Neo :

1. 08/20/2024 :
   13:22:30: :

   i couldnt reply anymore since the American wanker closed the ticket
   
   so the profile (what else can i do ? its not like i can sue them i dont have the money to do that even if they clearly are responsible for a 3fac-authentication system that can be bypassed )
   
    KNOW what happened xxxNAMExxx, i was screwing pcs before you your momma, i just assumed 2fac + sms would prevent abuse, which was idiotic. Now if you come to your senses you can refund me the money like you would treat a 12year long recurring customer with respect outside America.
   Until then i wont be buying anything from Valve anymore. You jusrt explain what happened so im clearly in the right and you only put trades on hold for the item the guy sold from his account but not the money he siphoned out of mine bypassing the 3fac-auth via (very smart) loophole.
   
   Until i get the money back i guess dawn of defiance will be the last thing i ever bought from Valve, i cant stand for this treatment, and you just close the fucking ticket TOO ?
   
   thats ...
   
   very american ii suppose
   
   the ticket :
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   Home > My Recent Help Requests > HT-H8MF-TBMJ-HY6G
   Account: shnull
   Email: accounts@alleycat.be
   Ticket: HT-H8MF-TBMJ-HY6G
   Your help request: I'm having trouble with items
   Related to: Dota 2
   
   Dota 2
   Account: shnull
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   Jul 17, 2012 -  Purchased as part of: Dota 2 - Hardware Survey - view receipt
   
   Message from you on Aug 18 @ 7:14pm | 1 day and 17 hours ago
   https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198007675562/friends/pending
   
   i hope this still reaches. I got contacted by this guy to ask if i wanted to vote for his dota team
   
   I seem to have been outsmarted for the first time in a while. The site looked skeey so i used authenticator and sms . My client rebooted but i only now just see my wallet balance looked suspiciously low. Somehow they got in by transferring the authenticator to somewhere in seattle USA (is what the mail said when i saw it) no idea it was that easy :)
   
   In the time between me putting it back they bought an item for €xxx on the market and thats where my wallet balance went. I see its on cooldown until the 25th so i'm more or less hoping you can undo the trade and get my money back its mostly there for buying games, not for giving to american crackheads.
   
   The name was cyborgmatt but it seems to be gone from the list. All in all its quite a devious hack, including me confirming by sms after using the authenticator they still hijacked the account and sent my money elsewhere.
   
   Im sure you have access to my history overthere, if there's anything else you need to know please let me know. It wont kill me and its a hard lesson but €xxx isnt quite spare change either.
   
   Thanks in advance,
   J
   
   Message from you on Aug 18 @ 7:20pm | 1 day and 17 hours ago
   the item in question
   
   NAME
   +xxx,34€
   18 Aug18 Aug
   Lycosidae's Spiderling
   Dota 2
   
   btw
   
   lol "im having trouble with items" is a bit of an understatement here but to be clear this is someone who made a fresh request not anyone i previously dealt with although i cant be sure they dont have two accounts at any rate you might wanna put a warning out. This is the first time in as long as i can remember something like that actually got through
   
   Ill be awaiting your response then
   
   thx again
   
   Message from you on Aug 18 @ 7:26pm | 1 day and 17 hours ago
   as all good things come in three, i probably wont check back until tomorrow as i contemplate just how -f king stupid i have been to assume theres a security system that works and there was no harm in going along b/c nothing could happen . I would just like to ask one extra question since it maybe already is possible.
   
   I used the authenticator and i entered the sms code but somehow they worked around and sent my money off before i noticed. I was wondering if there's a setting i can mark to only allow payment outward after i enter ANOTHER sms code ? if the pukker can get to my simcard and read my sms in the same time i probably give up on humanity forever heh
   
   triple thanks in advance then, i ll check back tomorrow
   
   Message from Steam Support on Aug 19 @ 2:56am | 1 day and 10 hours ago
   If activity occurred on your account you do not recognize, it may mean your account or computer has been compromised.
   
   Someone may have gained access to your Steam account through spoofing, phishing, or malware.
   
   As an immediate first step, you should take some action to secure your Steam account from further access. Our article on account security recommendations is a good start toward securing your Steam account.
   
   If you suspect your computer is infected with malware, we have some tips for removing malware from your computer here. It may be a good idea to contact a local computer security expert if you're having trouble removing this malware.
   
   Additionally, all Community Market transactions are final and cannot be reversed or refunded. When an item is purchased from the Community Market, the cost is sent from the buyer's Steam wallet to the seller's. Reversing these purchases would mean we have to take funds out of the seller's wallet, creating confusion and possible purchasing issues across Steam.
   
   I'm sorry we can't be of more help with this, but we don't reverse or refund Community Market purchases and sales.
   
   Steam Support
   xxxNAMExxx
   
   Message from you on Aug 19 @ 1:42pm | 23 hours ago
   so are you saying someone stole €xxx from my account , and "the item is on cooldown" but you cant give me the money back but you're still holding it ?
   
   this is €xxx okay i would seriously like you to consider because that means i probably wont buy anything from steam again. You have logs, you can see what happened, if i slowly gather enough money to buy civ VII and a few indies or elderscrolls VI and then after 10 years suddenly decide im buying an item worth €xxx from a game i play once every two years you have all reasonable doubt that wasnt me.
   
   Why would i do that once after 11 or 12 years and then wait two hours to file a ticket to get it back.
   
   this is clearly an exceptional case where someone BYPASSED your two-factor authentication AND sms confirmation and emptied someones account.
   
   I would urge you to take responsibility and refund me the money they stole or i certainly cant morally justify buying anything from steam again.
   
   if need be take it higher up i cant stand for this
   
   thanks in advance
   
   j
   
   Message from Steam Support on Aug 19 @ 4:40pm | 20 hours ago
   It looks like a malicious user was able to transfer your account's Mobile Authenticator, using an SMS text message on August 18, 2024 prior to you writing in.
   
   Since its unlikely they had direct physical access to your mobile device, this means its likely the code was provided to them using the "voting website" you mentioned. 
   
   Once they had this code they were able to transfer the Authenticator, then use it to purchase items from your account. Again, I’m sorry to hear that your account was used without your permission and I know it's frustrating to hear that we can't reverse Market activity. We will not be restoring your items.
   
   To learn how to avoid scams or hijackings, please see our Trade Scam article.
   
   To make sure that a scammer is reported, please report them through the Steam Community. Reporting a scammer through the Steam Community is the best way to prevent them from committing future scams.
   
   Since there's not much more that I can say or do to be of help with this particular issue, I am going to close this help request. If you have questions on an unrelated issue, please create a new help request and we will be happy to help you.
   
   Steam Support
   xxxNAMExxx
   This help request has been closed.
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   Home > My Recent Help Requests > HT-H8MF-TBMJ-HY6G
   Account: shnull
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   Ticket: HT-H8MF-TBMJ-HY6G
   Your help request: I'm having trouble with items
   Related to: Dota 2
   
   Dota 2
   Account: shnull
   View in Store
   View in my Library
   Jul 17, 2012 -  Purchased as part of: Dota 2 - Hardware Survey - view receipt
   
   Message from you on Aug 18 @ 7:14pm | 19 hours ago
   https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198007675562/friends/pending
   
   i hope this still reaches. I got contacted by this guy to ask if i wanted to vote for his dota team
   
   I seem to have been outsmarted for the first time in a while. The site looked skeey so i used authenticator and sms . My client rebooted but i only now just see my wallet balance looked suspiciously low. Somehow they got in by transferring the authenticator to somewhere in seattle USA (is what the mail said when i saw it) no idea it was that easy :)
   
   In the time between me putting it back they bought an item for €xxx on the market and thats where my wallet balance went. I see its on cooldown until the 25th so i'm more or less hoping you can undo the trade and get my money back its mostly there for buying games, not for giving to american crackheads.
   
   The name was cyborgmatt but it seems to be gone from the list. All in all its quite a devious hack, including me confirming by sms after using the authenticator they still hijacked the account and sent my money elsewhere.
   
   Im sure you have access to my history overthere, if there's anything else you need to know please let me know. It wont kill me and its a hard lesson but €xxxs isnt quite spare change either.
   
   Thanks in advance,
   J
   
   Message from you on Aug 18 @ 7:20pm | 19 hours ago
   the item in question
   
   NAME
   +xxx,xx€
   18 Aug18 Aug
   Lycosidae's Spiderling
   Dota 2
   
   btw
   
   lol "im having trouble with items" is a bit of an understatement here but to be clear this is someone who made a fresh request not anyone i previously dealt with although i cant be sure they dont have two accounts at any rate you might wanna put a warning out. This is the first time in as long as i can remember something like that actually got through
   
   Ill be awaiting your response then
   
   thx again
   
   Message from you on Aug 18 @ 7:26pm | 19 hours ago
   as all good things come in three, i probably wont check back until tomorrow as i contemplate just how -f king stupid i have been to assume theres a security system that works and there was no harm in going along b/c nothing could happen . I would just like to ask one extra question since it maybe already is possible.
   
   I used the authenticator and i entered the sms code but somehow they worked around and sent my money off before i noticed. I was wondering if there's a setting i can mark to only allow payment outward after i enter ANOTHER sms code ? if the pukker can get to my simcard and read my sms in the same time i probably give up on humanity forever heh
   
   triple thanks in advance then, i ll check back tomorrow
   
   Message from Steam Support on Aug 19 @ 2:56am | 12 hours ago
   If activity occurred on your account you do not recognize, it may mean your account or computer has been compromised.
   
   Someone may have gained access to your Steam account through spoofing, phishing, or malware.
   
   As an immediate first step, you should take some action to secure your Steam account from further access. Our article on account security recommendations is a good start toward securing your Steam account.
   
   If you suspect your computer is infected with malware, we have some tips for removing malware from your computer here. It may be a good idea to contact a local computer security expert if you're having trouble removing this malware.
   
   Additionally, all Community Market transactions are final and cannot be reversed or refunded. When an item is purchased from the Community Market, the cost is sent from the buyer's Steam wallet to the seller's. Reversing these purchases would mean we have to take funds out of the seller's wallet, creating confusion and possible purchasing issues across Steam.
   
   I'm sorry we can't be of more help with this, but we don't reverse or refund Community Market purchases and sales.
   
