Fanboy_Destroyer

@Quick_Man I could, but I won't. It's all there to see on his socials and from his own mouth.

@slider1983 Something like the ZX Next? Do you mean like the C64U?

A proper Amiga? Do you mean like the RGL full-size Amiga? The Minimig? The A6000?

I think he's seen the writing on the wall, and now he's putting the retro scene behind him, but if he can't pick up the younger demographic to buy his overpriced *****, he's up ***** creek.

Like I said, I really do hope he can keep shifting ***** for a while longer because it's nice to open his socials and have a giggle.

Credit where credit is due: he’s a condescending, gaslighting, gatekeeping master. Unfortunately for him, not everyone in the retro scene is gullible, and even the gullible ones seem to be baulking at the price.

I can’t see his Commodore lasting much longer without him resorting to yet more cheap, rebranded crap. Still, I do hope he keeps on keeping on, because opening his social media accounts and reading his terrible takes and buffoonery is genuinely very amusing.

@Cybolic Is there a big enough market for this? There's already Winuae that's free and runs on a Pi. There's already new Amiga based Fpga computers and the A1200 due this autumn.

Personly I would say there's not a big enough market or there would be music and demos out the wazoo right now. Most people just want to play games with most of them having very little time to do so.

What Amiga-like thing can they sell that's not already been sold?

@slider1983 Nice try Peter.

@Guru_Larry That would require R&D, and he has none. Yes, he might say he does, but it's always HIS, MY company, never ours.

Of course not, and no sane person would. If people can't manage their screen time, this won't help and just creates the problem of having to carry two phones around. As for the "it's great for under 16s", it's £400, FOUR HUNDRED QUID.

I just can't fathom how people defending this can't see the glaring obvious.

Take two phones into the shower, not me! "Oh wait, that doesn't work." Just like the Commodore dumb phone, it doesn't work and can't do most of the things people expect from a phone. So you're going to need another phone that can.

Has someone put it: "The sh**ification of the Commodore IP has begun"

Its not really Atari. Atari ended in the mid 90s, Atari now is an old company infogrames with the Atari name and logo stuck on with some sticky back tape.

Did everyone forget about Monster Max on the Game Boy?

This is a poor article. Come on, @Damo you're better than this

@Tasuki wait until you learn what our governments fund, what large tech companies fund. The list goes on even charities and religions aren't squeaky clean. If you dont want to fund bad people you're going to have to get off the earth at the next stop.

The moment you climb on your high horse about any company being tied up in nefarious activities you instantly become a hypocrite.

@h3s Mister FPGA is the best way to play, and the great thing is I can play it right from my own living room couch.

As for software emulation being poor, it really isn't. It's just as good as the real arcade/console but it's free.

@RossoftheRobots Good for you.

@RossoftheRobots Who said anything about official?

Hypocrisy off the scale again... Tell me Damien what did you use to publish this, what servers do you use to host it on and where does the power come from to power the servers.

Same goes for virtue signaling hypocrite commenters. With their Iphones, Ipads, Intel and AMD computers, Electric and oil burning cars.

Give it break lol.

Buy the new Neo Geo, Evercades or dont but give if a rest and get down off your high horses.

Also stop with the Evercade is the cheapest way to emulate line, it isn't and you know it.

You all have a great day now.

Cheap plastic landfill tat. Just buy a decent phone gaming controller otherwise save up and by a steamdeck or equivalent. These things look great until you put one in your hand and then you realise how cheap they feel, how bad they screen is and how flaky the emulation is.

I used to warn people about this year's ago explaining why its bad and used to get piled on and blocked from some groups.

I love retro scene but the way people gatekeep and form echo chambers gives me a warm gooey feeling inside. Just like Damien here who blocked me for pointing out things in his posts on twitter years ago.

Hmmmm feels so good.

When the pair of idiots first mentioned it i knew it was all guff. The project was still born from the beginning.

@Aiodensghost Well that's all that's needed to enjoy the games. There's no actual need for real hardware these days when you can emulate for free. All these new SBC's and FPGA products are solely to make money because they know people are all nostalgic for their childhoods and the fact people are now conditioned thinking they have to have what the next guy has.
Most of these products sit on sideboards just collecting dust once the nostalgia wears off and people realise the games are not that great, and games have moved on and are better. When these very same nostalgic people mention the golden years of gaming were back in the 80s and 90s, I have to laugh. Which is better Elite or No man's sky...

