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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

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  • #1982
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paXoVlRZoEI


  • #1983
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    This is a bit of a duplicate post, but I put a post up on the boards.ie Sega Forum about a free indie Dreamcast release. Details here.

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  • #1984
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    This would be fantastic if the guy gets it out the door and up for sale.
    SD card based replacement for the Dreamcast GD-Rom drive. Plugs right in instead of the drive and gives a menu for loading disc images (proper images, not rips from what he says which is fine by me).

    http://www.retrocollect.com/News/the-gd-emu-project-sega-dreamcast-sd-card-iso-loading-add-on-device-coming-soon.html

    thegdemuprojectsegadrea.jpg


  • #1985
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    Steve SI wrote: »
    This would be fantastic if the guy gets it out the door and up for sale.
    SD card based replacement for the Dreamcast GD-Rom drive. Plugs right in instead of the drive and gives a menu for loading disc images (proper images, not rips from what he says which is fine by me).

    http://www.retrocollect.com/News/the-gd-emu-project-sega-dreamcast-sd-card-iso-loading-add-on-device-coming-soon.html

    the-gd-emu-project-sega-dreamcast-sd-card-iso-loading-add-on-device-coming-soon.jpg

    Dear Santa....


  • #1986
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,446 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Lets hope this one works better than the current SD adapter! Load of crap so it is.


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  • #1987
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    This could have been the thing Docentore mentioned a while back


  • #1988
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Lets hope this one works better than the current SD adapter! Load of crap so it is.

    It's alright for emulators and the like but yeah for retail games it's not the best at all, transfer speed of the serial port really lets it down.

    Such a pity that nothing like this has ever been developed for the broadband adapter but I'd say that has more to do with the broadband adapter being super ultra mega rare.

    Speaking of which searched high and low for a decently priced Dreamcast BBA there a while ago and ended up getting one off my mate for free. He used to use it back in the day for PSO, got it off a mate of his who bought it from Sega's USA website.

    Such an epic find that was.


  • #1989
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    Steve SI wrote: »
    This would be fantastic if the guy gets it out the door and up for sale.
    SD card based replacement for the Dreamcast GD-Rom drive. Plugs right in instead of the drive and gives a menu for loading disc images (proper images, not rips from what he says which is fine by me).

    http://www.retrocollect.com/News/the-gd-emu-project-sega-dreamcast-sd-card-iso-loading-add-on-device-coming-soon.html

    the-gd-emu-project-sega-dreamcast-sd-card-iso-loading-add-on-device-coming-soon.jpg

    So the article says this is similar to an EverDrive. But since the Dreamcast is the only Sega console I can think of without a cartridge slot, does that mean its used as a replacement for the GD-ROM's ribbon cable? Essentially how Saturn modchips are installed? and a bit like the hard disk mod for 3DOs that was on here a while back.

    I just don't want to get my hopes up to find its still running through the slow serial connector at the back.


  • #1990
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    a5y wrote: »
    So the article says this is similar to an EverDrive. But since the Dreamcast is the only Sega console I can think of without a cartridge slot, does that mean its used as a replacement for the GD-ROM's ribbon cable? Essentially how Saturn modchips are installed? and a bit like the hard disk mod for 3DOs that was on here a while back.

    I just don't want to get my hopes up to find its still running through the slow serial connector at the back.

    Yeah from what I can tell it'll replace the entire GD-Rom drive with a daughterboard that will then allow streaming of ISOs from the SD Card to the Dreamcast mainboard. I've no idea what the transfer speed of the internal bus is but I'm guessing it's at least 1000000 billion times faster than serial. :-)


  • #1991
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Achilles wrote: »
    I've no idea what the transfer speed of the internal bus is but I'm guessing it's at least 1000000 billion times faster than serial. :-)

    Well it's the same bus that loads data from the discs, so whatever it is it'll be fast enough


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  • #1992
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,616 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Right so own up: who's taking their Breaking Bad obsession a tad too far and depleting nationwide Sudafed supplies in the process? http://www.independent.ie/national-news/medicine-for-common-cold-used-to-make-killer-drug-3233256.html

    EnterNow's avatar makes him the prime suspect.


  • #1993
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Right so own up: who's taking their Breaking Bad obsession a tad too far and depleting nationwide Sudafed supplies in the process? http://www.independent.ie/national-news/medicine-for-common-cold-used-to-make-killer-drug-3233256.html

    EnterNow's avatar makes him the prime suspect.

    Yo chill b1tch


  • #1994
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,950 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Right so own up: who's taking their Breaking Bad obsession a tad too far and depleting nationwide Sudafed supplies in the process? http://www.independent.ie/national-news/medicine-for-common-cold-used-to-make-killer-drug-3233256.html

    EnterNow's avatar makes him the prime suspect.

    Had to laugh when I heard that on the radio. Chemistry student was mentioned too. :pac:


  • #1995
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Oh I went to that Breaking Bad pub quiz last week by the way.

    It was horribly organised. They changed the venue 3 times and then on the night, while the questions were fairly good, there was a gap of about half an hour between each round.


