∞ Vince ∞

At the end of the day, it is all opinions and I am happy with having different ones to you bluejay, and I respect your opinions too.

No not the designs, no. The system was good though. This is basically what we got for our SNES here in the UK. I don't agree about 1000,2000,3000 Amigas. And I don't think the A128 looks anything like a PC compatible I think it looks much more like an A500.

In the UK we got the same design for our SNES as the original Super Famicom. A very unusual event. The US had a more blocky iirc. I didn't like the UK version of the NES either, it was like a housebrick.

Yeah, I am British. Dunno always liked it looks good to me. And yeah the original Family Computer Japanese NES I don't and never have liked it. Saying that though mate, you and me are both entitled to our opinions and both are equally valid. It's like art, isn't it. Some people like one thing someone else other things. I used to like the design of the Megadrive as well...

yeah, ugly mate! Pastels were very much mid-late 80s. Miami Vice liked its pastel suits and women's catalogues were full of clothing in the exact same shades of yellow, blue, pink.

Fair play zzip. I'm only coming to the Atari systems fairly late in life (outside of the 2600).

If we could include Consoles, I don't get Bluejay's disdain for the SNES I thought and still do it is a very nice clean design. The original NES however, the Famicom looks awful to me the Red and White.

I know that was 1992, 2 years out if you're going 1980-1990. But... Well, it is a revised version of the A500. The 1200 is a beautiful machine as well. I can't go 1000,2000,3000 they all look like generic IBM compatibles to me. Apple II is an ugly machine. It looks like someone cut off a lump of cheese at the wrong angle. I always thought that one of the Atari ST variants, the Falcon I think it was was very ugly. Like you had three or four blocks and you just glued them together. Again though that is 1992 if I remember rightly.

Hmmm. From a UK centric perspective I'd say the 64 looked pretty good. The spectrum's keyboard was awful but looks ok. I always thought that the Amstrad CPC keyboards looked horrible for the different coloured keys and the omnipresent green monitors but now I quite like the look of the CPC. I like the look of the Atari 800 XL and I'm not sure about the round pastel colour buttons of the XE Game System. The straight 800 reminds me of a typewriter (or old word processor) for some reason. My favourite of all classic computers is the Amiga A600. It is lovely and compact. It is streamlined and beautiful. It's been 28 years and I still think it is wonderful to look at today.

There are a few places now doing decals for home made arcade machine cabinets and bartops. Some might even be doing decals for old machines now. Wouldn't hurt to inquire. The quality is second to none in a lot of cases and scratch resistant. Just apply it slowly and push out the bubbles with a credit card.

Yeah, that is how it came across. I mean if you want to mod, then mod. Just best to check out a few tutorials or a step by step first. I'm all for modding. I've used to sell xboxes with CoinOps I'd put on and stuff. If you are getting more from something than it was designed to do then cool! Just make sure you don't hurt yourself in the process. All you need is a set of non conventional screwdrivers. The reason why you've had an almost entirely negative response is, there are people who think Modding is a sin that you should never do it and that to modify or tweak hardware is wrong. They themselves are wrong, you can do what you please with something that's yours that you have paid for, but they are out there judging people for it all the same.

This one looks great! Promises more than the game delivers.

Yeah. Hack what you want, it's your console. I've been modding, hacking systems for years, morality doesn't come into it. Morals are a human issue. It's like people moaning about Emulation when we can't buy new copies of the games or even systems in question and haven't been able to for decades. Even if you fuck up the machine by doing it, so what ? It's one less machine. Unless you happen to be modding a prototype or a development machine (and that would be pretty messed up because I'd like those either put in a museum or explored and documented) I don't get it.

Well as the ZX Spectrum was a British computer, you would be advised to get a Datasette / Tape Player as most of the games are on nice affordable Tape. The best games on the Spectrum ? Um, Head Over Heels, The Dizzy Games, Midnight Resistance, R-Type, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Chuckie Egg, Rainbow Islands and Boulder Dash are some really great games to start with. + on the 'roms' front game images you can usually find well packed DVD archives on ebay for a few quid. These usually have thousands of games on in A-Z folder order.

