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Dreamcast is one of the systems I want to get into emulating. I have fond memories of some of those games. In fact, anything Sega is on my list. I already have a bunch of Master System and Genesis (and some 32X) ROMs on my Pi, and that's just for starters. There's still Game Gear, Sega CD and Saturn to look at. It's too bad Sega over reached in the '90s and fizzled. Still, there's some good stuff out there.

If you plan to do Nintendo 64 at all, I highly recommend Project64. That's a kick ass emulator. Mupen64++ is good too. Though, if you get that one, be sure to grab the DL link from The Emulator Zone. Trying to go to their homepage to get the file the other day was a bunch of bullshit. I wound up with some crap I never wanted and had to purge it from my computer. I only grabbed Mupen because Goldeneye was glitching on Project64 on my gaming rig. But, that was a graphics error specific to that machine. It's a solid emulator.

Like I said, I really don't know on tne TV. Like you, I keep mine until they die, then worry about upgrading. I only bought the one I have now because the 32" Sharp was too small for the room. I watch a lot of Japanese Kaiju films, and I don't want to strain to read the subtitles.

I don't know why TVs these days have to have all those apps. Well, really I do. It's yet another platform to get ads in front of us. But, those apps are totally unnecessary. Roku sticks and boxes are really cheap. And, those of us with modern game consoles can put apps on them.

Sega was a bad arc of timing and hdw choices. It showed being first to market is not always smart. Best to time to release at or right after another brand say nintendo. This happened to that company as well. The hdw just was either too complex (architecture) or just too slow or limiting.
Issue of releasing between cycles is your competing with older hdw that has matured and been worked out with new hdw and code base that is new and unknown so it is harder to work. And in so doing as your matures the new crop is comming and you then gotta fight the hew stuff. And if you guessed wrong with the hdw choices it could be bad news.

There were other issues such as 3rd party and getting start up games out there on Sega and later Nintendo (latter leaned way too much on it's franchise to sell, still does)

Yeah golden eye is the one title Id want n64emu for over time I have forgotten most of the others. N64 was a pain to play fighters on etc.

Yeah I am more of a TV is a monitor guy. I could see though that having say amazon prime flix hulu and other stream soft in the tv but like all those toy features in the brd player I have they slowly become retarded or removed. The youtube on that thing only does like 480p or 340p if that mono audio pandora flopped as well as the other 2 things they had. Some of the tvs I do see buy into say the android market so anything android will run so over time the software will be maintained by the host vs the tv manu. A good thing until the os on the tv is too old.

I am guessing this is the "you do plan to buy a new one in 2 yrs anyhow dont you??" attitude.

I really loved the dreamcast mostly for it being the first to be able to send a signal to a pc monitor. Back in those days even a 600X480 rez signal looked sharper and "solid" compared to a TV. Even if it was a VGA analoge connection >_>
Then came the roms for it and fan apps and games. I do not really remember any one key game except maybe the one I had to buy it for "sega GT" as it was for a job. But it was unlocked out of the box and was so easy to fool with. I also liked the formfactor small as possible for the components inside. Sadly I again think I have lost all the cables and things over the years.

TV size is very much a matter of pixels and room size. Room the tv is in is 20X25 or so. So I am guessing a 65 might be right or just a tad large. The couch isnt on the back wall as my pc set up is there. And well I think 4k on a 55 might be a tad tight for pc use. IE navigating the menus without blowing up the UI into kiddy UI feel. Win8 has a real crap interface that is even more restricted than win7. Miss XP in some ways as you could easily adjust specific text fields and bits of the OS. Win8 atm has this fat window frame I just cannot get rid of. Drives me NUTS.

The whole 4k thing is annoying in some regards as I might need cables as well and the worry of power to push that even with 1080p video maximized over that span. I also want to upgrade my pc monitors in time had hoped to use this years SOTL to do that with a 32 4k (do not think a 27 is gonna be large enough for 4k) so I can return to a 2 monitor set up. Retire my 24s to other uses. And at that I dunno if my 770 can even do that rez on displayport and manage the 2560X1440 cintiq on hdmi. lol AUGH heh. EXP as replacing that card would be at least a 400usd+ job. a 2070 or something. That shit is so overpriced atm.

