TPA5
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I 100% agree.
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MS-DOS is that old and can recognize USB and CD.
CD yes, USB nope. Not natively anyway, which was his question. Not that it matters what MS-DOS supports, as he's asking about CP/M which doesn't support CD or USB natively as far as I'm aware. Maybe someone out there has created some drivers for it, but out-of-box it's a no-go. Maybe my post came across as rude, didn't mean to. The OP's request to "make it happen" struck me as demanding and amusing.
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People are what's wrong with the gaming community. Things are usually fine until they show up.
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Every few months I stumble across a forum post or gaming article bemoaning Nintendo's future, and prophesying it's impending demise. I remember people making the case back in the N64 days that Nintendo would barely last another year. Yet still, here we are in 2016 and Nintendo remains. Now I am not an analyst or expert, but even with their missteps they've stuck around this long. Unless there is some monumental cock-up with the NX, I imagine they'll be around for the foreseeable future as well.
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Whaaaaaat in the world is going on here? Retro Trios are starting 140 bucks everywhere I look. Figured I could get one as a cheap all in one solution, but not at these prices!
And then you have beautiful human beings like this guy, who want 1300 bucks for his. There's even one on eBay that's 40 dollars, and ... it's broken.
Has the world gone mad? For 140 bucks, I could get a real NES, SNES and Genesis. WTF?
I wish I lived in a universe where I could get a NES, SNES, and Genesis for $140.
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Not my bag but if it makes you happy, that's all that matters really.
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You need one of these, but in a booth-version:
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Best controller to use is the NES30 from 8bitdo. Works great and looks even better. You can order them from aliexpress for $30 shipped!
I'll have to check them out, thanks. How are the thumbsticks on them, pretty comfortable to use for extended play sessions? I have a Nyko PlayPad which isn't bad, but unfortunately doesn't work that well with Windows and the thumbsticks are so-so.
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I like the new GUI a lot, it is going to look awesome on living-room TV's. Now if only I could settle on a wireless controller to use with it, I'd be a happy man. The 360 controller works pretty well for things like the N64, but honestly when it comes to anything with the d-pad the 360 controller is not my favourite at all. I might see about getting a couple Wii Classic Controllers and a USB adapter, but that means I would have to have a cord running across the living room. Not my preferred solution.
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So you're trying to get an OS that's almost 35 years old to run on a modern machine? With drag-and-drop? And USB and CD?
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I grew up with "rig" being a slang term for a dudes junk. Not sure if that's a regional thing particular to where I live or if others say it too, so it's weird when I hear people refer to their computers as "rigs". I simply call my computer my setup when I'm referring to the hardware. Then again, I also call my parents cat "Cat", and my in-laws dog "Dog". Creative, I know.
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@TPA5 So.... Did you get the Amiga??
Unfortunately I have not gotten one yet. I wasn't able to dig anything up, and in the meantime the tax-man came back to us because they calculated something incorrectly and decided we owe them more money. Pretty nifty that I get to pay for their mistake, but such is life. Anyway once we become more financially solvent I'll re-visit trying to hunt an A500 down.
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If you want to punch demons in the face.
This is the game to do it in.
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For $45 you could buy a flashcart that would let you load up those kinds of things, then you can pick-and-choose what you want on it.
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I wanted to like Dark Souls but I find the older I get the less time I have to play games, and playing a game that forces me to repeat the same section for the 42nd time because it keeps sucker-punching me is not as enjoyable as it once was. By the time I beat some sections I didn't even feel the satisfaction I might have once felt beating a really tough section, I just felt like I had wasted my time.
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I appreciate that a company is finally taking time to look at WW1, I hope they include some of the Canadian involvement as so often war-games tend to be America or Britain-focused. As always the trailer looks slick and I refuse to try and make too many assumptions based off that alone. But I do tend to like the Battlefield series more than COD, so I might pick it up after it's been out awhile. Problem is I really dislike multiplayer, and Dice seems to have zero interest in doing offline bots in BF anymore. I've wasted hours upon hours of my life playing co-op with friends in BF1942, BF2, BF2142, BFV: Vietnam, and of course the countless mods for those games because EA included bots. These days I guess it isn't cool to have bots in your game.