Thanks a lot ! Play into the boys hands why don't you. Cue Kizza preparing a thank you note for a bouquet of flowers. A handful of you are achieving what Kizza has been trying to do for months. Congratulations. The mods will decide this thread has run it's course and lock it down.

I'm going to take a few days out (or more), again. I fully appreciate, I am a big voice and I charge in like a raging bull saying what I think and sometimes cock up in doing so. I'm fuelled by my revulsion of Kieren's behaviour but I appreciate I for one am an 'acquired taste'. I drone on, I don't get to the point quickly enough, I confuse who people are. A half dozen or so other people here bang just as loud a drum as me, from their own specific standpoints too, I think that is fair to day. But I am fucking bored of Kieren bloody Hawken. His name makes me want to punch a wall. I wish I had never met the fucking imbecile and I didn't keep hearing about his appalling behaviour. I love retro gaming. I love coding. I love discussing games and box art (a thread on here no-one's interested in), learning techniques and the clever ways in which people exploited systems to get the most out of them. The wonderful art styles people employed and the huge diversity in games tech people places and teams involved. Now that I seem to be getting back on an even keel health wise, after nearly 4 tortuous weeks, I am maybe going to get stuck in with some of my own game projects; either designing new ones afresh (the sweet smell of an a3 artist pad and all those possibilities !) or finishing up old ones and packaging them for release. I'm sick to death of going to spell this prick's first name as normal people do only to remind myself his is the one exception that uses a second 'E'. Do what you want here people. I've only got the same old shit to say in various degrees of worthiness. If we were talking about games I love say, I would feel more of a positive in this discussion. I'm bored of it all. I might start up a development thread for one of my games. Everyone here I will say good luck with whatever it is you do or want to do. Stay safe in these uncertain times. Look after yourselves and hopefully I'll see some of you at some of the retro events. I'm going to go do more of the things I enjoy and spend no time winding myself up about some arsehole I don't give a shit about. Fuck you Kieren you massive gormless potato faced cunt ! (unticks Notify me of replies. Unfollows thread) ----- Just a quick Coda directed at Sam (not Dyer) ^ above, I took on board what you had to say and I take on board your additions. Yeah, Makes a lot of sense. I'm jumping out again at this point and I wish you the very best.

Thank you for your additional comments which have allowed me to be more informed than I was before. I don't think you have stepped over any line. I think the people you have defended will thank you for having done so. It is true that I am no longer on social media and have never really felt comfortable with all the negative that came with it. You and I, Sam (not Dyer) are very much on the same page in wanting the fun to return and people to all get along. I don't like many people but I don't actively look to be anti-social either. I am most happy talking about games going out for meals playing chess and eating cheese. I hope Larry has indeed been tarred with the wrong brush; that he is a nice guy... but you & anyone else should be able to appreciate the implications his actions (or lack thereof) at the time have had & the subsequent conclusions that I have and I am assuming other people have drawn from it.

