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Do-It-Yourself-Game-Console
DrCarbonite writes "Andre' LaMothe is releasing a brand new game console, the XGAMESTATION which may fulfill the fantasies of Slashdot readers everywhere. 16-bit Motorola CPU with a graphics architecture "similar to the Commodore 64, Atari 800, and Apple II". Its an electronics kit being marketed as a game system that wants to be hacked/modded/rebuilt. It supports homebrew everything-- joystick adapters, displays, software, roms, the whole nine yards."
"a brand new game console, the XGAMESTATION which may fulfill the fantasies of Slashdot readers everywhere"
Does it come with a girlfriend?
You know you're a geek if you've ever replied to a tagline.
...which may fulfill the fantasies of Slashdot readers everywhere. 16-bit Motorola CPU with a graphics architecture "similar to the Commodore 64, Atari 800, and Apple II" ...as long as your fantasy isn't to run GTA3: Vice City.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
A nice, hackable, homebrew-friendly system with a game library slightly bigger than the Mac.
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16-bit Motorola CPU with a graphics architecture "similar to the Commodore 64, Atari 800, and Apple II"
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Heh.. obviously the majority of Slashdot readers don't have particularly high expectations for games consoles then
If you think the Commodore 64 was good, you guys are REALLY gonna be bowled over by the Nintendo NES! And hey, they take the in-game graphics off Sega Megadrive games and put em STRAIGHT into the movies
Sorry - just a bit of sarcasm for the afternoon
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
I can't wait for the new XGameStation category to show up on sourceforge/freshmeat/download.com. Maybe now it the time for companies like RedHat to come out with their own gaming accessories. They'll just have to be careful, though... SCO will probably find a way to sue them, too.
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no, this is Slashdot building up a stock of spoof stories to dupe on April 1st
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
How about a new cpu? Because the one that comes with it is a piece of crap.
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I found a link with more information...Here
It's to a site call "slashdot" I wonder if anybody else has heard of it?
It's kind of old, the date on the page says it was written August 7th 2003.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Just wait until somebody builds a Beowolf cluster with them
Confused parents and grand parents will pick up the XGameStation for their kids. Wow, I thought the X thing was $200, but this one was half off! Little Jimmy will be thrilled!
You do realise that the Philistines were a culturally and technologically advanced civilization? There's no evidence that they had poor spelling skills, nor any evidence that they had poor grammar. Further, the word "anything" is English, not Minoan, so while they wouldn't know how to spell "anything", I'm pretty certain you can't spell the Minoan/Philistine equivalent.
Black and grey are both shades of white.
I believe you're referring to the XXXGAMESTATION.
Losers choose to abuse the use of "loose".