Yeah, Sega's problem was having one console to rule them all, the Genesis. With the 32X and Super Sega CD add-ons, the Genesis could run 16-bit games, as well as both 32-bit games and CD games. So, when they released the Saturn, nobody really gave a crap. They already had hundreds sank into the Genesis and various add-ons. Then there was the Dreamcast. Such a great console, so poor execution in its launch. By then, though, Sega was on its last leg, much like Atari when they released the Jaguar.

Nintendo has had a lot of issues over the years. Their 10NES lockout chip in the Western NES and their shitty licensing terms had developers pissy with them. They had horrid license terms for the NES. For the first five years, a game had to be an NES exclusive. There are also cartridge shortages, meaning even companies that got licenses weren't necessarily guaranteed to be able to release to the number of copies they wanted. That's also why some games (like Pac-Man) have both licensed and unlicensed releases for the NES. Of course, they went after practically every company that bypassed the 10NES lockout chip in any way and released unlicensed games. Then with the SNES, the restrictions were lifted and companies were happy to put their games on the system. But, they still remembered the crap they endured in the '80s. The Nintendo 64's library was decent, but limited by the hardware (especially the cartridges) and salty developers deciding they'd just rather not deal with them and they went to the newcomer, Sony. That's why the Playstation's library way outshines the N64. With the Gamecube, the decision to go with those stupid little discs again hurt them. Plus, the developers had yet another option in Microsoft. But, Nintendo stayed in the game by securing some exclusives, especially Star Wars games and their own brands, like Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda and Starfox. Also, the Gamecube cost $100 less than the PS2 and XBOX. Coming in with motion control with the Wii was a good move, that and their prices got them some sales back. They needed novelty and prices at that point, though, as their hardware was no match for Sony or Microsoft's. The Wii U was a dud, but the Switch seems to be a hit. The ability to switch between console and portable appeals to a lot, plus they're about to release an all portable version. One place Nintendo has always shone is in handhelds. The Game Boy and its various descents, Game Boy Advanced, DS/3DS and Switch have all done well.

In terms of the "replace it every two years" thinking, that pisses me off. We've become a society of disposable tech, which is really bad. Our landfills are full of that stuff. Plus, I don't know about you, but I can't afford to buy TVs every couple years or so. The one I have now was purchased because of my huge discount I get for working Thanksgiving. 25% off makes buying a TV and a stand a great idea. If not for where I work and that kind of deal, I'd probably still be rocking that 32-inch and just sitting closer to read my subtitles.

I ordered a new budget computer case earlier. I've been rocking this Antec 600 gaming case for my main desktop for years, but it's in rough shape. Plus, it's too complex and pain to keep dust free. So, I'm getting a more simple case. I also ordered 16GB more Corsair Vengeance RAM, the same kind of DDR4 that's in my gaming rig. I'll order a motherboard that's also the same model that's in that computer, and a Ryzen 7 2700 when I get paid next week. One thing I like about the Ryzen 3000s being out is that prices for the 2000s have gone down. Those are my main upgrades for the desktop. I never really noticed how much that FX-8120 bottlenecks doing renders until I did renders on my Ryzen 5 2600 and then switched back to the FX-8120. Now that I've seen Ryzen speed, I can't unsee it.

Nintendo always sold on gimmicks in the US at least. Ad don guns gloves and that horrid 3d virtuaboy thing. So yeah protables were the way to go. Game cube only floated cause of kids and rep. I do not think much of anyone except hardcore gotta have it all guys got one back then. I worked int he industry all through the 90s. There wa smore to the US hatred of dev and people in the industry towards Nintendo USA. So much so that most people I worked with owned only import versions of it. As you mentioned it started with that lock out but over the years even Snes had stupidity in it from the US side of things like multiple molds to invalidate carts And that cart shortage was not just a limiting of sales but to price jack the hdw.
Each iteration they did things to tick the older fans off N64 I think was multiple layers of region lock, game cube yeah those minidiscs were a choke point and only reason they used them was to circumvent people from bootlegging the games or doing what many did with the dream-cast which was make their own soft. I also dropped nintendo after n64 due to how BETA the games were. Bugs that kept you from completing a game. That 3d super mario world was full of glitches and massive alpha stage bugs. Many of which were repeatable. Anyhow as mentioned and even you eluded to Nintendo have been floating on their franchises and past rep and kids. Switch sounds like it is a "about time" device something the others never put much bank into. But today with celphones many magnitudes stronger than most past consoles heh it is xbox and sony fumbling there. Though i did want a VITA or whatever that portable was in 2008ish but again that whole fucking hdw change lottery thing meant either a lw screen inability to load X software or external storage and so on. So after looking at it and seeing hiked up prices on older hdw because of this alteration bs I just gave up. And really Sony just is not what it was in the late 90s. Sony anything now means little in the world of high end. Maybe tvs are about it but I never even looked at one since 2000.

