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deadmanemailing

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  1. It was tough....at times I didn't think we'd make it. But they will tell legends of the 3 day lock-down that we suffered through in South Australia. Hard to talk about it now...but on the first day I really felt like a pasty. But I had to have a sandwich instead. Was hell...pure hell. All the talk about Pizza didn't help either.
  2. South Australians have got this. And we were rooting for Victoria.
  3. A lot of whingers out there on Facebook etc. Government conspiracy? because a Liberal government just loves to shut down all business. Police State....that commissioner is the most reasonable down to earth guy on TV. Complaining that only X people died in a state like Vic when they locked down. More would die if it spread to everyone. Highly contagious, sub 24 hours before you can spread it. Saying SA didn't learn about hospital quarantine from Vic. The Police Commissioner said it right...how many cops and security guards, cleaners, caterers are going to volunteer to be locked down for a year or more to work in the medi hotels. I'm not volunteering. That is the price of returning citizens back to Australia. What's the option.....lock everyone inside for a year or two. The virus is or isn't as contagious as X and Y. 50k dead in the UK this year. And that's with some lock-downs. Who wants to be a nurse or doctor in an overloaded hospital. 6 days may be longer....so what....do what it takes. It's not WW3, its a Netflix, video game, fix a pinball machine, work from home binge.
  4. And if you have no mask....make one....wrap a t-shirt around your head. Scissors and an old t-shirt you could make something to get by with. Our Grandparents did WW2, I can go without takeaway and watch some more Netflix.
  5. I'm in SA, 6 days is nothing. And when it comes to medical advice, I'll listen to Epidemiologists before I listen to pinball experts and Andrew Bolt (and I listen to Andrew Bolt). Our chief medical officer said this strain is spreading at a 100% rate in families, not 20% as per normal and is contagious in under 24 hours from infection. I think that will take out more people than the flu. "In addition to the symptoms listed above, researchers and doctors alike have discovered that COVID-19 also affects the vascular system. This includes your veins, heart, blood, and even your brain." I'm happy to stay home for a week or more and avoid that.
  6. During lockdown I took my old PC out and let me kids use it....making my Lowboy cab a cupboard. So I looked into Raspberry Pi's and I got one. I'm loving it. using the RetroArch install. Low power, fast start. Linux....free. Free RetroArch....but so good I donated. I'm running my USB marquee light off it still. Connected to my IPAC2 keyboard encoder I was using. Connected to a dell sound bar for sound. Main difference is I had to use the 0.78 pack of MAME games. While had something newer on the PC. Some games struggled or did not work with MAME 0.78 but did with other RetroArch emulators like the neogeo emulator. Most 3D games it struggled with..so Tekken etc was out. But I emulated some of these from a PSX emulator on there. Have it working for Mame games, Atari 2600 (Stella) and C64 and PSX emulators. All this is built into RetroArch. So good for the 80s games and into the 90s a bit. I was using Launchbox on the PC which I thought was really good. But I'm sticking with RetroArch at the moment. So much faster to start than my last PC inside the CAB. I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with only heat sinks. Was about a $130 spend with all bits. I loved the Raspberry Pi so much I bought a Raspberry PI 4 and use it with a monitor for web surfing and Plex and YouTube. Gives me an extra basic PC while the kids use the others. Spent about $200 with the PI 4, cables (USB off switch), case, heatsinks, a fan etc. Using it write this. Big fan.... $200 PC....Windows is $180.... The 4 is faster and I have more memory, but generates more heat. May need a fan under load...still cheap. it's kind of funny having a credit card sized computer inside a CAB that big. ​ ​
  7. 2 years ago I got a Zaxxon marquee made by @MamePatrol . I'm still loving it years later. But thought I'd get a few more from @MamePatrol and they turned out great. Defender because its a classic and The Punisher for a bit of 90s fun.
  8. Working power supply (or something) taken from working LAI Lowboy. $1 Pickup SA
  9. I think this is a JAMMA Harness. Was used with 60 IN 1 Arcade board. $1
  10. LAI Power Supply Unit (PSU) taken from original LAI Lowboy. Was working before I took it out. $10 Pickup SA
  11. 60 in 1 Arcade board. All working. $40
  12. Original LAI Lowboy control panel seeking a home as I don't need it. Joysticks not included. Buttons in picture are included. $40 negotiable Pickup SA (Very negotiable, make any offer.)
  13. I was fine with where the thread went. Sounds like its old ground for most, but not for me. I'm at the LCD stage. Probably stay there, but who knows, it can become addictive. Using an LCD means I can maintain it myself with little fuss. I played with artificial scan lines and effects and some are pretty good. The 2600 emulator had various options from single RCA to S-Video. Some was too authentic....blurred too much...was awful....but probably close to an old CRT TV. But overall it triggered the nostalgia a bit more, it looked more like it used to. I did the same with mame and my kids were not happy, they noticed the lines and hated it. This machine is for me and them, so I dropped the fake scan lines. On a similar note, I did like the Johns Arcade YouTube channel comment that he prefers dedicated cabs because he puts more effort into playing them. When spoilt for choice, you play for 30 seconds...die and swap games. You never try to master them. So at one extreme is the MAME machine with 10,000 games and the other owning just a few single game Cabs. When you'd think the 10,000 would be the logical better choice, but sometimes less is more.
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