Something dumber than Retro VGS
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Game cartridges-- for your iOS or Android smart phone! They plug into the headphone jack! This is amazing! -ly stupid!
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Do these people just set out to make the stupidest idea possible?
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Wow...
If only there was some kind of port designed for transferring data.
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If only there was some kind of port designed for transferring data.
What? And not make some goofy, gimmicky gewgaw? You must not be familiar with Japanese people.
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You have to admit, that's a pretty unique way at handling the issue of 'iPhone and Android don't use the same micro usb adapter'
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Do these people just set out to make the stupidest idea possible?
Cashing in on someone's nostalgia pretty much requires you to do something stupid instead of the newer better ways.
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Hahahahahaha:
Those coded sound waves are then used to unlock access to content that's stored in the cloud, according to a PlugAir explanation video.
So you get the worst of both worlds! You need to stay connected, and you need to not lose or damage the (tiny) cartridge!
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So they've basically made an audio version of QRcodes, but locked behind a physical attachment.
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Of course, QR codes and URLs are too easy to copy.
Think of this as a software protection dongle disguised as "retro" hipster shit.
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They didn't learn from history.
Cassette tapes (an audio medium) were storage for software once ... and nobody misses that.
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Oh right!
Paging @RTapeLoadingError
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So how are you supposed to listen to the awesome sound effects of these games? Over the shitty built-in speaker instead of your expensive headphones, by the looks of it …
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Well, in theory the cartridge could contain an iOS and Android version, so you could buy a game once and use it on your Nexus phone and iPad both... not that it's enough of an upside. Just trying to think of some kind of advantage.
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Christ... if only there was some kind medium available to both of them that could transfer data and then save that data or are apple still doing that retarded thing where you can't access file system?
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Yeah, I used to have some tapes that contained games I played.
Could almost input them using the mic input and my voice, because the calibration circuits were just that nice!
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Audio waves. Fucking audio waves. What's next, a 300-baud modem interface for your iPhone?
And there's nothing retro about it, really. Just retarded.
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What's next, a 300-baud modem interface for your iPhone?
Well...
http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/c26-furbush-MM01H-2-l.jpg
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I actually had an MP3 player that kinda did that:
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/images/iriver-s10/iriver-s10-main.jpg
Well, kinda. If you take a closer look, the "headphones" jack on the USB adapter is a bit longer than usual. I assume it shared ground with the headphone part of the jack and had the data contact on the bottom of it where any regular headphone jack couldn't even reach.
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on the USB adapter
Well it looks like your MP3 player simply uses the same port for two different things. It is talking USB not audio frequencies like the OP. The iPod Shuffle (IIRC) did the same thing.
Using the headphone jack for data transfer over audio isn't new: there were credit card readers that did just that, so you could give relatively cheap handheld order-taking devices to your floor staff. In a retail shop/restaurant/etc and do the full transaction right there.
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Those coded sound waves are then used to unlock access to content that's stored in the cloud, according to a PlugAir explanation video.
So you get the worst of both worlds! You need to stay connected, and you need to not lose or damage the (tiny) cartridge!
So they've re-invented the copy-protection dongle? It would at least be slightly impressive if all the game data was in there and they'd managed to make the encoding reliable across all devices.
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I've been kicking around the idea of smartphone faxing.
You take a picture, it encodes it to audio using the T.4 standards, send to the other device (either by voice call or as a data package depending on whether you want to use data or voice minutes. If we're doing voice we add T.38 encapsulation). Whereupon it is decoded to the image again.
I'm also considering smartphone video by way of sidescan TV!
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I'm back in business baby!
[Nostalgia mode]
Happy hours of receiving a C-90 filled with games....Trying to get them to load...
RTapeLoadingError - SHIT
Adjusting the treble and bass.... try again...
RTapeLoadingError - SHIT....
Tweak the azimuth.....
YES - IT LOADED. Wait, this game is shit. Next.
<Shadowfax in case you were wondering>
Filed Under: Unclosed Nostagia tag detected
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Not retro enough.
