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Glad to hear that! But let's follow up in PM to iron out any issues.

We've started a conversation.

I'm not sure I really want any more details on just what a "baggie release" is or looks like.

Cripes I thought this thread was going to be about some new harebrained Peter Gabriel retro project (Jeux sans Superpositions) akin to his German-language albums from back when. Shoulda known better. So is this about overlays, funbaggies, lifesavers, tootsie rolls, or tasteful artsy photography? Y'all are all over the map here.

Totally agree! My order arrived yesterday too - fast and wonderfully packaged!

More than nothing exists... I could tease you with some screen shots but that might be kind of mean. I've done 99.44% of the dev work for the GTK version in an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS distro (VM). It's been... based on GitHub... since early Sept. 2019 since I've pushed changes up. (any local work notwithstanding of course) It's my "Keyboard Component" release. lol Being as Linux isn't my 'bread and butter' environment, I've not acquired the know-how for making a clean way to package, install, and run it outside the debugger (using MonoDevelop). Instead of pausing with a subset of features just enough to populate the cart and focusing on learning a release process for that minimal functionalty, I've used that as an excuse to keep going on a feature complete port. The code is built using C# (Mono, GTKSharp), and I don't think I've taken good notes on how to get the dev environment set up. Awhile back I also set up an arch Linux distro and … well... that was an adventure to get any sort of dev working for this guy. Happily a few things were learned, and it set me off on some turd code polishing that led to net improvements to the code as a whole... The result being that one person on this planet, AFAIK, has been able to build the code - and run it! - in two, count 'em, two whole different Linux distros! Wait a sec... you know what? I actually for kicks did install MonoDevelop on a Rasbperry Pi once, IIRC. A 2B+? It took forever just to load the editor. Can't remember what I did with that "boot disk" though... The approach for the code is based on the MVVM pattern, and I've taken to implementing the "View" (UI) layer "natively" per platform using the C# bindings that seemed appropriate. Obviously it's trivial to select what to use for Windows, and almost equally as easy for Mac. With the fragmented desktop worlds of Linux (at least it looks that way to me), I settled on GTKSharp, even though it's well behind the unmanaged GTK APIs. At the outset of this adventure, I specifically chose to not use a platform such as Java for the UI. Most of my first 15 years in software development dealt heavily in multiplatform app development. The work often involved the creation / maintenance of our own bespoke abstraction libraries for Win32, Mac, and UNIX (oh, the number of *NIX platforms!), and for UI we tackled Win32, Mac, and X Windows. The work was in C, C++ and a sprinkling of assembly here and there. Doing that brought many lessons that influenced my decision-making. Plus at the time this project started, I was up to my eyeballs in bootstrapping a set of new C#-based UI platform abstractions, so whatever I learned working on one thing helped with the other - a nice symbiont circle one might say. OK, plus, I didn't feel like learning to program in Java.

Happy to hear it's all good on your laptop. I'm assuming everything is Windows 10? I've never, ever had to install any drivers in Windows 10, but there are eleventy different "flavors" and who knows which specific updates are all installed... We can diagnose in PMs if you wish.

I was outbid. Like most auctions, I save them, put in a semi-serious hold-off-the-casual-sniffers bid, and then look at the auction 15-75 minutes after it ends and say... "wait til next year!"

Oooh, a new feature flag!

It could be something as mundane as the connector plug being damaged in the RF box.

Well, Happy New Year indeed! Despite being a bit "out of the loop" lately, today my "Intelli-Sense" started tingling (shut up, cmart and rev). Check out Good Deal Games' Intellivision section! You can order Omega Race and Fantasy - and they are in stock!

So how did this go? Will there be more?

I think what actually happened was Rick was so distraught at the prospect of twelve hours without Sharp shot or Carnival that he just needs time to reset. I mean really, if you can post here... I'm not sayin'.... I'm just saying'... It's Aliens. Forty-seven aliens....

Quite possibly. I've seen similar on a few occasions.

Y'all are truly trying to murder me, aren't you? All I can do to sneak out once a week to do $NOT_WORK and this stuff happens.

You oughta know. ?

Sure I'll take one!

Wow! Grats! Someone in front of my keyboard's feelin jelly of all yousn's with all that time to watch teh ebayz.

Yep... Just a few months back verified that two or three of the various USB interfaces work just fine w/ jzIntv on Mac.

I can add those. We're these spied on eBay or discussed here on the forums? I assume they are Super Pro systems and had the updated font and copyright text too? It would be extra cool to see which version of the STIC1A was in those and if there were other differences on the board.

I agree with that assessment. My VOLLEYBALL copy is sealed in one of those ventilated baggies IIRC. That one @cmart604 has - I wonder if that came along after both the boxes AND the VOLLEYBALL labels ran out.

Even worse I think there might be two versions of the plain text label. I think someone emailed me about a larger square label once? I don't have it listed on the site though. Unfortunately it's also too easy to fake that kind of thing, especially these days.

These arrived a few days ago - super fast after ordering. Now, where do I put them on the website?

?Glad to hear! Super frustrating that a good cable was hard to find. Maybe most just think nobody uses them for anything but charging any more? *sigh*

Yeah, the main board versions would be neat to log, too. There are way more than you'd think!