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Condolences to you and your family, @stephen_usher

Icky wrote: 13 Apr 2023 12:19 Condolences to you and your family, @stephen_usher

And the same from me Stephen.

PhilC wrote: 13 Apr 2023 12:29

Icky wrote: 13 Apr 2023 12:19 Condolences to you and your family, @stephen_usher

And the same from me Stephen.

From me too.
:2k2: :sorry:

:awwww:

:awwww:

stephen_usher wrote: 13 Apr 2023 08:44 And he's gone.

:cry:

Very sorry to hear this Stephen. :(

My sympathies go out to you and your family in this time of sadness.

Thanks all.

As long as I avoid thinking about things I’ll miss telling him and talking to him about I’m doing OK.

stephen_usher wrote: 13 Apr 2023 18:52 Thanks all.

As long as I avoid thinking about things I’ll miss telling him and talking to him about I’m doing OK.

I know what you mean exactly. Feel free to PM me if you need to.

In August I'm going to be helping out with the Elite Community Meet retro gaming section. Seeing as others are bringing lots of micros I'll not have to contribute much, so I'm instead going to take my only old console, the Atari Jaguar, instead.

The only issue is that I only have two games and one controller...

So, I've just bought a Jaguar GameDrive cartridge for the machine... I can then put all the ROMs on an SD card and people can then play any game that was released for the machine. It should be delivered to work tomorrow and I can pick it up next week when I get back from Cornwall. I'll have to buy another controller so people can do multiplayer, which is important in a social event.

I picked up the RetroHQ Jaguar GameDrive from work this morning, loaded games onto the SD card and... it worked wonderfully!


It really was that easy, once I had a good set of ROM images. Note that most of the "ROMS" you find on the distribution sites are modified to work on emulators and won't run on the real hardware. However, the YouTuber "Ctrl-Alt-Rees" has created a plug and play zip file linked from his review video which made setting up trivial.

So...


Games!

I'm guessing that the multi-player options only appear once you have two controllers plugged in, so I'll have to get a second one. Then it'll be ready for the Elite Community Meet in August.