The Usotsuki

If you use "dosbox -machine cga" it does support CGA composite mode. You can test this in GW-BASIC: screen 2 out &h3d8, inp(&h3d8) and 251 '(on) out &h3d8, inp(&h3d8) or 4 '(off)

Intel EtherExpress 8/16? That's my Ethernet card of choice for XTs.

That lessened over the years, until by 5.0, I think only IBM, Compaq and Toshiba actually rebranded the binaries, and at least Compaq stopped after 5.

Maybe US Gold?

Yeah, I got turned off to GPL by a zealot 20 years ago, and now use UIUC as my preferred license.

Random: When I ported Dig Dug to ProDOS (to put on hard drives, 3.5" disks etc.), I used LoGo's crack. I also have a port of one of 4am's cracks.

$4.799 for 87 here last I checked. With the exception of stuff that tends to naturally depreciate due to technological evolution, almost everything seems to be connected to a ratchet. Prices almost never go down for anything else.

ISTR around here the bike helmets becoming a legal requirement for kids in the mid-1990s.

BRAST UFF!

7 physical card slots.

I feel like a lot of advancement in the Apple ][ world happened despite the community rather than because of it.

Thing about Famicom is that ファミコン was, at the time, a trademark of Sharp for something else - think it was a microwave or a convection oven - and I think Nintendo was worried about that, so they just went with the full name and figured that most Japanese people would abbreviate it, as Japanese people do, to the first two syllables of each word, and they wouldn't need to officially call it "Famicom", people would just call it that anyway. (Note that in the 8-bit era, they never actually used the name Famicom...but Sharp's licensed version DID.) A few deals with Sharp and they managed to get the trademark, so the 16-bit successor became Super Famicom.

There was a bit of a swing fad in the late 90s with Brian Setzer and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies.

And at that mostly Hayao Miyazaki. ?

The unofficial Prince ports were generally based on the same code, too - the C64 and BBC ports look pretty good, at least.

The original Castlevania and Contra, plus the TMNT and Simpsons arcade games, are what I think of when I hear "Konami".

I don't formally budget - but what I do is more or less budgeting, since the first thing I do when money comes in is I allocate it to expenses.

Ah, Lode Runner and Prince of Persia... two games that started on my favorite platform and actually went somewhere ?

For what it's worth, my old Cricket plan (before I sprang for the plan with international roaming, and yes, I absolutely do take advantage of that) was unlimited talk, unlimited text, 2 GB data before they hamstring it to dialup speed, $30.

My monthly cell phone service is $60; you can get unlimited voice/text and limited data for $30 from some providers in the US.

I know in Japanese it's ホットケーキ (hottokeeki)... I just call 'em pancakes.

I kinda blame Microsoft for that one in including a version of that with QBASIC in MS-DOS 5 and 6 (as well as PC DOS 5).

It's not that the Amiga couldn't do it, but that no one gave enough of a damn to do it right. If people actually attempted competent ports on the Amiga, it would be able to hold its own more than well enough.

I think the Apple ][ version has those.

You misread me. I've written emulators for other 6502 systems, not Atari.