zetastrike

HMMMmm...Was it YoYo Man Cave Whipper ?

Yes.  I've been running one in several of the A8s here and none of them have U1MBs at the moment.

Bear in mind that the one thing the SDrive Max will not do is cartridge emulation.  If this is important to you, you'll want the SIDE3.

My recommendation would be a FujiNet plus the SIDE3: with both of those, you have full emulation (and then some) of pretty much every common device found on either the SIO bus or cartridge port.  The FujiNet's also priced fairly closely to the SDrive Max, so you may want to consider that as an alternative.

Food for Thought was pretty good for the early 2000's

Wow, kinda stopped paying attention in the 80's, there were already like 10 books by the end.

@zetastrike That's a very good question Zeta. Hmmm. Hard to answer. I personally feel when Garfield started to really become successful during the mid-1980's onwards. Jim Davis made the transition of making the Garfield characters more on a cartoonish look and make Garfield more relying on walking on to feet like a human.  I don't have a particular year to say, but I'm thinking mid 80's to early 2000's were the best years for the franchise Zeta. 

Were you watching it under 60Hz lighting?  If so, that may explain the flicker.

Yeah, I'm in the US.  

72 hz would help us all out so very much, let's change the power grids! hehehehehehe !!!

Maybe not ALL...But MOST is a nice idea  (see above)...Completed games I'm thinking...Not my Apple BASIC game from computer class in 1984.  

I believe all software should be preserved. It started it's life in digital format and should be remembered in that form. Just because it was flashed to physical hardware and sold doesn't mean it should stay that way. Everything has a shelf life and when that expires, much of this software that could be enjoyed for generations to come will be lost forever. I understand some are against emulation and digital preservation (especially hardcore collectors). However in reality it always was digital and nothing other than code. HC collectors still have their physical copies and that's cool. But many like the convenience of emulation while keeping their systems and carts stored on a shelf for aesthetic purposes (like myself).

Might as well preserve them all. "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." and all that. ;)

I've always enjoyed it, but inevitably get a bit bored after a while. Definitely great for short bursts though.

Related link:

https://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-favorite-games.html#marauder

Can I give her my shipping address? 

Yay!

Free retro-gaming telly!

I'm not seeing a downside to any of this.

IIRC XP needs a 486 or possibly even Pentium to run, but there were some crazy guys many years ago doing slowdown experiments and got one of those to run at 8 MHz. IIRC it took 30 minutes to boot far enough to see a mouse pointer.

I installed Windows 2000 server on a Pentium 200 back in the day.  The install process took like 6 hours.  And it wasn't usable at all.

We used to have a few Pentium 166 with 64 MB in the computer club, running Windows 2000 desktop version. It was reasonably OK for web browsing but not MS Office, or if it was vice versa.

@zetastrike I can vouch for that Zeta. I just love the freshly ground smell of roasted coffee beans. I use to go to the Supermarket to have it done all the time when I was a boy. 8^) 

And if anyone else says your coffee tastes like dirt, you can say "Well it was ground this morning."

^Now that's funny!

Fresh ground is Awesome! 

I still like to mix it up from time to time...Sometimes fresh ground, some pre-ground, some blends...Usually coffee pot but sometimes French Press (If I have the time to clean up afterwards)...

You may wanna throw this in the Coffee Thread.

Is there no BASIC?

I'm doing it the same way.  I just took it out of the oven.

It was tougher than the brisket from the local bbq joint.  It wasn't overcooked, I think brisket is just like that unless slow smoked.

I haven't noticed it being particularly tough when prepared that way. I know that slicing it "on the diagonal" helps with that (not that I've personally sliced it, I just eat it ?).

I don't take issue with people enjoying it, it's the mental gymnastics when comparing it to its contemporaries that is mind boggling.

Where did YOU learn yo fly?

It's a game system that has some games I like to play.   Not sure why the Jaguar is any different from any other system people like to play.  All personal preference.

Is it something you ordered? If so, what's the value of it?

It's an AV Famicom that cost me $100.

I don't think I'd sweat it over $100. Maybe if it were $200 or more, then I'd want a signature.

I don't know personally,  but he's got some good feedback.

I like the Low-Poly style, I might have to check this out.

Thanks for the recommendation.  I've added it to my wishlist.

No, it was a SD set.  It was just in poor working order.

Crazy that they were still making SD sets in 2007. I believe my HD one was from 2006.

Depending on where you live, your wallet might be a bit lighter as well. Around here they are making it harder and harder to dispose of CRT sets.

I know riiiight? It feels like ages ago the reviews came out for the Japanese version, saying "any day now the NA version will be out!". And yet...here we wait "ever so patiently"!

I want a real steering wheel for the Switch. And the Labo doesn't count.

I like that game and will jump on it the moment it launches. I wonder if it's as popular in real Ike as it seems to be online? The Switch port sounds like it does everything right, at last. The 32X port was great but the hardware was stupid. The Genesis version is low res. The PS2 port was really late to North America, and I don't want to talk about the Saturn port.

...having said that, yeah, the PVM-or-bust crowd can be quite tedious. Composite/SVideo is actually a better choice for some games, plus any decent CRT TV is enough, no need to spend hundreds of bucks because some trendy obsessives said so.

fact crt is nearly instantly updated by the older machines, and lcd frame at a time with processing ruins gameplay, scan lines improve the picture on old consoles that relied on it to get defined and wonderful graphics.. todays screen make it look blockier than it really was

on the whole CRT vs LCD debate, for me it's more a matter of what i have available. My TI994A and Atari 2600 look just fine on my el cheapo $99 walmart tv, lol.