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    I'm not your "honey" nor your "child" and I'd appreciate if you didn't use condescending names in reference to me.

    Good for you! ;-) The condescension was in response to weeks of your overly-simplistic views of the world ... but you're 150% within your rights to disagree and fight back.

     

    I wish that we could actually sit down over a beer and have a constructive discussion over our differences.

     

    Really ... I'm not here to get this thread closed-down. But folks ... there is more to the world than fraking advertising-revenues!

     

    DerekRumpler and Jibbajaba and shawnphase may be the modern reality that us old-farts created ... but I still hope for better.

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    At that rate almost anything can be considered "me culture". Did you write a book and sell it for profit with your name on the cover? Me culture. Star in a movie? Me culture. Did you study hard and get good grades in the hope of landing a good job? Me culture.

     

    I see nothing wrong with people monetizing their interests since I believe time is valuable and people should place value on their work. If people don't like it then no one is forcing them to pay for it or view it. Also, there are (legal) ways to remove ads (YouTube Red) and the creator still makes a cut. It depends on what you desire.

     

    Personally, I like podcasts, Let's Plays, and similar things from YouTubers. Not everyone needs to like that.

    Honeychild ... I don't define the "me" culture in that way. You do it well-enough by yourself.

     

    If you want to be paid for you "commentary" ... then make it "interesting" and "worthwhile" ... otherwise "sorry".

     

     

    I re-read your post several times to try to understand the point, but I'm afraid that it escapes me. I never said that anyone owed me, or any other YouTube content creator, a living wage. I am sorry that you seem to think that anyone who creates YouTube content is either trying to cash in, or trying to become famous (some certainly are). I started making videos because I enjoyed it and because it's a creative outlet for me. That being said, my channel has become more popular than I ever expected it to, and I am not about to just leave money on the table because of some altruistic sense of community. Some of my videos take the better part of 100 hours to make and are enjoyed by 10's of thousands of viewers. So while it is true that YOU do not owe me a "living wage" for running my channel, I believe that I have earned the right to treat my channel like the business that it now is.

     

    Would you also ask Bill Loguidice to start giving all of his books away for free? Is the fact that he writes them indicative of a narcissistic personality? Perhaps all of the homebrew games that Al sells in the AtariAge store should be sold at-cost? Certainly they should be devoid of any kind of creator credit lest they be accused of having an over-inflated ego. Should no one be able to make money doing something that they enjoy because it infringes on your personal views?

     

    Your post seems to be laced with a hint of either bitterness or jealousy and I am having a hard time understanding where you are coming from.

     

    Gentlemen, I'm sorry if this punctures your "bubbles" ... but there's a huge difference between "commentary" and "creativity".

     

    Like a lot of old-farts here ... people make YouTube videos celebrating the memories of the products that I helped to create.

     

    That's in the past ... and really, that wasn't the motivation of any of us old-folks back-in-the-day.

     

    I'm not asking anyone to "give-away" the results of any "creative" endeavour.

     

    I've made money for being in the game industry, and have absolutely no problem with anyone else doing so.

     

    Just actually get-off-your-ass and really contribute something significant ... then I'll be happy to pay you.

     

    Flap-your-lips about how "significant" your "insignificant" thoughts are ... then "nope".

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  3. Posted · Edited by elmer

    Some of you guys need to understand that for many people, a YouTube channel is their side business, and a well-run channel has tremendous earning potential. We ask for subs because subs are obviously much more likely to watch future videos. Same reason that store owners encourage you to come back, or that big box stores almost all have loyalty cards. Gamester81 made a mistake in dealing with MK, and he is now trying to do some damage control in order to protect his brand.

    Sorry Dude, but I've seen your posts here, and I've seen your posts on PCENGINEFX, and I've actually looked at a couple of your videos on YouTube.

     

    The big conclusion ... I don't owe you a living wage from your "side-business" of a YouTube Channel.

     

    Nor do I owe John Lester (Gamester81) or Pat and Ian (Completely Unnecessary Podcast).

     

    You're trying to say "interesting" things in order to sell my eyeballs to your advertisers ... I (OTOH) don't monetize my posts, nor do I particularly care if anyone reads them.

     

    I'm having a "conversation", not trying to make a "buck". I thought that was the point of a public "forum".

