_The Doctor__ Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) The enjoyable surprise smile isn't bad when it happens naturally in real life... but the plastic in your face close up use of it is so fake that most people just instantly cringe at the sight of it. Celebrity smile class needs more work. Edited April 21, 2023 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 13 hours ago, Havok69 said: Even if this project never sees the light of day and turns out to be vaporware, I have been introduced to a new term: and I for one, am better for it. Now I wait and watch for the glorious moment when I am able to use this sublime vernacularism. Ah, that glorious moment when we are able to drop "thermoverbular wordheads" on lesser mortals! Priceless! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Cons - interesting, but almost no actual information provided Pros - it's not Mike Kennedy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 My take is simple and I prefer real existing stuff, present day Mytek stuff, used original consoles on ebay, 3rd party add-ons that you can actually order, emulators that are polished -- it's all real and exists today. That's the deal! I got bored of the conceptual stuff long long ago thanks to the flying car articles in Popular Mechanics and Popular Science. So now I have a healthy skepticism. And while we wait for something to materialize I'm going to play a couple of games of Enduro or Crystal Castles. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnemo Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Don't get your wallet ready just yet. From the comments on this video (which is also only speculating). RM-Team (the guys behind the RM 800XL got back to me via E-Mail. Here is the text: Hello, thank you for your interest in our RM 800XL. Design work is currently underway, and the finished product is likely to be available in 2024. We will keep you informed about the development on Twitter and in the future also on Facebook. Twitter account: https://twitter.com/rm_800xl Best regards, larek RM Team 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) A year away isn't bad all things considered. It's kind of difficult to demand all knowledge when just getting FPGA's today is an expensive chore. Hopefully things will be less expensive and easier to get once again in a year, year and a half or so. Edited April 21, 2023 by _The Doctor__ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 2 hours ago, DarkLord said: Ah, that glorious moment when we are able to drop "thermoverbular wordheads" on lesser mortals! Priceless! I used 'assknowledge' in an email to my boss + colleagues today. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P1r Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 11 hours ago, Keatah said: Emulators! Gesundheit! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 1 hour ago, mnemo said: Don't get your wallet ready just yet. Which is a point some people may have missed. Nobody has ever asked for any money upfront. The worst that can possibly happen is this does not come out, and nobody loses anything. Let's all have fun in the mean time, and if in 2024 this exists, great. If not, it's guaranteed other new hardware will if the past 10 years are any indication. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Lotta 'buzz' on Facebook about this being the 'real Macoy' . No internal pics though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reifsnyderb Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 6 hours ago, mnemo said: Don't get your wallet ready just yet. I won't. I've got my original 800XL and will be running it with a 1090XL board for some cool upgrades. 😎 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 18 hours ago, Stephen said: Nobody has ever asked for any money upfront. The worst that can possibly happen is this does not come out, and nobody loses anything. That is a very large part of why I can find this project interesting and hope to see results from it next year: it's containing its risk to the people currently working on it and not asking random people to put their time, money, or effort into it by way of a cheap tug of the nostalgia heartstrings. It's possible that that opinion may change depending on how the project goes, but for now it seems reasonable to take an approach of, "hmm, nifty, best of luck to them," and wait and see. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 PBI is in the picture but who knows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Ricky Spanish said: Lotta 'buzz' on Facebook about this being the 'real Macoy' . No internal pics though. Nothing is finalized yet. Or perhaps the design of the boards hasn't even begun yet..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 21 minutes ago, Keatah said: Or perhaps the design of the boards Talk of FPGA /Raspberry Pi mostly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 11 minutes ago, Ricky Spanish said: Talk of FPGA /Raspberry Pi mostly. If it's an R-Pi, would it be able to handle all the ports in realtime as they were intended like on the original? Would it read the cartridge slot realtime and not like that dumbass Retron77? What software engine would manage it all? Which emulator? And if "emulator" then might as well just stick with a PC and get the deluxe experience and power/versatility of a complete Windows OS. With Altirra you get a pretty good and complete experience, with new features being added semi-regularly. And no pretending to be real hardware needed on the emulator's part. If it's FPGA, are they going to equip it with proper level converters so, again, the ports work exactly like the original vintage rig? No fake PBI. Fully working DB9 controller ports, realtime cartridge slot? Will it power up and boot up the same way? In the same amount of time to the millisecond? And more, because if not, then it's just a lowbrow fake I-can-do-that-too "mini". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 On 4/21/2023 at 10:07 PM, Keatah said: And more, because if not, then it's just a lowbrow fake I-can-do-that-too "mini". And that's a huge must-have requirement: not following the 'mini' pattern. I'm actually somewhat optimistic that this particular project won't go down that route. We'll see, but things (at least initially) seem somewhat promising in that regard. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo/ng Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 The website literarally says its going to be FPGA+RISC so I dont understand the speculation talks "is it going to have fpga or not". 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 31 minutes ago, solo/ng said: The website literarally says Cause it made no mention of that earlier. Musta been recently added. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scelbi8h Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Ricky Spanish said: Cause it made no mention of that earlier. Musta been recently added. Humm no. It did say that from the beginning. It's even mentioned on the 2nd and 5th message of this thread. Edited April 22, 2023 by scelbi8h 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo/ng Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 40 minutes ago, Ricky Spanish said: Cause it made no mention of that earlier. Musta been recently added. It was there from the beginning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 On 4/21/2023 at 4:03 PM, bf2k+ said: I used 'assknowledge' in an email to my boss + colleagues today. Assome! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Guess I must be dyslexic then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 (edited) I wonder what the distribution of duties would be with FPGA+RISC..? Those be some pretty potent buzzwords they're slinging around. If the RISC portion is there for the processing, then EMULATION! And the FPGA would cover the custom chipset. Could potentially be some weird-ass hybrid emulation and we know how well that worked for RetroBlox and SeeDee. Edited April 22, 2023 by Keatah 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 59 minutes ago, Keatah said: Could potentially be some weird-ass hybrid emulation For some good hybrid money. I'm thinking at least $400 USD. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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