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- Comment on C64 Retro Battlestation 1 week ago:
You’re right. I got a “Timex Sinclair 1000” at a garage sale, it’s a 2KB modified ZX81. The other manufacturers you mention had more software available, and Commodore often played dirty.
I’m tempted to replace the TS1000’s failing keyboard with one of those new ones with tact switches, but that’s a bit of an investment for what would sit on the shelf anyway. My C64 at least still gets played and demoscene stuff showed off!
- Comment on C64 Retro Battlestation 1 week ago:
Agreed, cheap DB-9 used for all kinds of different connections. I used this site for info: wiki.icomp.de/wiki/DB9-Joystick
In the US, Sinclair and Amstrad seem to be rare. We do have the problem where Master System was uncommon but Genesis was massively popular, so many people refer to the Genesis as “the Sega”. You can’t say, “Sega controllers are OK for C64” with Master System implied, because someone will use a Genesis pad and blow up the CIA when pad buttons and keyboard keys are pressed at the same time.
- Comment on C64 Retro Battlestation 1 week ago:
I thought this only applied to Mega Drive/Genesis controllers, as many two-button joysticks back in the day were advertised as compatible with “Atari, Commodore, and Sega”.
I opened my Master System controller (Model 3020) and verified that there are no resistors or components, and the Sega’s +5V pin (pin 5), and the C64’s +5V pin (pin 7) are the two wires that are not connected to anything. So this particular pad is safe. Other pads may be wired differently!
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
In the USA, Section 230 protections are going away in 2027 so that should finish off any remaining forums.
- Comment on fetching bleach after this one 2 weeks ago:
They’re going to be sad when they find out that tiny dicktator mushrooms only give a puff of spore dust.
- Comment on Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year 3 weeks ago:
Game Genie had a thicker circuit board than a game cart, to get a good connection in the frontloaders. The toploader’s cart slot is pretty tight, to get a good connection. Combine these, and it feels like the cart slot is going to pull off of the circuit board before the Game Genie lets loose. Everdrive/Powerpak would work fine.
Galoob offered an adapter for the toploaders but they are extremely rare.
- Comment on Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year 3 weeks ago:
Remember Craigslist? I got a toploader for $40 with games because it had been stepped on and crushed! Some Bondo, paint, AV mod…
Toploader not recommended if you like to use Game Genie.
RGB mod: It’s expensive IIRC because you need to replace the PPU (video chip) entirely with one from an arcade board or a modern FPGA reproduction.
- Comment on Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year 3 weeks ago:
At the time, if you bought a new US toploader then complained to Nintendo about the video quality, they would replace it with a revision with no jailbars. There’s also a very rare US toploader with the composite AV port and no jailbars!
- Comment on What exactly are they teaching in our schools? 4 weeks ago:
Psychology. The sign gets extra attention and also makes one think the people holding the sale might be stupid and not know the value of the items they’re selling.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 weeks ago:
That goes without saying… another user here says the drive can’t be larger than 8GB but I’m fairly certain I tried that, too.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 weeks ago:
My Canon photo printer can be converted to a tank-style with a drill and a highly illegal cartridge resetter. 😂
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 weeks ago:
I heard Brother was good, then I spent way too long formatting different USB sticks in different cluster sizes and formats, and never got ours to work with any of them. Don’t buy Brother if you want that feature, either.
- Comment on fingerme 4 weeks ago:
We had a slutski here, too 😂
- Comment on Hawaii and alaska hiding in the attic 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but it’s every state legislator’s duty to ignore or do the opposite of what the President says until the courts make you cooperate, like with Obama or Biden, right? Those traitors aren’t doing their jobs anymore!
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
It sounds like these are modchipped if they come with a USB stick of games (that the owner then burns what they wish?)
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
The burl woodgrain is also very fancy!
- Comment on Is this a c/ for making fun of conservatives? 4 weeks ago:
Looking back at all the self-removed posts here… on Lemmy, the Nazis are afraid. As they should be everywhere. 😂
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook servers down, reports say 4 weeks ago:
I got it from techrights.org, author is a bit wacky but seems to have his heart in the right place.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
Even before the Wii Mini, “regular” Wiis were being made without all the GameCube ports and functionality… then the Wii Mini cut costs even further and did not even have Wi-Fi!
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
Very sciencey, not a toy. Hilariously, Nintendo fought hard to get their competing “Entertainment System” recognized as a toy and not a computer, for import tax purposes.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
God damn marketing! That picture makes it look like it had OLED. Of course, these days you can make it actually look like that but it’s ~$60 and you install it yourself.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
There were several models including an all-black one that ditched the woodgrain.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
I would say the cutoff is Game Boy Advance SP and Micro is a poseur, because Micro can’t play original Game Boy or Color games.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 4 weeks ago:
I love you. Unironically. 😅
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 4 weeks ago:
They are y’all.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 4 weeks ago:
And C: instead of system32, to represent everything that was created using programs that rely on system32.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 4 weeks ago:
It’s not our fault that the actually reasonable conservative views were already drowned out by the raving lunatic fascist mobs. gestures broadly at US federal government
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook servers down, reports say 4 weeks ago:
Era of clown computing.
- Comment on Low-level floppy operations with native floppy controller on older PC with modern Linux distribution 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for this post! 💾
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t Google and Nvidia just throw everything they had into a concerted AGI effort and fail?! 🤣
