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Howard_Casto:
Saint is actually fairly versed in that stuff if I remember correctly. Afaik mame emulates some of the earlier versions but not the more recent ones. Of course I've been out of the MAME game for quite some time.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: pbj on August 03, 2016, 10:32:47 am ---Mostly just wanted to emulate more modern versions of Megatouch......

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Nothing decent is emulated. Touchmaster 6000 is the latest working thing in MAME IIRC.
Last I checked (circa v.146) the megatouch stuff was old AND glitchy. Cards were missing suites, etc.
Just enough to make in unplayable...maybe on purpose.

If any of them are XL, you can run XL Titanium off an IDE hard drive or compact flash/IDE adapter regardless of key.
You might have to increase the memory.
That gets you these games:
http://www.lotsapins.com/mega.htm

I have two with CF cards in IDE adapters.
They don't boot consistently though. More than half the time it hangs and I have to restart the machine, so I can't unload them. :-\
There's a thread in the touchscreen game subforum about setting up your own drive.
I've added it to the list of things I'll probably never get to.

Howard_Casto:
Went to the Dollar Tree today. Apparently this must have been "National Stuff Howie Wants Day" or something. Extension cords, tweezer sets for soldering, fabric storage cubes.... all kinds of great stuff.

I also picked up one of those WinCleaner thumb drives hoping to hack it into something useful. Thus far no luck, but hey.... it was a dollar.

pbj:
Did the annual "I'm considering cancelling my service" dance with AT&T. 10 minutes of hold, 20 minutes of moaning, $700 saved.

Got an e-mail from my usenet provider that I needed to update my credit card. It's been expired for 5 years. Account still works. Heh.

:cheers:

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: pbj on August 04, 2016, 09:34:46 am ---Did the annual "I'm considering cancelling my service" dance with AT&T. 10 minutes of hold, 20 minutes of moaning, $700 saved.

Got an e-mail from my usenet provider that I needed to update my credit card. It's been expired for 5 years. Account still works. Heh.

:cheers:

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Why not go with Cricket? Same network, same service, owned by AT&T.
I switched from AT&T a few years ago, didn't even have to unlock my phone.

The only major difference is LTE speeds are throttled at 8 Mbps which doesn't really effect anything I'd want to use my phone for.

I have noticed that while at concerts, my data connection doesn't work for ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
Not sure if everyone on the AT&T network is experiencing the same thing, or if true AT&T customers are given preference.
Friends with Verizon didn't have any issues at all.

EDIT: Paying exactly $35/mo for unlimited talk/text and 2.5GB high speed data. It's technically unlimited data, but you can't even stream music at the reduced speed.
I held onto AT&T forever at $83 because I was grandfathered into unlimited data, but only averaged 2GB/mo anyway.

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