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Been a long time since I've followed this one. Wow, a surprise comeback by TT. Full of bullshit and excuses, not a surprise.

 

Don't think there's much capital to be grifted from the backgammon world but I'm sure he will try.

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11 minutes ago, Wayler said:

Been a long time since I've followed this one. Wow, a surprise comeback by TT. Full of bullshit and excuses, not a surprise.

 

Don't think there's much capital to be grifted from the backgammon world but I'm sure he will try.

I believe he claimed he was trained by the best player (GOAT or something) which may just be a half sentence. It’s like when your soon to be ex girlfriend tells you that she needs more space, and she leaves out the “without you in it” part.

Same here, chances are the GOAT is still shaking his head, dead or alive however he might be.

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7 minutes ago, phoenixdownita said:

I believe he claimed he was trained by the best player

I'm pretty sure that as time passes he will claim to be a self-taught Master. And that will make the original claim even more true in Tommy's weird little broken mind.

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33 minutes ago, Wayler said:

I'm pretty sure that as time passes he will claim to be a self-taught Master. And that will make the original claim even more true in Tommy's weird little broken mind.

Actually, he claimed he was trained at a young age by a backgammon champion in the AA thread, years ago when talking about backgammon coming to Amico.

But when he started to play recently, he told journalists he started playing recently with his dying father, probably because it makes for a better story. 🙂

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On 10/15/2024 at 3:56 AM, Biff Burgertime said:

Why do some of these account profiles show zero pos- ohhhhhhhhh.......

 

Amicohhhhhhh

Not everyone can have the best achievements.

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On 10/17/2024 at 3:20 PM, SegaSnatcher said:

Is mustashe man still promising physical hardware in 2024?   

I took a break following this, what did I miss lol?  

Funny, I believe TT initially announced a new INTV project in 2017 (Same year Switch released) and now we are at a time where Switch 2 will ship before any physical Amico hardware. No, I don't count those test units shipped to the Amico stooges. 

Hey now, the only reason there is a Switch 2 is that like Tommy said the Switch sales were slowing down and we're going to suck. Nintendo's scared of Amico and needs to get something new out to try amd stay more relevant than them.

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23 minutes ago, MrBeefy said:

Facts don't matter if not biased how he wants them to be! Wild Bill strikes again!

 

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Just when I think I can't love the insanity any more. I'd love to know what he wants to document without "bias." The friends he made along the way?

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BTW, new potential console scam alert!  

This time its someone who claims to be working on an FPGA device "Super Sega" dedicated to Sega consoles all the way up to Dreamcast!  🤣

Perhaps we should create a thread about it.  

 

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ElectronAsh who has experience with FPGA development created a thread detailing his findings. 

https://x.com/AshEvans81/status/1849575040024707110

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I've had some limited private discussions with them (language barrier) since the start of the project and have regularly posted about it on one of my sites. While they seem genuine, it's absolutely best to remain skeptical. They're frankly terrible with messaging and promotion, so are not doing themselves any favors with the amateurish and sometimes clownish presentations if it is indeed legit (and again, my impression is it is, or at least a legit attempt). I've indicated to them several times that they need to improve that, but again, language barrier and all that.

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that pcb is not running any games, and cannot run a single game.  it is missing... everything.  there's no power supplies to run the FPGA.  there's no RAM (they do show a DDR3 or DDR4 RAM module plugged in, but it is not connected to the FPGA, and it is simply too far away from it to actually function if it was even hooked up (dat speed of light).  There's no HDMI drivers of any kind.  Just... EVERYTHING is missing that is required to make it work. 

 

Checking out the videos (I downloaded and saved all of them in case they poof), they show decent shots of the PCB front and back at various points, and there aren't even any traces going to most of that stuff!  There's no connections to the cartridge slots, controller ports, video ports.  The two HDMI sockets on the back appear to just be connected in parallel to each other, like a passthrough.  The front USB connects to the back USB like a passthrough, which is how he can run a controller through it.  It is not connected to the FPGA in any way.

 

I laughed so much at their "demonstration" video-  you can see him turn the computer on behind the monitor at the start!  And then he fakes the whole "blowing in the carts" thing, and hits a button on the controller to make it display the cart is installed.  Then there's that obvious jump cut when the game starts.  come on.  who are you fooling?  If you look, the board isn't even on.  The fan's not turning (we'd hear it easily, with all the other ambient noise) and the LEDs aren't lit.  It's just a fancy USB passthrough for the controller.

 

There is only a single 5V supply (lol) on the board.  The FPGA will require something like 1V at 10-15 amps, along with 3-4 other voltages for RAM, HDMI, and other doodads.  There is a CF card and an SD slot on the left, but you can see that they are both connected to an arduino and CPLD each and nowhere else.  There's another arduino CPU and CPLD by the FPGA which appears to do nothing; it does not seem to be connected to anything.  The FPGA is literally not connected to anything either- there is a shot where the chip isn't present and it's just a bare footprint.  A couple big ceramic caps around the FPGA for... some purpose.  The FPGA needs a lot of decoupling capacitors around it- and more importantly UNDER it- probably 40-60 or more.  Those obviously aren't present.

 

The LEDs make me laugh.  There's 8 LEDs and two chips to run them, probably something like a 555 timer and a binary counter or similar to make blinkenlites.  They do not connect to anything except 5V.

 

Also, the PCB is 2 layers.  a real board to use that FPGA would need to be at least 8 layers probably.  I bet the PCB house that made and assembled it was like "wtf" when they saw it.

 

Going by the videos and PCB, this cannot work as it sits, and never was designed to work.  They just threw some random parts onto a PCB and made it look like they knew what they were doing.  They don't.  I noticed too that the heatsink is way too high up off the pcb, so it's probably just hovering over that FPGA.  But that's fine- the FPGA isn't even connected to anything so it won't be getting hot or anything. 