Sony I think fumbled with the PS2 a bit the hdw was ridiculously clunky and the drives were a bit meh. But mostly it was the constant revisions and changes to the hdw and the DRM. PSX had this but mostly for improvement of hdw not stopping end users from doing this or that.

It really comes down to that DRM crap is why I quit consoles. Got sick of the do I have the right flavor of HDW to alter it do I can play import games. Like sales of imports will harm domestic sales. Most of the imports were sales of games that never saw US release. PSX wasnt so bad as I got a blue unit sadly not the TANK version with the external power brick but that allowed me to play silly alpha roms I had. Psygnosis was known to put all sorts of devious things in the alpha and beta games like mario as a spawning baddie or nekkid girls and other things. (those revs probably have all rotted away by now)


Yeah well my current one is a sharp from 2005 so heh well maybe 2006 as I did have to wait ages for that JVC and it did not look that good and had some other issue and we swapped to the sharp. BUT that cost like 3600usd then. Prior to that was a old trinatron sony from oh crap 92 93? So yeah 10yrs or more. I mean now 36" tvs costing about 150usd it isnt so bad just a case of WTF do with when dead and well being cheap and LAZY. I think LAZY has more to do with it as I am comfortable with the old one. Anyhow other than that 32 I got for my bedroom to watch youturd and draw in bed when I am sick I pretty much skipped the whole 1080p generation of screens.

Most of the stuff is being of all things SHIPPED to asia and middle east where they strip them for the components and resources inside. The screens like phones have a unique metal that is mostly only in Africa so that is scrounged as well as metals like gold etc. BUT you consider something like 3billion phones are thrown out maybe more a year. Thats a lot of crap. I watched this BBC docu about trash and they dug up clothing that was like at macys just thrown out in masse and it was just damp, it looked like it was just made. But to think that clothing usable NEW clothing was thrown out in the box load just cause it was not in season or fashion when people are scrounging for clothes. It is just a whole WOT thing. I think they dated the clothing to the late 60s. Me hell I have clothes I bougt back in the days of DS9. 1994 lol.

LOL hahah yeah I kepe looking at ryzen but it has the same flaws in all new hdw. WIN10. . . .That and I cannot believe the costs of amd mobos over the intel stuff. That and a lack of ITX least back when I got the 6600 zsomething. I think ryzen had come out by then (r5?)and the boards were 20~30% more for less or didn't exist. Ram then was a joke like 50usd for 16gigs which I think is still half of what they charge now. It is those vidda cards and hdsds that are WTF. I know some day I will HAVE to upgrade. . . . . Might move the 4770k to the media slot and take the 6600 as a stop gap.

Cases well you likely know I am picky on those. heh. Had a lot of opinons on the populars prior to the large fan era. Had a lian li and a coolermaster before they went to shit (the ATC days) I would still be using those if not fo rthe 80mm fans only in them as you mentioned cleaning and what not is a PITA. I do miss the pull out trays though. I also hate all the tooless crap. Just plain ugly with bits of shit all over that generally does not work from day 1 or breaks off. Only tooless things I liked were thumb screws and those trays lian li had in many cases post oh 2008 or so. Drives were screwed into trays but they slid in on rubber knobby things and locked in with a single sliding mechanism. ATM the go out and get case would be a fractal anything or a Phanteks Evolv and maybe some of the corsairs. It would have to be either painted/powdercoated (smooth) or alum interior. No bare steel as that is the worst to clean and just is ugly. Really dislike those cases with a glass front panel right against the front fans too. Or DOORS. and a tiny intake at the bottom of the door. And for me no more mega cases. lol. Compact no waste space things with plenty of radiator mounting options. But yeah for that 100$ case corsair or fractal are some of the best, least in my opinion. Not a fan of NZXT wont touch thermaltake. Though really should be safe if you avoid the OEM chassis, get a case where the chassis is either brand specific or is made for that case itself.

MM that corsair 275r in white isnt bad looking though just looking at thumbs vs a full interior.

