Just watch or dispose of those lithium ion batteries! I wish they weren’t such a pain in the ass to open, removing them leaves that hole with exposed contacts, and phones/tablets with custom ROMs could be perfect little servers for 3D printers and the like, but often won’t power up without their batteries.

Thank you! Brightens my day(s)!

す…すごいね！

(I’m learning. Not into feeding but unsure how to request more stockings!)

explorer (file manager, taskbar) crashed a lot and had to do win+r -> explorer.exe to get it going again.

This still happens on up-to-date Win10 occasionally. I’ve seen it on multiple machines, hardware tests good. A variant I’ve seen is that the Start button responds to click (changes color) but does not open the menu.

Upvoted. It is literally impossible for 99.99% of the population to tell the difference between a good LAME mp3 encode and the original. If someone is working with the audio, making their own remixes and such, they can benefit from lossless/higher bit depth/higher sample rate though.

There were shitty mp3 encoders like Blade in the past (planted by the music industry?) that are easy to hear a difference, and if dealing with files from an unknown source one can only make an educated guess with a spectrogram as to the files’ lineage. Example: Was it a Blade mp3 from Napster burned to audio CD that some moron ripped and posted as flac?

Source: old Hydrogenaudio forums and personally been Exact Audio Copying to flac for over 20 years. Had (modded? custom? can’t recall) Envy24 drivers on WinXP for bit-perfect S/PDIF output of “bit-perfect” CD rips. It was overkill but fairly easy to get the digital part perfect, then the analog part can be subjective… never used special stones, or coat hangers as speaker wire. 🤣

Right? Hundreds of thousands of people have scrolled over it and yet never seen it.

it didn’t have a dedicated cabinet.

This is true of many, many games. Eventually JAMMA made swapping games the norm. When a game stopped making money or was too expensive to fix (glares in Namco’s direction), you bought a relatively inexpensive kit, swap the board, stick on new side art and marquee, and maybe add some buttons to the control panel, send it out the door as a new game.

I work in the arcade industry. Fighting games were the big deal, then stagnated. I’m in the US midwest, so hunting games got huge, then only the fancy online ones were left standing (Big Buck Hunter Pro). So, here we have: Mortal Kombat 3 converted to Deer Hunting USA, Killer Instinct converted to Sammy Extreme Hunting, Virtua Fighter 2 converted to Trophy Hunting Bear & Moose…

It’s sad/maddening looking through warehouses, but now that classics are popular again, I can sometimes find the old boards and kit the cabinets back to what they used to be. Glad to work somewhere that allows this provided I’m not spending too much; it can be labor-intensive if a cabinet is “mutilated” after having five different games over its lifetime and people trying to cobble in whatever working CRT monitor they had. I swear, every manufacturer and model had different dimensions and mounting (see Standards). Different monitor has a frame hits the back cabinet wall? Sawzall holes and build a wooden box to cover it, we need this game out the door and making money again.

Edit: We also still make money from old stuff by putting them in hotels’ and campgrounds’ game rooms… water damage and pool chlorine basically makes those places “arcade game hospice”, they go there to die.

At least they offer a substantial discount from eBay price.

“Well, this is what it goes for on eBay!”

Me: “No, that is the price it sits unsold on eBay. Refine search -> Sold items, my friend.”

Can speak from experience.

Me: make woman climax, she loses control and farts in your face

Brain: … … Come on, really? 😑

Gonads: Oh no no no, don’t you say a fucking thing! You wanted this! 🤣

Thanks! Like I said I got it running but it’s a bit of a mystery. If you are interested, here’s where I gave up on Mint Debian for gaming because I couldn’t fix the same problem on the same PC.

Hardware is known to be good. Greatly enjoying EndeavourOS and I wanted to get familiar with Wayland and some newer software anyway.

Just upgraded my EndeavourOS (Arch btw) and saw Nvidia driver update. Reboot, KDE came up successfully, OK, good. Play game, stuttering right on the title screen. 😑

From my idiot troubleshooting with Nvidia in the past, I disable “Allow screen tearing in fullscreen windows.” Test, runs perfectly now. The funny thing is that I had to enable that option in the past to make the same stuttering go away. 🤷‍♂️

Someone suggested maybe that option doesn’t matter and I just had to start the game multiple times because of shader cache? IDK, but I do know that my next card will be AMD.

You jest but it’s because you chose a manufacturer that made a closed-source driver minefield and the volunteer paramedics haven’t been able to get to you yet.

Of course there’s a spectrum. In the US, the spectrum only applies to the populace, though, as the politicians themselves are behaving so polarized that there only exists “the right” (far-right culture warriors) and “the left” (center-right with lip service to the left).

There it is. 🥲

…and leftists know that the “abortion debate” is culture warfare injected into the less-educated by billionaires to distract from class warfare.

Raised with dogs? We had one that would curl up just like that for scritches. Lived to be twenty years old.

Was it a game boy or game girl?

Jaguar and Lynx. The Lynx was Epyx’s last gasp as well. The Epyx guys who created it were former Amiga designers, and it’s a bit hilarious that Atari had to buy Amigas from their nemesis Commodore to be able to develop games for Lynx.

Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (1984) is pretty wild for being on a console from 1977 with 128 bytes of RAM. Clearly some fun programming tricks were learned in those seven years.

Fairchild Channel F was a year earlier.