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some odd reason made me think, just how easy and quick it would have been for them to do an official ataribox ras-pi shell and save a lot of grief

sigh

yea I am not a big fan of holding peoples money in exchange for promises, I got a G4 mac for sale, a G4 mac to finish, a switchless region modded overclocked genesis, and a av modded 2600 to wrap up final details on and that's more than enough to cover 2 batches and a few lunches from panera bread, working on it 😛 and chas don't you already have a few sets lol

I have said that since day one, forget the box I want the controller, that's all they had to do and the would have probably made enough profit to totally fund this dumpster fire

yepper, and I am quick to remind people, this is not a Ryzen desktop chip, nor is it a Ryzen APU, its embedded Ryzen, ultra low power that you bury in something you want to smartify like a information kiosk or a refrigerator

yea I am scurring up the funds to produce a batch or two here soon my hobby projects are funded by my hobby projects to fund hobby projects, and we have had a bit of a crisis mode at work which is keeping me there 12 + hours a day 6 (on occasion 7) days a week, but things are starting to slack off there (that crap happens once in a while in JIT (just in time) manufacturing on a unstable market like automotive, its just been a big one that started back in labor day) bonus points for life and home stuff, currently it seems the demand is for another big batch which I am not comfortable taking out of the household budget and not having an accurate gauge of demand, cause its hundreds of dollars and dozens of hours.. if I dedicate the resources to make 20 it cost 2x as much than to make 80, but if I make 80 and sell 20 then im in debt blah blah blah I run a tight checkbook

There's that lightly scented air of smugness that everyone loves about vegan's.

yea that totally makes sense for the FPGA is god crowd

makes me feel better about the brie I had imported then

I dont know how taco bell managed to make a doritos taco that taste nothing like doritos or taco's, it is impressive they intensified the cardboard flavor on them though

woot, beat me to it 🤗

They are not reproductions, Unicomp has always made the model M 😛 anyway yea apple II, mac extended II, model M and oddly enough the cheap 2 color IBM and later lenovo's generic membranes from the late 90's like what came with the aptivia's to the mid 2000's, been banging on one of those since about 1999, and im on my 3rd membrane, wiggley, but yet somehow snappy and it has a pencil holder ... dunno why, they are kind of crap in the age of premium keyboards, but when I saw 3 brand spanking new one's at a goodwill I bought them all. So already 20 years into it, with another 20 years worth of new old stock, I cant hardly say I hate them... similar to this but with blue enter keys and a pencil groove at the top, and of course my lenovo model is black with white double shot text and blue enter keys

thought I should elaborate, the master slave configuration of the TMS chips allows multiple video sources to be synced to each other, its not a passthrough its a clock sync, otherwise if you have 2 video sources running independently on their own clocks you can never ensure the two sources are in lock step with regards to timing which would entirely bork the analog video timing, which would result in garbage on old TV's or no input blue screens on more modern tv's to sync 2 systems each running on independent clocks turns into an exercise in frustration, though it could be done ... but in the early 1980's this is entering the realm of broadcast type equipment. Its 1000x easier to extract the video sync clock from another source and use that to time the video output of another (aka "genlock")

it would be much more difficult to sync the two video sources, and of course more difficult in electronics means moar monies

well besides what others have stated could you imagine a world where you bought a SGM but you wanted to play whatever but it requires a keyboard so you go back and buy a keyboard then next month OH we need a disk drive for the next thing and so on and so on leaving you with a jumbled mess. That sounds like a very efficient way of doing things for both the consumer and maker. (ask 1990's sega) Laserdisc uses analog video as well, its only later on they started encoding digital audio tracks, anyway somehow somewhere I got the idea that coleco was "working" on a CED based system using smaller... like 3 or 5 inch disc's

can I ask for a rumble pack in the crotch?

creepypasta.. based on the timestamps I had 3 taco's 24 hours before you had 3 taco's

heck we have a pretty small house and its a couple meters lengthwise which is how our living room is setup (otherwise you got to look at windows or get glare from the windows when trying to watch tv) I think our old 2 bedroom apartment it might work

it would not have been expensive, plastic moulds are massive, and they have to fit a machine, so injecting 1 rib or 16 would have cost the same (I mean the smallest machines I have seen in production were almost the size of my kia rio, the largest I have seen were taller than my 2 story house) . The issue is that the part would have had to convectively cool 30 something watts worth of power, which is enough to give you a medically attentive burn, with tiny dumbshit 5mm slits to hold the board NOT to mention even at ~3 years ago china labor it would have costed more than a iphone to assemble + there was no way to hold a PCB in the horizontal fashion with filthy humons plugging cables in, (which those critters can exert tons of sheer force) and it was just a asinine idea in the first place, that a year 2 ME intern could detect on first glance. it was a retarded idea from all angles of fail

Most later disc based games but in reality not really but its a hack of a lot faster to get large collections on

Least on the pi 3's the SD card maxes out at 22MB/s a basic spinning 5400RPM laptop drive can hit 75MB/s with a sequential read but is limited to the max of 60MB/s of USB 2

or what I do, use a 8 or 16 gig card for the OS and load all the games on a USB hard drive, which even with spinning media and transfering over USB its still night and day faster.

if you need to make notes on the board as you go, you can do what I do, put down some tape and write on that

brickout, which was the first video game I can remember playing at home, and based on woz's desire to play breakout on a software defined home computer, is one of the games I will always play ... but in 2019 its a little had to be excited about as a money grabber (especially since I have ported it or replicated it on every computer like platform that has come my way over the decades) it does look fun and neat though