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Dubious claim on Craigslist
« on: November 11, 2009, 06:40:53 AM »
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/vgm/1460381592.html

This guy is claiming to have an XBox with emulated games of a pretty large selection of retro systems. But to claim that he has EVERY game made for Amiga, NES, Sega, Intellivision, etc. on a 250 gig HD makes me rather doubtful.
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2009, 10:37:46 AM »
Quote from: Amiduffer;529128
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/vgm/1460381592.html

This guy is claiming to have an XBox with emulated games of a pretty large selection of retro systems. But to claim that he has EVERY game made for Amiga, NES, Sega, Intellivision, etc. on a 250 gig HD makes me rather doubtful.


Well, most of the games for those systems are rather small.  But I agree, that is a rather BOLD statement...  Maybe he should say I have every game from "X" website on a 250 Gig. HD.

Either which way, he is promoting piracy so I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2009, 12:00:10 PM »
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Well, most of the games for those systems are rather small. But I agree, that is a rather BOLD statement... Maybe he should say I have every game from "X" website on a 250 Gig. HD.
 
Either which way, he is promoting piracy so I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

Plus it looks like its not running XBMC, which is probably the best media player on any system I have used to date.
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2009, 12:59:13 PM »
Quote from: Amiduffer;529128
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/vgm/1460381592.html

This guy is claiming to have an XBox with emulated games of a pretty large selection of retro systems. But to claim that he has EVERY game made for Amiga, NES, Sega, Intellivision, etc. on a 250 gig HD makes me rather doubtful.
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2009, 04:07:53 PM »
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Well, most of the games for those systems are rather small.  But I agree, that is a rather BOLD statement...  Maybe he should say I have every game from "X" website on a 250 Gig. HD.

Either which way, he is promoting piracy so I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.


In these days where everything is wrong, and we are preparing for austerity, and we are bailing out greedy banks and corporations, and the politicians are thieves,  I say 'UP THE PIRATES!!'

I personally love the fact that I can get stuff for free on the internet, and if it hurts a big money grabbing corporation, then all the better.

They have been shafting us for years.  Fuck that, i`m out to get my own back.

In a few short years there will be nothing for free on the net.  

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may!
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2009, 04:44:36 PM »
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In these days where everything is wrong, and we are preparing for austerity, and we are bailing out greedy banks and corporations, and the politicians are thieves,  I say 'UP THE PIRATES!!'

I personally love the fact that I can get stuff for free on the internet, and if it hurts a big money grabbing corporation, then all the better.

They have been shafting us for years.  Fuck that, i`m out to get my own back.

In a few short years there will be nothing for free on the net.  

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may!

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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2009, 05:14:36 PM »
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In a few short years there will be nothing for free on the net.  


That's not true.  I promise never to charge for naked pictures of myself on the Internet.  

Here's a freebie:
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2009, 05:18:02 PM »
Amiga Heretic: You may not charge for the pictures, but we may have to charge you for the therapy that we now need :lol:
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2009, 05:18:03 PM »
'Every game'... they are relatively small files, but... lol

I run into Atari 2600 owners all the time that would claim they used to have "every" game out for it back then. You'd poke and prod a little when they'd proudly tell you that yeah... they only had 30-50 titles! But somehow, that was "every" single game to them... lol
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2009, 05:47:53 PM »
Any idea how much space is needed if you were to install every single game produced for the Amiga? Even the crappy ones?
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2009, 05:51:41 PM »
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Any idea how much space is needed if you were to install every single game produced for the Amiga? Even the crappy ones?


I hear that to install the AGA version of 'Peter`s Quest - For the love of Daphne' takes over 500 Mb alone!!
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2009, 06:10:48 PM »
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Amiga Heretic: You may not charge for the pictures, but we may have to charge you for the therapy that we now need :lol:

Is that slob drinking a Hacker Pschorr? Great beer, but you don't drink that out of the bottle  ;-)  lol  But geez... even the LCD in America isn't that classy. They'd be drinking Milwaukee's Best out of the can! lol
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2009, 06:15:00 PM »
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I hear that to install the AGA version of 'Peter`s Quest - For the love of Daphne' takes over 500 Mb alone!!


Holy smokes! 500mb? I had to re-read that a couple of times. Personally. I wouldn't even want to install a 500mb game, let alone trudge through one. Total Chaos clocks in at somewhere around 20-25mb and that game plays like a dog on anything less than an 060.

And the hundreds, if not thousands of games on that whdownload site seems to be around the 3.5gb range for ALL of them. I bet that's how the guy is judging a systems software library though. Sites like that *must* be complete, no? lol
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2009, 08:30:09 PM »
Wow.  You an hero.
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Re: Dubious claim on Craigslist
« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2009, 09:02:57 PM »
" Anyone one got a 23 - 15 pin (mac style) video pass-through cable for my Firecracker24?"
I have several for each of the FC24's I have, so I cant spare one, but I will take one apart and post the connector-2-connecto pinout.
 IMNSHO, The FC24 has THE BEST RGB @ NTSC freqs ever made - owning, and using that card has made me tens of thousands of dollars in the 90's using AdPro, ImageFX, and Imagine.  You really need the cable so you can genlock and use 2+ FC24's at a time, or overlay dPaint animations or cyclecolor effects on top of pixel perfect 24 bit backgrounds.

The RGB&H&V connector pinouts will be easy, but as I recall the 28M genlock signal is going to be the trickiest conduit for you to replicate - it was a pretty custom cable - dont even think of extending the length of it with a 15pin joystick extender cable!!!
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