 

It is debatable if this is a step up or down from the retroPOS.  They did make a cardboard "PCB" and glued electronic parts on it.  This is a real PCB, and has parts soldered to it, but those parts aren't even connected- at least the "important" ones (controller ports, cart ports, RAM, FPGA).  

 

If you give these dorks money, you most likely are not going to see it again, and you won't be getting an FPGA system that works unless they totally redesign it.

 

 

 

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It looks like they've already changed their demonstration video so that the PC is out of shot, the fan on the board is running, and they've not got the jump cuts whenever a game gets loaded.

 

They're clearly learning fast, albeit not the sort of skills you'd need to be able to make a games console.

 

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On 10/24/2024 at 3:49 PM, SteveTheColecoDude said:

"Motivated by a desire to feel important"

"Irrational"

"Consequence to their emotions"

"Not based on reason"

"Tainted by heavy bias"

 

Ok... he is literally describing the Amico fans.

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They are a very special group of people who got sucked in by this. I know some will claim theu were interested in a family console. However, if you look into it I doubt very many of them actually show any other signs of being interested in family oriented things.

 

That mainly leaves trying to fill a void and feel important by knowing someone you idolize for dumb reasons. It's obvious when some of the talking points were being jealous of Tommy. Many of these guys just need a daddy to look up to.

 

On 10/25/2024 at 3:53 PM, kevtris said:

that pcb is not running any games, and cannot run a single game.  it is missing... everything.  there's no power supplies to run the FPGA.  there's no RAM (they do show a DDR3 or DDR4 RAM module plugged in, but it is not connected to the FPGA, and it is simply too far away from it to actually function if it was even hooked up (dat speed of light).  There's no HDMI drivers of any kind.  Just... EVERYTHING is missing that is required to make it work. 

 

Checking out the videos (I downloaded and saved all of them in case they poof), they show decent shots of the PCB front and back at various points, and there aren't even any traces going to most of that stuff!  There's no connections to the cartridge slots, controller ports, video ports.  The two HDMI sockets on the back appear to just be connected in parallel to each other, like a passthrough.  The front USB connects to the back USB like a passthrough, which is how he can run a controller through it.  It is not connected to the FPGA in any way.

 

I laughed so much at their "demonstration" video-  you can see him turn the computer on behind the monitor at the start!  And then he fakes the whole "blowing in the carts" thing, and hits a button on the controller to make it display the cart is installed.  Then there's that obvious jump cut when the game starts.  come on.  who are you fooling?  If you look, the board isn't even on.  The fan's not turning (we'd hear it easily, with all the other ambient noise) and the LEDs aren't lit.  It's just a fancy USB passthrough for the controller.

 

There is only a single 5V supply (lol) on the board.  The FPGA will require something like 1V at 10-15 amps, along with 3-4 other voltages for RAM, HDMI, and other doodads.  There is a CF card and an SD slot on the left, but you can see that they are both connected to an arduino and CPLD each and nowhere else.  There's another arduino CPU and CPLD by the FPGA which appears to do nothing; it does not seem to be connected to anything.  The FPGA is literally not connected to anything either- there is a shot where the chip isn't present and it's just a bare footprint.  A couple big ceramic caps around the FPGA for... some purpose.  The FPGA needs a lot of decoupling capacitors around it- and more importantly UNDER it- probably 40-60 or more.  Those obviously aren't present.

 

The LEDs make me laugh.  There's 8 LEDs and two chips to run them, probably something like a 555 timer and a binary counter or similar to make blinkenlites.  They do not connect to anything except 5V.

 

Also, the PCB is 2 layers.  a real board to use that FPGA would need to be at least 8 layers probably.  I bet the PCB house that made and assembled it was like "wtf" when they saw it.

 

Going by the videos and PCB, this cannot work as it sits, and never was designed to work.  They just threw some random parts onto a PCB and made it look like they knew what they were doing.  They don't.  I noticed too that the heatsink is way too high up off the pcb, so it's probably just hovering over that FPGA.  But that's fine- the FPGA isn't even connected to anything so it won't be getting hot or anything. 

 

It is debatable if this is a step up or down from the retroPOS.  They did make a cardboard "PCB" and glued electronic parts on it.  This is a real PCB, and has parts soldered to it, but those parts aren't even connected- at least the "important" ones (controller ports, cart ports, RAM, FPGA).  

 

If you give these dorks money, you most likely are not going to see it again, and you won't be getting an FPGA system that works unless they totally redesign it.

 

If you had said something like this to Tommy he would have had a nuclear meltdown and jaybird would have told you, ENOUGH!

 

Sounds like a console! I got a group of guys willing to throw money and dignity away that they need to target. 

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Tommy acting like he won an Oscar while others are just minding their own business.  He looks like a little boy on his first day of school crying when his mommy dressed him up in a rented tuxedo. 

 

Then there's someone who's defending Tantrum Tommy even having fits about it but the comments were removed.  Poster could be Tommy himself. 

 

 

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/10/after-the-epic-failure-of-the-intellivision-amico-tommy-tallaricos-new-goal-is-becoming-a-backgammon-legend

 

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On 10/29/2024 at 9:27 AM, frankodragon said:

Poster could be Tommy himself. 

No, it's actually someone well-known in the SNES subforum here at AtariAge. Kirk_Johnston aka Inceptional.

Dude gets banned from every forum he joins, if fact he was banned from TimeExtension on a previous account a while back, then immediately evaded the ban to continue arguing. So I'm not sure why they allow him to post on that new 'RetroGames' account.

 

But yeah, par for the course for him.

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