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  3. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    1 hour ago, Phoenix79 said:

    What about creating a pre-order system and only ordering when you have reached that pre-determined minimum order? I know that  some creators use that system to make it fiscally less risky for them.

    The downside is how long it takes to get up to that minimum order number as some might not wish to wait half a year or longer. So, a warning on the possibility of a long wait would be needed.

     

    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 

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    22 minutes ago, MarioMan88 said:

    I’m still waiting to see if they can actually make, ship and stock the controllers..which is what I really want...that new classic controller with built in paddle function.

    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

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  5. Posted

    33 minutes ago, TheVgaTv said:

     

    The video from last year where they showed Borderlands 2 running was so bad that it looked like it was running at about 12 frames a second.  And that's from a then 7 year old game....

    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 

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  6. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    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 

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  7. Posted

    15 hours ago, Mikebloke said:

    Actually had something similar recently to this in the UK. People might laugh for it being vegan, but its not like I'll ever be eating pork again.

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

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  9. Posted

    16 minutes ago, CPUWIZ said:

    We just decanted a $275 bottle of wine, probably more enjoyable than a box full of cheap PC components.  To go with a Chateau Brion.

     

    No tacos today, we had those yesterday,

    makes me feel better about the brie I had imported then 

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  13. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    On 12/18/2019 at 11:25 PM, Albert said:
    • IBM Model M keyboards with buckling spring key mechanisms.  I've purchased several Model M reproductions from Unicomp and they are awesome

    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...

     

     

     

     

    s-l1600.jpg

     

    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 

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  14. Posted

    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") 

  16. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    On 12/12/2019 at 3:17 PM, mr_me said:

    There's no reason the sgm couldn't have a keyboard peripheral and be software compatible with the Adam.

     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)

     

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    Laserdisc was too expensive and RCA CED was analog technology not unlike VHS.

    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 

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  19. Posted

    1 hour ago, H.Hannig said:

    "...we believe that there is room for a simpler machine in the living room that will let you surf the web and have also a lot of applications in your living room..."

     

    This might work well in japan but at least in our living room the distance between couch and tv is approx. 3 meters. You need pretty keen eyes to be able to enjoy a lot of websites from that distance.
    Most people I know prefer to use tablets instead of their smart TVs / set-top boxes.

    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

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  20. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    3 hours ago, The Historian said:

    The goal was to have it cooling enough through convective air flow, so as to not need a fan. It would have been expensive though, with a mold needed for each "rib" and didn't account for the adding of additional ram or other user upgrades. 

    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

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  22. Posted

    47 minutes ago, NE146 said:

    I don't see how a USB hard drive on an RPi3 would be faster than straight from the SD card.. maybe I'm wrong.  

     

    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

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  23. Posted

    On 12/1/2019 at 9:45 AM, NE146 said:

    Well you DO intend to play them I think is the point. Maybe someday :)

     

    Anyway with the price of SD cards today you're talking about price differences of 2 bucks or whatever when you're talking less than 128 gigs.. which itself goes for around $15. Why bother limiting yourself

    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. 

  25. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    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 

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