General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

First PC I bought was a generic white box P120 running Win95, can't remember memory or disk capacity but nothing too fancy anyway. Eventually upgraded with a 3DFX Orchid Righteous and Soundblaster card bought in Clerys for a mad amount of money no doubt.

Cards like those were way out of reach for most people I guess, that's if you could even buy one over here.

I picked up a Sound Blaster AWE32 from a work placement I did back in the late 1990s. Load it up the SIMM sockets with RAM and you could upload sample packs. Exciting times :D

That's me (and it is so no offence!) but it might suit some who could gut it to make a virtual pinball machine. The unit is quite strong and could save someone a few quid on materials for the sake of giving something to charity. I planned to do it myself but spend all my time trying to complete Ghost 'n Goblins on various platforms! It'll likely get dumped if no takers.

Too big to fit in my car, would need a courier :)

Definitely a strange Pin, but so weird I kinda like it 😊 Fair play for the charity donation thing, that's a nice touch.

Yeah a lot of the time it's an older machine repurposed into a new theme.

There's a a few companies that do it.

I'd actually love to get that pin. It's wierd and totally unnecessary, I love it haha.

Usually you'd say, its the now traditional expectation of another revision being announced after the summer. Or the rumours of a higher-end model.

Of course, every weekend there's a rumour that the next Quest will be announced at the next event etc etc........I suppose the rumour sites will be right at some point

Could be people having regrets with their pandemic purchases, not in the house so much etc ? Or just plain bored with it ?

I'd certainly say with any VR down the years, whether it's Quests or Vives, they are a pain in the hole to use in the summer.

Have an interesting problem - I have a few arcade cabinets. They are all connected to those assistant type plugs, one for each cab BUT most likely all on the same circuit. When I do that 'OK Google, turn on the arcade cabs' BAM! They all turn on...and sometimes pop the breaker.

My current thinking (joke intended) is that its the CRT initial surge that is prob popping the B class 20amp breaker. Will see about changing it to a C class 20amp breaker to see it stops a poppin'

Anyone else have an issue like this with many CRTs/cabs?

We have this issue in the arcade yep. It's usually one machine, i.e. our max tune is the culprit at the minute, but once it's on, it's on. I know we had to take one or two off that clicker system and it seemed to help, but still can't figure out the max tune issue why it keeps tripping the switch (other machines are on on this trip as well), maybe it's a ground or something but I can't find it, it's both P1 and P2 that causes this issue. Trip switches have a max load too so might be initially taking too much load on start up.

How about the lazy man's option and just stagger them switching on by a few seconds? So have the two Dinokings come on together and the Naomi separately?

 'OK Google, turn on the Dinokings'

'OK Google, turn on the Naomi'

Also means you get to say 'Dinokings' which just sounds so unbelievably 90s and awesome that you should probably put on a pair of black shades and a backwards cap first. 😁

Dumb question. Can anyone identify the background music from this YouTube video? 7 seconds in. It’s driving me mad. It’s on the tip of my tongue :(

https://youtu.be/cEAHR5Y_RYM

Sweet! That's great for future reference, thanks very much for letting us all know. What's interesting about my Maximum Tune 3 is that they have inbuilt RCD or MCD switches on them so maybe it's a common issue but sometimes the main trip goes instead of the machine one, very strange