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ArtsNFartsNCrafts:

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like a lot of the gaming vendors are less competitive, and more cooperative than the vendors in other areas of interest.  Perhaps that spawns from it being a very "by the people, for the people" pastime..

protokatie:


--- Quote ---Maybe it's just me, but I feel like a lot of the gaming vendors are less competitive, and more cooperative than the vendors in other areas of interest.  Perhaps that spawns from it being a very "by the people, for the people" pastime..
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Ive gotten the same basic vibe. Also, I have noted that the better the vendors are about things (IE in honesty) the better everything is for everyone. Hell, even Andy said that a competing product was basically the same as his minipac, and even recommended it to another person (As a suggestion as a replacement of a product the other company sold that had ghost keys)! All this, and Andy (instead of profiting) gave an honest and helpful reply for free!

I do really like that not only are most of the people involved in this, but also most of the vendors as well, are more like a community.

KUDDOS to all of the great people who have kept the arcade alive! (Too many names to list tho :D)

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: protokatie on January 31, 2008, 01:01:31 am ---Hell, even Andy said that a competing product was basically the same as his minipac, and even recommended it to another person (As a suggestion as a replacement of a product the other company sold that had ghost keys)! All this, and Andy (instead of profiting) gave an honest and helpful reply for free!
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Just want to clarify - Andy recommended a product from a competing company that was based on a board that he sells to the competing company.  So if the OP buys that product from Gremlin, Gremlin in turn needs to buy another mini-pac from Andy to replace it.

I agree it was a good move, and I am not faulting Andy at all for it, but your "instead of profiting" goes a bit far in this case.

missioncontrol:

here's a retroblast review

http://www.retroblast.com/Hardware/RetroBlast-Review-KeyWiz-Keyboard-Encoder.php

patrickl:

Check if your computer has ps/2. Most new computers don't have ps/2 ports anymore so you would be hard pressed to attach a ps/2 device to it.

BTW you can use the IPAC ps/2 cable with a passive ps/2 usb adapter to hook it up to a USB port. So even if you buy it with ps/2 now you can always switch later. Most people will have one of these adapters laying around (I think I collected at least a few dozen over the years).

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