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  • bmonkey325 40 days ago | parent | on: Raspberry Pi 500+ Review
    In the age of 3D printing, single board computers, and hobbyist kits and cases there are tons of projects. Atari, NES, GBA, up to Saturn and PS1 and even MAME.

    I suspect that many if the 1UP cabinets are just an SBC running MAME but I can’t be certain. I’ve never had a closeup look.

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  • bmonkey325 42 days ago | parent | on: Indiana Jones Adventure prototype recovered for t...
    Og title : Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure prototype recovered for the Commodore 64
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  • bmonkey325 45 days ago | parent | on: SGI demos from long ago, running in your browser t...
    It’s seems that only the first link is real but you get the other demos that 404 from that first demo. Weird but it works
  • bmonkey325 47 days ago | parent | on: GNU Midnight Commander
    If you want this experience on windows. Far Manager is the tool for you:

    https://www.farmanager.com/

  • bmonkey325 47 days ago | parent | on: Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the huma...
    In all my travels I have never seen a Cannon Cat in the wild. I assume he’s holding a model - when I had seen pictures in BTYE magazine years ago I assumed it was about the size of an Apple IIc. Anyone confirm ?

    I saw there is emulator for MAME but it’s not complete.

    • splorp 46 days ago
      I have a Canon Cat in my collection and yes, it is approximately the size of an Apple IIc.

      https://flickr.com/photos/splorp/3075594/

      • bmonkey325 45 days ago
        Wow. That’s amazing. Does it “boot” ? Glad to see it’s in good hands and this part of vintage history is preserved.
        • splorp 4 days ago
          Sorry, missed this comment.

          Yes, it does boot.

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    • classichasclass 46 days ago
      (author) Yes, that one is a mockup model, but it's actually the Swyft. The Cat does not have a handle in that location.
  • bmonkey325 47 days ago | parent | on: The new Apollo A6000 :
    I’m not the site owner but I am not having issues from Canada. Anyone else ?
  • bmonkey325 50 days ago | parent | on: 'You just can't recreate that glow': The people wh...
    CRTs definitely react positively to percussive maintenance.
    • ddingus 47 days ago
      In high school, a physics teacher once had a play on percussive maintenance. I call it impact encouragement. Or when using a hammer, linear encouragement, but I digress...

      He held a glitchy TV by one side 6 inches in the air. Went on at length about the physics of it too. All sorts of BS, and then he dropped it!

      #BAM!

      Perfect picture after that! And I mean exemplary! Was weird. That set performed better than the others for years! At least two

  • bmonkey325 51 days ago | parent | on: Sega resurrects its old ‘blast processing’ Genesis...
    Og title : Sega resurrects its old ‘blast processing’ Genesis TV ad to fire shots at Mario Kart World
  • bmonkey325 51 days ago | parent | on: 'You just can't recreate that glow': The people wh...
    I see the appeal. Unless you have an anchor bay the purity of the image is very appeasing. Certainly can’t play Duck hHunt on an LCD screen.
    • KODust 50 days ago
      I'll take any version where you can shoot the dog. Laugh at me, will you!?
      • bmonkey325 50 days ago
        You’re welcome.

        https://youtu.be/4rN4yDNj5ME?si=VNmKf2FVIcJE8e_S

  • bmonkey325 53 days ago | parent | on: History of the GEM Desktop Environment
    >>>TOS which simply meant “the operating system”, although many believed “T” actually stood for “Tramiel”.

    Huh. You learn something new everyday

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