methanol is made from natural gas, which is in worldwide decline. far better to get your laptop solar panels ready and use more low powered chips, even the wind-up laptop from MIT than "burn" yourself with a gas powered laptop! I'd like to see more of those wind-up machines. No harddrive true but solid state flash cards instead. Good enough for linux and nethack;) Kinda like a big PDA with a full keyboard.
In the next few years we're going to have more to worry about than air travel and gas powered anything. More like gardening!
cheers
(google peak oil, see the DVD End of Suburbia)
peakoil.org or peakoil.com
www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events-06-02.htm l
www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html
only the neo-geo system is reprogrammable, the rest you have to yank out the guts and put something else inside. So many games are technically different, require different physical chips to run in an arcade environment.
Take any game that uses stored real-life images. The image chips will have to be there, then the buffer to send the images as quickly as you move your joystick with no delay. Most of that is managed with hardware. Since the internal hardware is customized for quickness, often the outside shell is different too. I think standard shells would limit the gaming possibilities.
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methanol is made from natural gas, which is in worldwide decline. far better to get your laptop solar panels ready and use more low powered chips, even the wind-up laptop from MIT than "burn" yourself with a gas powered laptop! I'd like to see more of those wind-up machines. No harddrive true but solid state flash cards instead. Good enough for linux and nethack ;) Kinda like a big PDA with a full keyboard.
In the next few years we're going to have more to worry about than air travel and gas powered anything. More like gardening!
cheers
(google peak oil, see the DVD End of Suburbia)
peakoil.org or peakoil.com
www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events-06-02.htm l
www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html
you haven't heard Addams Family during multiball have you? ;) Sound in stereo enough to shake you.
Take any game that uses stored real-life images. The image chips will have to be there, then the buffer to send the images as quickly as you move your joystick with no delay. Most of that is managed with hardware. Since the internal hardware is customized for quickness, often the outside shell is different too. I think standard shells would limit the gaming possibilities.