Feel like the overpriced PC adapter really killed off what could have been a thriving scene for the second Kinect. Amazing piece of tech for its time.
If you have a semi decent soldering iron it's very easy to make a DIY pc adapter btw. The 36w power requirement is very easily managed now with most GaN chargers too (12v3a).
For some reason the DS didn't take off at all in the area I grew up (neither did the original Pokémon games despite seemingly being massive everywhere and the cartoon being a big hit in my school).
it was only like ten years later when I got to realise how great those download play titles must have been for some kids. PSP games would have been way too large to pull off similar stuff, DS games were often only a few megabytes
It's the only machine I ever got at launch. Utterly gigantic purchase for 14 year old me
This was more than a small part due to the calculation that early models were more likely to be hacked and I'd save myself a lot of money emulating snes games instead of buying new ones...
Looks great! Could you fill the screen with black? It'd be a great OLED screensaver (I don't get why this isn't something people want more tbh, they look amazing with things like this on them) if the white overflow wasn't there
There was a variety of causes that gained prominence ~2015 when Bernie Sanders came much closer to challenging Hillary Clinton than anyone expected. The Democrat party establishment picked the wishy washy meaningless bits out and focused on them while keeping away from the more challenging economic issues that would actually require their ideologies to adapt
I think what most people call "woke" is probably just a reaction to the obvious emptiness of many of the things politicians like Kamala Harris chose to focus on whilst ignoring more concrete issues. A lot of it was stuff there never was a solution for.
Would an old rooted Nook Simple Touch suffice for your use case? They're very cheap these days and you've direct access to some early version of Android on them
I definitely found the world a bit harder to navigate for solving puzzles than the 2D games but the really horrible puzzles in grim fandango were the time based ones that the engine could do but not remotely well. There was one in particular with a wheelbarrow that was fairly easy to figure out but an insane pain to coordinate with the game's controls on our PC
Windows 95's start menu was drastically faster than Windows 10's with its default settings. Things like that mean the joke just results in thoughts like "By what metric?" and "Was Windows 95 ever considered famously slow?"
Or is the point that the reference doesn't need to be accurate but just has to catch a general vibe of "old = slow"
Probably worth posting your work somewhere, I feel like there's probably a subreddit or two that would be interested (maybe the Rockbox forum too?).
Could definitely make a decent markup buying broken ones and reselling them all fixed up too; I got seven "broken" ones a few months ago on eBay for $20 and almost all of them just had dead batteries
I think it's less about money and more about the endless access to metrics and analytics which will impact how you feel about your project. A forum of maybe a few dozen people you somewhat know loving something 20 years ago would have sufficed but now it all tends towards vague bigger numbers of people you have minimal knowledge of to feel at all good about the effort put in.
In lieu of 10,000 likes, which might ultimately feel hollow anyway, making a couple hundred dollars will probably suffice.
I made a super niche modding tool a few weeks ago; it's got one star on GitHub but the two nerds that have actually used it are delighted with it and I'm very happy about that. The notion another few in the future will find it is oddly nice to think about
Oh yeah that's way beyond me! I might do a mini to micro mod first, that seems relatively quite easy
The common headphone jack issue is that one of the pins comes loose very easily but that's a very simple fix of adding some extra solder. Beyond that the audio port gradually gets looser to the point headphones will very easily fall out; I think if you just never remove the headphones this will be much less likely to happen.
The main failures I've seen on eBay are:
- dead battery (these are often in amazing condition otherwise because they were bought and hardly used)
- loose audio jack (simple solder fix but may have the looseness issues)
- broken membrane buttons (probably not very fixable?)
- faded screen (probably has lots of other issues but generally usable)
How was the usb c installation? Feels a bit beyond my soldering skills. I mainly use a zip but I put together a very slim mini to c cable for my Clip+ that does the job.
Don't suppose you could tell me the name of the part they use for the headphone jack? I can find loads that look almost right but never the exact model
Did MS provide SDKs for other OSes for v1 or was it just easier for people to make an open source one?