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  4. Posted

    Any chance you'd do a commission? If be afraid I'd dye it uneven or too long making the plastic brittle or something. If it was on something easily replaceable I wouldn't care. But this is a rather rare system. I need it dark grey/ black. If you're interested shoot me a pm and I'll give you more details.

     

    If it's a rare system, why would you be looking to dye it?

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    Saw this today: http://www.8bitdo.com/retro-receiver-nes/

     

    Looks pretty interesting. It plugs into your NES controller port and enables any Bluetooth controller to be used with your NES. Kind of weird to imagine a PS4 controller being used on a NES, but if it works how they claim that's cool. Apparently it draws power from the port and has upgradeable firmware. If you got your hands on one of those NES styled Bluetooth controllers you could have a nice wireless NES setup for gaming. Of course I haven't seen much else about this so I don't know if it works and I'm not advocating it, just thought it looked cool and I would share.

     

    What systems would you like to see a product like this for?

     

     

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    ..."anime girls that represent warships". Typical kooky Japanese shit right there. :lol:

     

     

    And agree about SFII being one of the last arcade games I remember getting all excited about. Cruisin' USA (the deluxe sit-down) might have been the very last I waited in a short line for, come to think of it. Was when Killer Instinct was HUGE, but was content just watching other people play that one.

     

    That's based on a video game, Kantai Collection, which was then turned into the anime series Kantai Collection: KanColle. It's actually pretty interesting, it's easier to picture something more akin to mechs in a sense than a battleship/human hybrid thing.

     

    Anyway, I don't think I've ever had to queue for an arcade game.

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    I have a release Xbox that, somehow, is still going. Now I've noticed it's starting to falter with some lock-ups and occasionally taking a little while to start up, so I don't think it's long for this world. All it does is play Netflix at this point, as I moved away from current gen (well, now it's last-gen) console gaming and onto PC again. Now the most recent console I play is the Gamecube.

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  14. Posted · Edited by TPA5

    I read the article, it actually isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Don't agree with everything that he says in it, but I think he brings up some interesting points.

     

     

    I found his daughters blog post to be a little more insufferable than his to be honest. I get it, I should feel guilty for being a white male in the tech industry. Yes everything has been so much easier since I have male-parts, I know that I should be thankful my life magically floated down on a silver platter to end up in my lap. So sorry you're a female/minority that (apparently) I should feel personally responsible for oppressing by virtue of my very existence. Certainly I've never known hardships or struggles in my life that even come close to softly brushing against your herculean mountain of persecution.

     

     

    EDIT: I will say also that unpaid overtime is very common. One of the jobs I had was in a warehouse, and routinely I would end up putting in 50, sometimes 60 hour weeks with the other guys. We were only ever paid for 40, but we never wanted to say anything because we would get canned. Even though we could fight it and it was illegal, nobody could afford to be without work for the months (possibly even years) it would take for it to get sorted out. So we shut up and worked. Wasn't awesome, but it happens.

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    Thank you all very much for the replies. Have you tried running STEAM OS on a Raspberry pi out of curiosity? I've read that it's good for streaming but because of its ARM architecture it's not able to run the OS nor any games from STEAM.

     

    That would be correct, it's designed for an x86/64 platform so ARM is out, along with the games you would like to run. If you're headed down the emulation path than a RasPi with the RetroPie software would work, but to run Steam games you need an x86/64 machine.

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    Even worse... 61 million and yet you have a hard time finding a loose unit without games below $50.

     

    I blame hipsters with more money than brains. Alas.

     

     

    Nice Speccy, my dad had one when I was a kid but I never used it much before he sold it. It's a machine that I've always wanted to add to my collection, but just haven't come across the right setup yet.

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    Many in this thread (myself included) are jaded by crowd funding in general. This disillusionment is not the direct result of the RVGS / Chameleon but instead from many funded projects that have not delivered. There simply isn't enough (if any) accountability.

     

    The RVGS / Chameleon is now the poster child for overambitious crowd funded projects making lofty promises without the slightest chance of delivery, but that doesn't mean the skepticism about crowd funding is undeserved.

     

    Repeating what I said pages ago, I am still waiting for several funded projects to deliver on their pre-orders. These weren't just funding perks, these are actual pre-orders made after the projects were fully funded. My attitude is based on my experiences in not receiving a single product that was crowd funded. For each of the glorified successes like the Pebble Watch, there are thousands of phantom products that were funded. Even if we aren't going to get our money back, at least some of those behind the campaigns should face fraud charges and be rewarded with a criminal record.

     

    ^^Pretty much this^^.

