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15khz 320x200 with proper CRT scanlines (like in arcade games and home consoles and computers on a standard TV) is immensely more pleasing to the eye than the same resolution displ…

It was all about saving RAM on the Amiga.

cries nostalgia tears in Propellerhead Rebirth Thanks.

Probably true for the US. In Europe, it was very country-dependent. Here PS2 sold simply because it was the new PlayStation, to a public that for the vast majority wasn't even awar…

The PS1 monstrous success sealed the DC's fate. It created a huge new demographic of first time gamers that equated "PlayStation" to "console".

Yes, SCART was for all of Europe. Mass adoption was kind of slow though, low end TV models often lacked the port well into the early 90s.

Got to agree here, in fact what I remember is that the Riva TNT 2 already was the smart pick vs. what 3Dfx had out at the same time, even though Voodoo was the cooler brand and had…

It's one of those rare cases where being in the US or Europe gives an uniquely skewed perspective. It's astonishing to think that the Amiga hardware was done in 1984 and the A1000 …

> Wikipedia-depth knowledge of this The filfre.net series of articles on the history of Commodore and Amiga is truly great work, and should give you a much clearer picture than pre…

I was waiting for this comment :) I'm sure nobody expected it to live this long, as the grumbling about its various shortcomings must've started in the late eighties at the latest.…

How timely! I was watching a video about the ill fated Vector W8 supercar last night, and wondered about that awesome CRT proto-GPS thing seen in some shots. https://www.youtube.co…

I agree it's not optimal. It's not like every game changes on every MAME release, but some indeed get re-dumped from time to time. The usual example is encrypted audio data or colo…

Works fine - thanks!

That might be the first recorded case of a subpar headline detracting from actual quality content :) What about "Adventures in MAME ROM dumping and games preservation"? It's the on…

Don't let the clickbait headline dissuade you, this is a great read if you're into emulation/retrogaming/any kind of software preservation.

Those prices are not what I remember from back then, at least in Europe. Comparable 386 and 486 PCs cost way, way more than an Amiga 500 or later 1200 respectively. The filfre.net …

You're better off without the Store, but in rare event that it's actually needed for something there are scripts on GitHub to add it back in.

"I have no moat, and I must scream"

It's generally called 'Attract mode', and at least from what I recall from the golden era arcade games (from the mid '80s up until the mid '90s) it's never an intro video, rather s…

"Apple says it will scan only in the United States and other countries to be added one by one, only when images are set to be uploaded to iCloud, and only for images that have been…

Possibly misreading you, but updates behave differently in LTSC. It stays at the same level (1809 in LTSC) until the next major release and just auto-installs (very quickly, in bet…

This, a thousand times this. It's strange it's still somewhat under the radar, it should be much more widely known. They call it LTSC, but it's really Windows As It Should Be.

Rufus has other use cases: imaging distros for Raspberry Pi, and (especially handy) reformat HFS, APFS and Ext4 pendrives for FAT or NTFS under Windows without jumping through hoop…

You're right, with a caveat. While it's true that 320x200 VGA DOS resolutions didn't have scanlines, arcade games and home computers did, and generally looked much better. A MS-DOS…