BYOPC - BYO Portable Console

[markb]

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.

[walls83]

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.

[markb]

Must ..... use ..... search ..... button!

[missioncontrol]

bah the search button is over-rated

[DrewKaree]

I've seen people say it doesn't work.  I'd look for those posts, but who am I to argue with 'em?

[Sephroth57]

we have one of the crappiest searches ive seen on this forum

[MameMaster!]

see my review of the Phoenix at Retroblast.com!

http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/phoenix2600.html

[SirPoonga]

You just need to use the right search phrases.  Try searching for benheck.

[MaximRecoil]

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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[SirPoonga]

Now search for "cam lock"

[GGKoul]

May the search be with you...

[MaximRecoil]

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.

[quarterback]

Now search for "cam lock"

In Russia, cam lock searches you!