   Steam Support
   xxxNAMExxx
   
   Message from you on Aug 19 @ 1:42pm | 1 hour and 14 minutes ago
   so are you saying someone stole €xxx from my account , and "the item is on cooldown" but you cant give me the money back but you're still holding it ?
   
   this is €xxx okay i would seriously like you to consider because that means i probably wont buy anything from steam again. You have logs, you can see what happened, if i slowly gather enough money to buy civ VII and a few indies or elderscrolls VI and then after 10 years suddenly decide im buying an item worth €xxx from a game i play once every two years you have all reasonable doubt that wasnt me.
   
   Why would i do that once after 11 or 12 years and then wait two hours to file a ticket to get it back.
   
   this is clearly an exceptional case where someone BYPASSED your two-factor authentication AND sms confirmation and emptied someones account.
   
   I would urge you to take responsibility and refund me the money they stole or i certainly cant morally justify buying anything from steam again.
   
   if need be take it higher up i cant stand for this
   
   thanks in advance
   
   j
   
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   _{Catham Joker}
   13:20:35: : "this help request has been closed" can you believe that ?
   the money i wont spend outweighs the settle they dont give back b/c their security has holes by at least 10 to 200 times depending on how long i live and game if im a slow spender, if im a big one its maybe ten times that.
   
   _{Catham Joker}
   13:18:29: : I guess that heralds the end of any buys from online digital only non drm free stores ... but im not really keen on GoG either, so where do i get a physical copy of Civ VII unless i print my own from a fitgirl repack?
   _{Catham Joker}
2. 08/19/2024 :
   16:43:33: : o dear - after 12+ years as it says in my account, THIS is how you treat me ?
   i dont think Gabe is my friend anymore , the last of the american CEO's who still didnt look like a venomous snake, now fallen from where Elon once was to "just another american"
   I have to statistically face the fact that in the last ten years everyone who cost me money , lots or little, xept what got stolen from my pockets or wallet, are Americans
   that said, there will be no display of mundane unbecoming behaviour
   logic and reason is clearly on my side and there MUST be serverlogs, in the past there have been support jobs so i know there is always a way to escalate upward
   so here's the possibilities :
   1) i get the money back, i stand confirmed in my theory that all humans are filth and among them americans are EXCEPTIONAL scumbags on average. I will not respond to anyone approaching me online or in face for a long time since i had a reminder of why i do that in the first place, and i buy civ VII and scrolls VI when it releases
   2) i dont , i stand confirmed in the same no more or less and i never buy anything from Valve again . Which business wise ,even if for one customer means they lose a lot more money over the next as long as i live than the money i should get back by all reasonable norms
   thats is , i got stuff to do
   what more can i say ? , transcript without names (pastebin)
   and : if someone tells me an american crackhead succeeded in bypassing two factor authentication AND sms confirmation by actually using the psychological "IM NOT STUPID I WONT USE MY PASSWORD, ILL USE THE QR CODE AND AUTHENTICATOR" button (i kinda HAVE TO respect the architect even i would certainly leave them in a ditch for fucking with my money if this were streetside but thats long ago) , instead of telling my customers to check their accounts, i would be on lockdown for 48 hours, do a server audit to see if there's any holes and an internal audit to see if mister Robot didnt accidentally get a job at my place.
   the solution for this would be really simple : before any payment goes out just send another SMS , if they got access to your cellphone its pointless anyway
   It actually grants me the idea of selling my steam deck if i can find an Atari STe for about what i can get for it ... its not like i would need it anymore every game i have AND play atm runs on either pop OS or Mint so i dont need it to stream and since i wouldnt be buying anything until i get my money back i certainly wouldnt need it at all heheh ... well now, ... when you see an American come up to you and ask : just shoot .
   SO, i'l be awaiting response, i'll check back tomorrow, enjoy ...
   re-reading it ... firstly i wouldnt have bothered until i saw that "the trade is on cooldown until aug 25" so i filed the ticket
   then the guy says : "we cant take the money out of the other guys account" so he kinda admits they know who has it AND more importantly THE ITEM IS PROTECTED but the money from my account isnt
   hence : the only reason i give it three replies is i once had half a debate with a steam-csr who kept asking for "proof that i purchased something" on a 10 year old by then account with all things to my name address, time of purchase, bank card number, you name it , ... somehow i found stuff restored without comment sometime later , so i kinda gave up the moment he said "cooldown means their item is protected but the money they scammed by hijacking your account by abusing a loophole in the authenticator which we seriously need to hush instead of fix" is NOT but due to that previous occurrence im giving them one chance
   after all, this is not America, they might come to their senses on how to treat a paying customer whos been with them for over 12 years (tho i somewhat wont be holding my breath)
   that would be the end of pc gaming then, its not like im gonna move to miCrotter or Epic, i found them skeevy in the first place
   and THAT is what happened
   _{Catham Joker}
3. 08/18/2024 :
   19:45:24: : woaw, the last time someone succeeded in THAT must be like 30 years ago when a guy on the street ran off with a €50 and left me a ball of paper rolled up
   Its almost like i feel like i need seven days in the mountains to contemplate how i should be grateful for the reminder that all humans are filth and you shouldnt even engage in conversation b/c everyone who comes up to you has a hidden agenda after letting my guard down and thinking "this way nothing can go wrong"
   I can only applaud the craftiness there and blame myself for being an idiot that i even respond to a human trying to initiate contact ... however ... as a reminder this will probably mean my aversion will be reinforced again for the next ten years.
   Seattle hm ...
   not all crackhead is what it seems ... small ovation BUT ...
   even if i would like to hire the guy for having skills before i shoot him in the face for messing with my money
   ITS ALARMING THIS IS POSSIBLE - TRULY, id call the red alert bell for 24 hours
   _{Catham Joker}
   13:34:44: : i wonder what goes on in that head - he's got like the little hobbit thing and if you follow some from the very start its close to Hercules or something
   like "I woke up this morning and asked myself what should i do today , i got 150 (or more probably now) kwh a day generated summer and winter from solar, wind and hydry, i could basically live off selling that probably since its not belgium , O I KNOW, LETS SINGLEHANDEDLY build a little barn from the leftover wood from pruning the lands last year
   = lol = awesome = defiance of disneyland, crotter and topminister all at once , AND good mental and physical health
   ... right, i just happened on it while shoveling some haOS around here
   i dont watch too much tube here, its either i feel like Orwell weeps or then i see this guy and i always end up in a "GOD DAM STUCK IN BELGIUM FOR LIFE" zone lol
   i dont envy him, i ADMIRE the fucker this is like totally Herculean works, and i bet he didnt get it for free either or while sleeping
   _{Catham Joker}
   13:23:28: : we dam' seen a lot of homesteading videos b/c moving to a place where no humans are was always the point of the plan and the endgame and i seen a lot of KRANK (thats like german for the american slang "sick" or "ill" ... if oyu please, not what physicists call each other with their scientist penisbrain-envy issues) people doing KRANK shit but never anyone like this guy ... truly and really , an example to us all if you ask me
   well in the light of dawn of defiance being "a survival" game this guy is not completely off topic to this particular feed here
   now its time to crash then
   _{Catham Joker}
   13:18:21: : dawn of defiance :

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   one of our fav non gaming channels b/c this is like living a dream of freedom (hard work but FREEDOM) this guy is SUPERKRANK and i dont mean that like physicists - theres lots of homesteading and lots of great people doing great works but this one is the alpha as far as we have found

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   hmm looks like a sunday outside - mundane calendar
   _{Catham Joker}
   07:10:02: : id love to get some Deadlock in but as much as we are Janes OnderGrond now we too hate cutters in the middle so its only possible with enough time to run with the team ... otherwise its too rude, even fur a crude one such as these
   As for DoD .... there seems to be a star wars tabletop game with the same title so i hope that doesnt cause Ninterror-syndrome somewhere along the line.
   I'm not sure if you can really call it a "survival" game since there's basically no hunger, you dont dehydrate you dont have to eat sleep or drink (or defacate like in some games he h heh) the food doesnt spoil i have enough berries to start a jam factory, the meat and carcassed dont rot and neither does the fried meat ... so on the point of "survival" theres not much to it but "press E to play on tape" which i bet is what some people like.
   Personally i like how Ark food spoils, how you dont auto-eat, how yo can get crushed by trees in valheim and also how , if you put one walltorch in the wrong place in Icarus you can come back to a burned down base when you return from your mining run
   gouts et couleurs, at €14 not complaining i just fear at this difficulty level in early access its gonna move towards a mobile game too soon ... but its worth the gamble for once, its sure has potential
   (doesnt have tamed centeurs and medusas tho .... yet ?)
   at this rate i'll probably still be on the started island by next month building ... BUiLDING !!!!!!
   i only found one rabbit so far and i had to chase it half across the map with a spear b/C my bow wouldnt hit (it seems to now but maybe thats pop OS versus streaming from deck, i DID get the impression the controls lagged a bit sometimes when streaming it
   the resolution ofcourse at 4K ultra doesnt compare to the 1280px upscaled streaming from a deck - deck is GREAT stuff, a massive bump to linux gaming but this pop OS thing , someone shoulda told me about it sooner, i need to remind me to try stuff like kungfu strike warriors rise which doesnt run at all on anything as well later this or next week sometime
   _{Catham Joker}
4. 08/17/2024 :
   16:25:30: : we would have to recommend Pop OS (linux) ... since the tip we got from the steam guy this thing runs dawn of defiance at 4k ultra via proton (which makes the world a bit easier to see than streaming from a stream deck for someone with lousy eyesight) BUT ALSO titles that only ran on deck (the two we checked) ... Tokyo Ghostwire : 4k Ultra RTX on shadow max everything fps good over 30 ... cosmic star heroine (well that definitely runs at 4k) no longer need streaming from the stream deck ...

