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  1. Keatah
    Well sure, but none of the early 8-bit rigs came close being AIO. And that is a huge factor in my choice today.
  2. Keatah

    I seriously hate on companies that sell “big” services to small businesses. It depersonalizes the experience and disillusions customers and proprietors alike. 

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Small Business, Big Business,  Business services?...I vote we go back to talking about peace, love, and sexual mutations, crisco and wire brushes, bowel movements, farts, ya know, fun stuff like video games!  🐻 🦇  🦔    (With bats and lions)...I kid, I kid...Talk about whatever ya like!   (Snooge)  

    2. Keatah

      Keatah

      Bowel movement comes to mind. I’ll have to describe the time I ate green bread full of mold or rather a chunk of it.

    3. Keatah

      Keatah

      Cash register rental. With big data options and aggregated customer profiling for synergistic market at pos terminal. Whatever the fuck that means. 

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  3. Keatah
    Love these updates. With some imagination it's a little like visiting a Factory Authorized Service Center in the 1980's for an upgrade or repair.
  4. Keatah
    We even played LunarLander by hand with pencil and paper. I would be "mission control" and the pilot would radio in to me the thrust duration. And I would check a graph and report back the position and speed according to that graph. To to have this computerized was utterly flabbergasting!
  5. Keatah
    As a child of the 70's my first enjoyable and memorable exposure to electronics was via pocket calculators, with red leds. These were expensive and magical and I got one from Olson Electronics sometime around 1972-1974. A few years later I would acquire an Apple II and both an Atari 400 & 800 along with the basic peripherals such as a 410 and 810 with assorted controllers and cartridges. Today I only have the Apple II. The 400/800 were long ago sold off or trashed or taken apart for parts for projects. Or they didn't survive my childhood investigations into what made them work. Probably a little bit of everything. For "recreating" the experience of having a 400 & 800 I simply use emulation. The reliability, convenience, and versatility is a huge plus with me. Especially because when I was a kid I so wanted an AIO that could do it all. Play everything! And I didn't want hardware sprawling all over the place then or now.
  6. Keatah
    We'd be that many years more advanced than we are today.
  7. Keatah
    We do not need a better PolePosition. It's a classic the way it is. It was pretty good back in the day, and it should remain that way. Too many people are beginning to demand remakes of games on that ARM-enhanced platform.
  8. Keatah

    Well the 3x strength Clotrimazole wiped out the fungus but good. Just like the USS Defiant swooping in on the Jem'Hadar.

    1. Keatah

      Keatah

      It got so bad so fast I kept my wirebrush from my toolbox with me to scratch. Till I got the med which worked quite quickly. Now it's 1% strength for routine patrol for a while.

       

      Man it came on like a freight train. One day I was fine the next an itch-fest. Right after an event we attended. I'm sure.

       

    2. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      Ahh, summertime. 

    3. Keatah

      Keatah

      Usually a slap'n'scratch with soap'n'water does the trick. But not that time. Damn! ..I should have saved some of it and cultured a batch.

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  9. Keatah
    I just use alcohol the 91% variety. Apply with an eye dropper and let it soak. Absorb with tissue, repeat. For stubborn spots you can stick it with a pin to crack the caked resin and speed it up a little. In easily accessible areas I just spot heat with soldering iron or heat pencil then apply alcohol. There's really several ways to do this.
  10. Keatah
    That looks really nice.
  11. Keatah
    And it has a bezel to boot! For sticky notes..
  12. Keatah
    Ohh but there is. And this is how you get it. 1- Purchase a laptop of your choice. 2- Install Altirra emulator. You'll have comprehensive coverage of vintage Atari 8-bit machines and unparalleled reliability and convenience as well as versatility. It's really that simple!
  13. Keatah
    Of course you can email them. Whether you'll get the response you want is to be determined. Lesson be learned - never ever ever pre-order things on the internet. Especially videogames and kickstarters.
  14. Keatah

    ataribox is like something got smacked in the head and can only spin in circles now. These things do happen on the internet you know.. And flunkies are-a flock'n to the whole institution either as bashers or supporters. It just draws you in and you can't stop it. Can't look away.

    1. Spriggy

      Spriggy

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      frankodragon

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    3. PlaysWithWolves

      PlaysWithWolves

      @save2600 I always wanted to be a pillar in the community.

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  15. Keatah
    Yup. The people hired to do the port from Apple to Atari would try to make the Atari version as exact as possible without making new code or enhancements.
  16. Keatah

    ..where the data is brought together in large storaging and processing so its a batch layer which helps the processing..

    1. carlsson

      carlsson

      Take me down to the server hall of blessing,
      where the data is brought together for batch processing.
      Take me there, ooh won't you please take me there!
       

    2. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      hot dogs vintage GIF

  17. Keatah
    I was always taught to leave something behind so that others may continue my legacy.
  18. Keatah
    Maybe the OP's console has a faulty TIA or issue with AUD0/AUD1 signals and how or if they are being mixed on the mainboard. Or perhaps a faulty stereo mod..
  19. Keatah

    Engine coolant is one of the chemicals in most vaping products.

    1. Keatah

      Keatah

      Yeh the cool stuff!

    2. Swami

      Swami

      It's good for what oils ya. 😛

    3. jd_1138

      jd_1138

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  20. Keatah
    The "monochrome version" you speak of is because you didn't turn on artifacting. If you do it will have some color. The other version needs an XE rig, or something an XE rig has.
  21. Keatah
    I had just about burned out on playing VCS SpaceInvaders (arguably the best version of the classic game) and was looking for something more. And Threshold hit the spot perfectly. It was a novelty seeing all these new patterns and enemies and the Mothership. This on the Apple II of course. So I rather liked the game.
  22. Keatah
    It's not really paranoia. It's common sense. Posting pics of your possessions on social media is the modern-day equivalent of running down the street yelling I got all this stuff! Come see it! Come take it when I'm not around! A rhetorical question or food for thought: Is it really important to you that people you don't know, know about what you have? If yes, that's a little bragging. Vain. Hollow. And just a bit risky.
  23. Keatah
    Yup. And you shouldn't post videos or pics of the inside of your house either because that helps potential assailants and thieves to formulate a plan of attack. Pics from smartphones contain location metadata down to the nearest few meters. And I don't post those unless I scrub them which takes time.
  24. Keatah

    My buddy just got this big-ass electric motor with like 100,000 HP power and it weighs like a ton. Going over there now to help him get it inside.

    1. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Keatah?  "That emulators are the Greatest thing since sliced cheese?...That 'Tang' could be short for something?...That if we held up Santa, we could gets lots of those wooden toy trains that ya never see at Toys R Us?"

       

      No Keatah,  that We could take over the World! 

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Now,  what we're going to need is a Big Ass Electric Motor with, like 100,000 Horsepower...

    3. Keatah

      Keatah

      What he's gonna need is a small forklift some steel cable and pulleys and 2 I-beams. Going in through the side basement sliding door/window. Idiotic and crazy.

       

      He says it's a project motor.

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  25. Keatah
    PAL mode it is! Sorry for not being more thorough in setting up my virtual rig.
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