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pmc:
It definitely gets used alot. But no marathons or gaming parties. It's nice to be able to take 10 min to walk up, drop in a quarter, play a game of Asteroids, and then walk away. It'd be ideal to leave running 24x7 but I can easily go 1-2 weeks without using it and I worry about the (older) monitor failing so I power down. Once it's down, I'm less likely to play because now I gotta power up.

I play generally each weekend. The work week takes everything I have between weekends. And I play whenever my daughter (7) wants to play.

I also play while I work on it or tinker with it (off an on for years now). Add a new emu or upgrade the front-end or whatever and it sparks a new cycle. In the meantime, I hang out here.  ;)

-pmc
brophog:
PMC, does your motherboard support timed on/off? It's great to set it to shut off at night or while you're at work and then shut on during the evenings.
pmc:

--- Quote from: brophog on December 31, 2005, 12:44:07 pm ---PMC, does your motherboard support timed on/off? It's great to set it to shut off at night or while you're at work and then shut on during the evenings.

--- End quote ---

I don't think it does. But yeah, that'd be cool when used with a Smartswitch. The cab could automatically be on when I'm typically home and would want to play, and off when I'm not around. Nice idea. I'll have to dig a little deeper into that!

It's been demoing AsteroidsGL for the last 48 hours with no one in the room. I think I'll go challenge my daughter to a Donkey Kong contest right now...

-pmc
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