thin client pc

[Lingwendil]

Sorry to hear about that, I have Batocera running on two machines as of this week-

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1206833-REG/intel_boxnuc6i3syk_nuc6i5syk_mini_pc_nuc.html

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1437351-REG/intel_boxnuc8i5beh1_nuc_kit_nuc8i5beh.html

The tall kit plays PS2 games super nice- and I have a 960GB SATA SSD in it simply because I had one laying around. The short one has a 250GB M.2 drive in it, and is probably going to be for dedicated MAME and some older SNES type stuff that would work well with an arcade control set.

Both have been perfect and I love not having to deal with installing and configuring Windows. I received these both for free from work so they've been a fun thing to set up for no out of pocket cost.

[daywane]

Nothing to be sorry about. I am sure if I kept at it I could have got Batocera going. But I decided that's not the way I wanted to go.
ther is something nostalgic about MAMEUI64. This is what pulled me away from Atari 8 bit computers. Hewlett-Packard - Pavilion Desktop with IntelŪ PentiumŪ III Processor 933MHz. Dial up days. I would bet many people here have never seen the old Mame UI .

[daywane]

Mame 149 is fully working. ( well  CHD's are extracting now) My first time working with CHD's. 6 days to download. (WOW, it all extracted. 47.3 gig)
Retroarch. Mame 2003 and 2010 work just as well.
no luck with ps1 yet. no luck with N64
T16 and SNES work fine.
this really is a beta set up.
I still want to try the steering wheel and PC games for low end computers. I have zero experience on actual PC games. 
Kodi still needs installed.

[daywane]

[Warborg]

Unfortunately thin clients are only meant for minimal processing power, running things like a web browser or a remote desktop type software like Citrix, etc.  However, Tiny/SFF PCs are plentiful and not terribly expensive and can actually handle the lion's share of emus.  I was lucky in a way, a place I worked was shuttering their local office and they didn't care about a lot of the SFF PCs, so I ended up with like 10 of them...  Ones like the Lenovo Tiny P330 with a Quadro 660, those things are beasts for what you get...  They can actually run Switch emus doing upscaling smoothly.  Definitely something to look in to.

[daywane]

I did not give up on this project. Health issues (life) decided to toss me around a bit. Surgeries, Physical Therapy. Just walking became a big deal. Knee fighting my spine, spine fighting my knee. Well to make a long story short. I just found out yesterday some bad news. I have spinal cancer and breast cancer. (the surgeon thinks the breast cancer could be a typo) I am not kidding . That's what he said yesterday. Honestly I failed to ask all the proper questions.  My mind kind of shut don on me yesterday. They are sending me to pain management. This was not expected at all.  I was at the orthopedics and spine for a fallow up on my knee. I had a DVD from my last MRI on my lower back. he took the disk and came back with the news I have cancer in my spine. I was there alone. My wife did not feel good yesterday. I told her this is just a fallow up visit. Man did she hit me with many questions. Did you ask him this and that? I had to admit the news sent my brain in shut down mode, before the surgery I was in very high pain. scale 1 to 10 I said 11! now I say 5 to six . I depends on the day. I hope to get back into the game , once I can get more than 3 hrs sleep at a time. 

[daywane]

if anyone here has spinal cancer . PM me please. I have no idea what is coming. Surgery is not in the picture.