Thank goodness for that! You've dodged a bullet. Not only would he exaggerate his own input in it, he would probably have had a go at you because you had not given him full credit for doing 'most of it'. I see. Have you worked on the technical side or the presentation side? That makes sense. A lot of these people have some very good animated things and such. Yeah, again I have confused one of the players in all this with another. I acknowledge and own that mistake and am sorry for my mistake. I hope you can accept my apology but I was sure you/he got mentioned and I confused you. Glad you can laugh about it ! I've had a lot of 'doh' moments in the last 3+ weeks. I got Covid 19 on the 23rd of March and having some health issues I have really been going through it. Not an excuses but one of the symptoms that is most prominent is confusion and fuzzy mental cognitive functioning. No, It is NOT you. I appreciate you need to clarify, and I would like to reinforce the correction. My comments were about Sam Dyer of Bitmap Books. No, It was about Sam Dyer, his Bitmap Books project which featured Kieren as a contributor. Ah I see. Maybe this is how I may have got confused ? I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of GamerGate. I was very much on one side of it, he seems to have been on the other. The comments he has made and his reluctance to remove himself from one website in particular in the fallout and subsequent revelations has been key to my opinion, expressed here of him. I have not met him in real life and was initially very impressed by the professionalism of his channel, it's brilliantly depicted cartoons, his style of presentation and his impressive weight-loss. However when I found out about that ^^, and Kieren working with him on his channel, and then the book which I probably would have been happy to have paid good money for, it tarnished him in my eyes at least. Can I just point one thing out, you say that Larry is a deeply private person, but he runs his own highly successful youtube channel. Those two things do not tally in my eyes. If you are essentially a public figure how can you just sit quietly and not come out and explain how much of a book you have produced had to do with a universally discredited 'scener'. The problem is, when you stand on a public platform and express your views to people you will be expected to put your money where your mouth is and explain yourself when your actions have been called into question. Larry might be a lovely bloke, I don't know. But I think staying quiet about all this is doing him no favours.

This ^ is one thing I do agree with, as should be. Although I am very much into my technology coding and gadgets; some of the stuff that comes with the internet leaves a bitter taste. I am not on social media because quite frankly I don't like many people, but I respect anyone who is there for people in real life, as I said to Hannah about her support of Sarah. I actually sent them both DMs. Nice DMs about KWH and how they should not feel bad and continue to be creative people but they both ignored them, who cares. My genuine empathy for other people just swept into the wind. I now expect an avalanche of your friends posting and critiquing my response. For your clarity, I read your whole post and I didn't skim, I took in every word and those were/are my interpretations of what you put, right or wrongly. ---------- the following has been heavily edited for obvious reasons ----------- 'Larry' has no credibility considering the fallout from GamerGate and indeed, his own book featuring the boy Hawken's work. Sam DYER is guilty of the same crime, using his work and then trying to distance himself from Kieren's behaviour (I will admit Sam did actually come here and say he was happy with KWH's contributions) I'll say one thing for him, he is 100% right if and when he calls out Larry and Sam DYER out on their hypocrisy. On one hand they want the benefits of his 'work' such that it is, and on the other hand, they want to disassociate themselves as far as possible without having to admit culpability.

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Thanks for your reply Fox, but my problem is, not identifying a specific game but remembering which games were in that particular bundle. It might be that there was Joust, Missile Command and that multi game that was a bit simplistic, Combat. I know 100% I had separate carts for Joust and Missile Command, but beyond that, it is fuzzy. I'd love to know because I have been getting everything I had as a kid. Where I've not kept things, I've been going back and collecting stuff. Maybe I should just stick to Joust and Missile Command.

I'm not entirely sure what everyone is meaning by mirroring. When I mirror websites I basically make a full backup and store it at a different location. But most of us downloaded the original a couple of months back when it went up, so what's the problem, just upload it again ?

Those of you who read my post showing my genuine review of Kieren's Arcade A-Z might be interested to see that I have had a reply. I subsequently added my own retort to his reply. . .

What about it going up on dailymotion? Not sure of the rules but I've def seen stuff taken down by copyright strikes over on YT appear and remain on there.

I don't see it, this massive gulf. His own personal ego, his hubris fuels all he does. To dissect the 'work' is to hit him where it hurts, because he is so very proud of it all. He thinks he is this and people are bursting the balloon of self myth. Someone reviews his book, he jumps all over that person. Is that not his causing trouble and strife? When Chris Wilkins told him they were looking for a higher level writer and he goes batshit and creates new socks to back up his ripping the hell out of Chris or others on social media in groups he runs ? A lot of his fucked up behaviour is triggered by people's reactions to his 'work'. The Poppy account, it all boils down to him being jealous of more successful more creative people than him. This jealousy is fuelling his hate campaigns. Why do you think he hates Reboot so much ? Doing things he could only dream of.