I'm going to sell games encoded on punchcards. User photographs all of them (preferably on a wooden table) in correct order, my RealRetroGaming app decodes them and runs the game.
Also, games are not saved to phone storage (retro!), so you can have fun with punchcards every time you feel like playing a game.Damn, am I going to be rich.
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I've been kicking around the idea of smartphone faxing.
You... you're insane, you know that?
either by voice call or as a data package depending on whether you want to use data or voice minutes
Good fucking luck getting that through reliably!
If we're doing voice we add T.38 encapsulation
Good luck getting that going with any/all providers. Maybe it's a bit better on your side of the pond, but over here most people think I'm talking about a brand of sausages when I ask about T.38. Or, at least, that's how they react.
Filed under: No, I'm not bitter, why do you ask?
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Or, how about selling magazines with the source code (or a hex dump) of the games printed inside for the users to type in themselves...
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Do these people just set out to make the stupidest idea possible?
I think these are awesome. The nostalgia industry is getting old people to single themselves out.
On my mark, point and laugh.
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You take a picture, it encodes it to audio using the T.4 standards, send to the other device (either by voice call or as a data package depending on whether you want to use data or voice minutes. [...] )
Don't forget bluetooth. Audio profile, obviously.
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Like Bajtek magazine did in the eighties?
http://gamezilla.komputerswiat.pl/media/2012/194/999627/listing.jpgYeah, that would make some nostalgic folks open their wallets.
Filed under: Myself included
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Good call
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Yeah, that would make some nostalgic folks open their wallets.
I remember, I had a book that had a bunch of games for C-64. Some were in BASIC. Others were machine code hex:
Or, how about selling magazines with the source code (or a hex dump) of the games printed inside for the users to type in themselves...
One of the programs to type in was an editor that helped you type in the machine code. Each line ended with a checksum. So ironically the pages of machine code were easier to get working than the BASIC stuff.
The best one was supposed to be some kind of Red Barron game, where you flew a little biplane around shooting other stuff and dodging the bullets, planes and zepelins.
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I assume they had a Kickstarter? The idiots who funded this should have their accounts frozen. The developers who worked on it should be blackballed from the industry.
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I remember, I had a book that had a bunch of games for C-64. Some were in BASIC. Others were machine code hex:
I think I still have a bunch of those magazines somewhere in my basement :)
Books I didn't have, but manual for QL Spectrum was full of chunks of code to type, AFAIR.
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Like Bajtek magazine did in the eighties?
Like almost every computer magazine and book did in the early 80s, and depending on their target market, for longer than that. Some of the best memories I have of games from that era are from ones my father typed in from magazine articles (and frequently improved) on our Sharp MZ 80 K. I even remember him taping programs broadcast in radio programs aimed at computer enthusiasts — which I can only imagine (I don’t remember this bit) would sound much like loading from tape on a Spectrum did.QL Spectrum
It’s either a QL or a ZX Spectrum, not both :)
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There are other types of T38 about…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Russian_T38_-85(6264920102).jpg
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RUN
3 Subscript Out Of Range
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Wait, seriously?
Darn, and I was going to fire up my interpreter tomorrow...
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I think there's a page missing or something - there's a GO SUB 3000,but the listing ends at 1000.
Filed under: good thing we had line numbers, cc @SpectateSwamp
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There are other types of T38 about…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Russian_T38_-85(6264920102).jpgRegardless of what the URL claims it to be, that’s a T-34-85 (and no, not a T-34/85). This is a T-38:
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That's a T-34. One of the most successful and recognizable tanks in history. Based on the length of the barrel, it's the 85mm version.
The T-38 was a little amphibious recon tank, apparently, although it's not in World of Tanks so who cares.
EDIT:
Regardless of what the URL claims it to be, that’s a T-34-85 (and no, not a T-34/85). This is a T-38:
Yeah what he said.
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There's also a GO TO 4030 in there.
I miss big ass DATA statements to declare my graphics though...
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I miss big ass DATA statements to declare my
graphicsmachine code though...FTFY. (And no, I don't miss them very much.)
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I didn't use DATA statements for my machine code.