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Title: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: markb on December 27, 2005, 07:07:09 pm
Wow! we build them big and he builds them small.

http://benheck.com/Games/Book_projects/Book_projects.htm

Who needs a PSP when you can build yourself a portable PSone,SNES, Atari2600 etc etc etc.
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: walls83 on December 27, 2005, 07:40:39 pm
those have been posted many of times on this forum but.... Man does he do quality work.  I would love to play one, any one.
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: markb on December 27, 2005, 07:48:44 pm
Must ..... use ..... search ..... button! ???
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: missioncontrol on December 28, 2005, 11:17:58 am
bah the search button is over-rated
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: DrewKaree on December 28, 2005, 08:36:33 pm
I've seen people say it doesn't work.  I'd look for those posts, but who am I to argue with 'em?
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: Sephroth57 on December 29, 2005, 04:02:54 pm
we have one of the crappiest searches ive seen on this forum
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: MameMaster! on December 29, 2005, 04:36:07 pm
see my review of the Phoenix at Retroblast.com!

http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/phoenix2600.html
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: SirPoonga on December 29, 2005, 04:37:08 pm
You just need to use the right search phrases.  Try searching for benheck.
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: MaximRecoil on December 29, 2005, 07:05:25 pm
The search function here only works well with words that have a unique letter arrangement that is not shared in part or whole by other common words.

I tried searching for "cam lock" a while back on here. I got results like this:

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Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: SirPoonga on December 29, 2005, 07:10:23 pm
Now search for "cam lock"
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: GGKoul on December 29, 2005, 07:13:22 pm
May the search be with you...
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: MaximRecoil on December 29, 2005, 07:58:24 pm
Now search for "cam lock"

So the quotes work here? I never thought of that; I guess because that is not usually how things are done. Google for example, or most any forum software search engine, would give you results where cam and lock appeared anywhere. Adding quotes to the search would give you results where the exact phrase appears (lock directly following cam) like it does here. So essentially, this software is missing the normal find-words-in-any-order search, like you would get if you type cam lock into Google, and has replaced it with a find-sequence-of-letters type of a search, even if they are within larger words - which is a next to useless form of searching as far as I can tell.

For example, a Google type search with no quotes for cam lock would be useful if say, cam locks were called "cam discombooberator locks", but you couldn't remember the "discombooberator" part. Then the results would show all posts that had the words "cam" and "lock" (words like became or block obviously wouldn't show up in the results because of the obvious irrelevance) and you could find out that the missing word is "discombooberator" by default. This would be a case where using quotes around "cam lock" wouldn't work.
Title: Re: BYOPC - BYO Portable Console
Post by: quarterback on December 30, 2005, 12:01:45 am
Now search for "cam lock"

In Russia, cam lock searches you!