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  13. Posted

    Hmm...with some slight work, this could be made to be all mounted internally into a newer modern computer and still have the 3.5 floppy installed...

     

    Do you know if this works transparently in that essentially it works like an actual floppy attached to your computer? Or does it specifically only work through the Kryo software?

    Don't know, it's brand new and I never used it!

    You may want to check on their forum for this info.

  14. Posted · Edited by AMenard

    For sale price: $250Cad shipped (canada/usa)

     

    Included are:

     

    * Atari 520STE Pal with 4megs of ram and new CenturionTech US compatible PSU installed.

    * UltraSatan HDD emulator (new never used) and a SatanDisk (used)

    * Two original Atari mouses

    * 3 new/sealed boxed games (Wreckers, Alien World, Chronicles of Omega)

    * 2 used boxed games (Tempest, Super Sace Invaders / Pit-Fighter)

    * Atari->RGB cable (can be used with an Amiga 1080 or 1084 monitor with gender changer)

    * boxed copy of Degas Elite.

    * Pete Putnik HDD driver with companions files and utility for the UltraSatan

    * 2x blank 4gb CF card.

     

     

    Looking to trade for one of the following:

     

    * Atari 2600 + games

    * Atari 7800 + games (at least one 7800 in the lot to try)

    * Colecovision + games

    * Sega Master System + games (no need for the gun or glass)

    * Gamecube + games

    * Wii + games

     

     

    System and controllers must be clean and working. Games can be carts only and for the Ataris and Coleco I understand that label can be bad or damaged. The SMS label must be good. Disc based game must include case and both it and the disc be in good condition. Number of games must be reasonable for the value of the system. PSUs must also be included (can be a modern compatible replacement).

     

    Feel free to ask questions. Reasonable offers will be accepted.

     

    As always I'll pay shipping both way in case of a trade!

     

     

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  15. Posted

    Here are some thoughts:

    I have also been in tech support, for closer to 30 years. In extremely technical engineering firms. That said : most people are dumb as fuck. Straight up tartar sauce on the brain. Jofa Hockey helmet wearing crash test dummies.

    Even the ones who are smart, the ones who could easily figure out roms and emulation - the vast majority of them do not care. Us retro game nuts - we are the 1% of the 1%. Were hardcore gaming nerds. We are such an infinitesimally small segment of the population, you tell most people what were into, and they yell Pac-Man! At you like Cameron Diaz brother in Theres Something about Mary. Franks and beans Franks-and beans!

    Most people do not care. At all. About any of this stuff.

    As for the whole justification of piracy saying that were preserving this stuff for future generations... bullshit. Guys, these are toys. Meaningless, unimportant toys. Nobody cares but us. Nobody is out there making homebrew injection molds to make their own retro GI joe dolls or Transformers, or Cabbage Patch kids. You know why? Nobody cares. We pirate these things because we want to play them without paying for them. Period.

    I love retro video games. Most people laugh at us. Such is life.

    /rant

    Most people don't even notice you are there or they're to busy doing things they enjoy to laugh at you. You see yourself as a 1% of 1% because you feel the need to belong to a group, to give a meaning to your gaming hobby. This is silly. You're an individual, not a part of something. You've full control on what you do with your free time and money.

     

    People collect many things, stamps, money, cars... It's nobodies business but for the one doing it.

     

    Damn this site can be a downer sometime. People come here to discuss our hobby of retro gaming while some seems to be here only to bitch about it and say it's stupid. Maybe it's not the hobby that's stupid but you that's ready to move on to something else. If that's the case then the honorable thing to do is to leave it behind and not dump on those enjoying themselves.

  16. Posted

    How many people would it take before one's experiences are no longer "limited"? Compared to my "limited personal experience" working both in private and government sector, it's pretty similar. We just read from those who have some skillz, yo. We don't hear from Jon Q Public.

    I've been working in tech support for the last 20 years. I've seen my shares of dumb people, but I've also seen just as many who could perform complex task after some simple explications... The difference is that in those 20 years I've learned to not sell people short, unlike some here do.

