2019 Chuff Thread - It IS chuffy in here!

[yotsuya]

Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters---
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters---
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters---

Going to the party
Sippin' on Bacardi
Wanna meet a hottie
But there's Adam, Steve and Marty
There's Billy, Todd and Tommy
They're on leave from the army
The only boobs I'll see tonight will be made of origami

Tell the players, make it understood
It ain't no good if there's too much wood
Make sure you know before you go
The dance floor bro-hoe ratio
Five to one is a brodeo
Tell Steve and Mike it's time to go
Wait outside all night to find
Twenty dudes in a conga line

Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Easy to fix
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Spread out the ---Deutsche Frankfurters---

Too many dudes
With too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters---
Too close to my ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---
Too hard to meet chicks
I need better odds
More broads, less rods
I came to do battle
Scadaddle with the cattle prods

Too many men
Too many boys
Too many misters
Not enough sisters
Too much time on, too many hands
Not enough ladies, too many mans
Not enough ladies, too many mans
Not enough ladies, too many mans
(too many mans)
(too many mans)

Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters---
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters---
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters---
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters---
Too many dongs
Too many schlongs
Now sing this song

Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters---
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters---
Too many ---Deutsche Frankfurters--- on the dance floor

[Nephasth]

Awesome news, Nepth! 

Congrats Neph.

Oh snap, Neph, you working for the man now?

Congrats Neph, still keepin the hall?

Starting a new gig on Monday. Pretty chuffed for higher pay and benefits!

Awesome!!! Save that extra scratch for the Ocho!

Thanks, people!

Yeah... back to being a corporate slave again. Yeah... Of course I'm keeping my dart hall going. Picked up the gig to quickly pay off some debt related to the dart hall, and after that every paycheck should be getting dumped into savings for the... compound. It'll be nice to have insurance, bonuses, and paid vacation again...

[opt2not]

I acquired unobtainium today! A local buddy and fellow hobbyist got this in a multiple cab purchase recently and gave me a sweet deal on it. I haven’t seen one of these boards on the market for a while. The rarez!!

[HaRuMaN]

I acquired unobtainium today! A local buddy and fellow hobbyist got this in a multiple cab purchase recently and gave me a sweet deal on it. I haven’t seen one of these boards on the market for a while. The rarez!!

My biggest regret is selling my Bucky pcb

[leapinlew]

I acquired unobtainium today! A local buddy and fellow hobbyist got this in a multiple cab purchase recently and gave me a sweet deal on it. I haven’t seen one of these boards on the market for a while. The rarez!!

My biggest regret is selling my Bucky pcb

What about that Nickelback tattoo? Ha! Jk... right?

[HaRuMaN]

No ink on me at lol...

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[Titchgamer]

Nice pick up opt!

Loved that growing up

[Mike A]

Yeah. That PCB would look really good in the cab I am building.

[pbj]

Took the Retron 2 and multicarts to their new home today.

Got a stack of nes and snes carts in exchange.

And now I'm enjoying a local beer.

 

[Howard_Casto]

Super Punch-Out might be the best rhythm game ever made.

[pbj]

I got a few more games but those are the highlights.

Almost wish I could cancel that everdrive order.

It's fun to go back to Super Punchout and play it "wrong."  took out Bob Charley last night without having to dodge punches first.

[pbj]

Many hours of my life were spent on this.  I was up until 3 am.  Then back on it this morning.  The ending is happy, though.

My Pentium 500 running DOS started booting with a "hard drive failure imminent" message.  Which I would have cheerfully ignored except you had to hit F1 to continue.  Google says that's one of the four times in history a hard drive warned it was about to fail before it failed.

So... what do?  Vertical Pi images all look like ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- and have way too many games.  Fine.  I'll hobble this bastard along.

Start digging through a shitpile and find a compact flash drive and IDE adapter that I had no idea I owned.

Pull out hard drive, open up old Goodwill computer, jumper the ATX supply so I can power it, hook up to my desktop with an IDC -> USB adapter.  Dump the contents of the old drive into a backup folder.  Hooray.



Thanks to various "undocumented windows features"  where it doesn't copy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- even though you tell it to, this compact flash drive refuses to boot when everything is copied back over.

So I burn a Win98 SE disc (remember Win98?) and attempt to install it on the compact flash drive.  If I bypass scandisk, it won't boot after installation.  If I go through the scandisk process, it says about 5% of the drive is bad.  I literally wedge a piece of cardboard on the enter key and let it pound "FIX IT" for over an hour.  Oh yeah, also had to bust out the one PS2 (remember PS2?) keyboard I have.




Okay, so Windows installs.  Still won't boot.  If I boot off the CD, tell it to go to the command prompt, everything runs fine.

FDISK /MBR didn't fix it.