Cleanlines AVOID powder coat finished that are textured. My 600d is a BITCH to clean up.

oh my wall of words. . . sorry hah.

edit: UGH my lazor printer just crapped up on me. all black and messsy. sigh

I'm pretty much done with consoles myself, which is why I only plan to keep two hooked up. Even going back to the DOS era, computer games are better. Looking at a game like Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, a game that came out on NES, GameBoy and DOS. The DOS version looks like a '90s game, the other two look early '80s. Though, I don't fault the GameBoy version for being what it is, after all the GameBoy was the first 8-bit handheld. But, the NES version just doesn't hold up VS the DOS version. Going later into the '90s with games like Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, you get such a better version with the Windows version. It's voice acted and got animated cut scenes. The N64 version has all text and SNES style still images as opposed to animation. Then there's games like Rogue Squadron 3D and Episode 1 Racer which, along with Shadows of the Empire, all have superior graphics. And, don't even get me started on the SNES versions of games like Doom and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, both of which pale in comparison to the Windows versions, especially Starfleet Academy. And, all of these games are available for modern computers thanks to stores like Steam and GOG. GOG will even let you buy them DRM free, which I know is important to you and a lot of other people. Plus, there are just more games for the PC. These days, a lot of AAA games for the PC are just PS/XBOX ports, but you can get so many more indie games and exclusives for the PC than you can for any console. I'm looking forward to Steam's Autumn Sale to look at a strategy game I'm interested in. Strategy and sim games tend to suck on consoles.

So, yeah, the XBOX One S is as far as I'm going for consoles, and I use that more as a media center than anything else. Right now, I'm watching a tennis match on it via the Spectrum app. It's also my Blu-Ray player at present. By comparison, I find the PS4 to be lackluster to the XBOX One. One thing I can do with the XBOX that I can't do with the PS4 is use the aforementioned Spectrum app. When I was using Sling, it was the same story. Both will work with the XBOX but not the PS4. I think it's because the XBOX uses a stripped down version of Windows that these app makers find easier to program for, plus the XBOX One was designed more with multimedia in mind than the PS4 was. If I could go back 4 years, I'd have never bought the PS4, but you can't go back.

You're right about Nintendo and gimmicks. They were viewed as the "savior" of the video game industry after Atari crashed it in the early '80s. But, the NES itself was a gimmick. It was styled after a VCR, to mentally connect with that instead of a VG console, and was called an "Entertainment System." But, that gimmick itself was a pain in the ass. The pins on the console's cartridge port would slowly get bent, so that they wouldn't correctly connect with the cartridge. The cartridge then wouldn't be correctly read by the 10NES lockout chip, which would make it think you were running a bootleg game, and the game then wouldn't load. That was the biggest pain in that design. Then there are all of the controllers you need, even going to the newer stuff. The Wii needed a whole host of controllers to play all games, and it only came with that one nunchuck, requiring the player to purchase more controllers to play all games. As I understand it, even some Switch games require the "Pro" controller over the included Joycons. The Switch Pro controller costs more brand new than an XBOX One or PS4 controller. Of course, this leads one to wonder how that all portable Switch will handle those games.

For computer components, I'm pretty sold on Ryzen CPUs. But, not everyone is going to like them. As my friend at work who is into this stuff and I were discussing yesterday, it's just nice to see the CPU wars heating up again. This will push both companies to keep pushing their hardware.

For cases, I'm going for basics these days. This is the case I ordered:

https://www.amazon.com/Cougar-MX330-Acrylic-Transparent-Window/dp/B074RC5BWV

As I said, it's basic, but I don't need much. It looks like it has decent cable management and lots of fan ports, which is nice. I have a bunch of 120mm fans, so I can put those in. They're black, no LEDS, so the whole thing is going to have a nice stealthy look to it.

My gaming rig is a bit more flashy:





As you can see, it's got those 120s with the red rings and it also has some red trim around the acrylic front. That case is probably the best part of the whole damn computer. Though, I'm also still using the PSU, hard drive and GPU that came with it. Everything else had to be replaced a few months back.

This is the case I'm replacing:



It's BIG. (and heavy) A decent sized ATX has extra room left over. Plus, you can see all the dust traps it's got. It also has no cable management:



I'm just tired of it. Plus, it's got some pretty bad dents you can't even see in those pictures, mostly on the solid panel on the motherboard side of the case.

Quote from: MadKoifish on Aug 31, 2019, 12:42 amedit: UGH my lazor printer just crapped up on me. all black and messsy. sigh

UGH indeed. That sound terrible.

