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Got Swos 1.0 running now, for some reason not the 96/97 versions.. use kickstart 2.0, 1 mb chip, 2 mb fast..

I would still love DirectoryOpus for my mac at times.. such a good util

Lovely they gave it so much love.. hopefully they we'll sell enough to make it wortth it (even thoguh they probably did it because it was so cool).. i'll check out the game digitally

Reminds as my local apple dealer, a small store was raided twice in two weeks wheni ordered my current macbook... nasty practices..

Hot take: golden axe belongs on this list

You know there's only one game people want.. .DopeWars !

@hordak for that analogue has just annouced they will release an adaptor.

Damn. I really do’t want to buy it but you’re making it so difficult. Maybe i should sell my original evercade

Ah nice.. since analogue pocket now has a sms core i might start to look into the card… since it was a long time hit in brazil might dig up some brazilian exclusives

@calbeau Good question, had the same with the information on the sega mini 2... apparantly all retro inspired life is now nintendo life......

This was dead from the start i'm afraid.. the intellivision itself was too small for a dedicated revamp, and the new games were clones of flash or phone casual games.....

(and now hoping my playdate will arrive soon)

What would a 'true' succesor to the RG351 mean then?.. I have a GPD XD from 2017, and until PSX it works nice, and dreamcast is ok.. When I see that this one still has problems with saturn emulation, I really start to wonder when the true succesor to my GPD will arrive, with everything to the gamecube without a problem.. all these hundreds of devices have slightly better screens etc, but don't see to be game changing..or a reason to upgrade. (I had hoped my analogue pocket - when it will arrive in 6 months time would do that with the fpga cores, but it's so quiet out there)

Nice presentation from a small company.. professional.. got me tempted, nut not really playing enough of my Evercade to upgrade..

Will be getting the toaplan collection though,, nice manual with interviews with the makers..

Finally .. firmware 1.1 announced https://www.analogue.co/announcements/pocket-os-v1-1beta-coming-in-july

My
Gpd xd ‘s saturn emu lation improved
After new firmware so there is hope.

(Still no reason to upgrade i think. My gpd works fine.)

Lovely little niche product, and since my 3ds and switch were getting a bit old I ordered it last year.. am in batch 4.. The 3ds offered for a while new ways of of gaming, but this little crank really trickled me..

Only thing i fear is that because of all the delays it won’t feel that fresh anymore when it finally arrives… this whole season thing is different when other people already are playing i presume….

The whole ‘hipster’ comment is rather funny… it’s been used as a way to call out people trying to be more the authentic then others, and people just following that quest for authenticity just because their friends do it, but don’t forget the people who started making ‘real’ sausages or herd bees (guity as charged) did that for a reason, and that search by itself is something we need in gaming too, in this world of endless freemium misery…

@TJM i think you mean Grafity Force II, the best best duel game ever.. it actually got a remake , but the original (or the gravity power extended version) remains the best

Nice review, the selection is a bit too focussed on Team 17 for my liking, and just got a retrocade for the bitmap stuff..

Big missing software house is ofcourse sensible software... megalomania, sensible soccer and cannon fodder Top 5 games in my opinion... but i can add them... although, my android tv with retroarch on it emulates sensi just fine, and actually suppords my The Arcade Joystick from back in the day...

@Ooyah for some there is a legal way..Sensible world of soccer now has a 'legal'updat eif you own an earlier version for example..

@EarthboundBenjy Thanx for this info, and @Damien @Damo for the article.. since emulating gameboys (early 200-s?) I was missing the Castlevania I remembered from early 90's, and now I realise I was emulating the wrong game... just one second of this music and I was back in my old high school..playing Castlevania, borrowed from a friend.. (I still have his burai fighter, come to think of it)

@charliegirl, which time are you referring too, I remember e.g. that the gameboy robocop sound track was quite immediately used in a commercial, and in the amiga times ( 91-94 where the use of samples in computer games really started) Rob Hubbard of c64 chiptune fame was already a god (admittedly ,the chiptune concerts started 5 years later, but still)

Does it work on the analogue pocket;)

@SalvorHardin indeed, me hoping yesterday when I saw the pre-order news it would be sort of quiet and I could slip in for a
Q1 2022 pre-order.. and then saw youtube exploding when fnishing work.. Now just hoping there was some great american football game yesterday night so that america is still sleeping at 8 am pacific,,

@StuTwo You should watch the digital foundry video... John lineman talks about it.. probably, but with a little plastic cutting

@Specter_of-the_OLED I'm just happy finally that nice vertical design is back... (but I hope you get yours.. I've got my micro here for my horizontal needs)..

Think I missed the first pre-order round by a few minutes, so will be sitting ready tomorrow..

@ian for saturn sanshiro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99HncW0GUk0

@ian_beale i have the gpd xd, and it does 'ok ' radiant silvergun (after chanigng the os a bit), so it's succesors should do as well

@nessisonett I recently installed retroarch on my androidTV, and this retroachievement felt likem such a present.. making me replay games and giving me a clear target in a retrogame (since often just playing retrogames feels a bit'' yes i can play it again , buty what shall i do'.. Since retroarch for android supports is, at least retroid should support is as well..

(and so happy my android tv supports my xbox 360 hori joystick and my 8-bit do switch pad)

From niche this is now picked up by big game sites. Those 20k will sell out in 2 mins.

Will preorder though. Know one of the game developers and seeing him work on his game (daily driver with the crank as a sterring device) makes me fall in love with game once again.. more excited for this than for the switch pro..

Thanx for this article.. i played some commodore 64 go games, and they were indeed not that strong.. concepts of ‘life’ were too difficult.. only in the early 2000s they became sort of worthy opponent..so i can understand Yamauchi-san..Especially since the average go player in japan is far stronger than i am at the world’s most beautiful game...

Maybe good to the add to the article: in the 2016 the alpha Go team of google did figure the game out, by using neural networks, which allowed the game to learn the game like a human, and recognise parter,s so 20 years after chess, the computer did beat the world champion.

This article makes me a but sadder that Go wasn’t included in the recent release of 51 worldwide games, especially if there is a game using a go bord (the four in a row like gomoku)... there are some go games on the jap e store, but they contain to much jap language for me to judge... so please nintendo.. it would release the game to a wider audience.. it’s easier to learn then Shogi. (Btw there are some great manga go games (hiraku no go ) for the gba which received fan translations, and they inspired the youth to play more go 15 years ago..)