  • #1996
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,616 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Andrew76 wrote:

    Had to laugh when I heard that on the radio. Chemistry student was mentioned too. :pac:

    Going into Boots and purchasing a load of Sudafed is slightly less romantic than an elaborate
    train robbery
    , though :(


  • #1997
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    I wonder what chili powder sales are like at the moment...


  • #1998
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,950 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Going into Boots and purchasing a load of Sudafed is slightly less romantic than an elaborate
    train robbery
    , though :(

    It sure is. If nothing else that show has thought me that sulphuric acid and a bath tub do not mix. Plastic containers all the way.


  • #1999
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    DinoRex wrote: »
    there was a gap of about half an hour between each round.

    The answers to the questions were probably fluctuating, so they needed time to let things stabilize.

    It was sponsored by RAGE correct?


  • #2000
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    EnterNow wrote: »
    The answers to the questions were probably fluctuating, so they needed time to let things stabilize.

    It was sponsored by RAGE correct?

    Yeah. Didn't see what prizes they donated though. The main prize was a home made beer pong table which I can't say I had any interest in winning.


  • #2001
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,323 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    It sure is. If nothing else that show has thought me that sulphuric acid and a bath tub do not mix. Plastic containers all the way.

    Sulphuric Acid would be fine in a bath tub, even at a high molarity. Hydrofluoric acid,the stuff used in Breaking Bad is the crazy stuff you want to avoid at all costs. The stuff is insane. Geologists use it to dissolve rocks for analysis. A friend of mine in the lab had to use it for making zeolite cages. The amount of safety gear he had on was crazy but necessary. At the concentrations he was working with get a drop on your fingers and it won't burn too much but it will leech all the calcium out of your body and cause a fatal heart attack.


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  • #2002
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,758 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    When emergency services are at the scene of a car fire they have to be careful as certain materials under the bonnet can become hydrofluoric acid, frakking you up.

    That's what I love about A&R, every post is nice and relevant to the OP....

    Every now and then I have to remind myself of what that is....


  • #2003
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    When emergency services are at the scene of a car fire they have to be careful as certain materials under the bonnet can become hydrofluoric acid, frakking you up.

    That's what I love about A&R, every post is nice and relevant to the OP....

    Every now and then I have to remind myself of what that is....

    May whoever decides to respond to the bolded part with a Red Dwarf meme swiftly find their genitals have vanished by some kind of amateur surgery.


  • #2004
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,950 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Sulphuric Acid would be fine in a bath tub, even at a high molarity. Hydrofluoric acid,the stuff used in Breaking Bad is the crazy stuff you want to avoid at all costs. The stuff is insane. Geologists use it to dissolve rocks for analysis. A friend of mine in the lab had to use it for making zeolite cages. The amount of safety gear he had on was crazy but necessary. At the concentrations he was working with get a drop on your fingers and it won't burn too much but it will leech all the calcium out of your body and cause a fatal heart attack.

    Best not to show that level of knowledge on a public forum I find. /puts back on tinfoil hat
    a5y wrote: »
    May whoever decides to respond to the bolded part with a Red Dwarf meme swiftly find their genitals have vanished by some kind of amateur surgery.

    Thank god, thought I was the only one who doesn't like that show at all. :eek: (I can hear EnterNow and Sparks keeling over.)
    Ah no, the one or two episodes I saw were funny alright, never got into it though.


  • #2005
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,323 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Best not to show that level of knowledge on a public forum I find. /puts back on tinfoil hat

    My doctorate in chemistry might not be any help to me in getting a job so I might as well use it to be a know it all on a public internet forum, get some use out of it. Perhaps I should start cooking myself...


  • #2006
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    My doctorate in chemistry might not be any help to me in getting a job so I might as well use it to be a know it all on a public internet forum, get some use out of it. Perhaps I should start cooking myself...

    I'll go half with you on an RV if you like. Only if you promise to dress normally while we're cooking meth in it though


  • #2007
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Thank god, thought I was the only one who doesn't like that show at all. :eek: (I can hear EnterNow and Sparks keeling over.)
    Ah no, the one or two episodes I saw were funny alright, never got into it though.

    I think my impression of Red Dwarf may be better if I hadn't seen at least as many of the later series as the earlier ones - I'd never followed the series when it was on.

    I don't hate the show, but it seemed so inconsistent I couldn't like it. Its still better than a lot of stuff that gets praised to ridiculous levels.

    But that meme... my kingdom for a facepalm emoticon.


  • #2008
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    a5y wrote: »
    but it seemed so inconsistent

    Your doing it wrong


  • #2009
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    EnterNow wrote: »
    I'll go half with you on an RV if you like. Only if you promise to dress normally while we're cooking meth in it though

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  • #2010
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Your doing it wrong

    Yeah, I know. I'm not so much defending my view as explaining where I'm coming from. Some friends of mine who are big RD fans are talking about running a marathon on it, and I might join 'em.

    Really though, the way they tell if the books are the essential stuff.


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  • #2011
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    My doctorate in chemistry might not be any help to me in getting a job so I might as well use it to be a know it all on a public internet forum, get some use out of it. Perhaps I should start cooking myself...

    Have you thought of holding the city to ransom by threatening the water supply?


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