General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Could have been the no limit package, can't quite remember. I THINK it was 1p per minute after 6pm though...mad when you think we've 24hour high speed connections nowadays. I think Action Half Life took me just under 6 hours to download, and was 30 odd MB file size.

My first pc was an Athlon 350Mhz, or possibly 450Mhz...64MB ram I think, and shortly after I upgraded it with a Voodoo 3200....the difference going from software rendering to hardware in Half Life blew me away, I still remember picking my jaw up off the floor after seeing it. Then of course hours and hours on Civilization 2...some great games back then

Still remember my first PC too. 233mhz AMD K6 with 16mb of ram, 3gb hdd and a 2mb S3 Savage3D gpu. Got this in mid 1998.

Not far off my first proper PC. Think I also bought it in 1998. Was an IBM Aptiva K6-2 333mhz with 32mb of ram, a 4gb hdd (which made it's way into my next PC) but unfortunately no GPU, was all software rendering! Did manage to get Half Life running in OpenGL in 1024X768 at a playable framerate though so was happy enough.

I'd a hand me down computer before that though, an older IBM, can't remember exactly what it was but it was running Windows 95.

Never forget the day I was browsing through it, not really too sure how to use a PC really and most of it was fairly empty of content and finding a folder that contained Doom! Was like finding gold.

Tbf the gpu was awful and may as well not been there, still had to use software rendering for Quake 2 and Half-Life.

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

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

CeX are a bit of a shitshow — twice I've purchased Folklore (PS3) from them a month apart and twice they've cancelled the order as when they went to check it wasn't actually in-stock.

Would you not consider the Hydra2? I've a couple and they work great. You can also add extra "heads" to it with 8 scart inputs.

https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=125

I completely forgot they existed and funnily enough that's the one I was going to go for years back when I last looked up a proper solution!

That extra head option sounds really interesting, if I could have the equivalent of two of them, so 16 scart inputs that would probably sort me out.

/edit - Hydra ordered! 206 euro delivered and no worries about import fees.

Aye. Hydras are the business. Just do the job asked of them.

Just got confirmation to order my Steam Deck, will have to sleep on it I think...