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Down the rabbit hole.
Meanwhile, back on Earth. I'm really looking forward to getting a working Vectrex, since my FIRST Vectrex has major problems, which is the main reason I'm getting a SECOND Vectrex. The videos of the bizarrely-named Stramash Zone, look amazing.
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Here's what I bought today.
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What a bizarre reply
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I don't know if it is specifically sales tax, but it amounts to the same thing, for re-selling items where the government has over-sight over ownership, like cars, houses, possibly guns, but generally not unregulated items.
Seriously ? Wow, I honestly didn't know that.
Over here, I can sell my car, PC, consoles, retro hardware, and I don't have to pay any tax. We pay tax on the first sale only. If I owned a business selling the same items, then I would have to pay a yearly tax.
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Getting my second Vectrex, end of this week. So, can't wait to order this and try it out, looks awesome.
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Surely, you pay tax for the First Sale Rule, only ?
I don't know US law, but here in the UK we would only pay tax on pre-owned goods if the seller was running a second-hand sales shop. Pre-owned private sales are not taxable, thankfully.
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I tend to include cost calculations into my assessment of what's best, e.g. "How much can I get for my money? Is this upgrade worth the extra cash, or will I be just as happy with a cheaper alternative?"
True, I agree. What I meant was, to play Doom, the best way in 1994, then cost should be irrelevant since the best way would mean getting the best hardware.
I mean, if you want a Ferrari, you buy a Ferrari. You don't buy a Ford Focus, then expect it to perform like a Ferrari.
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I think the best I ever heard Doom's soundtrack was on my old Yamaha DB50XG, the stand-alone soundcard version was the SW60XG. The DB50XG, was a awesome-sounding midi wavetable card that fitted to a soundcard with a wavetable connector.
PSX Doom music came a close second, that was awesome.
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Thought this thread might be the best place to post this.
Anyone modded a Tennokoe 2, with a RGB to Component v2 board ?
Here is the mod
http://www.tg16pcemods.com/rgb-to-component-converter-v-20.html
I've followed the instructions exactly as they say. But component gives me no picture, so I assume my 20" LCD cannot do 240p over component. But more importantly, composite gives me a black and white picture. I tried composite on all my CRTs, with the same result.
There are adjustable pots on the board, 2 I believe would possibly be for component, but one looks like it could be for composite.
Here is my attempt.
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That seems amazing for cassette technology. Did it destroy more tapes running that fast?
I should have added to my post that, this can only be done digitally, not via analogue. And, as far as I'm aware, it can only be done on non-protected files (TAP), not protected files (TZX). You then play the resulting wav on a portable mp3 player/media player/mobile phone.
I guess my original post looked a bit misleading. I should have said it was amazing the Spectrum, itself, was capable of loading 19,200 baud wavs via a digital source. Apologies.
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Nice. Like the Madonna Music.
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I personally loved the original Wipeout soundtrack. It perfectly summed up the 90s dance and club scene, and made gaming cool. Sony, really knew how to market the PSX, in the 90s, by merging dance, club, and gaming. Great times.
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I personally think the best console version of Doom, at that time, was Ultimate Doom and Final Doom on the original Playstation. You could even link them up and play multi-player.
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Cost is irrelevant. The best way to play Doom in 1994 was on PC.
Just as today, the best way to play Xbox One games is on Xbox One X, and PS4 games on PS4 Pro.
If you want the best gaming has to offer, then a state-of-the-art PC is the way to go. Again, cost is irrelevant if you want the best.
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I tend to agree, the pc version's music is worse with its tin can mod tracker crap and keep in mind you couldnt buy a computer at the same price that ran doom better than a console at the time ... I had a decked out 386DX-40 when it was a big deal and the screen size is smaller and the FPS lower than even the 16 bit consolesThe 32x was released in November 1994. At that time, I had a Pentium 1 60mhz, 8Mb ram, and a Soundblaster 16. The more common PC was a 486 DX2-66/100. Add the cost of a Megadrive/Genesis + 32x + TV, and it's not much cheaper than a 486 DX2-66, which would run Doom much better than ANY console of the time.
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Just over 1 hours worth of Pokey goodness. I just love that Jet Set Willy theme.
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I was looking at getting that T-Flight
For the money, it's great. Works really nice in Elite Dangerous, but requires a lot of thought put into the mapping. Also works great in No Man's Sky, if you like that kind of game.
My only gripe is that I'm left-handed, so I would have preferred the throttle on the right side of the Joystick.
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Failure, loss, damage, replacement, repair. They're all part of life, part of living. I look at my arthritis and often dream of a cure, but it's here, I have it and it's part of my life. It's my memories, spent years of installing PC equipment, bending down to fit into tight spaces to fit ethernet cabling, or a tower case. Crawling into tight spaces to change cables, or to find breaks.
