A New Way to Play PC Games

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Here is the link to the forums for the company really responsibe for these machines:

http://www.discoverconsole.com/forum/

It WILL NOT support homebrew, thus no UAE, but I am sure there is an easy way around that. With UAE (Amithalon rest in peace) on one of these, it would be like a classic Amige somewhat (on TV and all) and would prolly run better than UAE in a full blown version of XP.

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It will only play games that have:

A: Had a script written for it, in order that it may self install.

B: 100% Winblows XP compatability.

They plan to have scripts written for 2000 games by the time Apex launches its unit. More scripts will come out down the road. It's an iteresting idea, nothing for most Tech junkies, but definatly for people who are computer virgins, console lovers, and hobbists if not mere Apex fanatics.

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I know this board is using Via Chipset, and at one time a Via CPU was in the specs, but fortunatly they dropped that.

 And yes this is using an XP kernal as opposed to CE (where did you get CE from anyhow!?!?).

 I would have to assume that they are using fast drives, for if you were to download any of the videos of this machine being demonstrated on TV, you'll see that it is amazingly fast! Also, head over to pricewatch.com and do and search for some name brand parts to put together your own machine within the $400 price tag, and you'll see that it will come out to a little over $400. So you figure (and this is hopeing) that Apex is getting even a cheaper price than we get at Pricewatch, so they can easily afford to build a system with good specs for well under $400, and still make a profit.