     

    This is a cool concept, in fact I really like the idea in general (well, maybe not for the portable but that's merely personal preference). If this was a product that was ready to go and you could buy them from a website, I would feel differently. Heck, even if at the very least they had a 100% working machine and just needed some pre-orders to get production moving I would feel more positive about it. However when people come hands held out begging for my money and they don't have anything concrete to show for it yet, I am wary at best. It is not that difficult to slap together some renders and make a video.

     

    It's possible these guys are good people who have a cool idea and want to see it come to life. I simply feel that so far they haven't done enough on their end to appear trustworthy, thus I wouldn't hand over my dollars yet.

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    I've never used Windows ME. This all happened about 5 years ago. I doubt too many hackers are targeting Windows 98. I wouldn't put any sensitive info on it though.

     

     

    Also remember that most attacks under Windows 98 were viruses. And the large bulk of those viruses came from P2P and obscure .exe downloading.

    I have a firewall and an antivirus on my actual machine, but because I care about where I go, nothing ever triggered it... Except an old floppy that I had from way back then, that still had a virus on it (maybe this was a collectible virus? :D )

    So using Windows 98 to get on AtariAge and Home of the Underdog to download some old abandonwares? safe.

     

    While usually I recommend to leave machines like Windows 98 offline, I do agree with the above statements. Depending on where you go and what you do, the odds are you'll be safe. I highly doubt there are many malwares or viruses that you could encounter in the wild that would infect a machine. More likely than not you'll find most websites simply don't work that well with Windows 98. I run Opera 9.64 because, as far as I know, that's the last version that works with 98. It runs quite well though, at least for the basic tasks I require of it.

     

    One thing you may also want to look at is KernelEx (http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/) it's an open-source compatibility layer that can help some programs designed for 2000/XP run on 98. It's not perfect and won't run everything, but it could be worth a shot depending on what you're looking for.

  21. Posted

    I remember seeing this around, I thought it was a cool idea but like many others I already had a Gameboy Advance so there would not have been a point to owning one. It's easy to forget that the idea of a phone with gaming prowess didn't really exist at that time, so it was a novel idea. It wasn't executed that well, but it wasn't a 100% flop like other handhelds were. Of course now phones have much more power than the Gameboy advance ever did so it's hard to recall a time people couldn't play serious games on their phone instead of just solitare or snake.

  22. Posted · Edited by TPA5

    I don't think I've ever "liked" so many posts in one thread before. Much wisdom has already been posted, so I suppose my voice doesn't matter much or add much to the discussion but still...

     

    I've gotten weary of the "crowd funded" way of doing business. It promotes the idea that your vision is so great, so amazing, and so special that you somehow deserve a payday long before you've ever actually produced anything of worth. Instead of making people work for investments and sales, they simply put together a few 3D renders, make a slick video and expect, nay demand, that people hand over their hard-earned cash. Unfortunately it seems to be working very well, as these campaigns routinely meet their ridiculous funding goals. However it no longer encourages people to work hard and actually innovate, they're just pretending to do so. I don't think enough of these "entrepreneurs" truly appreciate the gravity of these campaigns. Often times when it all falls apart weeks/months/years after the campaign is finished the most they can muster is an "oh well!"

    Of course some of these campaigns mean well, do well, and ultimately succeed. But it's creating this entitled (as if it's even possible to have a more entitled culture) generation of people looking to just cash in on their "brilliant" plan. I think things need to get back to where the creators have to put some of their own damn skin in the game. If you have nothing into the project, you won't give a shit if it makes it or doesn't make it.

     

    Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I've gotten sick of the ultra-elitist, ultra-entitled ideals of the crowd-funded generation. This might be an awesome project, but I'm personally not flocking to it anytime soon.

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  23. Posted

    A laptop is a pretty good idea as you won't have to worry about cramming a power supply into it. The actual mod isn't too hard, it's basically just gut the Atari, figure out where your new parts will fit, and carefully dremel out openings for everything. There's an instructable that covers a case mod pretty well: http://www.instructables.com/id/Atari-SX2600-a-fairly-complete-Atari-2600-emulatio/

     

    Admittedly that case mod bums me out a little due to the ventilation on top which kills it a little for me but I understand why he had to do it. The cooling in a laptop is already pretty efficient so you will be mostly worried about dremelling out the sides for ventilation as most laptops are designed to vent out the side.

  24. Posted

    Seriously? They're harping about the pose but not the butt hugging suit? Man, this sounds like a first world problem for misguided activists crusade over for.

    I heard a great term on the Regular Car Reviews channel for this, he calls them "slacktivists". People that want to feel like they are campaigning for a cause, but don't want to put in that much work.

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