@KingMike yes and no. The 6501 came out alongside the 6502. The 6501 had the same pinout as a 6800, and the 6502 had a built in oscillator, so the pinout was changed. Both had changes in manufacture (the infamous ROR command being missing in the initial batches of 6501s and 6502s being a good example) Motorola sued MOS because of patent infringement and IP theft, because a handful of their employees were stopped from continuing development of what later became the 6501, so they took their design (that was drawn up at Motorola) and brought it to MOS in, IIRC, 1974. The results of the lawsuit were to drop manufacture of the 6501, and there were some agreements involving handing over stolen documents and designs, and money changed hands. Source: I knew multiple people who worked at MOS/Commodore in the 1970s.
@JackGYarwood yeah, no. The writer isn't a good person and the book is from a solely US perspective... When RPGs were relatively unpopular in the US at the time.
@jamess I agree. Luckey was chased out of gaming after being a creep. Oculus festered, was bought by meta, and is dying now. Entirely because he injected his politics into gaming. Now people don't want him anywhere near the industry. Ignoring him and letting him inject his politics into it ruins the industry
Is this gonna be another cryptobro thing where they take a dead company, reanimate its corpse, then start dropping a coin and NFTs and Web3/metaverse/AI slop with the logo slapped on?
@NickStarling you... You know that a few people in the know said that Mexico said they'd happily ally with China, which made Trump scared enough to fold on the tariff plan, right? That's not master negotiating, that's thinking that threats will bring him big wins. The "capitulation" that both Canada and Mexico have "offered" were from before Trump took his second oath of office. And those tariffs? You'll see things like fruit, lumber, and car parts double. When the price is set to rise in the place where prices are set (the US) that means the suppliers will raise the price to whatever people will be willing to pay.
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Re: "It Would Have Been A Huge Success" - The Pitch Behind The Sega Handheld That Might Have Rivalled The Game Boy
@KingMike yes and no. The 6501 came out alongside the 6502. The 6501 had the same pinout as a 6800, and the 6502 had a built in oscillator, so the pinout was changed. Both had changes in manufacture (the infamous ROR command being missing in the initial batches of 6501s and 6502s being a good example) Motorola sued MOS because of patent infringement and IP theft, because a handful of their employees were stopped from continuing development of what later became the 6501, so they took their design (that was drawn up at Motorola) and brought it to MOS in, IIRC, 1974.
The results of the lawsuit were to drop manufacture of the 6501, and there were some agreements involving handing over stolen documents and designs, and money changed hands.
Source: I knew multiple people who worked at MOS/Commodore in the 1970s.
Re: Pre-Orders Are Now Open For Bitmap Books' 'Definitive Book Of SNES RPGs Vol. 1'
@JackGYarwood yeah, no. The writer isn't a good person and the book is from a solely US perspective... When RPGs were relatively unpopular in the US at the time.
Re: WayForward And ModRetro Release Joint Statement Regarding Sabrina: Zapped! Re-Release
@jamess I agree. Luckey was chased out of gaming after being a creep. Oculus festered, was bought by meta, and is dying now. Entirely because he injected his politics into gaming. Now people don't want him anywhere near the industry. Ignoring him and letting him inject his politics into it ruins the industry
Re: Random: This Two-Sided NES Cart Is Blowing Our Tiny Minds
I used to collect Xonox Double Ender carts for the 2600.
I still don't get why it wasn't popular with other eras of cart systems.
Re: Acclaim Skirts Around The Issue Of Which Of Its Classic IP It Actually Has Access To
Is this gonna be another cryptobro thing where they take a dead company, reanimate its corpse, then start dropping a coin and NFTs and Web3/metaverse/AI slop with the logo slapped on?
Re: Trump's Tariffs Have "Changed Everything" For Makers Of Essential Retro Gaming Gear
@NickStarling you... You know that a few people in the know said that Mexico said they'd happily ally with China, which made Trump scared enough to fold on the tariff plan, right? That's not master negotiating, that's thinking that threats will bring him big wins. The "capitulation" that both Canada and Mexico have "offered" were from before Trump took his second oath of office.
And those tariffs? You'll see things like fruit, lumber, and car parts double. When the price is set to rise in the place where prices are set (the US) that means the suppliers will raise the price to whatever people will be willing to pay.