     

    I'm also giving away hundred/thousands of hours of my work in doing fan-translations and in trying to open-up obscure old computers/consoles to new folks ... because that interests me ... and not because I'm trying to "monetize" some fraking brief moment of "fame".

     

    But that's just me. I'm "old", and I believe that some things are worth preserving, but I just don't fraking understand the "me" culture.

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  4. Posted

    I'm honestly not sure. Retro Gamer as a UK publication, spends way too much focus on old computer games as opposed to consoles, something I and many Americans have little nostalgia for.

    And as an crusty old ex-pat Brit, I have absolutely zero interest in the the Atari 2600, the ColecoVision, or the NES.

     

    They had no significant presence in the UK except as rare grey-imports.

     

    The myriad of different home-computer systems in the UK, and the ability for anyone-with-an-interest to program them, led to a huge talent-pool of highly-skilled programmers that were then recruited by American companies for developing games for the 4th generation (and later) consoles.

     

    So ... Retro Gamer is much more my cup-of-tea than Mike Kennedy's RETRO, or Carl's Retro Gaming.

     

    Different folks, different interests! ;-)

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  6. Posted

    Since this is a "speculation" thread, I think that it's not unreasonable to start speculating on "WTF happened"!

     

    Here's my guess ... I suspect that River West got cold feet about the negative publicity and the potential damage to the Coleco brand, especially after the "fraud" at the Toy Fair, and they yanked the Coleco license away from Mike a few days ago.

     

    The "fraud" gives them perfect reason to do so, and to totally come out smelling-of-roses as the guys that protected a beloved American brand from the charlatan that had fooled them into letting him almost ruin it.

     

    That might also explain how Triverse seems to have some inside knowledge of today's disaster, even though he's carefully not said anything.

     

    Just total speculation ... but that was what this thread was set up for.

    OK, so it turns out that I was only 90% right on the day of the KickStarter ... it took until today for the speculation to be 100% right! ;-)

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  7. Posted

    OMG... hahah. His Engineer responded to his question of if that picture of the clearcase prototype could have anything to do with playing games.... ". I ask my engineer is there anything that can conceivable be on this board, that could be pulled off this board, that could play games, he responds.. "Well Chris, if I say lets bake a cake, and I pull out a frying pan and spark plugs, your probably going to have concerns!'.

    So, yeah, NO!!!

     

    Sounds like Coleco definitely aren't going to roll-over and play nice with Mike's feelings.

     

    So then the next question is, will Mike Kennedy ...

    1. Actually have the balls to send in whatever "prototype" he can scrape together from the local GoodWill?
    2. Just stay silent and let the deadline pass and lose "by default?
    3. Come up with some lame excuse about him being mugged by a little-old-lady on the way to the Post Office?
    4. Come up with some lame excuse about it all being the hardware guy's fault for lying to him?
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  8. Posted

    Why on earth would they do that? Mike has nothing they want, and they know it.

     

    I'm predicting that this is an exit strategy. They're already prepared to terminate their licensing contract.

     

    Basically, Coleco is already gone.

    I totally agree that this is an "exit" strategy. But I agree with "Lost Monkey" that River West are likely to say exact what he predicts.

     

    It would be a "face saver" for all parties, and allow them to back-the-heck-away without any possible legal blowback from Mike.

     

    If they out-and-out call him a fraud, then he might feel it necessary to sue ... and the River West guys actually have some money, so they'd be a target.

     

    Much easier to let everyone back away with as much dignity as they can muster and save on the legal fees.

     

    I believe that they're just making a good "business" decision now that they realize that Mike isn't going to make them any profit.

     

     

    My question at this point is why? And why in 7 days?

    Put your ass on a plan Mr Cardillo, go to Mike home (or Mr Lee home) today and check .... as simple as that.

    They've probably been getting legal counsel about how to extract themselves from this mess.

     

    Just because you're all-fired-up and angry and ready to get out the tar-and-feathers doesn't mean that River West sees all of this in anything other than cold-hard-cash terms, and being seen to give Mike his 7 days rather than just banging down his door, pitchfork-in-hand, is just good legal weaseling.

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  10. Posted

    Since this is a "speculation" thread, I think that it's not unreasonable to start speculating on "WTF happened"!

    Here's my guess ... I suspect that River West got cold feet about the negative publicity and the potential damage to the Coleco brand, especially after the "fraud" at the Toy Fair, and they yanked the Coleco license away from Mike a few days ago.

