bunch of simps crying about upvalued Saturns making it easier for users to enjoy this amazing console, do you think the world will run out of 9 million Saturns because some Chinese guys decide to sell them premodded on AliExpress? .
If you look at the comments on the Thinkpad video, I noticed when I watched it that he didn't show the laptop closed. I pointed that out and he admitted that it didn't close and the keyboard mechanism didn't work, and he deliberately didn't mention it. It's a cool project, but I think it kind of sucks that he decided to be deceptive about it - likely because it was the sponsor was providing the 3D print.
Hey Dom! Sorry you felt if I was trying to be deceptive. I thought that I was clear in my reply that I did mention in the video that the bowing of the bottom case would become an issue. The part where I explained that the case didn’t close easily got mistakenly left out of the cut. As far as the sponsor, I was very open in the video about the issue with bowing and shrinkage - all expected. They had zero influence into the content itself. If at the end of the day you still feel I was being intentionally deceptive, that’s unfortunate, but hope you still enjoyed the video!
We interviewed Jason Bradbury last week about his movie/Kickstarter campaign. You can hear it on the latest episode of the Retro Asylum podcast should anyone fancy a listen. Keep up the good work Rees 👍
These Saturn slaughters are really strange, as I wondered from the very beginning: where do they buy the consoles to be able to slap a (crude) shell onto it and sell it for something around 100 pounds? I see Saturns go for that price regularly, so where the heck did they get the lots and lots of ones to mod? Ah well, nice ramble as always. Cheers!
Morning, just watching / listening to this and I am not sure about those portable console - but likewise I don't begrudge someone doing extensive mods to them either so long as parts aren't just being trashed. Also, the price of original games can be rather expensive for a hobbyist - paying more for a particular game than you did the console in my mind is madness, yes you could argue there is the emulation root, but ultimately there must be a market for it. Like yourself, I tend to try and keep things looking original at the very least, and reversible (should I be in a position where I need to pass things on etc).
Personally I don't agree with the concept of software patents not in the least because most of them are entirely without substance. The Nintendo patent is a good example. Now Nintendo made throwing a virtual ball at a virtual creature fall under a patent. But what if the player has to throw a virtual cube? Or a virtual net? Or a virtual spear? From a software design POV these implementations are 100% identical (only the graphics differ), so does that mean that Nintendo now retroactively owns the patent to all manner of hunting games?
I guess that if anyone wanted to copy the Atari retro strategy with the Amstrad brand, it would fall to Sky as the company who bought Amstrad and, presumably, all the product rights.
bunch of simps crying about upvalued Saturns making it easier for users to enjoy this amazing console, do you think the world will run out of 9 million Saturns because some Chinese guys decide to sell them premodded on AliExpress? .
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Once more a lovely Ramble!
If you look at the comments on the Thinkpad video, I noticed when I watched it that he didn't show the laptop closed. I pointed that out and he admitted that it didn't close and the keyboard mechanism didn't work, and he deliberately didn't mention it. It's a cool project, but I think it kind of sucks that he decided to be deceptive about it - likely because it was the sponsor was providing the 3D print.
Hey Dom! Sorry you felt if I was trying to be deceptive. I thought that I was clear in my reply that I did mention in the video that the bowing of the bottom case would become an issue. The part where I explained that the case didn’t close easily got mistakenly left out of the cut. As far as the sponsor, I was very open in the video about the issue with bowing and shrinkage - all expected. They had zero influence into the content itself.
If at the end of the day you still feel I was being intentionally deceptive, that’s unfortunate, but hope you still enjoyed the video!
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We interviewed Jason Bradbury last week about his movie/Kickstarter campaign. You can hear it on the latest episode of the Retro Asylum podcast should anyone fancy a listen. Keep up the good work Rees 👍
Oh awesome! Somehow I'd missed that. I have added it to the list for a listen later 👍
@@ReesRambles Cool, hope that you enjoy it 👍
These Saturn slaughters are really strange, as I wondered from the very beginning: where do they buy the consoles to be able to slap a (crude) shell onto it and sell it for something around 100 pounds? I see Saturns go for that price regularly, so where the heck did they get the lots and lots of ones to mod? Ah well, nice ramble as always. Cheers!
"It gets very cold down here" - boy stuck at bottom of the well ~1983
Morning, just watching / listening to this and I am not sure about those portable console - but likewise I don't begrudge someone doing extensive mods to them either so long as parts aren't just being trashed. Also, the price of original games can be rather expensive for a hobbyist - paying more for a particular game than you did the console in my mind is madness, yes you could argue there is the emulation root, but ultimately there must be a market for it. Like yourself, I tend to try and keep things looking original at the very least, and reversible (should I be in a position where I need to pass things on etc).
Personally I don't agree with the concept of software patents not in the least because most of them are entirely without substance. The Nintendo patent is a good example. Now Nintendo made throwing a virtual ball at a virtual creature fall under a patent. But what if the player has to throw a virtual cube? Or a virtual net? Or a virtual spear? From a software design POV these implementations are 100% identical (only the graphics differ), so does that mean that Nintendo now retroactively owns the patent to all manner of hunting games?
I guess that if anyone wanted to copy the Atari retro strategy with the Amstrad brand, it would fall to Sky as the company who bought Amstrad and, presumably, all the product rights.
I’m definitely in favour of more Linux and open source content.