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credburn posted:Could you disable the backlight and still see the screen? If so, did that make your Game Gear portable again? I’m pretty sure the GG screen is one of those early color LCDs that’s basically impossible to use without a backlight unfortunately. So yeah you’d have better battery life but it’d be pretty much unusable.
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DMorbid posted:I could've sworn I posted my Sega Nomad here recently, but looks like I actually didn't. So, here's the Game Gear's even more cumbersome big brother! I wanted a Sega Nomad so bad when I was a kid but as far as I know it never released outside of the US. Had no idea about the separate battery compartment back then though, that would've made it a bit lamer, still would've wanted one though. I wanted one of these too, this one released in Europe though but I never got one no matter how much I begged my parents for one because I already had a Sega: 
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Kamrat posted:I wanted a Sega Nomad so bad when I was a kid but as far as I know it never released outside of the US. I do have to use a step-down transformer for the power adapter, which isn't a huge deal because I have a couple of those for my other NTSC systems. I think it's just a regular Genesis model 2 adapter and I could probably get a modern third-party power brick that supports both EU and US standards, but I just haven't gotten around to it because the Nomad is more of a display piece than anything. DMorbid has a new favorite as of 22:16 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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DMorbid posted:I could've sworn I posted my Sega Nomad here recently, but looks like I actually didn't. So, here's the Game Gear's even more cumbersome big brother! Oh wow, I've never seen one of these. Haha I immediately hate the screen. The sleek offset border around it would cause me constantly feel like I need to correct the orientation.
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DMorbid posted:but I just haven't gotten around to it because the Nomad is more of a display piece than anything. Yeah, there's no real use for it nowadays since you can emulate a Mega Drive on almost anything if you really wanted a portable mega drive. it's still cool though
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Back when flash photography was all explodey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEm-2giH_zw I had an Instamatic X15F. I found one on ebay a few years ago. I bought it just as a doo-dad to put on a shelf, but came across a roll of 126 film (about 45 years old). I'm going to shoot it and send it off. I'm pretty sure nothing will come of it.
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My brother and I each had an Instamatic and carried them with us when we'd travel. Went through so much film, and so many flashcubes. Here's one of my mother and brother sleeping on the train outside of Paris. 1976. She died last month. But now I see her as all of her ages. 
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Phanatic posted:That's a great shot. Sorry about your mom. Seconded, and what an awesome way to experience/honor her memory.
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dobbymoodge posted:Sorry about your Mom's pants gently caress you those are incredible.
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dobbymoodge posted:Sorry about your Mom's pants  Sorry for your loss, and man that picture is awesome!
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Dick Trauma posted:She died last month. But now I see her as all of her ages. Dick Trauma has become unstuck in time But seriously, sorry about your mom, that is a rad picture
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A look at  70s style.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJrYTySIV2o $50 then is about $225 now. Mister Kingdom has a new favorite as of 00:43 on Feb 4, 2024 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:A look at The guy they interview from televideo gives me the creeps. If anyone is curious it looks like he served 4 years in prison and was ordered to pay ~5 million in fines.
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Dick Trauma posted:My brother and I each had an Instamatic and carried them with us when we'd travel. Went through so much film, and so many flashcubes.
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Groke posted:Also such a very 1970s picture. revive the Dad Pics Thread in the Dorkroom, cowards Mister Kingdom posted:A look at I remember my dad duping the Transformers movie on BetaMax when I was 7 or 8 so that I'd quit renting it so much. He told me in hushed tones that it was illegal, so we had to be very very quiet while it dubbed. It took me way too long to realize he just wanted me to shut up for a couple of hours. Rev. Bleech_ has a new favorite as of 02:30 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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"openttd changelog posted:14.0-beta1 (2023-02-03)
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OpenTTD is one of the great software projects of our age. Up there with Dwarf Fortress for how much dedication it inspires.
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Big Mac posted:OpenTTD is one of the great software projects of our age. Up there with Dwarf Fortress for how much dedication it inspires. Truth.
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I call no way, that fits way too well to be real.
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That laptop is from 1994. Pic is mislabeled.
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Dick Trauma posted:My brother and I each had an Instamatic and carried them with us when we'd travel. Went through so much film, and so many flashcubes. Not only a great story, but that's on helluva picture.
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I still have a Toshiba Kojima model in my garage.
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I stopped at a garage sale today of a guy who owns a self storage place and cleans out unpaid units and puts all the junk into one unit and tries to sell it. Most of it is straight up junk and he asks crazy prices but in the past I have scored some good deals like my pioneer RT-707 reel to reel that I paid 20 bucks for because it looked like complete junk and was covered in rust but somehow I magically got it working and was able to repaint the case after sanding the rust off. Only cost me 10 bucks for a new counter belt 30 for the wooden rail covers to match the rest of my Hi-Fi and 50 for the OEM metal take up reel that it was missing.     There is a whole room of old records, cassette and VHS tapes, PC software, videogames, DVDs etc..    The past few times I've been there I saw an old reduculously overbuilt PC racing wheel at pedal set. Wheel weighs at least 20 pounds and has some sort of heavy springs in it to give resistance for fake force feedback feeling. Wheel has a standard game port connection that daisy chains into the pedal set and then outputs to another game port connector. No brand name, just an E logo in the center of the wheel and a impact wheel label maker sticker with a serial number on the bottom so I'm guessing the unit was handmade.    I've asked the guy about it a few times and he's always asked for a hundred bucks for it. Today I figured I'd ask again and he said he has had a bunch of people look at that thing and no one knows what it is so make him an offer so I said five bucks and he took it. Did a whole bunch of googling and apparently it's an ECCI CDS wheel which retailed for around $500 in 1995 ($1020 in 2024 dollars). I was able to find references to it on the history frame of the ECCI website on internet archive from 1999. https://web.archive.org/web/19991004212235/http://ecci.net/ecci_01.htm   I checked with my few retro gamer friends that I figured would want it and one only wants arcade and console stuff and the other said they don't do PC racing games only old PC RTS games. I don't know if this thing has any value but it's overbuilt to the point of being hilarious. I may see if somebody like lazy game reviews that gets a kick out of ancient overpriced peripherals would like to have it to do a review on. my turn in the barrel has a new favorite as of 04:04 on Feb 11, 2024 |
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Before force feedback wheels got good, people who were super serious about sim racing were crazy about those ECCI wheels. There was that and the thomas super wheel or something. The ECCIs were just fancy damped wheels or something since there was no force feedback. The thomas super wheel or whatever it was called was literally a shaft connected to a potentiometer with two springs attached to recenter it. Several years ago when Fanatec was starting to make serious belt drive wheels that had good force feedback, there was a guy on the iracing forums who would go into any fanatec or logitech thread and bash the wheels as "toy wheels" compared to his metal box with two springs attached to a metal rod. It was really weird that the guy was so upset about force feedback.
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Oooooh, an RT-707! Those things are excellent machines.
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Dawid Does Tech Stuff has recently done simracing things and could be into this.
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I think LGR and a bunch of those people come to that Midwest computer expo thing that is less than an hour away from me if someone knows one of them and wants to get in touch with them I'd be happy to loan it to somebody but I don't want to ship it because I'm sure it would be expensive due to how much it weighs. Edit: I shot LGR on email we'll see if he's interested. my turn in the barrel has a new favorite as of 02:41 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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DMorbid posted:I own one of these! I had a modded GBA with the afterburner front light I got for Christmas. Thing was heavy and ate batteries real fast but it felt more special than an SP and I liked the ergonomics better.
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