14 years

[wp34]

A local guy has made his own arcade game that reminds me of the Intellivision classic Astrosmash.  He has created a custom cabinet for it as well and they just installed one at our local barcade.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/498470/Switch_N_Shoot/

https://www.dsmarcade.com/

[Mr. Peabody]

But it's been
Fourteen years of silence
It's been
Fourteen years of pain
It's been
Fourteen years that are gone forever
And I'll never have again

Cute. Publish.

It gets worse here every day.

You learn to live like an a-nimaal.......    [[every-bo-dy]]

A local guy has made his own arcade game that reminds me of the Intellivision classic Astrosmash.  He has created a custom cabinet for it as well and they just installed one at our local barcade.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/498470/Switch_N_Shoot/

https://www.dsmarcade.com/

Been around a couple years. Looks cool.

You inspired me to get my avatar back working. Intellivision rules!

J_K_M_A_N

[J_K_M_A_N]

You inspired me to get my avatar back working. Intellivision rules!

J_K_M_A_N

Not sure what you are showing here. Is it that I am old and have been a member here for a long time? That is actually a date that is later than when I originally signed up. There was a database crash I believe and everyone that had been signed up with an original date got changed to that date give or take. I think I signed up around 2000 somewhere. I know that is when I got my first IPac that I still have. And when I had my Intellivision site.

J_K_M_A_N

Edit: Found a link to my old Intellivision site. Can you tell I made it using real (basic) HTML code?!? YUK!

http://web.archive.org/web/20000815065226/http://intellivisiongraffiti.vintagegaming.com/

[PL1]

That is actually a date that is later than when I originally signed up. There was a database crash I believe and everyone that had been signed up with an original date got changed to that date give or take. I think I signed up around 2000 somewhere. I know that is when I got my first IPac that I still have.

The Old Archives entry labeled 07/24/01 has your post from 10/12/2001 "I ordered my I-Pac..."

On October 5th and it is already here! From the UK to MN in 7 days. That is some sweet shipping! I know what I am doing tonight. Thanks Andy!

The oldest post of yours in the archives is from 10/11/2001 "Power from the PC"

I have seen many posts about getting power from your PC and I was wondering if there were any sites on how that works. Like what wires make what voltages and so on. How to ground. How not to kill yourself or burn down your cab or your house. Things like that. I would like to power my coin door with the pc but I would like some examples and or pictures on how to do that. I get nervous with things like that. Thanks.

There's a gap in archived posts between 6/15/2001 and 10/11/2001,


Scott

[J_K_M_A_N]

I guess it was 2001. My bad. I recently reprogrammed that IPac. I had to find a computer with XP on it and I tried it like 6-7 times changing the clock speeds until it worked.

I must have picked up my empty arcade cabinet in August 2001. I found some old pictures that have a created date of 8-21-2001. I am pretty sure I was on this site before that because that is how I found out about the IPac and making a mame machine. Damn I'm old.

J_K_M_A_N

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah you were around before then... my swiss cheese memory retains that much. 

Speaking of ipacs I think I'm finally going to upgrade all the ones I have left....they are first revision ipacs and as you've noticed it can be a pain in the butt getting them reprogrammed.  I might risk bursting into flames by replacing them with zero delays.  (Don't hit me.)

[daywane]

I remember killer clown group got grumpy and I found BYOAC.
My first windows PC. Windows ME first came out.... Soon down graded to 98 till XP came out.
I only got it to emulate Atari 8 bit and C64. I found out about MAME  and never looked back.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

Even the early 2000s still feel like later emulation history to me. I remember checking Zophar's Domain for emulation news every day, SNES emulators that would shade everything monochrome yellow unless you paid for it. When the first N64 emulator was finally capable of running homebrew pong at 2fps, then everyone's minds collectively blowing when UltraHLE came out and actually running Mario64 at a reasonable frame rate  with a 3dfx accelerator.

Those were exciting times.

[Osirus23]

Even the early 2000s still feel like later emulation history to me. I remember checking Zophar's Domain for emulation news every day, SNES emulators that would shade everything monochrome yellow unless you paid for it. When the first N64 emulator was finally capable of running homebrew pong at 2fps, then everyone's minds collectively blowing when UltraHLE came out and actually running Mario64 at a reasonable frame rate  with a 3dfx accelerator.

Those were exciting times.

Checking Dave's Classics and Retrogames every day, Nesticle in Windows 95 running on real DOS, spending all day downloading an N64 ROM over dialup, IRC, Usenet, etc. Good times.

I bought a 3Dfx card specifically for UltraHLE. I got it to run decently but I only had a keyboard to play with an N64 games didn't work well with that so I really never played anything. I owned a Nintendo 64, but I was just always really into emulation.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

I'm trying to remember if there was a real push for GLIDE wrappers prior to UltraHLE. Seeing it run on a friends Voodoo 2 was one thing, but watching it struggle along on a Rage Pro with a wrapper was even more amusing to me realizing how many layers of abstraction were happening.

I was thinking about that earlier this week while researching how to get Diablo II to run best under Win 10. Apparently 3dfx emulation is considered 'best'.

[Hoopz]

I still have a couple of Diablo II saved game files that I've backed up to about four different places.