   THAT WAS AN AWESOME TIP, DUDE

   
   _{Catham Joker}
   07:11:48: : got too much stuff to do fighting kippel in this week and the next so i'll have to check back later but "early development build" means it'l be around for a while right ?
   gud, thanks again .. i like scoops l o l
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:43:28: : oh ...
   apparently it only had to compile the shaders once tho imx it does that between updates so now it just boots
   other than that, if someone gives me a backdoor key without showing their face and it says dont talk about it im afraid i have to leave it there
   i never played any of the others tho but i can see where this is going
   also i dont know how long its been in my message area, i dont check these things just like youtube, i only talk to humans when i have a question
   but THANKS ! any beta access is always welcome
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:26:01: : Deadlock hm ???
   thanks i guess
   "dont say anything about this game to anyone" ( ?? ) thats like forbidden fruit psychology i suppose but okay
   ... it feels like "3D"-insertfamoustitle here at a glance but the vulkan shaders take like an hour to process
   as for the game ?
   well " ... " *no comment*
   i guess ...
   _{Catham Joker}
5. 08/16/2024 :
   16:49:50: : august 16 : "dawn of defiance resource guide" ( ... are these fuckers crazy or what ? ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMHK3ufC28&ab_channel=JadePG
   _{Catham Joker}
   10:45:10: : maybe another week then, mental spasms clearly arent fixed yet
   _{Catham Joker}
6. 08/12/2024 :
   10:47:40: : 7 days to sleep
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Retro :

1. 09/18/2024 :
   06:44:27: : hydrogenese appears as "a preview" which would mean someone intends to finalize it and release.. it actually looks totally not bad as a shmup64 ... id like to see it happen
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:39:32: : yea in case you needed more on "why a black hole is bad for even a supreme western soviet economy : https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/it-layoffs-microsoft-has-fired-over-2500-employees-from-gaming-division-since-activision-blizzard-acquisition-445707-2024-09-13 ..."IM SORRY WE ALREAYD HAD R&D HR kitchen staff, people who run around the buliding with a title tag but no one know what they're doing, cleaning crew and the slaves in the basement who do the work the A.I. cant do, THE REST OF YOU CAN GO"
   again ... :) and Kotick ? got 100 million bonus to retire ...
   ever since we got off the train we see only reasons never to get on again .. so allthese are supposed to BUY MORE GAMES i guess?
   buh
   also meh
   en EEN GAT (is een gat) eens een gat altijd een gat, guttertrash is soviet-western caste, you cant be middle management if you're not the mayers cousin and "10 MILLION ? GET A REAL DREAM!"
   ... see ? this page has become pointless - its always "we knew that .. we KNEW THAT, ... we knew THAT would happen ... "
   pfff
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:07:50: : dunno ..
   discontinued sites(folders) and pages are still there they're just "discontinued" ..
   mister fpga is a bit at a stale xept arcade core releases which sadly to us is the least used bit (the fact that it outputs usable rates through the vga out is nice tho now we been able to test that, it totally speaks on what monitors you can use (so the Alice MC-10 seems out o the question) tho the scaling where the monitor says "1400x288" or "1400x500something" or other @50hz or @60hz is something wed have to read up on)
   adding a dlog copy-paste to mister-san (the one used for this and for middlersted more like) can put all that there,and the other respective parts have it more or less. The site is here for us mostly since it gets onthing but the satisfaction of desteren on websites with total freedom and zero push to be mobile-friendly-restricted or tablettally-challenged and also not care about autoplay and all b/c we KNOW where the seven hidden clicks are to enable that locally (itskinda well hidden id say, almost as if they actively TRY to force you to stay on "trusted sites" youbele ... faceberg ... tooter ... which ofcourse dontneed it b/c they are trusted as the browser boys own it
   to think why https is enforced on sites that dont even have logins to the point where plebs thinks "AH NO -S so NOT Safe" ... think deeper : tracking might be false on non -s sites lol, today also found out firefox "doesnt recognize that" ftp-link anymore ... and ofcourse they say its for security (and the children! probably)
   after getting off the train only found and find more and more reasons to stay off of it
   would be really nice to get rid of that steam deck-now-useless thing thats barely been used before it turns from hot into "old shit" b/c i doubt that thing will ever be retro just as much as my previous AMD/GTX970 pc
   et al ...
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:18:50: : yea, i might put this page under "discontinued" as time grows shorter and life worse and my non existent condition moves in only one direction as the universe dictates it and just stick to the retrofans subsection ... we'll see. In no danger of getting many pc games until Valve gives my money back and in probably less danger of actually getting it back so i can spend THAT on retro shit and landmines instead... maybe not the worst deal. Considering a game costs around €100 new give or take 20 up or down for 4 ihave a CRT screen recapped .. worth considering
   _{Catham Joker}
2. 09/16/2024 :
   06:40:50: : heeh, so much genuine enthusiasm, almost like an extra small cup a joe ...
   look at the time .. we'll better stick to it
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:32:49: : ah, they tell me that is to be misunderstood, well im closer to following c64 and atari so it makes sense that im faster on those to pick up ... i dont brag , its unbecoming, i also dont see the point in it b/c i have no friends and dont talk to humans
   what they would have called "weird" back in school i guess ... so many me's ..no wondre it turned to janes ondergrond here in een gat where the life cant escape the gravity well of the swamp of Mordor
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:30:42: : nap ... we would be looking more for fpga- or other synths that are midi enabled now or else a 3d printer to do smallparts around the house - just curious to see an all-in with an nfc reader for €199 (curious to see if that is VAT included, obvioulsy not p&p) ... but if its just a link to the site with a product thats not there yet we have to call
   skeevy ...
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:28:40: : finished spelunky last week ... indeed hey the thing doesnt really seem to be there ... thats clickbait to get people to browse the site ... SKEEVY
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:26:04: : hmm, there's a link to the site but not the product yet ??? ... unless i misted it i have to disagree there , thats skeevy
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:18:59: : but does it come with a floppydrive-sound ?
   that powerout showed only one plug needs different starton settings ... the non wired non smartlights obviouslly kept functioning, another win for a rank amateur noob lamer. My first attempt at silicone kit ... i would rate it not meh but can obviously bettr tho i bet it will be watertight ... we'll have to wait until noahs ark comes by again.
   sidecartridge or something in the machine gives interference which is ofcourse annoying since i mostly want to use it for "real" tracking and programming ... after all if its just for the games the mister will do fine (Hatari probably even better but its nice to have it all in one place)
   way late due to the power out fucking up the alarm clocks so we'll have to be strict
   _{Catham Joker}
3. 09/15/2024 :
   07:01:20: : it DOES run metal slug from an emulated gemdos folder but same thing, the joystick (can work around on the mister, real hw would have me switch them and i dont have an adapter with throughput for the joy/mouse to be on one slot so theres one in both ... THE MONEY, MAN ...)
   the coders guide demo runs but it wont stream the music, wich i bet is rooted in the same issue civ has
   otherwise overlanders and other demos run glitchless (they dont on a mister heh, they glitch b/c of the super-sync method used but maybe not through VGA , i havent checked yet)
   if 86box would run on a celeron i could move it to the borg-cabinet and then have "a dedicated" mmx200 too for the SSI series and bluebyte ..
   emulatoin paradise heh ... too bad they immunized me to dopamine sensations somehow ..
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:57:23: : so this is what .. i see reviews from 2 years ago, this is the first i ever hear about it
   so it didnt hit that hard overhere then ...
   well not that i should be in danger of getting one ... for that price i have a real-hw jag (without the gamedrive) ... but i think i'll be holding the coppers for a while in the great copperjar ... maybe something falls out next year
   the sidecartridge project could sure use some work , unless i missed how to swap floppy images during run, i mean the kungfu can do it, sd2iec has autoswap.lst files ... it SHOULD be possible, right ?
   the hard drive doesnt work like a real one too, if i run civ from the folder it doesnt run the intor and i can type characters while the intro music plays over a black screen
   and if i try to use install.prg from real floppies with an emulated hard drive active it says no can do if drive set to d: (the cartridge comes out as c: with a file named emul) and gives "TOS FEHLER #35" when set to c:
   and you CANT PLAY CIV on one disk ... as many others i guess
   at least the guys are honest on their site as they state "if you're looking for a seamless apple-type experience this might not be for you" heheh
   ah, its time ... AGAIN... at this rate im gonna be 90 soon one day i'll wake up and go "where did those years go"
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:52:20: : cute commercial tho "cant play anywhere else" on a Haplo game that lives on what ? lemme count 8(+1) platforms seems a bit of a stretched truth there
   well, who wouldnt want ANOTHER handheld right ? :)
   cute, certainly cute, nice concept ... if its properly fabricated ... well then its still €200 ...
   yah as we suspected : https://www.nitch.nl/playdate-kopen-in-nederland-zo-werkt-het/
   santa-tax for the euro-suits morning bagels ... VAT ...
   i bet if they only sell it from the states thats gonna net you at least €300 by the time its here if not more ... well, it looks like something you want if you got spare money falling out of your pockets all the time and only have 15 other handhelds yet ..
   CUTE ! i bet its popular in disneyland
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:44:26: : and more fresh victims for the evergrowing army of the undead (what game was that ... its not orcs vs humans i think ... its a pc game but i cant remember ...)
   Dr Dangerous ... i think amijam is more like the yandex battle, not really a gamejamgame event ... looking slick, playing smooth. The amigans are making a dash for it but still a ways away from catching up with the zx and 64 probably THO the AGA boom seems to have put some serious re-drive in game-development and due to Atari being mostly electronics gnomes more than programmers (thats what i seem to gather from the forums) Amigavision remains unsurpassed in "putting out your cult to the world" ... credit where credit due, its a masterpiece really, not just the collection, the whole package ... adf, lha , cd32, full desktop environment with applications, programming languages and like ALL classic games even up to a few newer ones post 2020 ...