Playing Air Combat directly off of the PS1 CD using the ePSXe emulator on my gaming rig:



The beauty of it is, not only am I able to play in 1080p and enable some filters to make it look nicer, but I'm also using Xinput for my controller, so I can use analog sticks on games that don't support them through the PS1, like the game I'm playing in that picture. Air Combat came out before the Dual Shock controllers.

Yeah the laser printer was a downer as I was heading out to spend $$ on hdds and look at tvs. -_-
Looks like Im going to aim for the samsung q80r as the one I had was discontinued like 4 months ago. BAH
Reading the 400page manual it is nuts I could almost conciveably not use my media pc. It plays almost every file format supports multicannel UNICODE subs has a webbrowser and all sorts of wtf crap. And if it was not for the copywrong faggots in the US canada it would have recording timeshift etc features. Not that over air or cable sat stuff matters a hell of a lot to me anymore.

I have to see how it navigates a PC on ethernet, likely have to do a NAS software and select directories or just set up a storage drive on the router. BUT It has me thinking should I bother with the media pc anymore as the tv will have hulu apple air some other apple thing netflix amazon prime and a few others. There is some sort of app store but I have not found much info on that and some sort of on demand services as well. Likely have to sign up for a stupid samsung account. It even allows a mouse keyboard and game controllers that meet some standard I already forgot.

I do not like the idea of easy spending of $$$ on rentals but if it is a movie ot tv show one really wants to see heh. Thankfully the stupid talking google amazon and bixby thing is a opt in and you have to click a button to close a curcuit to activate the mic as it would drain the AAs on the remote.

Also sucks the UK version has a mono pole stand and comes with a full fledged remote full of buttons. lol More consume protection in the EU as some old fart likely saw one of those single button joypad remotes and had a ulcer and sued. Kinda bites the us gets a paired down version that costs a bit more. IE no recording no remote uglier feet etc. >_>
been looking to see what can be plugged into those USB ports. Like say a HUGE HDD, or fat arse fob or say a card reader or hub and a row of fobs! Likely says in the manual but it is slow going.

So only reason to use a pc now for me is CONTROLED exp with say youtube to avoid the heavily spam filled world. The flix app looks to just list stuff unlike flix on the browser which is constantly wasting your BW playing spam videos/previews while you browse. Left it on one day and found it transported over 13gigs of junk over my line.


I am shocked that Antec isnt all discolored and rusty. Not known anyone with a case from that brand to not have it go funk. LED I am more into rgb strips I can hide. I had tried led fans to use as ambient but always got frustrated as many that have them in the past wouldnt last or were to weak to light things so I always resorted to a light bar tape etc. ATM I have a strip of ikea leds in my case as I was to lazy and cheap to pay for PC branded stuff. And lazy to buy a strip of crap from amazon.
I do like some of the glass doo das as they doo look nice with a clean component set and lighting.

Image of my box or main work system,

not the best and it is really dirty there. Kinda got half through setting it up and gave up. Needs a proper floor and had always planned to do a loop in there. Also ugly arse esata cable run cause of more hdds fuqing up. . . . . been life for the last few years it seems.
Media pc

Has a slightly different arrangement but again plans that fell through as I really did not like any of the itx cases out there and really REALLY did not want to buy a ITX psu. Skinned the 460 cause I got tired of cleaning goopy dust off the vram. PNY was stolen for pagefile and work cache as it has a 980? NVME in it.
Leech box sorta. this one transitions a lot as I had 2 video card i nonce to push 3 monitors, then more hdds then sick of dust it cam out of the lancool and back into the 600d.

Crammed into a lancool case, love the hdd cages. HATE the fan mounts. HATE the mobnbo for the usb ports. Oh and HATE the ram as it HURTS to install it.

Sitting in the 600D now due to needing to cram a gtx280 in there (11" card) for additional monitor connections and the need to run a single driver for both cards. . . ugh super power hog. Now I yanked the hot porker out for just the single 460. (yes I have 2)



this is the one in a bookcase with a pile of ext hdds dvdrom and usb adapters with gutted bits all over connected to the usb ports. HAH. Even have a gutted ext hdd enclosure to work as a fan power hub to run fans on the ext hdds.
Also moved to that case cause of the hotswap hdd bays as I kept loosing old barracudas. (2tb 7200rpm drives) sadly those are rare and exp as fuck now. 4tb one is like 250usd now.