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Price goes up, value goes down. It's the way of the world.
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Venture capital is often out of reach for many people who must be forced to go to seek crowdfunding precisely because the project developer(s) often have no idea how to run a business and have no idea how to manage expectations. Even on Shark Tank, the pitches that culminate in a "deal" are really more like an expression on the part of the investor to go forward with negotiations. After the cameras stop rolling, due diligence is performed and often the offer made on TV is withdrawn once the weaknesses in the product, company or financial plan are discovered.
Kickstarter offers very little of that protection to potential backers. This is illustrated all too well by the Peachy Printer. The kickstarter money went into David Boe's, the finance guy, account and he had apparently unfettered access to the money. He spent almost half of the money, $324K CDN, to build his house. Who approved that expenditure? Did his co-owner, Rylan Grayston, the guy apologizing on Youtube? Apparently not. In that kind of a partnership, an elementary precaution is that both partners would have to sign off on major expenses. No such arrangement existed for the Peachy Printers partners, but if the company structure had been properly investigated, it would have been revealed and no prudent investor would have touched it.
Grayston is clearly someone who cannot be trusted with money. He allowed Boe total access to the funds and when he discovered the embezzlement, he kept silent for over a year in the hopes Boe would pay the money back. During this delay time, he posted several encouraging updates about the progress of the project. Also, despite reporting the embezzlement in November, 2015, the police are still waiting for information from the company as of May, 2016. Makes one wonder if there is more than just negligence on his part here.
As to the backers, it is really a question of risk. Are you willing to risk X amount of dollars on a project that may never materialize and you have no effective legal recourse if it fails to materialize? Maybe Kickstarter should require highly successful projects to take out a performance bond that would allow backers to a refund should the project ultimately fail to materialize in a certain amount of time.
This x100000. Print that post out and stick it on your wall folks, referencing it any time you are thinking about backing a crowd-funded venture.
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These threads always amuse me in that some people will go to great lengths to defend Kickstarter, and others go to great lengths to shit on it. It's an optional thing, if you don't want to spend money on it... don't. That being said, if you think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread that's great, but trying to gain converts probably won't work well. It just ends up in frustration and arguments.
Personally I think a lot of the folks begging for money on Kickstarter haven't the faintest damn notion how to handle it once they have it. We're talking about people that have been tinkering in their basement suddenly ending up with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars. I'd like to pretend that I could be immune to any sort of mis-handling of those funds, but it would be hard to suddenly find yourself flush with more cash than you ever imagined. Add to that the insane pressure of the internet "community" as a whole, and it isn't the least bit surprising some of these campaigns go south.
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Eh, it's not as if he's drawing a smiley face on the Mona Lisa or turning boxed copies of River Raid into bookends. This kind of thing only bugs me if it's a super-rare item, and even then it is their item, they can do what they want with it.
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I don't think their website is that bad. In fact compared to the current bullshit trends of having swooshy menus, animations flying everywhere, pop-up text boxes, and needing to have Javascript, Flash, Silverlight, and god only knows whatever other plugin installed just so I can browse a website that deposits trackers on my computer is infinitely more odious than Best's website.
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I tend to dislike "people" (i.e the unwashed masses), so I have never once used voice-chat in a game. I feel that if I did, it would turn me even more misanthropic than I already am.
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Nostalgia tends to drive prices and demand more than other factors. So in a sense the argument could be made that YouTube "assists" this by giving games exposure, thus increasing nostalgia, thus indirectly driving the price up.
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That's a nice, tidy project. Easy enough to make it into something more if you want, but perfect for what you are doing with it now. I'm digging it!
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You know, I bought the first episode way back when it first came out. It was really fun actually, but I never got the other two. I put this on my "to buy" list, thanks for the heads up! I completely forgot about it until now. Not sure if I want to pony up $45 Canadian for it on the Steam store, so I might see about waiting for a sale.