   it would be nice to see that for Atari but once more, my skills wont reach and my brain wont focus long enough besides ... those vision guys is more than one, righ ?
   Haplo released playdate edition of its GOTY ... now available on .. "all platforms?" lol .. i sometimes wonder if those fuckers breathe and speak ASM instead of english, thats no small feat either and it earned its GOTY award by excellence indeed
   SO it looks like we (the reople) wont be lacking fresh fodder even if 90% of the mister goes to elder arcade games (which is also gud as long as its preservation-accuracy, but thats my opinion i bet a lot will just want it "to play on the mister" even enhanced perhaps like double dragon)
   yea i had to look it up : https://play.date/
   one more handheld with a side of same lol , "only $199" ... that certainly wont beat a mister, will it
   ST and jaguar version ...
   the cover pic looks suspiciously like harrison ford again ... so my guess by now is that if you ask the THING aus den zumpf to "chatgpt write me a demo with explorer" or just use the keyword its gonna do Harrison ford ... i think the other thing is giger, right ? thats a bit of a downer to an otherwise great explo - so the nixy cover ... ???????
   im afraid im gonna have to suspect it too
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:31:19: : i don't know, commander-P ... it would be an interesting project just to think out if only in gedanken. Mister-exclusive core tailored to the hardware but thats actually an arcade game (which you cant play anywhere else) ... thats basically as grand as an original arcade cabinet would have been (just a bit of triplex and a crt and you're go heh)
   Im not the expert in marketing research but if you wanted to go for sales i bet your best bet would be a 2d fighter like Street fighter or Darkstalkers or something b/c that would tract the biggest arcade crowd. All-original characters , a few cameos without actually copying them or ninterror will haunt you ofcourse ... and i say join hands with some scene group or people b/C as good a programmer or designer you might be pixel-art and chiptunes is something else. You could maxx-out the possibilities a mister has and wont have to fall for a.i. -generated crap, that would probably set a chunk of ppl off from not buying it (or getting it "on the usual channels" ... no comment) but as a means to sponsorship
   i think its worth a night of thinking over a sixpack and some pizza and ofcourse
   if you wanna DO gud game ... you have to play games ... obviously
   there then ...
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:50:10: : great tute ... id still recommend using CIFS (its not too hard to install and config) or FTP to prevent wear on the sd slot
   poor sods and guttertrash need to go for longevity after all, the homebrew cooling pad for the Atari STE works fine with the regulator board ... a small piece that can do 8 fans in sets of two with knobs to set the voltage ( == rpm in this case) so i put them under the ancient relic, blowing upward and put that one a bit higher with something under the sides. (the fans kinda vibrate the table or desktop and i dont think in the long run thats gonna be beneficial, maybe its not detrimental but when faced with ancient relics ... well these are my oldtimers right like that one time in Lokeren i passed by some street and a gate was open and there was like ... i didnt count, 30 maybe 50 old gleaming chromed cars , the guy had room for an aeroplane , right
   here there's room for a c64 and an atari STE ... the mister doesnt take up much space but i treat them with respect for longevity
   i think it still gets pretty hot, even with the cooler inside, not that it causes problems but i bet keeping it frosty adds a few years to the boards lifespan, same thing for the pi5, neo argon case is pretty nice , soapbarsized but i think it gets pretty hot despite the cooler in it ... one fan costs about two months of patreon for the core-people lol
   the only thing left of this one when the body gives in will be a borg cube ... i still think 7of9 wouldnt be too bad hanging from the wall here ... probably makes for better conversation than most humans too
   and soon after we will be forgotten ... but so will american presidents and CEOs i dont think anyone alive today will be talked about 200 years from now
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:40:56: : good to see they got plenty of supporters anyway - maybe we'll see a V2 in a couple o years
   personally i barely play the arcade games and i wouldnt do a sub anyway b/c im simply too dirt poor for it. If i had the money id probably sponsor computer cores but maybe
   if they joined hands with some scene group and developed a game thats "mister only" as a core ... and marketed it on itch for a ful €20 (€50-€80 for the boxed version lol) ... well that would be hard to resist ... a mister-exclusive lol
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:33:06: : too bad its gonna be about getting money from THEIR pockets into someone elses under the guise of the people and the children , as usual
   if some of that money would trickle down there might be a point to it
   ...
   oo "cheapskate" ... good one , as if money grows on streetlights today and a fiver comes for free ...
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:28:07: : heh
   https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/european-consumer-organization-goes-after-multiple-publishers-for-their-in-game-currency/
   ofcourse that comes with the "what about the children"-card
   maybe some of the bigger ones need a reality check ... but maybe the even bigger ones even more
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:21:17: : https://sanderfocus.nl/
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:21:02: : https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/01/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-1-introduction/
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:05:48: : 15 ... well, we'll be looking for the anti-word of god , the anti-sound that resonates at the frequency to unravel reality and restore this mess from whence it came
   _{Catham Joker}
4. 09/12/2024 :
   07:06:25: : wow, the boys are starting up already outside ... better than an alarm clock ... NEED to fix up the double for janesgeems so it displays the same trending as on mistercompat ... some time between now and dead or demented
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:50:26: : oh ...
   they sell those : https://cbmretro.fi/product/power-switch-for-c64-c128-cd32-1541-ii-and-1581/ in several places i suppose (this is the place i got my kungfu-cart, the guy is a bedroom electrician who probably does it by day too for "real" work not sure didnt ask but i actually https://www.c64psu.com/c64psu/43-commodore-64-c64-psu-power-supply.html got this instead ... now i dont have to touch the button on the machine + overcurrent protection + #stuff ...
   i have an ad out to trade my steam deck for a falcon or a sharp 68030 ... yea i know the price difference but maybe someone doesnt mind a deck for the kids and cant use "that old crap" ... besides those 3 to 4 to 5k machines on ebay dont seem to sell very fast
   well i dont need it anymore and a deck wont be a retro pc in 20 years, it will be "old shit"
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:06:45: : ss tts ... 3DFX "voodoo" might be a bit like "rtx" of sorts, the cards that came with it could do more pixels b/c they were newer but the 3dfx chips ... maybe one of the first real hardware accelerators for 3d processing ... like when you get an rtx card and its double the passmark points than your old 970 so its pretty good but either you have a xx90 series at disneyland prices which might set your pc on fire or not or you get the option to turn rtx and global illumination on but the card cant hack it ("handle" it, mister sir in geekslang that is , no Mitnicks included) , the 3DFX as far as i remember was barely supported by any pc games, im sure there were more than i had but other than pandemonium and some primal 3d fighter (before virtua pc) i cant really think of one i had or played, but the cards had more power than the former ones anyway so it wasnt lost money. Moores law wasnt close to its final stateof entropy and advancements were about the same speed as why amigas and sts disappeared fast from the mainstream, ... for some reason inflation back then seemed to not apply b/c for about 20-25k francs yearly you could set your pc straight into the new batch, and the prices remained about the same ... strangely enough
   "expensive hobby?"
   never had a car so i bet its WAY LESS :) ... probably less co2 too heh not that i didnt for that , just simply not interested in car
   i bet for the price of that first pc i could have had a really nice used car back then ... but that didnt even cross my mind really
   ... right - o ... NOW that doesnt mean the tekheads shouldnt move fgpa into the next gen ofcourse, THO ATM i would be a lot more interested in a Synther-fpga that has an sd card with all the 80s and 90s synths i couldnt afford (and early 2000 why not) than in a v2 that maybe just does the same cores but with better screen filters or something and with 86box installed ...i ran an mmx 200 for a looong time before i went to a p3, but upgraded the gpus , memory and drives more before that so ... i think the p3 came with the advent of stuff like ...
   what would that be ....
   World of Warcraft ?
   the Hokuto Force Vega tune isnt half bad
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:09:56: : Anyway , the retro-gasm ... to me pc-gaming is strategy right, originally i bought the pentium 60 for 110% of my then monthly income just b/c i played warlords 2 and panzer general at a friends on his dads 486 ...
   so as much as id like to wait for the mister v2 or replay perhaps having enough PK and CC (horsepower i guess HP then and CC) to do dos95/98 cd-era games , it looks like its gonna be about the clone warz for a while so until the beat count Saruman and move on - i cant wait that long
   so i finally got to 86box, its been gathering dust on a drive for a while and after figuring out that on linux "one does not simply .... " and got the roms in the right place its surprisingly straightforward (IF you had a dos/windos pc i suppose) just set the bios and whop you have the genuine thing
   so i have an mmx200 with 3DFX enabled gpu, 16megabyte and a 500mb hard drive and ATAPI cd rom and finally i could run Shadow of the Emperor (one of the things the mister 486 wont do since its a 32 bit game already - you'd have to install win95/98 with a flipswitch on a 60mhz machine and i bet it would start cussin' on a mister even more than on the real thing)
   and there she was ... and there THE EMPEROR WAS ...
   FAKTUM !
   so ... guys, take your time with the mister v2 ... i seem to have everything i need to run the games that were missing in my retro-porn collection
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:04:19: : But the best part : i had a retro-gasm watching the intro of Shadow of the emperor (battle isle "3" by bluebyte) again after so long ... i have some leftover cds like panzer general and battle isle i think all of them floating around, SMAC and a few others, when going through the shelf i even found I HAVE THE SKYRIM DVD and thought to myself OMG IS THAT THING OLD ENOUGH TO STILL HAVE A DVD ?
   starcraft2 is standing there too (so i guess i must have a battle net account still, WELL YEA b/C i owned vanilla wow CD's too but they didnt make it as did a lot of stuff ... 25 years ago , ... all of my music and dvds basically evaporated too and i dont know where my groovebox or rave-o-lution is either
   i know i didnt sell them tho
   
