TursilionA bit of a grumbling ramble about my computer history. No real point, but maybe interesting to read! https://tursilion.blogspot.com
Brian Rogers@tursilion It may not mean much, but I had Dragon’s Lair at my table at #IndyClassic today and it brought a ton of smiles. Tomorrow I’ll have SSA set up. Thank you!
@infinitetape Aw, thanks. It does mean a lot to hear stories like that.
@infinitetape Aw, nice! I don't know about Dragon's Lair on the pain sticks though! ;)
A trick with it - keyboard is slightly easier than joystick as I couldn't fit edge detection in the keyboard code. As a result, you can pre-hold keys before they are needed - as long as you release before the direction changes. Though of course, there are some scene that won't work, like the spinning boppers, as they check for early movement. ;)
@tursilion My intent with the left system was to be fully stock and even pull my wood grained TV out of storage. Thus the pain sticks to remain on-theme. I realized too late that my only working unmodded TI is the one that is on my bench as a reference for probing signals, and I didn’t have time to put it back together.
I had one teenage girl come by and go nuts because “I’d heard this existed, but I never thought I’d see it in person!”
@infinitetape It's always nice to see any retro festival going. There's almost nothing here in Alberta. I did a flea market last week, and while one guy came back and did buy a Super Space Acer cart (I don't know who though! Is he someone I know??)... and one buy bought all the Jaguar carts I had out, but nobody else had much interest in any of the retro stuff. I had my personal copy of Dragon's Lair there and nobody so much as gave it a second glance.
Flea market isn't as useful for retro as a proper fair, but it was called the "Nerd Sale", I figured I'd meet some people at least. ;) But, just "collectors" who have a collection sitting on a shelf and don't care about new productions (not even the boxed Coleco ones I had out!) How dull.
@tursilion The expo here in Indianapolis went from 10 tables 3 years ago to about 100 tables this year, though I haven’t heard the results as to whether we hit the magic break-even cost on the venue rental. I do wonder how much our vendors actually sold to the public vs. each other. I actually had the odd experience of having an attendee come up to me and ask if I wanted to buy from him. (A lime green iMac G3, which my wife has claimed and given the name Kermie)
@infinitetape Actually two people asked me that at the flea market too, though one was something modern, and the other was an odd cable someone made. You got a better deal ;)
NFG@tursilion A good read!