@zzo38 said:
Fixes some bugs in other game console systems, such as Wii doesn't have a option to auto-start, and not having buttons on the front panel for "pause game" and stuff like that. (This one will have CANCEL - + ACCEPT buttons and 4 lights, blue, yellow, green, red, and also a display 4 digits.)
- What does auto-starting a games console mean in practice?
- Nice that you've noticed the obvious problem of the Wii, I too thought pressing a button on the Wiimote to pause the game was too fancy and easy.
- It sounds like a VCR without a remote.
@zzo38 said:
- Fixes the problems we have today with DRM and with companies being greedy.
That's for sure. If there's no content, you don't need DRM.
@zzo38 said:
- Many times today people force you to update computer, and pay more, and making more incompatibilities and other stuff like that. This one, even more updates should be designed to not make incompatibilities and forcing you to pay more.
So after using your PC console for two years, do I get a free hardware upgrade?
@zzo38 said:
- Modern computers are design to be user-friendly at the expense of other stuff, that is no good. This one is not design to be user-friendly, but it can still be easy to use most of the functions that you will need to use. Mostly you just have to push START and it will go, other times you can use the menu. For more complicated things, you can access the BASIC/Forth interpreter or the Linux command-line.
Do you use the command line with the 4 front panel buttons or do you also ship a clunky keyboard from 30 years ago for BASIC coding?
@zzo38 said:
- Modern computers don't do what old computer like Commodore 64 does, that you can write your own program using BASIC, and it will run OK.
Oh? What do you mean by running OK? Last I checked my computer was a pretty versatile tool that I could use to code in many different languages and it still works...
Why not run a C64 emulator at boot?
@zzo38 said:
- It is harder to install a virus on the computer, because of the increased security, but you still have more controls over the system than other people (including me) do. The computer obeys you, they don't obey Hollywood anymore!
I think mostly Vista owners get orders from Hollywood.
@zzo38 said:
- Now you can (if you really want to), enter the bootstrap codes manually using the front panel, without needing any keyboards, game controller, IR remote control, USB, TV, computer monitor, etc to do so! (But without the external stuff, it isn't really that useful)
You need "bootstrap codes" to use this thing? Now that's user friendly!
@zzo38 said:
- Even though I don't want copy protection on the software I wrote, some companies do, so, there will be a way of copy protection using a security dongle, which actually makes it more effective than other copy protection system anyways, and can still have the operating system and built-in programs to be GNU GPL license.
Have you already designed the dongle?
@zzo38 said:
- Other computers crash too often and boot up too slowly
- And more things other than just that...
I'm sure everyone switches to your computer games console instead when they hear about the nice front panel and Forth.
@zzo38 said:
There will be a "root-sticker" on the back, with the root password. Other programs don't know that password and can't install a virus or stuff (there will be other ways of increased security as well, not just this), but the owner of it can still enter the root password to modify the system more, if they want to.
Can the owner change the root password? And after some malicious program you download from the net asks for your credentials convincingly and ruins the system after that, how do you fix?
@zzo38 said:
- Reduced development cost and licensing cost
Unless they want the dongle, hehe. Why would anyone buy the games anyway if it's simple to copy them?
@zzo38 said:
- Make multi-system DVDs, that work for multiple systems
What does this mean exactly?
@zzo38 said:
- Support of XY-MINI, which is OK even for handheld systems. XY-MINI is also an easier way to make sure it works on multiple-system, but you can do it other ways as well, including a normal Linux C program
And this?
@zzo38 said:
I also plan to sell a multi-games DVD for a low price (such as $5.00 in Canadian money), with many different games, some I wrote myself and some other public domain software. It will be designed many of them can run on other systems as well (Windows, Mac, Linux, Yellow Dog Linux, Game Boy Advance, etc) but to run all of the games/software on the DVD, you need POWER X Y system to do that.
So the software runs everywhere? Good luck with that.
@zzo38 said:
I already created some of the circuit diagrams as well, but it isn't complete yet.
Please do post some of these, would be interesting!