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:01:21: : but yea, even in other contact sports ... lightweights ... Roberto Duran matches or belgiums (another guy who couldnt escape the grasp of Mordor despite having world class talents) "junior" Bauwens ... way better than Clay or Foreman to watch, any day of the week but thats personal taste i guess ... besides Bruce Lee wasnt quite a heavy weight either ... and he even beat Chuck Norris !
   _{Catham Joker}
   03:59:01: : yea ... probably more discussed about "is it real" than hardcore porn stolen from daddies night cabinet at a friends ...
   _{Catham Joker}
   03:55:50: : not sure, i bet i musta watched it on A2 (france) like all stuff that was created past 1830 , where i found anime and other stuff but i remember they gave a show VERY LATE on friday nights even here in gatland with a local guy who wanted to be a big one as a second commentator (i doubt he got out of belgium ... other than Jean-Claude Van Damme i cant really think of anyone in 300 years, the guy must have fallen through a hole in space wile time stood still so the swamp of Mordor couldnt drag him back)
   Well THAT WAS GUD ENTERTAINMENT FOR SURE ... THE DRAMA !
   _{Catham Joker}
   03:52:02: : ooo well there ... id say the heavy weights were cool, "Tugboat" , the bushwackers, the undertaker ... but my fav guys must have been "the rockers" ... WHAT A MOVE BY SHAWN MICHAELS !!!!!!!!!!!! and i cant remember the name of the team but two lightweight mexican guys, i always liked the acrobatic styles a lot more ... ofcourse watching Andre the Giant just be Andre the Giant never failed and who couldnt give it up for the Hulk ...
   never played the arcade game tho, only the c64 versions afaikr
   _{Catham Joker}
   03:48:54: : o - "always online" with no offline option, could have said that at the start then i didnt have to see the whole vid
   _{Catham Joker}
   03:48:04: : the guy in the video looks kinda ...
   woke ?
   _{Catham Joker}
   03:47:35: : ... yea sure, outrun and buggy boy but that was WAY before, i bet actually pit stop was played most with the friends in the 8bit days ... saturated markets on the house , the review sounds like its a lot like the former one actually sadly my wallet isnt and i certainly refuse to buy anything on steam until the give my money back so that will probably be never
   _{Catham Joker}
   03:37:03: : hm ... TDU solar crown , i have to say never been a racing guy other than back in the pentium 1 - 2 days lan and nascar or carmageddon perhaps but TDU2 i totally liked ...ofcourse they had to skank it crank it, break it sell the studio and close the servers ...
   now i see the next one can be bought via ... a steam key, a steam key, ... a steam key, a steam key, a steam key, a steam key, ... or ... a steam key, ... revenge for space marine perhaps ?
   well thats too bad :)
   _{Catham Joker}
5. 09/11/2024 :
   04:55:18: : man, i think im starting to have a special warm for the dedication zx-folk is showing their machine lol ... the c64 has a lot of releases but most of it seems to be one-afternoon-with-nothing-to-do or 1 to 4 hour jams ... which is nice to see but hardly make for gud game ... seldom ... battles issomething else where you get stuff like coinzaremine but it seems that also ZX .... stuff like spelunky ... altho a port AGAIN .. doesnt come by often and its actually lacking "a game" , its more like a generator on an engine with a bossfight - BUT THE ENGINE SURE HAS POTENTIAL ...
   as for the rest ? handhelds is the new black ? OS'es for handhelds is the new black ? if giants like Samsung and Sqenix are getting into the game im starting to get worried ... anyone doing Ninterror should get cautious too after they launch the switch 2 and find that in the middle of 500 other handhelds its
   "a bit less than projected"
   ...pffooooo, Merlin, call the dragon, i need it to blow the fog away
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6. 09/10/2024 :
   07:03:59: : ah "the key" ... well we was wondering if amstard could use mouse and according to the mister core : YES
   the game doesnt seem to tho, even if its enabled in the core settings but maybe i missed a config setting
   i mean if the thing had mouse .... THIS game would certainly gain enjoyability using it
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:15:40: : yea, Reka but we already had that one on the list and nimbusfall looks like its gonna need an Amiga port by someone sooner or later (sadly we dont have the time,skill nor resources to do that for Ataris) ... the rest seems to be cosy sugar, switch-like chibi kiddieboo or mobile ports with cards (and probably microtransactions)
   right then ... 15 minutes she says -
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:08:12: : totally and utterly impressed with the potential spelunky64 shows for the future of gaming64 tho, the controls alone would make it imo, remove the gfx for loderunner type characters and sprites and you'd still get awesomeness ... it has issues tho, like no designed levels leaving too much up to chance so you can run yourself into a dead end, then have to restart but its generated only, all random so you restart and the level will have a different layout so you cant learn from the mistake ... to the point where at the bossfight the boss bonked the floor from underneath the exit door so after he passed on i couldnt jump into it
   but man .... those guys have skills ... im gonna have to see more games coming from that corner, its not their debut but they dont have a protovision-wide list either, not even haplo or mortalwombat-long
   the controls ... especially that and the fluidness, you can take that engine and replace sprites and tiles and spawn 20 different games i bet
   SEE ? we are NOT all-negative hahah ... pc gaming looks bad tho ...id give space marines about ten minutes looking for the jump button to find out that its one of those "interact with the 10 cm high tree root HERE" (not any of the others on the map) to climb over it (what we call witcher-like) .. but it sure makes you look good
   keep those panties de-knotted mate, our little weirdo opinion wont stop pop from selling
   and generation nickelodeon ... im sure they like nickelodeon
   right ... can we go now ... i have to reinstall a system b/c the installdidnt fix itself from one pc to the next even if it said it did ...
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:01:52: : pppffoooooooo ... you know , things were bad when gaming turned to 0,9:1 console ports made from leftover code and ignoring the extras PCs have , but ... not necessarily just the fact that one more cozy chibi switch-like is probably gonna give me digital diabetes and this lo-fi cellrendered stuff looks like .. i cant shake that nickelodeon vibe on lots of it but it must be a generation thing (i guess we had ken le survivant and chevaliers du zodiac and lamu on A2 on wednesday afternoons and they had ADHD-fairy parents on nick ... ren&stimpy was supercool tho)
   It seems to be worse now b/C it starts looking like...i dunno, "ports from mobile to pc" ?? perhaps ?
   talk about undercooked, there you are with your $50k ryzen rtx 4090 and a bucket of water in case of fire and you get a game ported from mobile
   not that it matters much but gaming since Ataripaddles we like to stay a little bit on top - it all suffers from WoW-disease : "what the players want" (mainly why we quit playing wow after the vanilla , not even did the first expansion ... had my own guild tho there , how long is that ago whew ... like "my" guild but euhm ...)
   "ports FROM mobile" to pc ... we are worried about the mental state and still more and more convinced rampant unchecked covid
   IS indeed (as they predicted before censoring)
   causing braindisease to rise and global iq to slowly drop
   