At this point I throw the old drive back in and ponder adding an F1 key to my panel.  No, no, can't do that.  Take it back out.

And go back to Google.  Finally a search for something like "fresh Win98 install won't boot"


Turns out I had to do.... wait for it...

wait for it....

Wait for it....

format c: /s

Once I did that, I was booting to a DOS prompt.  Didn't bother trying to install Windows again.

Hooked the drive back up to my other computer, dumped the contents of the backup onto it (skipping the existing files like command.com and such).

And....

Here...

we....

go....




 




 

[Howard_Casto]

Eh don't remind me... the gorf that's been running a dos image for just about as long failed a couple months ago.  I just play gorf on it so I haven't been in a super hurry, but I dread pulling it and putting a more modern machine in there. 

[pbj]

I didn't realize you had any actual cabinets.

[Nephasth]

 

[Howard_Casto]

[pbj]

Post pics, man.  We’re all friends here.

 

[Howard_Casto]

Gorf is next door at Grandma's and it's night time.  Pretty sure I've posted pics before but I'll snap you a few tomorrow. 

[pbj]

Doing some long overdue touch up and insert flattening on Alien Poker.  Here’s what 2 hours of work looks like, hence why nobody does this.  Many, many more to go.

Process is pushing out the inserts, laying face down on play field glass, heating up with an embossing gun, and using a socket wrapped in masking tape to push it flat while it’s warm.  Then you use a knife to whittle off any distortion you added to the sides and kiss it all with sand paper.  Then use a paint marker to touch up the black ink as needed.  Stick back in play field with new wood glue.  End result isn’t perfect but plays much better.

 

Before



After

[Nephasth]

Less than an hour to install and it's playing better than new: https://www.playfield-protectors.com/Home/Details/fDWPOmCgokOJBE2xm8O0eQ?catgoryid=22&name=Alien%20Poker%20%7C%201980%20%7C%20Playfield%20Protector

Pricey, but I have one on Gorgar and one on Grand Lizard as well. Had one on my Johnny Mnemonic before I sold it. A lot of people hate them, but they're perfect for old, ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up games.

[pbj]

What is it?  A giant clear piece of plastic?

[Nephasth]

Yep.

[pbj]

Eh... I’ll rework the inserts and think about it.

 

[Titchgamer]

You may all recall a while back I was after a new laptop.

Well I got one

Cost me a arm and a leg but I am really chuffed with it!
Even runs Time Crisis through mame at full speed so my future lightgun gaming fun is assured once I get my grubby paws on a pair of sindens....

I have not really brought any games to push it yet and my steam account has not seen much love in a few years but here it is Playing serious Sam HD at max settings and not even picking up the fan speed lol



I also have the new Wolfenstein downloading which should give it a little more to chew on.

I had to buy a cooling deck to, ---smurfette--- gets hot when you do pushit hard lol

[pbj]

Your next purchase should be a vacuum cleaner.

[Titchgamer]

Your next purchase should be a vacuum cleaner.

Dude with these fluffy monsters I need one of those trucks with the giant wet vacs for sucking out tanks!!

Bet they would still cover the carpet within 5 mins of em leaving though...

[Mike A]

My brother brought another batch of vegetables from his garden today. We canned another dozen jars of pickles. This time we swapped out the Jalapenos for habaneros.

[Howard_Casto]

As promised....  I really need to get some better side art.  At the time the repros available weren't great so now it's starting to peel away from the wood.  Repro control panel is fan frikkin tastic though. 

[pbj]

Well, I'll be damned.

[Nephasth]

 

[Vigo]

That's a good looking Gorf!

[opt2not]

Yeah that’s a solid Gorf. Nice condition.

[Arroyo]

I must have walked by that game a hundred times and never thought it looked that interesting.  Based on Neph’s posts I gave it a shot at Zapcon, and I gotta say the gameplay is surprisingly good.  Graphics are still pretty crude but the interface is very satisfying.

[pbj]

Turns out you can deep fry over a grill and my life has changed. I've been marinating these legs 48 hours in anticipation of the Cowboys game.

[Mike A]

Just watch for splatter. You could have a minor catastrophe on your hands in a hurry.

[pbj]

Haha. Bruh. Telling a Texan how to grill.

Nice.

[Mike A]

Well you just learned that you can deep fry over a grill. Seems like you should have been born with that knowledge.

[pbj]

It  is ~108 degrees, without humidity modifier, outside.  I am not turning on my stove.

It's okay to not know things, do research, and share your results. I will not be shamed for sharing knowledge with my arcade Bros.

 

[Nephasth]

Humidity modifier... WTF is that?

[Mike A]

Haha. Bruh. Telling a Texan how to grill.

Nice.

Just don't try to share knowledge with a Texan.