@Damo read my previous comment, it's all there. They're only trying to stop the loss of their trademarks. Any company that owns trademarks has too or risk losing them. Why do you think companies like Nintendo hit hard protecting their trademarks?

Peri will also have to protect the Commodore trademarks, something I don't think he's realised is going to take up a lot of his time.

Stop with the inflated incendiary headlines, have you learned nothing yet? “Commodore Industries Is Trying To Prevent The Revived Commodore International From Using The Iconic Name”

They're looking after their own trademarks as any company would do. Peri knew this would happen and should have been more upfront with the community from the start. If this does stop shipping this month, it's on Peri, but I expect he will spin it and this headline makes me wonder if this is part of the spin.

@FPGAguru of course not, every business he's had ended in failure, and he ended up owing the tax man.

Well things like the Tink gear are vastly overpriced so there's always room for price cuts to keep the price the same.

For the same price or a little bit more there are far better handhelds with bigger screens, keyboards and functionality.

@Damo That depends on the price and availability. If it's not stupidly overpriced and there's a big enough community and enough units sold, maybe.

With new games developed for the system?

@RetroMasters Me and many others then. Emulation and a moded N64 console are by far the superior way to play N64 games. The MiSTer core looks amazing on a good 1440p IPS Monitor.

What are you using custard or cheese ?

@RetroGames You fill your boots sunshine.

@Honkshot If you mean me I'm not trolling. I'm just merely pointing out the N64 suffered in the Graphics department which takes nothing away from what it did at the time or the fun people got out of it... with its handful of decent games.

I will say though all the consoles of the time had bad graphics the N64 tried to hide it behind filtering, dithering on Crt tv's but just made it look like soup. On new panel displays its meagre resolution makes i look even worse and why there are some many video mods and filters for emulation.

Along the way It's nice to have some bants...

Thee Console with the most Video mods to get half a decent picture out of it.

@RetroGames I don't see it as a job but more of a service routing out and cleaning up disinformation spread by fanboys and destroying them...

No thanks are needed, but be ever vigilant for the scourge that is the fanboy.

Taxi!.... 'To the closest kebab shop squire and don't spare the horses'

@RetroGames haha. Another one!

@RetroGames lol

@RetroGames

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RetroGames said:

@Fanboy_Destroyer Dude, you're too transparent. Just get an Analogue 3D or whatever, deal with the situation, and move on:

https://www.analogue.co/3d

You're not going to change the place N64 has 100% rightfully earned in the anals of history by harping on about some meaningless technophile drivel video output quality topic decades after any of these fifth generation consoles were relevant.

N64 is firmly recognised as one of the most important and impacting video game consoles of all time, with a truly revolutionary controller and some of the most critically acclaimed and defining video games ever made--and rigthfully so.

The N64 alongside PlayStation marked one of the most important paradigm shift moments in all of gaming--those are the two systems of that era that in so many relevant ways truly allowed it to be as such--and that's just how it is.

There are consoles, and there are THEE consoles--and N64 is one of THEE consoles.

Tue 17th 14:32"

@RetroGames I'm transparent?

I don't need an Analogue I have a N64 hooked up to a CRT.

If it's meaningless why do so many people buy the video mods and people put so much time into texture packs for the Emulation?

I'm not saying the N64 wasn't an important console but nonetheless video output was utter garbage.

@Pillowpants To be honest I'm not a big fan of Zelda games more so the later games after the original. Everyone I knew had the Master System the NES didn't really make a dent, so I didn't play anything on the NES until years later and for me Golden Axe Warrior was by far the best game of the genre.

@Pillowpants You can say that about each generation of console or computer: as gaming technology advances, so does the quality of things like graphics. Compare ZX Spectrum games to the N64, and yes, the ZX graphics have aged like milk. The N64, Saturn, and PSX were the first truly 3D capable consoles, and developers got as much out of them as they could. However, the issue with the N64 was how it outputted video. The combination of screen resolution, low res textures, and the filtering and smoothing effects just made the visuals look terrible. This is why the system has had so many video mods created for it, and why emulation which I consider the best way to enjoy these games down to having so much time and effort put into video enhancements and texture packs.