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:46:22: : and ...
   more handhelds (lol?) , more handheld OS'es where samsung and square enix have turned to altruism to bring a better experience to the player ( ... ? ) ... i guess competition is gud but we can already assume each single one wants market domination , not progress as a whole ... interested in handhelds as much as in mobile phones ... more retro but no money and no room.
   and ... THAT AGAIN ? we said long ago and many times by now : "if you want me to Amiga ? then SEND ME ONE" ... otherwise
   you're probably not motivated enough
   (always wanted to say that)
   cosy shit, (we refer to as kiddieboo or nintendo-like / switch-like) ... well a bit curious about tiny glade but i bet its gonna bore fast since there are no rampaging dinos tearing down your whole base while you are sleeping IRL
   cellrendered stuff that reminds of nickelodeon ...
   no answer on the forum wether i should pick GFA, STOS or Omikron to start a game if i dont wanna pick up motorola ASM on top of the other two at the same time in this walking short-circuit we've become
   mmmh thats.... we think if you need to be positive you need something positive to be about otherwise you get a fake positive which is both FAKE and potentially dangerous as you get a false sense of certainty and/or security
   like that guy once said "facts are stupid things" ( aka ="truth is better : THAT you can twist)
   ...mandatory typing done, check
   EOF
   _{Catham Joker}
7. 09/09/2024 :
   05:08:38: : yea yea, i get misunderstood even if i dont say a word. Just saying "euh (wait)" is enough for shouts on satanic incantations, call the spanish inquisition and the police, im negative and i dont float with the plankton in the direction of the current current
   to US thats not a problem but theres a lot who seem to be bothered, i wonder how b/c its not their life and they're free to lead this anytime, see how long you last.
   I dont mean they should stop the moneymaker but i seen this so many times its like i feel whats coming : salesforce has a duty to drag things out til the last drop after all and no one wants to get in the others way b/c they would expect the same when the wheel turns and its their way. Also the panel people ... (like BV's and stuff alike) they just like to talk (about "it" whatever it stands for in their niche) so this is excellent opportunity
   sadly it all leads to microsoft syndrome which ends up with zero innovation for a long long time
   and this body wont last another 200 years and by our predictions the Sumerian era will end at the very last by 2050
   so it would be nice to see some advancement thats all
   DesktopCat sure likes the Amstrad game, noticed before the cat has a thing for certain 8 bit games ... ,this one with the moving cursor and the little guy and the small animations with flickering pixels seems to be EXCELLENT entertainment for desktop cat , cats have gestalt brain i stick to it, its just cat-based so homo-centric monkeys would defacto assume they dont b/C only monkey based stands at the center of the universe
   hmmmmmmmm....... i think the summers over ... good for me, worse for desktop cat
   life was over the day they stuck us here, belgium was over in 1830 ... europe never got united in thousands of years, not even the nazis or atilla ... or the turqs or the ... everyone TRIED ... so this paper union ... well it must be hard to grasp if you're american or something ...
   sooooooooo ..... basically no fucks given since there is nothing left to look for
   xept a falcon 030 and maybe a mister v2 ...
   bem ...
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:45:01: : clones as collectibles ... hmmm,
   nothing new then lol, amstrad point 'n click adventure ... hmmm
   Now the guys behind spelunky ... they seem to be behind c64anabalt , which is also kinda unique for a c64
   but after playing it, i have to say , the engine is super-done, for a c64system , one stick with one button the controls are SO extensive , responsive and versatile that despite the fact that WE STILL FEEL WHAT IT NEEDS IS (at least) 15 (and maybe at most 30) DESIGNED levels with increasing complexity and difficulty ... "a finishable game" ... "a campaign" ... and the generator on top to play hiscore chase with the friends ... to get consistent levels i play on vice with snapshots BUT EVEN THERE the drops and pickups change on the same snapshot if you re-run it so the initial impression of "apshai remastered" (super-random with no certainty that theres an actual path you CAN find) remains tho the complexity as well as the props are there. But even with the compass you have blind jumps and arrows can get you without a chance to dodge, without snapshots it could take eternity (or you might get lucky and it only takes a few hours) b/c unlike "a platformer" (wonderboy in monsterland or rick dangerous or whatever) where you can memorize the levels so the next run you pass the obstacles using your reflexes and joystick skills here you reboot the game and nothing is the same
   WHICH IS A GREAT ADDITION FOR REPLAYABILITY ... "after the game got finished" ... but its im pres si ve
   audio-visual in the post 2020s, super responsive and a super-extensive versatile control set with only one button , no keyboard used, itemshop (thats why i called wonderboy in monsterland and rick dangerous) and plenty of environment props and monster, now i THINK (not sure) the game only loads once, which means its not even a one-disk in size SO
   i hope there's a v2 to the game that has (at least) 15 thought out and designed levels in a sequence on top of the generator/ hischore chaser and
   i cant wait to see what these guys would do if they get actually serious about "doing a game" and do something on 3 to 6 or an easyflash full
   if it gets the designed levels i think i have my GOTY64, without it it just feels like thats missing due to the random nature theres no way you can claim "running through on skill" b/c you have to get lucky with the layout (unless theres a hidden quirk in the algorithm but its an 8 bit 1982 machine we're talking about with a one-load game ... which is really impressive considering the controls-routine and the media included (and the generator) but wouldnt leave a ton of room for checking after generation imo
   well then ...i think we're in for a long run of "everything about the mister in the past 10 years , NOW ALSO ON A CLONE, and the next and the tang" ... which means no V2 in sight ..
   ah well ... ill stick to the real machines for programming mostly anyway until dead or demented
   the Amstrad p&c seems to look well on vid too but its no my genre of game by far (and i havent checked if it runs on mister yet ... i only keep VICE and Hatari as soft emulators around, and a real c64 ... and a real STE ... anything else is mister fpga
   _{Catham Joker}
8. 09/08/2024 :
   15:04:43: : i wonder how Ninterror will try to blame the fact they they dont go from 8 billion back to 15 from '25 over '26 on me b/c i said in a saturated market there's very little chance of achieving goals by terrorizing those who wouldnt and mainly those who paid in the first place.
   .... but this ninterror thing is getting old too, no one has some new drama or something ?
   no one has some new tek ? and im not talking "a.i. laptops" ... anyone entering the house will be scanned for a.i. laptops and incinerated if found carrying one ... we are very wary of pT-1000 here in the tunnels
   _{Catham Joker}
   13:34:58: : Yea well, i dont wanna, im not a panel-people, i dont like "to talk about it" ... there's plenty who would so seek them out.
   lets see this : "Any space marine would take any gender or form the emperor asked it to or else simply to have a higher chance at victory. The aliens they fight very much dont care if any biped has balls below or melons up top, they just wanna shred it to pieces" ... What i DID find was that wanker in a suit being very insulting to the folk who basically made them rich in the past decades.... now, if you dont mind can plz to fuk off, k ...im a bum i have no money, i dont do mainstream opinion and because im neither left nor right either side considers me to be the other and since im not center but out there the spanish inquisition is usually out to put me on a stake and in general i abduct little children and do satanic rituals at night running around the street naked with a huge axe while the antwerp harbour workers have drones deliver kilos NOT in my backyard at the door but on the other side of the neighbourhood instead (for ease) where i go pick it up with my drug-sniffing hypertrained supercat.
   so you can we are busy men and have no time for useless drivel
   thx
   _{Catham Joker}
   08:54:09: : but yea, unless we missed game mechanics or the way to do it, 15 designed levels + the current generator would be way better imo ... "a game you can finish" + the hiscore chaser
   not that it matters :)
   the C64-ians will be delighted with it im sure
   _{Catham Joker}
   08:52:55: : the other one seems like a witcher-like button masher that would have been better off as an anime series (i cant find a jump button so 30cm high metal plate is unsurpassable) until you find something to interact and THATallows you to cross it ... maybe i should say mass-effect like but for some reason i liked mass-effect so i'll say witcher-like then
   with FINISHERS that make you feel like IM A MORTALKOMBAT KING by pressing "e" ....
   i see - actually we had to take a look-see b/c with all the bru-ha and the guy in the suit insulting the whole fanbase that made them rich b/c the lore said space marines are males (bio-engineered soldiers) and you cant have that
   we were somewhat expecting female transsexual space marines but it seems they sound quite manly
   maybe they were talking about something else
   its strange tho how the humans seem to enjoy lying to their kids about humanities true history and culture, between here and afghanistan , actually sometimes women CHOOSE to be women too ... its not really unheard of, and they actually have a choice here, tho in afghanistan a bit less ... personally i dont care who eats what bodypart on who and where people stick their dicks as long as they dont go shouting in my ear BUT FORGING IT ?
   like saying "medieval armies had squads of female archers" or "Atilla had an army that was 50% men 50% women" ... tearing down Leopolds statue as if I DID THAT and thats gonna remove Congo from history
   i think thats bullshit
   so i think that goes for warhammer lore too
   truly and really
   anywayyyyyyyy , nothing lost its a button masher that makes you look good from a well-known franchise
   it should sell
   need i repeat that no one here actually likes GTA, never played resident evil but watched it at a friends house, doesnt like witcher games for their restrictive "LOOK AT THE GRAND WORLD" and then giving you a narrow path and despite having a time-share in tekken, basically never played streetfighter even if gaming since ataripaddles
   therefor not your average customer and even if we understand what the norm likes, our opinion is not relevant to it
   was just curious to see a trans-sexual space marine
   apparently it was all hot air
   _{Catham Joker}
   08:25:31: : hm hmm, wel i had to take a look-see but i get more of an apshai remastered impression here than i would spelunker
   Audiovisually and responive-wise the game certainly takes it past the 80-90s into the post 2020 neo-retro age and no lack of variation in props either imo , SSS-KASSHHH
   the randomness ... a procedural generator on an 8bit 64k machine is always interesting to see but i get way too many blind jumps that end 3 floors down and starting or moving past places with arrows which i havent been able to avoid once, tho i see the guy in the vid get past a few.
   So i dont know if the generator is complex enough to guarantee a "possible" route or just takes THAT part from the 80s where "one mistake is no return" lol ... a great achievement SSS-KASSSHHH
   as SpelunkER is one of the all-time favourites here what we would have suggested to the guys before release is :
   do 15-20 designed levels and leave the generator for replayability ;.. i mean you CAN use the generator to just let it go until you have 15-20 sequential levels that are acceptable
   maybe im missing some of the mechanics b/c just a few quick runthroughs but there seems to be way too much unavoidable death and blind falls (gouts et couleurs ofcourse, as a hiscore save the likes of digdug where the last level is actually bugged b/c the dev never expected anyone to get to it its super-great, pleasing, nice sound, very responsive, everything in place, the pixels have been polished separately as well by the looks of it with a shiney waxcloth
   its just THE RANDOMNESS had me think "o this is a bit like apshai remastered, you dont know if you can make it as long as you are careful and fast enough, it might just drop you in a pit with 2 arrows flying from each side and end you : back to the beginning
   That makes me the negative guy again i guess even if most of it was praise ?
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:25:12: : The light gun looks somewhat interesting tho ... i always loved operation wolf when the carnies got here into salems hick or when we went to my aunts appartment at the sea side in those huge arcades overthere , and that police game i forgot the name AND AGAIN, eyes on a v2 fpga - a LOT of the more modern arcade machines use these things, lightguns and motion sticks or motion detectors (tho i dont think for some reason the mister crowd will have lots of folk who are on the lookout for dancing games but that might just be me not being woke enough)
   IF it works out and it works fine and it works on an LCD tv ... i would consider it - depending on price ofcourse ... just to play one game i cant really fork over 200 or 300 euros
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:22:25: : not that its about "accuracy" anymore - its about can it run on ... basically due to that you might as well use mame since a lot of stuff gets patched and adapted to run and is nowhere near preservation of original hardware in logical circuits streaming electrons and light
   