Speaking of which cause of stupid price marketing I now have a book shaped 10tb external when I went to get a 8tb seagate ext. 10usd more and no wait. The 8tb WD was 189 vs the 10tb 159. . . . . sigh.

What sort of discount does wallyworld give to employees? I see the q80r there for 3usd less than bestbuy. Might consider getting part time work there just to get the discount lol then quit. HAH. Nah probably only get discount for fulltime and after a year and then maybe 15%.

Since Im posting pics here a zoe on led xmas lights. Had em on a bookcase in the dim dark dining room/hall and tossed em on the floor and she took over them. I think it was cause they di give off some heat.



heck these images really show how bad my s5 camera has gotten over the years as they slowly "DOWNGRADE" it. grainier more compression and general looking like arse.


Oh Nintendo was famicom in japan. Idea was to produce a IBM like device and target the family in the small 2LDK rentals in tokyo of the 80s. Hence superfamicom vs nes snes They had books software for word processing coding etc. Even early modem and business stock trading stuff. Clearly that went the way of old dogturds on a un-mown lawn.

It was odd today I was dreading going into best buy. But it was the best exp I have had in one for over a decade. Like last time I shopped for a tv >_> Partly as most of the current employees are EX frys staff vs the shitheads they had there prior who know shit anything bout the products being sold. One phone guy has insisted google updates the phones like apple. Uh no it is the provider any idiot who owns a android knows that.

Anyhow now need to shop for a printer as apparently we cannot do without one. And yeah the backside of the page printed looked like someone took a roller and rolled ink on it. And it is a color printer and it looks like a faded bad XEROX. . . O_o dunno what happened I mean last time I used it it was OK a bit messy as the rollers keep picking up gunk like someone printed envelopes in it and damaged the rollers. Waste of 450usd. I do not think at all that we got value out of that. Least the brother thing I looked at is 250usd. Prints were mehhish but all I needed to do was download some brother service on my phone and printed out some crap via wifi. vs only having a test page to sample it with. Either way not really interested in a printer just do not want any more inkjets in the house. And no more HPs. BLEAHHHHHHGHHHGHGHGHH
fuck. lol

HEY another wall of text lol now off to bed so I can watch my fucking muppets tomorrow, sadly only 10eps, or rather later today. O_o Then I can later watch em in 4k and cringe at the cgi parts. That Avengers looked like a damned cartoon on those oled screens. Just as bad on qled too.. . . guess the 720p spoiled me and dithered away some of the hokieness.

Cat trap 2000

Works every time. Just a paper bag and some junky crappiest of cat food. Meowmix tender centers, something in that garbage drives spot mad.

For laughs some old pc stuff.

Workarea cir 2003.

cir 98 lol


worst case int ever, raw razor metals. All those round holes were jagged razors.


Mess, old crt died got new one it sucked and lasted 3yrs? POS

I think that is that shitty BSG ship I made ages ago. 05? note the SUN crts hahah.

view into that ACTS case. ahead of the curve with leds. . . pff I think it was a cfl then.

filename cables and the gpu should date this one lol.

wood.

n/c

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the Lil' doodad that lets it close is/was not easy to sport for some time.

I have a pi-cade thing. was an iso with some 200 games and stuff as a Rpi image. I planned to make a nice box and all but meh i never finished it.  i forget what it was if it was retro pi or not .

Rpi make great media projects.

You've got some nice looking computers there.

I love those "back in time" pics. In '98, I was rocking a flat Compaq Presario, it was my first computer. Black Friday bundle deal at Circuit City. I always liked them better than Best Buy, mostly because of what you mentioned with the waterheads standing around not knowing shit about the products they're selling. It's nice to know you had a good experience. We never had Fry's in this area, in fact the only store we have like that is Best Buy.

Yes, cats love any random paper or cardboard thrown on the floor. Our youngest was having a blast with some cardboard from a recent Amazon or Ebay order earlier.

Quote from: MadKoifish on Aug 31, 2019, 12:20 pmI am shocked that Antec isnt all discolored and rusty. Not known anyone with a case from that brand to not have it go funk. LED I am more into rgb strips I can hide. I had tried led fans to use as ambient but always got frustrated as many that have them in the past wouldnt last or were to weak to light things so I always resorted to a light bar tape etc. ATM I have a strip of ikea leds in my case as I was to lazy and cheap to pay for PC branded stuff. And lazy to buy a strip of crap from amazon.
I do like some of the glass doo das as they doo look nice with a clean component set and lighting.

