant nuthin like geek bliss till you see a big ass bank of relay logic and meet the crusty ass old electrical engineer who put it in.

    "yes sir.. I'm going to take these five cabinets of controll and reduce them down to ten lines of code, but it's okay..I'm gonna rape all this hardware and make a robot!"

    amazingly enough.. the line "raping your hardware" still illicited asmile of understanding from the 79 year old nerds

    ahhh.. geeks never die

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