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:21:12: : the power of subculture ... see here this guy donates $20k worth of hardware to enable guys who did it for a hobby and now get the dream of a lifetime-pay to do what they were doing cuz they LOVE doing it , to make games you can play on MAME since 1997 and up on a mister
   that is subculture-power
   and i have to admit if i were in the money, like phat!, id be doing the same for computer cores, id buy TWO falcons and simply give one away for vivisection to the guy who vows on his childrens offspring to make me a falcon core
   maybe i win euromillions this week then heheh, crypto sure wont hack it anymore since the americans put their paws on it and all dreams of a life in a country i chose to be evaporated
   not to go hang around but to start up dearie we explained that many times
   .. $20k, tho its again a relative thing, the Atari forum has plenty of that, $20k is basicallly nothing, engineers , university guys, researches, hi level IT ... i was browsing this week for Atari ST enabled stuff, this guy was like "i found a monitor that does 15khz flawless etc etc" ... so i flew back the next day and got another one ... thats like nothing okay ? so its not surprising a lot sit and wonder like "why cant you afford a NES" ? lol ... i remember the first PC i bought cost like 110% (one hundred and ten percent) of my back then monthly income, working the night shift at tupperware (b/c people with no skills do factory jobs and are happy they get one !)
   anyway thats nice - even if its just more arcade cores its nice, if it keeps the thing alive long enough to spawn a v2 that maybe can do later Sega machines (like the castlevania 3d arcade ... one of the latest) then thats GREAT even
   _{Catham Joker}
   05:00:05: : Yo, its been on my list of "games i need to finish from the days when life was simple and a future seemed like an option" ... maybe more like when the future didnt matter b/c there wasnt even a past yet.
   Spelunker must be one of the most played ever games by the kid on the ole c64 but the new one seems to be a demake ... remake ... whatever of a 1988 freeware game, not the broderbund game but i THINK the old game was a port of an actual ARCADE game tho id have to look that up to be sure i THINK that one is arcade-present on the mister too somewhere ...
   _{Catham Joker}
9. 09/07/2024 :
   07:29:57: : hm "Albedo" ... looks like one of those games Ataricrypt would blog about on a rainy day ... slightly obscure lol , mouse-controlled movementshooterpuzzlegame in weird environments :D , it says 512kb but it doesnt seem to wanna
   _{Catham Joker}
   06:19:51: : oh well, maybe one day ... but i aint growing down anymore it seems we will be moving towards deadline dead or demented with a ticker of +1 day and counting until EOF
   Its been the subject of some thought - the X68K has a mister core, likely b/c Sharp itself opensourced the thing and all the schematics are available - it also has a fair cult following tho finding documentation to program it (and software and compilers) that also at the same time happens to be not written or working in Japanese is a bit o'a' hurdle
   THE JAG .... the machine that Ctulhu built (himself) ... actually got sold off i think by Atari to some other company i cant remember the name of, WHO OPENSOURCED IT TOO (thats why it had ... "has" such a cult following of bedroom-coding homebrewers and 500 , maybe 1000% the titles it had before , but probably if you count "finished" non gamejam titles lets say about 200 (?) ... so if WE do 2 jag games we have like "1% of all jag titles to the JoG name (lol) sounds more salesforce than "we did 2 games" actually .. despite that there IS NO JAG CORE ... its not like there's no tek savvy folk there ... its strange
   The Falcon .... where it seems unlikely Atari will move to a Jaguar+ release like they do with all the other since afaik they havent bought it back (im not sure how that would work if its open source) but maybe they dont have to since its open source ... you know release the JAG-mini with "ALL THE JAG TITLES INCLUDED" and give a nod at the other 250 in which they didnt have to invest
   The Falcon ... the territory of ppl who own multiple Megas , TTs Falcons and a few ST and E's on the side i suppose , who actually have spare money for a €3000 machine that definitely needs replacement parts so it wont go up in smoke , but why is there no FPGA core, the jag has its share of coders, but the Atari forums have become the space of engineers and gnome tinkerers it seems, firebees and apollos everywhere (which arent teknikley Ataris but more like "boxes that can emulate almost all motorola machines ... i think)
   tho i dont know that since i dont have one or money for one and having an STE which i used to as a boy i dont see why i would spend that hard to get stuff on one , last post there was a guy who had 50 or so (or 20?) selling them for 500 each, now i think firebee is "just the mobo" but im not sure ..
   That said, there's so many engineers on one pin of a needle per square inch there its hard to fathom why there is no FPGA falcon core
   even Hatari isnt really close to 1:1 on the Falcon front but THAT TOO IS HARD TO SAY b/c theres basically no software roms around to test it with
   and SO...
   after the 7800+/mini, will Atari move to a Jag+ or a Falcon+ ... the jag seems possible, the falcon unlikely
   me getting enough leftover cash to morally justify getting one on ebay ... about the same percentage chance as getting functional spacemines before the planet runs out of resources and they have to launch the rockets on a wood stove the way things have been going since i got stuck here in het gatste gat
   and "custom" computers ... i actually dont really know whats out there b/c if something is anything good nvidia or amd will jump on top of it to make sure microsoft doesnt buy it from boredom
   i know miCrotter gives grants to Godot ... (charity ofcourse !) .. likely to get dibs if the thing becomes a potential contender for Unreal and im not sure who's sponsoring the Pi's
   but i bet some Crotter tentacle has a lick in it
   just like "the linux foundation" and all those things
   pick up a rock, you find a crotter tentacle
   hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwwwwhhh, Merlin called the dragon, the security cam goes wild , if i look at it from the clientside machine its like ghosts drift by so it catches motion and keeps blerring "SOMETHING IS MOVING AT THE FRONT DOOR" and all that since i told it to do that when it sees something moving at the front door
   i installed a mist switch, i could probably use the weather plugin (or "addon") but its not reliable enough imo
   we seem to have move away from retro-computing again ... i think i'll just do some sorting
   and dishes
   and laundry
   and all that stuff i would be paying someone for so they could eat too by now if they didnt stick me here like a dead butterfly in someones collection until i got so damaged i can barely get anything but the dishes done
   now we have entered the realm of darkness
   this seems to be infectuous so since i dont wanna be sued for collective groups of humans who saw the future for what it is jumping in the ocean unless they jump in all together all 9 billion
   in which case no one left will sue me for it
   i think i better quit this useless drivel for today
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:46:48: : MAN, would i like me one of those
   either
   BOTH !
   even if theres basically no software for the falcon before it got ditched , a bit like the jag has 250 titles AFTER it got opensourced but only like 50-ish before
   theres plenty for the sharp tho and that is and remains the god-computer of its era .. still didnt get why they never bothered pushing it outside japan
   anyway ... *yawn* already
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:44:20: : right
   dust cover : €50
   empty case (damaged) : €190
   (just) a keyboard : €250
   96 custom video chips with no machines attached : €3000
   the actual computer (with a mouse and a monitor ... adapter : €2600
   "the other one" : €3500 ... thats "boxed" not recapped (neither was the falcon i think)
   right , i give up for today before i get depressed lol
   but the guy was funny - i get it , its too much ... just like the other thing , just like HERE .. too much , then Newtonian physics in the metaverse just happen and all things go back to the one as the universe DEMANDS balance
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:22:24: : mmmmm, judging by saberman it does look like a succesful c64 port - i bet commodore people will have bought the guy enough to drink a hangover already ...
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:18:44: : spelunky does not have pronouns for the character btw ...
   still snickering somewhat
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:17:01: : ah, is originally a freeware game from 2008 ?
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:11:30: : hm hmmm hm hmmm mh mmmm - welll, Perennial might be Vegan but it certainly didnt feel woke-raped ... if you got an empty weekend and a 20 in your pocket you wont get drunk or laid but you could try that
   ... really nothing huh today
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:09:44: : hot on the heels of
   