Naw, the Antec is OK, just dusty and it definitely has some sharp metal bits. Plus, as I said, no cable management. Plus, who needs a case big enough for six 3.5" hard drives and three optical bays, plus that hot swap bay in front? I mean, it's a beast and I don't really need a beast.

That case I ordered has an optical bay, which is nice. I'll probably put an optical drive in, I've got a few of them laying around, plus the one that's in this tower now. If I do any lighting in the new case, it's going to probably be LED strips. We sell them at work. But, I don't think I really need it.

Quote from: MadKoifish on Aug 31, 2019, 12:20 pmWhat sort of discount does wallyworld give to employees? I see the q80r there for 3usd less than bestbuy. Might consider getting part time work there just to get the discount lol then quit. HAH. Nah probably only get discount for fulltime and after a year and then maybe 15%.

It's 10% on general merchandise, with some caveats. Obviously, no federally taxed stuff like booze, tobacco or guns and ammo. We save on groceries during November and December, but not the rest of the year. Though, some food stuff still has discounts. Also, no clearance, but that's a given. Part time/full time has nothing to do with getting your discount, but you don't get your card until you've been there 90 days. Then there's an additional 15% for working Thanksgiving, valid for only a couple days. It's a card you can scan at the register on top of your regular discount, for 25% off your entire purchase. They used to load it onto the discount cards, but idiots would buy a candy bar, swipe their card, and get the discount. So, they changed to the cards.

Usually, I just buy some groceries or something I want out of electronics with mine. I think last year I got some clothes and shoes, plus a DVD box set. (TMNT original cartoon complete series, if I remember correctly) 2017 was the big one, I bought a $300 TV and a $100 cabinet to put it on, got my 25% off and it was $300 total before tax.

Quote from: MadKoifish on Aug 31, 2019, 12:20 pmOh Nintendo was famicom in japan. Idea was to produce a IBM like device and target the family in the small 2LDK rentals in tokyo of the 80s. Hence superfamicom vs nes snes They had books software for word processing coding etc. Even early modem and business stock trading stuff. Clearly that went the way of old dogturds on a un-mown lawn.

Yeah, they were marketed as Family Computers over there. However, the marketing was different in the west due to Atari marketing their consoles as computers, and them being mostly to blame for the VG crash of 1982. Then, with the N64, Nintendo finally dropped the separate name business for its consoles.

love the wood and n/c case . LOl

my old rig and workstation pics are lost to many moves. Possibly the live din the of forums before the rebuild.

ugh my works space is freaking mess rite now and my lil modded case is jest left of the mess. Only thing fancy i did was remove the factory door and cut and set a bit of some hight scratch resistant acrylic to pannel I got from a local commercial sign/display case maker.

then I laser cut some white vinyl stickers and change them every now and then.
I suppose I should give it some love and get it all sorted again. LOL

See a mess.
LOL

Heh, my desk is a mess too.

Quote from: Prime_8 on Aug 31, 2019, 01:09 pmThe add banner on your wp site covers the titles of your articles.

You mean me? I don't have any issues, and I even disabled my ad blocker. Can you maybe post a screenshot?

Quote from: Prime_8 on Aug 31, 2019, 01:09 pmI have a pi-cade thing. was an iso with some 200 games and stuff as a Rpi image. I planned to make a nice box and all but meh i never finished it.  i forget what it was if it was retro pi or not .

Rpi make great media projects.

I have a few prebuilt ones, mostly from Retro-bit. But, it's hard to know what emulators are on those. The Super Retro-Cade is the better of the two. I think I loaded some extra Genesis, SNES and arcade roms on it to see what it could do and it's not bad. But, I got bored with it. Of course, you can also load RetroArch onto a NES or SNES classic.

I like my little Pi better anyway. It gives me more of a "hands on" feeling to have put it together and configured it myself. Also, I can use whatever controller I want with it. I have an officially licensed Retro-Bit Sega Genesis USB controller on it right now, since I'm not really playing games that need analog sticks.

Though, I did have a stupid moment earlier. I loaded my microSD card up with Atari 2600 roms and went to put it back in the unit. I missed the actual card slot, and I found out the hard way there's enough space to slip the microSD inside the case, but not in the card slot. I was about to take the thing apart to get it out when I had a brainstorm. I tipped the Pi around upside down so that the microSD card wound up in the lid, then tipped it so that it slid out of the little NES-style door. So, score another one for that handy door.