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  1. Posted

    Geezus H you're going to make him NOT want to do it. If you are sure a JB is coming from the goodness of Kev's heart.. well great. Now keep your $180 refund thoughts to yourself and just enjoy what you get, and patiently wait.. or don't purchase it. No one cares. Kev already got soured on the TG16 due to individual comments who were in the minority but loud enough for him to notice. Just saying.

     

    My thoughts exactly. The amount of arrogance/entitlement on display is staggering.

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  2. Posted · Edited by Laner

    I'm a little annoyed at paying top dollar for shipping and still requiring a week to be delivered within the same country. At the moment it's in my state, but UPS Tracking says it won't be delivered until Monday.

     

    Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but if you're paying $40 shipping for a relatively small package, it needs to be delivered overnight and come with a side of fries.

  3. Posted · Edited by Laner

     

    Also the silence on if/when the cores drop is deafening, and it coincides with them ignoring all questions about making more NT Mini's. Seems pretty obvious the cores will be coming soon and they won't be making anymore NT Mini's as they'll be rendered relatively obsolete at that point anyway.

     

    I'm not picking on you specifically here, but there seems to be a lot of wishful thinking around this subject. I hope you're right, and that we'll see the JB firmware drop any day now.

     

    HOWEVER - If Kevtris/Analogue have decided that the Super Nt will never get additional cores/features/what-have-you, there is absolutely no good reason to acknowledge that. It's far better to say nothing, let people speculate, and boost sales in the process.

     

    If they *did* come out and definitively state there will be no Core Store 2.0, it would undoubtedly hurt them - in terms of future sales, pre-order cancellations and eBay dumping by those who already have their Super Nt's in hand. There's no upside to admitting it. Better to keep people guessing in perpetuity.

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    That's an interesting read. I tend to agree with most of what Byuu is putting down. At the end of the day think about what the word emulate actually means, not necessarily in a tech context but in general. The Super NT is not a Super Nintendo, but it is mimicking the behavior of one, therefore is it not an emulator? Hardware simulation is just a marketing term made up to sound superior to software emulation.

     

    The Polygon article linked a few pages back made a thought-provoking distinction between hardware and software emulation: "An FPGA works on a circuit level — it runs in parallel, like a true PCB. It works by replicating the cause, not the effect.”

  6. Posted

    First review must have broken the embargo. Read it or cache it before it's removed!

     

    http://uk.pcmag.com/review/93169/analogue-super-nt

     

    Gotta love it when they mis-state facts in within the first two sentences:

     

     

     

    Calling Analogue a niche retro gaming company undersells what it does. The company's first product, the Analogue Nt, was a game system that could play Nintendo Entertainment System games and output them at 1080p over HDMI.
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    It wasn’t an app/game, but a decision my parents made. I was fully on board the Atari train, having received a 2600 for Christmas a few years prior. For Christmas 1983, I asked for an 800XL, but my dad said they were planning on getting me a Commodore 64 instead. I remember writing an impassioned letter, asking him to change his mind.

     

    I don’t remember what his response was, but sure enough, Christmas morning there was a C64 under the tree. I don’t think I was upset about it.

     

    Now, *why* my dad insisted on the c64 rather than the Atari is a mystery. He wasn’t terribly tech savvy. He died many years ago, and my mom has no recollection.

     

    My guess is he ran the idea by one of his friends that was in the know; by late 83 it would’ve been obvious to someone who followed the industry that Atari was having difficulties, while Commodore’s star was rising. But who knows for sure...

  13. Posted · Edited by Laner

    It wasn't that long ago that the socially liberal types were the 60s free-love types that created the Atari culture in the first place.

     

    I don't think these modern "liberals" are liberal at all. They are more like the "church lady" stereotype except without the church

     

    They're definitely "progressive"/"leftists." Not classically liberal by any definition though. (That's the problem with our society's insistence on redefining words to suit one's own agenda.)

     

    They're essentially authoritarians who have rejected traditional organized religion and created their own out of whole cloth.

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  14. Posted · Edited by Laner

    I dont know if this has been talked about but this Analogue HDMI->analog adapter for the Super NT. This could be used on a Hi-DEF-NES aswell to get RGB? Or any 1080p digital source for that matter?, like playing retro-games on modern consoles on CRT:s..

     

    Yes, it's apparently in the works as an add-on.

  17. Posted · Edited by Laner

    Yeah, that's exactly why I went with the PSU from icomp, the low ripple requirement was not easy to find. The new shipment from China for MK2 power supplies should be there soon. Jens told me it would be 4 weeks more than 4 weeks ago now ;)

     

    Huh - I never saw a PSU for purchase on the site. Oh well - the one that came with my HDD dock seems to be working fine.

  25. Posted

    If Atari were so intent on making hardware again, they should flex the one muscle that's actually strengthened over the past decade... the flashbacks. Release the next Flashback with an online store or cart port or SD slot. No, I don't think it'd be a great idea, but it's a heck of a lot closer to reality than a $300 render.

     

    Agreed. Atari wants to build up their brand cache? Stop ignoring your hardcore audience. We are the ones that will evangelize for you if you put out a good product. Expand past the 2600 & Arcade platforms. Let us use original carts/controllers or images on an SD card. Stop aiming at the lowest common denominator.

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