  17. Posted

    And it's also a bit ironic of seeing people getting frustrated by people downloading and using roms on a site where many advertise and use product that helps emulation or the use of roms like the everdrives, the finalgrom, the sio2pc and other gadget that let people use dowloaded roms with retro hardware. Hell, some here outright advocate for the use of emulators only instead of relying on old hardware that could fail... Maybe some of the complainers here even...

     

    And the hypocrisy is even worst for those who used 8 and 16 bits computers. Those platformed lived and died with piracy. You bought the one you had access to the most free stuff around you. Stones, glass houses...

  18. Posted

    That's far more than what most are willing to do. They MIGHT ask someone technical to do it for them. They're more likely to assume all that stuff is lost forever until Nintendo swoops in.

     

    I work with schools. I talk to too many parents of students every day who are unable to install a simple iPhone app for themselves. They have non-technical jobs and no interest in learning, but they sure as heck remember growing up playing Punch-Out or whatever.

     

    I mean, it's fine, you can disagree. Whatever. But i deal with too much of the general public to know they're just not capable of or interested in setting up any sort of emulator for themselves. it's silly to think we're the norm.

     

    The fact that there have to be tutorials - that it's not self-explanatory - should be proof enough that it's complex.

     

    Come on... Get real. Stop judging people tech affinity at large by your limited personal experiences. People who want to use emulators will find a way to use them. They're not as complicated to use as they were years ago. Yes we're nerds, but we're not that special.

     

    Some emulators are damn easy to setup and use, especially for the older system.

  20. Posted

    I think you're severely overestimating the average Joe's technical prowess.

     

    I have just spent the better part of two days downloading different packages onto my spare PC in an attempt to make something all-in-one like to play ROMs. I finally settled on HyperPie PC Edition from Arcade Punks. Which is a 138GB download from Mega. No way the average retrogamer is doing that.

     

    What prowess? you only have to follow one of the many tutorials on youtube or elsewhere. And the cartridge system are a couple of megs worth at most, not 138gb...

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  21. Posted

    My CRT are:

     

    * Ascent 23" TV (component, svideo, composite, rf) - Last CRT sold at Zellers in 2005.

    * Amiga 1080

    * Commodore 1702 in dire need of a recap job. I have the kit, the tools, but not the guts to put my hand inside of it and risk electrocuting myself.

     

    The Ascent is perfect for the NES, SNES, Sega, TG16 and PS1 and PS2. Not compatible with lightguns, but I fall back to the 1080/1702 for those. I should receive the NES, SNES. And PS2 next week. For now I have my mod1 genesis to play with.

     

    I would've waited for winter before getting back in console gaming, but I'm really disapointed with the new Wow expansion and need something else to keep me occupied.

  22. Posted

    So stop name calling and tell us, what would a "Nintendo boycott" accomplish? Be specific.

    You're really struggling when someone as a different point of view then yours or when you don't get your way. Again, what is it to you if people want to boycott something. Do you own stock in Nintendo?

     

    And there is no "us". The only person being triggered by an action that you have no interest in taking part in is you, just you...

  23. Posted

    @Menard

     

    Do whatever you want, I don't care. Why would I? I'm only responding because of your Condescending Wonka, which would probably fit better on this reply. You didn't answer my question, after all.

     

    I just don't think a kneejerk call to "boycott Nintendo!" makes very much sense, neither logically nor in practice.

     

    Again, what does "let's hurt Nintendo" do to improve anything, for anyone?

    For someone who doesn't care you do protest much. If you don't care about it don't participate in it! People will do whatever they want irrespective of your feeling about it, so grow up a bit.

     

    And my condescending Wonka was in response to your passive-agressive schtick that is borderline flamebaiting most of the time.

  25. Posted

    OK, so explain to me what a "boycott of Nintendo" would accomplish, and how it would work?

     

    If everyone who is soooo pissed at them for enforcing their copyright under the law never again buys a Nintendo product (Switch, 3DS, swag), what happens? Does Nintendo feel a drop in their profits and somehow attribute it to coordinated nerdrage? Then what?

     

    If many people do, then yes Nintendo will see a drop in sales.

     

    But then again, what is it to you that some people may boycott Nintendo? Do people have to ask you permission or something?

     

    Tell me how you really feel about this, I'm all hears.

     

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