As for Ocarina of time it really did set the bar for future games of its type and had an excellent story line. Basing how great a game is just off graphics just doesn't wash, I would rather have a game with a great story line and gameplay that keeps me engaged and coming back.

@RetroGames You don't have too, but it's true nonetheless. That's why there are so many video mods for the system and why emulation is the best way to play and enjoy the games. Emulation is the de facto way to play the games if you want a better image on a CRT and how to play them on a flat panel with CRT filters

Regardless of that extra memory being utilised all N64 games would still look pants on a TV screen.

Wants it to be as cheap as possible and creates a closed system like he did with the original console which will mean more expense.

People will be better off buying a R2 or QMTech they're both cheaper and have a bigger more active community.

The case is hideous yet again and has a huge foot print.

@UtopiaNemo Cleaner models, less popping in and out of walls and the floor, atmosphere and lighting, Texture clipping was reduced, and the controls were a lot better.

Looked a lot nice on my huge TV i had at the time, too.

It was a little more than just "32X bad" coming from Japan. There was a full-blown war between Sega of Japan and Sega of America. That ultimately lead to the downfall of Sega.

Sega dropped the ball and didn't see Sony coming out of left field and had to jury-rig the original design of the Saturn and the rest is history. Sega got too big for the boots and high on their own farts.

Had the PS1 version, but preferred it on the Saturn. Great game either way, with the PS1 version being slightly better. Yet again the Saturn being a pig to develop for gave us a subpar version, with more time though it could have easily been just as good as the PS1 version.

The Saturn is still more powerful than the PS1.
I agree the PS1 did better than the Saturn and that the Dreamcast was a dead duck at release. I even understand why and accept it, and I've never said anything to the contrary.

I owned both the Saturn and PSX and enjoyed them both, and know both of the system's failings and their achievements.

You're so blinded by fanboy rage, you keep on wittering on about the same things which have no relevance to the Power of the Saturn and how it's more powerful than the PS1. This article will Iive rent-free in your head for a long time to come.

Keep on raging, You've shown you're a fanboy, and the smell of urine boiling stings the eye's. So I'll take my leave, my job is done here, lol.

@KitsuneNight So why do you keep running around the houses talking about everything but the point of the Saturn is more powerful than the PS1?

If Jez says the Saturn was more powerful than the PS1 by a margin but suffered because of the development issues, I would take his word.

Lol, Not a fanboy my proverbial...

Cope!

@RetroGames And there we have it, You finally came out as being a bitter PSX fanboy.

As they say, the truth hurts, and you're boiling urine by the pint.

The Saturn is more powerful than the PS1, but who cares, the PS and Saturn are now in the past and everyone can enjoy them with emulation and FPGA.

This was exactly my point the Saturn is more powerful than the PS1 but PS1 Fanboys won't except it and start throwing pointless things like sales figures, Game library around to one up the fact the Saturn was more powerful than the PS1(did I mention that already...)

Lol, Cope!

But this, But that, but the other. The Saturn is still more powerful than the PS1. The levels of PS fanboying here is staggering...

This article as created some of the best fanboy mental gymnastics i've ever seen. Just because someone who actually developed for the system and knows his eggs when it comes to the Saturn and PS1 said the Saturn is more powerful than the PS1.

The thing that's made me laugh was I was called a Saturn fanboy, and I was raging… lol because I pointed out the fact of… you guessed it... the Saturn is more powerful than the PS1, I just stated the fact that the Saturn was more powerful than the PS1.

The Saturn had dual Hitachi SH-2 32-bit processors running at 28.6 MHz. Two GPU's VDP1 that worked together, one for sprites and poly's and one for backgrounds.

The PS1 had a single 32-bit RISC @40mhz(sometimes) processor and One GPU that had to manage everything.

Thanks for amusing me and proving how a single comment can induce epic(I'm off to play some Pinball now) levels of fanboying by the PS1 fans.

The Saturn is still more powerful than the PS1.... it was however a pig to develop for, but that takes nothing away from the fact of how powerful it was.

Thanks for the fish!

@KitsuneNight Rude!