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Malicious sent us to a little tutorial about transforming that old
Nintendo into a PC. This guide will even make your controllers work, although it seems to me that a nintendo that has survived this long might be a cherished heirloom tho. Does anyone else think that Super Mario 3 might have been the best game ever? Course very few people make good sidescroller/jumpers in the era of the 3D console.
...the X-box PC!
But what do I know. I'm just looking for anonymous gay sex.
well, one of the best, Track and Field. I remember trying to do the 100 dashes and having you thumb fall of becuase you had to punch the controller so hard.
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This is what happens when the Dell kid smokes pot!!
Remember,democracy never lasts long.It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. John Adams (1814)
Just because the linux people want to be like NetBSD doesn't mean they are wrong.
kc8apf
I just picked up an Atari Super Pong for $15 at a hamfest. Works! Will start porting Linux to it this weekend.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
If you mod your Nintendo, you won't be able to log into NES Live!
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
their website was also running on the NES... IIS on a 8 bit platform is a double plus ungood
shr...shr...mov...jmp! jmp!
(system crashes)
damn register boss!
USE='clever' emerge -u sig
For an encore, they could fit the recently evicted NES guts into that old Dell case over there...
I have just succeeded in porting Linux to Linux! Linux now runs Linux! I haven't been able to get the sound to work, though.
Note to self: Just because you CAN run a webserver on an NES doesn't mean you should.
Never approach a vast undertaking with a half-vast plan.
how to mod your NES to make it a projectile from a 5 story building.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
I'm going to do something nobody has done for a long time. I'm going to go out and buy an ATX motherboard along with all the ancillaries (spelling?) and stick them in a metal box with holes in the front for my CD-ROM drive and floppy drive. The front will also have suitable buttons for power and reset. Round the back I think I should be able to find suitable openings for those PCI cards I'm going to put on the Mobo. Do you know what, I'll give it a name, a PeeCee! Nobody cares anymore. Yes, ITX mobos were once cool, but now you can get them just about anywhere for less than £100.
What I liked is as soon as Jimmy Woods (The Wizard) got the whistle, the girl with them said "use the whistle to warp to the next level" or something like that and I remember thinking "how the fuck does she know that?"
For your records: The Wizard
You're getting a cell!
Not architecture, graphics. But you're turning a joke about a good game with poor graphics into a techie pissing contest.
-Comic book guy voice-"Ahh but see I have an Apple ][e, that's enhanced, for those of you who don't know. I also have an 80 column card, and a googly graphics card, plus, an add-on sound board in Slot 5. Mind you, I pity those who don't have a decent sound system for playing those classic games."
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
It has to be River City Ransom. I had those eye-chart passwords memories, stomped ass for hours to get the Texas Boots and Zeus' Belt...
Man, someone should make a MMORPG from River City Ransom. Everyone gets their own gang, and when they die, they say BAAAAAAAAARFF!
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There are Articles?
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From littlepc.com:
/. readers!
"We fit powerful solutions into tight little spaces"
Now there's a foreign concept to
Have you seen my stapler?
The good old times... when games gave random garbage on the TV and you had to blow the games, or lick 'em. And sometimes even put 2 games one of top of each other.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
Haw! Now that you mention it, I remember who made Olympic Decathlon... MICROSOFT!
:-)
I don't remember any blue screens back then, but you had to change your keyboard every other month. They obviously had a deal with keyboard makers.
The ENIAC Demo Competition
Because it a Japanese game? Foxes and raccoons are supposed to have magical or "trickster" qualities.
Which reminds me of this little Japanese ditty:
TanTanTanuki no kintama wa, kaze mo nai no ni burabura
Translation:
Even when there's no wind, the balls of a raccoon swing to and fro.
You night not think very much of it, that is until you actually see how big a tanuki's nads are.
I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit
Way back when -- in my "band" days I wrote a song called Super Happy Zone which is what we called the sections where Mario/Luigi would jump into the coins.
The singer told me (later) that the song had all this meaning for him and he thought it was a really amazing piece of occult writing and that I must have read a lot of Crowely (who I only knew by reference through Jimmy Page and Ozzy) to have so carefully written an ode to some God or another.
When I told him it was about Super Mario Bros he laughed nervously and ran out of the house.
Haven't seen him since I swear!
This
It's a religous war. You see, you've got these guys in blue stripes claiming there are Articles, and the guys in red stripes (which also means they're in charge) persecute the ones in blue stripes.
Both sides spend all their time on Slashdot modding members of the other side to death in a computer game based on "discussions."
What's this Submit thingy do?
I'm surprised that no one's mentioned this to you... but if you had READ his page, he's planning on running WinXP, and was considering win2000 if he couldn't get his controller working on it. It's a very interesting page, and you might want to consider reading it. It's not about modding a nintendo to run windows, it's about modding a computer to fit in a nintendo case.
~Jon
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