Retro Gaming - The Bear and Badger

davyK

I have opened up the control panel. It comes apart really easy - just two wingnuts underneath the control panel that you access via the coin door. You undo those and the panel is hinged at the front so it tips over to reveal the contacts and cabling.

It's industrial strength. The contacts beneath each button are enormous. A button press is registered when two bendy metal tabs touch; each tab being larger than your thumb. It isn't a part of it I'd be all that concerned about.

Moot_Geeza

I wish Davy was my dad. If mine was listening to Springstten on vinyl I would've got shouted at just for walking about because of THE NEEDLE.

davyK

I encourage use - but I can be touchy about games and CDs not being put back in the correct cases.

And liquid near "the cabinet" would be frowned upon.....

Moot_Geeza

DVD chase was one of the more regular games in the Moot house after the missus moved in. I'll be the first to admit I'm incredibly messy, but she was an absolute nightmare for it. I had to consider it a win if a disc made its way back into any box, let alone the correct one.

Blue Swirl

How to organise CDs: Right disc in the right box, with the disc orientated correctly. On the shelf, its alphabetical by band name (ignoring "the"), then chronological by release date. Band names starting with numbers go before A. Compilations go after Z.

ANYTHING ELSE IS HERESY.

WorKid

How to organise CDs:

Half of them in a single stack. The rest in the wrong cases, in no particular order. Look for CD. Listen to it on Spotify instead.

[Deleted User]

I store them in the charity shop because physical media is dead.

Moot_Geeza

How to update a retro title: Wonderboy III. I'd forgotten how good this was. In fact, I may not have realised as a kid, as I always preferred Monster Land. This is great though. Hawkman is mine, loving it. Has a beautiful rotating/parallax thing going on with the updated backdrops, real nice. Retro mode at the touch of a button too.

afgavinstan

Blue Swirl wrote:

How to organise CDs: Right disc in the right box, with the disc orientated correctly. On the shelf, its alphabetical by band name (ignoring "the"), then chronological by release date. Band names starting with numbers go before A. Compilations go after Z.

ANYTHING ELSE IS HERESY.

Also rare band names that start with "A", the A gets ignored.

Also names of people go by the first letter of their second name.

The HMV way.

Blue Swirl

Afgav gets it. When I am king, his death will be quick and painless.

optimark_prime

I usually put games of the same series in release order too.

WorKid

Mc before the rest of the M section?

So McCartney then the Manic Street Preachers?

retroking1981

Liveinadive wrote:

I store them in the charity shop because physical media is dead.

My man.

But I get Swirls point and it's exactly why organising your games digitally needs these options.

Ordered by last played can do one.

afgavinstan

WorKid wrote:

Mc before the rest of the M section?

So McCartney then the Manic Street Preachers?

No, that's treated as MC. Manics as MA so they come first.

regmcfly

Manics always come first.

davyK

Librarians sort Mc as "Mac".

davyK

Haven't read this yet so might not be much cop but there should be interest here.

The story of the infamous 2600 port of Pacman.

http://www.lazzeri.online/pics/Pacman.pdf

WorKid

My library did Mc and Mac together, ie treated them as the same, but all came before the rest of the Ms, so McCartney then Manics. If they'd written books anyway, no idea if they were consistent with their CDs but I bet they were.

regmcfly

Let me ask my wife who is an actual university librarian

davyK

Pretty sure she will say Mac and Mc are together unless libraries have changed.

I used to design, develop and support public library management software (being in that team was my first "proper" job actually). Was quite a big system - ran what would be called a mainframe then. It managed the circulation (issues/returns/reservations, etc), cataloguing (including British Marc interface and classification etc) and acquisition (orders, budgets etc - we even had electronic order generation just around the time the web was taking off - meant the library boards got discounts from the big booksellers).

Our system used to calculate the PLR too - the public lending rate is a payment made to authors of books based on loan stats. Not sure if that is still in place?

Blue Swirl

davyK wrote:

Haven't read this yet so might not be much cop but there should be interest here. The story of the infamous 2600 port of Pacman. http://www.lazzeri.online/pics/Pacman.pdf

Also in this month's Retro Gamer. Geezer who programmed it defends it quite well - basically "no one had done a port before, the 2600 was a severely limited machine, I made some judgement calls which turned out to be wrong in hindsight".

It also earned him millions overnight, as Atari had started treating their programmers with a smidgen of respect (to stop another Activision forming). He got 10c per cart.

WorKid

I've got a day off, no wife, no kids.
I've got Nana's fully loaded Wii.

What don't I have? Any fucking AA batteries.

Back to the PC.

regmcfly

davyK wrote:

Pretty sure she will say Mac and Mc are together unless libraries have changed.

I used to design, develop and support public library management software (being in that team was my first "proper" job actually). Was quite a big system - ran what would be called a mainframe then. It managed the circulation (issues/returns/reservations, etc), cataloguing (including British Marc interface and classification etc) and acquisition (orders, budgets etc - we even had electronic order generation just around the time the web was taking off - meant the library boards got discounts from the big booksellers).

Our system used to calculate the PLR too - the public lending rate is a payment made to authors of books based on loan stats. Not sure if that is still in place?

She has said NO and goes by the letter of the ~~alphabet~~ law. But Edinburgh university's library is Edinburgh university's library and not anywhere else. So YMMV

davyK

regmcfly wrote:

davyK wrote:

Pretty sure she will say Mac and Mc are together unless libraries have changed. I used to design, develop and support public library management software (being in that team was my first "proper" job actually). Was quite a big system - ran what would be called a mainframe then. It managed the circulation (issues/returns/reservations, etc), cataloguing (including British Marc interface and classification etc) and acquisition (orders, budgets etc - we even had electronic order generation just around the time the web was taking off - meant the library boards got discounts from the big booksellers). Our system used to calculate the PLR too - the public lending rate is a payment made to authors of books based on loan stats. Not sure if that is still in place?

She has said NO and goes by the letter of the ~~alphabet~~ law. But Edinburgh university's library is Edinburgh university's library and not anywhere else. So YMMV

wonderbanana

WorKid wrote:

I've got a day off, no wife, no kids.
I've got Nana's fully loaded Wii.

What don't I have? Any fucking AA batteries.

Back to the PC.

Lol, made me chuckle!

You tried Mario Kart GP yet?

WorKid

That was going to be today's treat. I even raided the Sky remote but not enough power. It'll have to be tomorrow.

WorKid

Got some batteries. Loving it.

davyK

More evidence of early Atari greatness should it be needed. If this is to be believed it is highly impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=TvYLCsmNKfE

Moot_Geeza

That's not far off Star Wars Arcade or Stellar Assault on 32X. Crazy.

wonderbanana

WorKid wrote:

Got some batteries. Loving it.

Glad to hear, awesome little machine and the Mario GP's are a treasure. I always kinda like playing stuff at home you're not supposed to, its an added buzz.

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