hansolo77

Sorry my computer took a nose dive and needed replacement ram. I'm back up and running now, going through checking my sites out. How is the gun? Did you get it working?

Hope not.

Yeah my original order was lost in customs and had to be re-issued out. Still waiting for that original package.

Bruce Willis really started doing some crazy Sci-Fi stuff lately. Nothing HUGE, like OMG I gotta go see it. But a lot of weird one-offs.

Link worked ok for me. I'm kinda both ways on this. Part of me is shocked that it will never be again. I always hoped to go one day, see the new tech and games before anybody else. It was not only a place for bragging, but a way for companies to entice competition and see what others are developing. But on the other hand, I can see how Covid really slapped people in the face and the big companies not wanting to expose themselves to it if they can avoid it. There are other ways to get news of your product out, just not as big and hands on. I really don't know how I feel about this. I'm "slad"... glad but sad. LOL.

That's exactly how it works... it draws the white boarder when you run the game, it's not visible any other way. But, I suppose that could change depending on the software. As far as Batocera is concerned, they have it rendering when games are running. You can probably enable it for other things in Windows, through some configuration or something. But I suspect you're wanting it just in games and not all the time, which is exactly how it's done.

Good choice. I have two black ones. No pedals. I know it's not becoming of me to be supporting other frontends, but I use Batocera on my Atari VCS and the last version released included direct support for the Sinden guns. It's literally plug and play. I haven't tried connecting both guns simultaneously, I read there are possible issues with it because of the power draw. I don't know if the Atari VCS would be capable of it. But so far, everything I tried playing with it works great. Playing on my 70-inch 4K about 5 feet away, no discernable range issues. I guess my only limitation is that the VCS doesn't really have much "under the hood", so games like Carnevil or House of the Dead might not run very well. But that's not an issue related to the gun. I like it! Really awesome to play Duck Hunt, Area 51, and Time Crisis again.

Yea I thought about going that route, and maybe even buy the system the pfSense guys sell. Honestly, I don't even know why i went through route of a server, but i'm glad i did. It works for me at least.

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+1 to pfSense. I'm still learning, but it's a very strong commercial grade router. I bought a used 1U server off ebay that came driveless. Installed a small 120gb (overkill by far) SSD and I was off to the races. For $189, it beats the pants off those off-the-shelf routers. It has 6x10Gbe ports, great for future expansion should I get Fiber some time, and good for 10Gbe between network devices directly. Port forwarding has been a trip learning, but that's half the fun. I still have the old trusty standby if I screw something up. But pfSense lets you backup, experiment, restore if something craps out. And it has a ton of plugins and addons. They have OpenVPN, which I setup a server on, and now I can connect remotely to my home network super simple. They also do OpenVPN clients, so you can configure it with your VPN service (like the IPVanish service I have). Without even worrying, my router is always connected to the VPN, meaning all my devices are too! They have other addons too, like AdGuard, to do advanced DNS blocking like Pi-Hole. I'm really loving it. Here's a more recent listing for the hardware I'm using: https://www.ebay.com/itm/133772637020

So seeing how this thread has reopened.. I never updated. I'm moved in to my own place, fully unpacked and live the bachelor's life. Of course, the first thing I did when I got the keys was go out and find the best internet I could get in my price range. As a new subscriber, I was offered all the perks from everybody. But, as it turned out, AT&T was NOT fiber, but DSL. We had DSL before and it's crap. It's only slightly better than dialup. So they're out. Breezeline was next up. They topped out at 500mb standard coax. Better than dialup, and better than I was getting at the time living with the old folks. They killed me there... we paid extra for more speed but only got like an extra 2% because "the distance to the hub is too far". Going with Breezeline I would have gotten an extra 150mb speed, but for about $75 a month. Then I plugged in my address to Spectrum. Yeah, that's what we had before, and my address was more "outskirts" than the previous one... but who knows where their hub is? Gave it a shot and BAM! They offered 1gb coax for $69/month. I bought my modem so I would be hit with the extra rental fee. They told me the modem is free, but one of my coworkers lives in the same apartment complex and said he has to rent his for like $10 a month. Spectrum tried to throw in all these extra perks like 30-days free phone service and 30-days free HBO. I'm like "nah I just need internet" so they chopped off $25 for the first month. It was fun watching the guy try to install it. Since I had my own modem, the instructions were simply to plug it in and connect to their website to begin the registration (mac address, etc). Didn't work. Turns out, even after the guy came out, I have 5 cable outlets in the apartment but only ONE (the master bedroom) was connected to anything. I tried all of them too before I called. What he discovered, besides the single outlet, was that the cable coming into the building was disconnected outside (probably to get a competitor connected. He plugged in THEIR line, used his cool magic wand tool to trace the signal through the apartment, and found where it was coming out. We got set up in about 30 minutes after that. Unfortunately, my server and router and stuff was going in the side bedroom. There were no outlets in that room at all. Spectrum said they would install outlets in any room I wanted service for no charge. However, this guy said "no way" because it would require "construction" and I'd have to have the apartment complex's facilities come in to demo a wall so he could run the line from the master room to the spare. Ok, fine.. can you at least run a cable through the walls and just hide the cable up over a door or something? Sure! He took out a 12-inch drill bit and ran a cable from the side wall of the master bedroom and drilled it into back closet wall of the spare. Done and done. He stayed long enough to check signal strength and clarity and was on his way. I now have 1gb internet, and it only costs me $69 a month. Dad's is running about $350 with all his "discounted bundle" of digital cable and digital phone. Hehe, don't feel sorry. And to share my results, remember my 366mb from April: This is my new speed (it's not doing it's greatest right now, weather has been kinda cranky): Oh yeah and I built my own router back before I moved out. It runs pfSense. I set it up to have an "always on" VPN connection to IPVanish ($5/month), so that causes a little bit of a speed drop and latency. But I'm happy with it!

As a donator and pre-build indigogo backer for the Atari VCS, I was given 1 year of free service to Anstream. Honestly, I wasn't that impressed. A lot of the issues came with the interface and usability with the VCS. The game feels were interesting, but I never used it. My own emulation collection has everything I need. I had hoped it would develop into something more, with an ability to have a friends list and play multiplayer games together. I've actually not thought more about it, even though I'm subscribed to their mailing list.

Every single one of those pictures make me wish I had money. Even the chick at the end.

Laserdisc is something I've never been able to emulate. Near as I can tell though, they work with 1 very long and erratic video file and a bunch of software that jumps around in that video as needed. When I said I needed seizure medication, it was meant as a joke. But I'm pretty sure that all laserdisc games are the same like that.

Looks cool but I think I need seizure medication.