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I'm running 3.1 by default on my 2000.

Fired up the retrocomputers downstairs tonight for a bit of BBSing and gaming.

#retrogaming #bbsing

Using PUAE on the back end on both the RG406V and Steamdeck.
Games load pretty much instantly, and I don't have to mess with multi-disk games since it's based on WHDload and everything just works.

Amigavision / MegaAGS running on the Anbernic 406V and the Steamdeck.

Spent some time last night and today, and got Amigavision / MegaAGS working on the Annbernic RG406V under Daijisho and on the Steamdeck under Emudeck / ES-DE.
In both cases I set up a second Amiga entry called A1200 that's completely separate from the default floppy-based Amiga profiles...

Cyberpunk Librarian - Episode 70 - Tales from the Dark Side Dan dives into the past and brings you a talk that was the genesis of his Defcon 32 presentation. We’re going to talk about shadow libraries, shadow librarianship, and what the traditional library ...

And since this was originally a presentation at a library conference, I have slides! If you’d like to watch a video with the slide deck in action, check out my PeerTube.

Save 25% on RotorSim: Helicopter Simulator on Steam Retro-style helicopter simulation built with love and focused on easy to pick up mechanics. Fly around and test your skills with 3 different aircraft in a dynamic, mission-filled world.

You might want to take a look at RotorSim on Steam too, if you haven't already. I've been playing it a fair amount lately. It's a decent, relatively simple helicopter simulator. It looks like it's on sale right now too.

store.steampowered.com/app/3376070/...

One other thing to consider is that this is one of those rare cases where a software emulator is superior to FPGA for this specific emulation.
The Intellivision library is small enough that they can custom patch for every original game so that they all work nearly perfectly, even speech, etc.

I just checked..there's no way it was the same voice actor. The guy that did Moonraiser's voice was Stan Francis, and he died in April of 1966. The voice sure sounds similar though.

Also..one weird thing I remember about this game is that Sinistar's digitized voice sounds almost exactly like the voice of King Moonraiser, the winged lion king of the Island of misfit Toys in the Rankin Bass Christmas special, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. No idea if it's the same voice actor.

I remember this game well from when it was at Aladdin's Castle at Jamestown Mall in north STL. Both the arcade and the mall itself are long-gone. It was just the upright there though.

I finally got mine set up. I'm pretty pleased with it.
i'm finding the emulation really good, and the wireless controllers feel a little better than my originals..though my originals are over 40 years old and well used, so that's probably a factor too. There's not much discernible lag either.

The good thing is that it's easy to run both in parallel. I just pointed both at the same back-end data. I ran that way for quite a while, all the while watching jellyfin get better and plex get worse, until I was ready to switch completely.

To be honest, I don't use the over the air stuff that much. Mostly just for one-off things. Last thing I recorded with it was the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. (I'm not a sports guy at all).

A TV listings grid in Jellyfin.

I also subscribe to a service called Schedules Direct that Jellyfin uses to generate and keep track of the over-the-air TV schedules, and allows recording. That subscription is relatively cheap..like $35 a year, I think.

There's also an HDHomeRun network tuner that's on the same subnet pulling in over-the-air / antenna stuff that can be watched live and / or recorded to the Jellyfin server. (it worked that way on the Plex server too, when I had that running).

The actual media is stored on an Unraid server on the same subnet with a lot of storage, and that's are mounted on the Optiplex and passed into the Docker container.
It's probably more complicated than it needs to be, but it works, and the Unraid server serves space to a lot of other machines.

Technically, it's running on an old Optiplex 3050 with 16GB RAM and a 1TB Samsung EVO Sata SSD, but that's just the Jellyfin docker container with the metadata on it, running alongside a few other containers (up until recently, including Plex)...

Thanks. I think that this is the same thing that Eric Gustafson told me about over on Mastodon.

Also, make sure that you check out these modern remakes and indie titles if you haven't already...
intellivision.us/gamelist.php

Ms. Night Stalker is my favorite of those.

Yes. I ran both in parallel for several months, and for the way I use it, I didn't see that much difference, so I shut down Plex and removed it. Also, I don't have to ask permission to watch my own stuff. I use it with Tailscale and have access to it from anywhere.

I have this series on my Jellyfin server. It's about time for a re-watch. Thanks for reminding me about it.

BTW, the Thanksgiving episode where BEN tries to cook dinner for the doctor and his ex-wife is pure gold!

I have one on the way that I basically impulse bought the other day, after finding out that you can in fact load your own ROMs onto it. That was the only way I was going to buy one, because IMO, they never include the best of the best ROMs in Intellivision emulators. (TRON:Deadly Discs, for example)

It's mostly a decoy made out of pipes and wire. There's really just a small MP3 player in there.

Sort of..I have what's essentially the same thing (hardware wise, at least), an Ultimate 64 Elite that I bought from Gideon's company a couple of years ago. This one has dual socketed 6581s. It's my favorite way to run C64 stuff, both PAL and NTSC.

Donald Sutherland pointing at something he's obviously not pleased about.

Donald Sutherland...

I already deleted my Discord account last Summer.

Oddly, I haven't found a straightforward way to install it on the Steamdeck. It's not in the desktop mode app catalog, and it doesn't seem to be available as a flatpak or in the snap store.

It's easy to install via apt on a Debian-based distro. I have it on my desktop and laptops.

I should add..it looks like the Android port that's in the Play store has ads in it and might report data back to third parties. The original app is open source and had no such nonsense going on.
The Linux and Windows ports I've played don't have that problem. Not sure about the IOS version.

It's been ported all over the place.
The first place I played it was on my first GP2X. It's been ported to Linux and Windows, as well as Android. It has some pretty interesting gameplay, especially around how the powerups work.

One thing that about Gorf don't hear talked about much Is how extremely intense the stereo sound on the original arcade machine was. I played it for the first time at a Pizza Inn when it was new and the stereo separation was jarring! I'd never heard anything like that in an arcade game before.

Looks a little like "Power Manga"..one of my faves that I still go back to occasionally.