   possible
   well nothing new then ? No new homebrew superpc's to beat the raspberry pi 6 ? no mister 2 .. ???
   no space mines or solarsystemwide exploitation ?
   no aliens AGAIN ?
   pfffff
   glad we took back off to the 16, 8 and if possible 4bit world (i mean THATS WHAT IT TOOK to get tom hanks on the moon so theres obviously something wrong with todays chips)
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:02:22: : nowww ... is there anything that's not a remake, a demake or a clone or a close of anything else today i was aksin
   _{Catham Joker}
   04:01:19: : hmmm ... since most stuff that hits the shelves has had its design finalized 1 or 2 years before i doubt the ninterror switch-for-kids 2 will have one of these ... but since i dont hold hands i dont care either way ... which reminds me, i should see if i still have an account on 2hand to see if i can find a trader who thinks "DAFUK am i supposed to do with this old Atari machine that says Falcon on it"
   ... m not much for cozy games either and you would indeed not find any in the cd-era or before ... seldom , unless you count bubble bobble or rainbow islands (which were ofcourse classics and i dont think rainbows referred to sexual orientation either or both ways backthen) ... the guy's got genuine concern , yo. But his bold style, AS AN AMERICAN nonetheless has me snickering here lol
   _{Catham Joker}
   03:54:43: : "why i wont play warhammer games anymore" :p i get it ... totally
   anyway - anything up today thats not yesterday ?
   _{Catham Joker}
   03:53:39: : yea, yea ... certainly not, but i can totally feel the guy
   _{Catham Joker}
   03:52:04: : 11 days ago, 138k subs ... 729k views ... and dare i say
   lol ?
   _{Catham Joker}
10. 09/06/2024 :
    22:13:28: : dunno .. the first boss was cake on a toothpick with telegrammed attack written in goosequills on papyrus ... STILL its euhm , instant love - o wait "love at first sight, right" ?
    ok ? gud ...
    _{Catham Joker}
    22:10:24: : Well guyz - intros dont really reflect the honor of the crew anymore ... you can always anontact me and i'll write you a better and more shiny one lol - ANYWAY ... if i could clone this body and have one apart that could pc-game all day and actually finish and 100% them id say Perennial Order is the winner of the batch , (gouts et couleurs , plz to remember at all times) - THEY DONT EVEN CALL IT SOULSLIKE ! it says "boss rush" ... so ... now i know what boss rush is ... the onehit death is awesome, the westerncomicbook-ish style is awesome the game looks awesome feels awesome plays awesome and the soundtrack is supermoody : WINNER !
    as for the rest of the box ... Selfloss gets points for art, definitely , gorgeous and Caroll/Dali-like but its just too much nintendo-ish, modern zelda-ish, looks like its made for kids-ish which doesnt work for this one, BUT ITS GORGEOUS, A+ in the art department, im sure a lot of cozy kids will love this ,looking at how the zelda new game looks this probably looks better
    Paper Ghost ... POINTS in the art department but not our type of game, but i think this one we'll definitely will NEED to see in a playthrough without commentary to see the story as an artsey anime movie . Again, sure plenty of folk will LURV this
    the ale tavern kinda feels like im in world of warcraft again in the vanilla starter area in a resolution that didnt exist on the massive p3 800 system back then .. not my kind but i bet its awesome to those who like the genre (i mean doesnt want a dishwashing simulator) AND ...
    fantasy map certainly is THE screensaver id want to make it through those last 15 minutes before the freedom bell
    Perennial Order ! check it out (and the rest if you're into that type of game)
    ok ?
    gud .. way overtime to cycle
    _{Catham Joker}
    14:44:28: : And yet another handheld hits the street ... talk about a saturated market, now this happens EVERY time doesnt it ... the backlash is that it halts innovation every time as everyone tries to get a half-a-buck out of it until its squeezed out ... like when philips announced the CD (i remember b/c the boy was sitting in the back of the car - ... we have concept-brain but audio-visual 3d surround memory - its great for re-living all that medieval soviet salems lot shit in true colour all the time - ... they basically said "it can hold up to 17gb of data" so how long it took from there until dual layer dvd's (which were 8gb i think still only) that must be over 20 years? , nah ... 12 to 15 maybe ... b/c they started with the 600mb cd right ?
    salesforce : holding back the world since 19xxx
    so next year Ninterror is gonna pop out the switch 2 after terrorizing the old kids who made them rich by throwing suits like a terror squid throes in all directions - into a saturated market .. ASSUMING "the brand" will have its drones ... like Atari, right ? but look at Atari, right ? its not like they made "only 8 billion" , right ?
    hey this retroid even has a nintendo-shaped and coloured one
    THATS FUNNY , L M A O ...
    nghhhhh .... well we'll be waiting for ... "new stuff in fpga land" which means "new stuff in fpga land ... hopefully not as long as "we have 17gb capacity" up til "woops flashdrives" - its good to see the hotcakes sell, now just hope the guys don't snort it all up in one go (heh ... this is belgium yo, so we have belgium humour)
    until then i see more innovative bedroom pcb gnome tinkerers doing stuff for Ataris and C64s than i see it happen for the DE10 nano crowd
    thats no offense okay, if you can make a quick 10000 you should obviously DO THAT ... its just
    we would like to see ... something new heh
    _{Catham Joker}
    06:18:36: : nice ... now someone should go looking for "games that dont work" on the clones :) so someone can fix them, no one cares about patched games versus accuracy anyway seemingly , its become a subculture where "runs on my mister" is more important - - - ... "no comment" on that lol
    its nice to see folks enthusiast, people enjoying and smallfry making a buck thats not owned by microsoft
    still ...
    it would be nicer to see some next-gen stuff demoed, not talked about :)
    ganbarreeeee
    anyone wants to trade a steam deck for a falcon 030 ??? like "i found this in my uncles attic , what am i supposed to do with this old crap" versus "whoa, a steam deck for the kids so they dont run off with mine all the time ???"
    any takers ?
    ?????
    _{Catham Joker}
11. 09/05/2024 :
    17:03:21: : yea ... i thort it was something like ssds and flash : you need to power it to keep the magnetic states intact over time, so in floppy maybe "you have to re-write it" but it said somewhere 30-40 years
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/276449667275
    so that means all c64 collectors are having nightmares since some years or actually they just collect boxes ???
    _{Catham Joker}
    13:34:10: : o yea, im gonna try to "trade" the steam deck+dock on local sites for anyone who can trade it for anything i want ... WHO KNOW someone found a falcon in their uncles attic and goes like "dafuk i do with this shit?" and sees a steam deck and thinks O thats nice for the kids
    that would be a fair trade, right ?
    _{Catham Joker}
    13:32:31: : right, casting of frank stone, not even worth the trial according to the big ones ... you know its i dunno and im not in those circles these days but i get the feeling that for some reason wukong isnt even available there ... not that im terribly interested in something my pc cant run it just feels strange
    besides, more and more we are convinced getting of the train when p-T4 announced the world was taken is a good idea and probably will just move deeper underground back to 16 8 and if possible 4 bit worlds where it cant reach it tentacles through
    looking more at greaseweazles and acsi2stms, sidecarts and "15khz 17" crt" these days than RTX 7090 ... besides the last batch sets pcs on fire anyway
    fpga is stale , its in the microsoft phase, or maybe the Atari phase i dunno, a hybrid phase where money is made of past glories by third parties and there's zero innovation going on so not very interested i got a quarter million roms to sort anyway
    i would be looking for fpga synths but only if it comes in a mister sized box with 100 synths on an sd card and 2 to 4 midi ports that can slot into an st and have cubase play ANY synth from the 80s or 90s i could never afford
    (i know its not all possible since analogue to digital can never have the same resolution but at 24bit audio the human ear and brain very likely lose track of that and you'd have to be a mutant or imagining things to actually notice)
    aaaand ... aah the mailman just delivered a package for the neighbours across the street so i'll have to face daylight some time later today, doesnt look like anyones home
    aaaand ... well if life is fucked, they stole the future and blocked all exits
    life is going nowhere so we're in no hurry to get there ... what anyone who didnt have this life and isnt stuck in this hole thinks about that ?
    no fucks given
    _{Catham Joker}
    13:21:27: : for a demo ... the sequel seems to look "even better" ... but you know, there's so many games to finish that have been biting since the 1980s but never got done (and others never without a trainer ...)
    _{Catham Joker}
    13:20:15: : m yea, maybe i should play & finish the first nixy someday now ...
    _{Catham Joker}
    13:18:32: : nah guv, the boy just has no apathy, there's a lot of stuff that doesnt touch my life but i like the enthusiasm ... i remember someone who burned like that :)
    _{Catham Joker}
    07:45:40: : mm yea i think i remember someone talking about converting a board to a core but to fit it in they would basically have to write whats it called HDL I ? ... something ... thats NOT the real machine but the game would look and play exactly the same
    so in essence its emulation there :)
    i guess im a buzzkill again ... but bem, i'll repeat just this : i hope the money is incentive to innovate and bring up next-gen stuff
    its SO late its early, the guys outside are already working the streetworks ... the daylight is starting to hurt
    enjoy the 15 minutes lol
    but gimme a replay 2 tek demo or a mister 2 roadmap instead ... if its not too much to ask
    _{Catham Joker}
    07:42:22: : wellwellwell
    i could have some remarks, earlier i was thinking on how some would push for faster loading times on stuff like the atari XL while WANTING a mister and boasting accuracy but then you would move to something emulatorlike by screwing the loading time upwards .... not for me but the clone ...
    the original mister cores sometimes seem to be far from the actual computer , tho not to the naked eye
    the mister in-crowd is basically an arcade crowd and i dont think they care much about accurate electrons as much as they want "it runs on MY mister" ... basic pack behaviour, dont mean anything by it
    i find for instance the Atari ST core mis-behaving over several boots, sometimes it doesnt, then it does, then it does like theres some kind of ghosting in the machine from a previous boot, i havent tested most of the computer cores and maybe played like 10-15 arcade cores so im not your average customer, i basically dont care about the saturn and the n64 , i HAVE a c64 and and STE and i would actually like p1 to preferably p3 setup for the CD-era of dos/win95-98-xp b/c those are things i had and no matter what the mister is not exact the same
    AS FOR THE CLONE THERE, i think you would need to test across different cores and different games but i dont really care about it either way - i just hope the money is incentive to innovate next-gen stuff, not to sell MORE clones of whats been around for ten years ... but i dont wanna crash the enthusiast party, i bet their brainchemicals are still raging after 48 hours ... nice pitch
    _{Catham Joker}
    06:00:21: : hm - SO many ZX games .. the mochile chiptune is pretty nice indeed ... but im starting to wonder did someone find the secret on "how to make ZX games in 5" b/c that thing has literally nothing, no hardware scrolling,no sprites,no masks, you definitely cant do that in basic and the colour palette is FAKE 4bpp b/c you get like 8 colours that have a brighter hue on screen b/c the electricity , nah "the voltage" is higher (so you have dark and bright black for instance as another quirk) BUT you cant have the same colour twice in a block so you cant have blue + highvoltage-blue in one what would be on the commodore a pet block (8x8 i suppose as well) thats why zx games always have sprites that switch color when overlapping the background in a different color, its like not possible (well maybe if you did superprecise tek-demo timing but that probably means you dont have time left to run a game in it) - BUT THERES SO MANY GAMES COMING OUT
    either someone found an easy way or they simply have the biggest active coders base in the world right now (in retroland)
    and its not HUGEprojects but itsnot gamejams either (tho castle of doom or coinz are mine dont come by every day ofcourse)
    ... i guess i can talk a lot too ... but not really about boards that dont exist yet hahah
    right
    back to the studio , i still have to see the comparison vid
    _{Catham Joker}
    05:51:56: : ngh, finally got to an hour of JoGstudio the movie : Oggy turns JoGgy ... its actually
    its called BASIC (JaGstudio syntax) but its actually XCbasic which is C that is BASIC and its got the closest to a bible-size manual for basic i have seen so far. On top of that its not a 1:1 compat so not everyting in the XC basic docs works in jagstudio ... ON TOP OF THAT theres some stuff like DIM as integer array[2,5] (= xc basic manual) gets array not declared while DIM array%[2,5] (means "integer values") seems to hackle somewhere but the syntax in JoGstudio is DIM array[2,5] = {list here} AS INTEGER (afterwards) , then the whole thing about initializer lists which is new to me but probably is a C thing which to C people will be like "o yea i been doing that since i wrote my first starfield on my amiga" and something but also if you declare the array you cant AFTERWARDS do array[1] = {list of numbers} in the same 2,5 array b/c it gets cant convert list to integer error (all compiler errors btw which you have to fish out of the text you get after doing "build.sh projectname") as well as if you add a full list it says something about cant add initializer list as array value or something and one time something odd abot "extended initializers are not available UNLESS the compiler has bblablablabl set to blebleble and blibli to 0xcf=xfjljs...bla et al
    and thats just the multidimensional arrays , now its like i kinda need SOMETHING to store level and other data, right, its not ASM (i bet pure jaguar ASM must be really strange with the RISC and motorola mixed together somehow, if it werent for jagstudio even if its a machine i had i doubt i would have touched it)
    then on the other hand you can see it has options, right, the video on the playlist most recent atm, that is actually zero programming logic, thats nothing more than an object list fed to the OP (object processer, plz dont confuse with JSON and 1960s objects oriented programming, YES KIDS OO dates back to the 1960s actually that "how you should do it thing is older than yo momma ... a bit like newskool javascript actually dates to 1995 ... so probably also older than yo momma) i dont know about RUST but i think ZIG must be one of the youngest dating to 2015 or maybe THE youngest (it looks mighty interesting but currently we only have a few working synapses left and zero incentive to do modern pc stuff anyway we just do destern on the website cuz its like soothing ... its not perl but PHP is nice with the concatenated shortanded oneliners that are totally unreadable, almost as badass as linux shell scripting, so its kinda "cool" (if you're and elder masochist skitzo collective perhaps) ...
    SO ESSENTIALLY the jaguar game for now is mostly "wrestling with the syntax" lol , its not like we cant, its just like we have to trial & error "HOW TO" write it more like, programming logic is not a new thing after all
    but i think once that part is past the Oggy phaser game conversion should go pretty fast (relatively) as we have the game already in phaser (its just missing 4 or 6 levels) , so the only thing left will be collision, which is an OP (= "object processor" ) hardware thing if i didnt misunderstand that but the only thing you get is a red light that says "COLLISION HAPPENED" you have to do the rest yourself, its not like in phaser for instance you get physics and collision for free. For the jag if i have a player and a platform i would need like four collision boxes if i need different behaviour when hitting it from different sides, in phaser its built into the magic functions
    I REALLY LIKED, well "like" but its been quite while, bc if just simply awesome (tho hi level) stuff, i just dont like browsers and it should be clear that nothing about the site is "mobile first" or even mobile friendly ... mainly b/c theres no incentive and doing it or lulz means mobile = restrictive and thats that
    SO ... no i wasnt making semtex once more but i had a MIGRAINE TODAY MAN ..... that has been a while
    and when Oggy is ready we think we should have a grasp of "how to do a jag game" and can get to the game we wanted to do : the soulforce (c64) like shmup, i think the Jag hardware looks like its more or less built for that kind of horizontal 2d stuff
    but first : wrestling with the syntax and trial & error ...
    well what can i say : to us life is not just a mister, not just a steam deck, not just a pc, not just a c64 ... not just an ST .. so what ? sue me ?
    you're gonna lose money b/c i have none so the lawyer bill will be all yours ... i didnt know not being tribal was a crime
    _{Catham Joker}
    04:29:16: : im still sure that feeling of genuine enthusiasm is big part of why its so nice to listen to (and watch) even if the stuff on clones and handhelds doesnt really touch my personal space
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    04:27:53: : lol, dont forget to breathe man :D
    _{Catham Joker}