    The "fraud" gives them perfect reason to do so, and to totally come out smelling-of-roses as the guys that protected a beloved American brand from the charlatan that had fooled them into letting him almost ruin it.

    That might also explain how Triverse seems to have some inside knowledge of today's disaster, even though he's carefully not said anything.

    Just total speculation ... but that was what this thread was set up for.

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  14. Posted

    This is unrelated, but I got word last night that Atgames is working on a SNES FGPA. Trust Worthy source in the classic gaming products industry.

    Very cool! An FPGA SNES with a 128MByte worth of built-in games would probably appeal to a lot of the folks that hang around here.

     

    I hate to think what the final cost would be ... and "is working on" is a very, very long way from "has finished" ... but definitely great info, thanks!

     

    Personally ... I'd much rather have whatever Kevtris comes up with, or stick with the evolving open-system guys like MiST.

  17. Posted · Edited by elmer

    The system wasn't what a lot of people expected, although a good portion of that was due to unrealistic expectations. There were also a lot of hardware and software issues out of the gate, which prompted images like the one posted to be made.

    That sounds like exactly what people are going to be saying if the Coleco Chameleon manages to get funded, and if they ever manage to ship a single actual console out to their "backers".

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  18. Posted

    Question I'm wondering can a Cyclone V be bought cheap enough to make the CC at 135 or 150 dollar price points when they also got to add a lot of features such as controller, game, power supply, and casing

     

    Also is their enough of the cheap Cyclone V boards out their to do this?

     

    Short Answer:

     

    Very, very unlikely.

     

    Long Answer:

     

    Possibly, if they got a big enough discount on whichever Cyclone V chip they wanted to use.

     

    That would either have to be a huge-volume discount (not going to happen), or a sweetheart-deal from Intel (Altera's new owner) in order to promote/raise-interest in the whole FPGA scene (also not going to happen).

     

    Now, they might be more likely to get a sweetheart deal from the new-kid on the scene ... Gowin Semiconductor in China, and its GW2A FPGA.

     

    But really, all this speculation is pointless because none of this FPGA talk makes any sense at all, especially when they could just use a $9 C.H.I.P. board instead and run software emulators.

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  19. Posted · Edited by elmer

    ... because the Cyclone V does HDMI

     

    Ahhh ... but the Cyclone V doesn't just "do" HDMI.

     

    AFAIK, you've either got to do what Kevtris did, and do a lot of research-and-testing, and then also do some extremely clever programming, and you might also need the more-expensive Cyclone V GX with the built-in high-speed transceiver ... or you buy a separate HDMI transceiver chip, something like ...

     

    http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=66&No=582

     

    VGA output is so much easier!

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  20. Posted

    If "legitimate" Kickstarters end up going down in flames and pocking what money is left, even if someone wanted this... thing...I can't understand who'd trust this guy with their money, expecting any sort of deadline to be met with legitimate results.

     

    I've been "unreliably informed" that Mike's actual plan is to take all the "outsourced-development" funds in the KickStarter budget, and invest them in buying a shipping-container full of Lucky Charms to take to Ireland to persuade the Leprechauns to finish off the hardware and software design.

     

    My "source" could be wrong on this ... but it sure sounds like a good idea to me! ;)

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  21. Posted · Edited by elmer

    Are you sure about that? I just took this screen cap a minute ago. Anyhow, it does look like he's admitting there's an SNES inside.

     

    Like most of what Mike says, his poor language skills (or great political skills), make the wording vague-enough to be interpreted in a number of different ways.

     

     

    Original:

     

    We will be making a formal response soon to this explaining that it was not just a SNES stuffed into our shell.

     

    Meaning 1:

     

    We will be making a formal response soon to this, explaining that it was not just "a SNES stuffed into our shell".

     

    Meaning 2:

     

    We will be making a formal response soon to this, explaining that it was not only a SNES that was stuffed into our shell.

     

     

    Original:

     

    The excitement should still be high for the first fully architected FPGA gaming console we've created.

     

    Meaning 1:

     

    The excitement should still be high for our creation of the "first fully architected FPGA gaming console".

     

    Meaning 2:

     

    The excitement should still be high for our-first fully architected FPGA gaming console.

     

    (Since he's conveniently dismissing projects like the FPGA-Arcade, the MiST, the OneChipMSX, the Zemmix Neo, etc.)

     

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