Sure, your emulation looks great on the Pi, via HDMI to that nice 60" 4K TV. But it's lifeless. It's not how the original pixel artists imagined. You can take a Picasso, digitise it and clean it up, clean all the years of muck and dirt and print out a nice high-definition print. But it's no longer a Picasso, it's a copy that has lost it's heart and soul. You could argue that the new print looks better, but does it ? If it does, then why is it worth 5 bucks ? While the original is worth 5 Million bucks. Now, everyone has that nice high definition copy on their wall. But there will only ever be the one, the original.
I see the real deal as this.
Sure, it's going to break down, guzzles gas like no other, and has no modern comforts. No electric windows, no air con, no power steering, no CD player, no Sat nav. But it's unique. There will never be another made in the future. Driving it, you are driving a beast. Your senses are at their maximum, you feel everything through the steering wheel. The feedback from the car gives car enthusiasts a massive smile.
Emulation is this.
https://media.wired.com/photos/59325d1ca3126458449944dd/master/pass/bmwi8-ft.jpg
Sure, it looks "Modern". Has all the modern luxuries, is incredibly high tech. Electric windows, power steering, central locking, alarm, digital dashboard. It's environmentally friendly. But it's dull. I have most of these things in my car. Most cars today have many of these features. It's fast, with amazing acceleration. But driving it, will it "Feel" like you're in control of something, or will it feel like you are along for the ride, while the computers do everything. I've drove a battery car, nothing like the I8, but I can say the nice quiet drive soon wears off fast.
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It's gorgeous. Looks and sounds, are amazing. The soundtrack is amazing.
It really feels and plays like Descent, which I guess is the point since it's written by the same team.
I'm playing it using my T-Flight Hotas X Joystick. Mapping was a bit tedious, but it plays so good.
The level design is superb, and brings back that claustrophobic feeling from the first Descent. The A.I. is good, although I would play it on a harder difficulty to get a real challenge.
Sublevel Zero, was good, and you could see how the team wanted to give homage to Descent. But Overload is the real deal.
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never in my case. Been there, done that. I'll use the real stuff as long as I'm able to.
Exactly. The day I move from real hardware to emulation is the day I've lost my mind.
Emulation has it's place. MAME, for me, is as close as I'll ever get to owning a real arcade. Emulation of systems that are rare or expensive, Jupiter Ace, Enterprise 128k, Neo Geo AVS, this is where I use emulation - but only because I can't afford the real thing.
I believe emulation has heart and soul, put into it, from the programmer. But to say it has a soul is just silly. It hasn't survived many different eras, 80s, 90s, 00s. It hasn't seen different presidents, governments. It hasn't seen the changes in culture, and the progress we've seen towards racism, and people of different religions. It hasn't moved home with you, or enjoyed a developing family around it. All these are memories, experiences, and the soul of that machine that was designed and put together by humans. My A8 XL, has seen 5 different homes. 4 different Governments, many different players/users.
When you turn off your emulation box, it becomes just a box. It's no longer the machine it was mimicking, it's now just a boring corporate box with a meaningless badge on it.
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Virtualization, has no soul. No memories, no experiences, no soul.
Created in a lab, it looks like the real thing, it talks like the real thing. But it will never be the real thing.
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Folks that got in on Sandy Bridge haven't really had to upgrade their CPU every six years, which is bad news for Intel. They now have to compete against their own older hardware.
My old 2500k lasted until the equally awesome 6700k CPU came out, so roughly 4 years. I ran the 6700k under a corsair water cooler at 4.8Ghz for just 2.5 years before the itch to get a 8700k just got too much. I now run the 8700k, cooled by the same corsair water cooler, at 5Ghz 1.35 volts. The I7, is a decent upgrade to the I5, especially this 8700k. Although, not all games stretch a I7. The biggest game to bog-down a 8700k is Windows 10
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Amiga 500 Sound Filter - When the filter was on, the power light was switched off, so you always knew when the filter was active. The filter was like turning the treble up on your amp, making the sound a lot more clearer.
ZX Spectrum - increasing the baud rate of tape-loading games to around 19k, means you can load (Not all) most games in seconds, down from minutes. I managed to take a tape that normally loads around 2mins 30 seconds, to just 10 seconds. It's awesome to see in real time.
PC - I always find overclocking awesome. To take the classic Intel I5 2500k, and overclock it to a easy 4.5Ghz, up from 3.30Ghz, with relative ease and a decent air cooler, was awesome. No longer were you required to upgrade every 6 months, this awesome CPU put a end to that.
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I’ve never even seen any Atari stuff in the shops I’ve been to in the UK. Im guessing I’d be better off going to a car boot sale?
Car boot, Charity shops, Second-hand shops. Occasionally, our gaming shops, CEX and Pink Planet, have lots of cheap Atari stuff.
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