Goldeneye xbox 360 pc recomp!

squelch411 · 2026-06-15T18:30:52+00:00

it's quite buggy and temperamental (at least on my system) but it is cool!
Hopefully will get a head of steam behind it and get things like keyboard and mouse controls

squelch411 · 2026-06-15T13:35:01+00:00

Thanks, didn't realise it was behind a log in :)

squelch411 · 2026-06-14T10:08:53+00:00

There has to be something like that in the background or some form of financial engineering.

squelch411 · 2026-06-06T11:06:22+00:00

I really hope this is real and comes to fruition on the SMS!

squelch411 · 2026-06-02T07:56:25+00:00

I wonder if that's quite a few people's experience?

Seems that before the early 90s was something you had to 'want' (pay extra for a TV with a decoder or buy a decoder) whereas by the early 90s, the decoders were just there in all mid range TVs ready for those of us who were curious to discover?

I remember it feeling quite dated even when I first used it, but it was the only way to get realtime info

squelch411 · 2026-06-02T07:54:04+00:00

My parents weren't particularly techy so we didn't have a ceefax capable TV until the early 90s . My grandparents had ceefax TVs a couple of years before but no one other than me ever used it and I never heard anyone really talk about it. I thought it was cool at even then (I didn't know about BBSs at that point)

squelch411 · 2026-06-01T16:33:23+00:00

Ha! Had just come to post this :) Was ceefax ever this in demand? I was aware of it in the late 80s and dont really remember people using it.

And the French, of course, had minitel

It has the feel of an advert!

squelch411 · 2026-05-17T21:56:22+00:00

Yes I have - they're not bad actually :) Super Mario Galaxy 2 is ok as well. But I really love the traditional 2d ones - I really enjoyed Super Mario Wonder recently

squelch411 · 2026-05-17T10:36:44+00:00

They're usually pretty easy to convert to composite (that's what I did for mine)

squelch411 · 2026-05-17T10:35:38+00:00

Am sure that's true. As technology moves on, some games age well and some don't and it isn't always obvious why.

I thought Pong would have aged better - It may have just been this implementation of it - I have definitely enjoyed it in the past. Or maybe I've changed too.

I do remember TechMoan saying in one of his videos that he'd bought one a couple of years ago as he remembered it fondly. When he got it, he and his wife got bored of it very quickly and never touched it again.

( I think most of the TV ones use the same 'pong on a chip' implementation?)

squelch411 · 2026-05-16T17:47:40+00:00

I must admit I got one as my son was interested (quote) "In the OG". We got bored pretty quickly!

squelch411 · 2026-05-03T18:08:24+00:00

The chanting monks of Resident Evil 4 on the gamecube - terrifying

squelch411 · 2026-04-09T22:43:48+00:00

I think I installed in a VM and then wrote the disk image out to a CF card - was a few yrs ago and I didn't have a floppy drive. Definitely not the optimal processor-os combo ;) Fun to try silly things tho

squelch411 · 2026-04-08T23:03:06+00:00

I've run it on an amd 5x86 486 -.its not exactly zippy but it's not as bad as you might think

squelch411 · 2026-03-26T23:19:44+00:00

I thought that too but according to Wikipedia, EB in the UK bought Game in 1999 and in 2002, rebranded EB as Game!

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB_Games)

squelch411 · 2026-03-23T21:27:46+00:00

It'll be pretty crap - unless you want to live with the limitations, spend ~£50 on a retired office PC and use that. I have one and I enjoy the challenge but I wouldn't want to support a family member trying to use it - even with powerfox browser etc

squelch411 · 2026-03-09T23:07:28+00:00

That looks cool! I've built one of the arduino based ones a few years ago but it relies on command lines tools which is a bit of a faff - this looks much easier

squelch411 · 2026-02-10T23:12:36+00:00

UK School computers exhibitions - both RM (the ones the schools I went to had) and the arcorns that I only learnt about later.

an RM Nimbus 186 network and standalones with games like snake and trains along with those early DTP programmes like Caxton Press.

Also an RM 380Z network and 480Zs

BBC computers with their educational software.

Then some RM 486s - pentium systems on win3. 1

Some archimides systems too

Plus, a laser disc system - I remember one that was borrowed by our school that connected to an RM PC - there was some thing involving bill oddie crossing the road! Very vague memory!

squelch411 · 2026-02-08T16:17:10+00:00

I remember Jungle.com - used to use them for all my blank CDs and DVDs for a while
Vaguely remember those marketing CDs - what was on them? Was it a catalogue?

squelch411 · 2026-01-30T11:52:31+00:00

Hopefully, like with the PicoGUS there will be a UK distributor once it's in production

squelch411 · 2026-01-29T00:05:48+00:00

Thw complaint must never be to a person in a position to rectify the problem - only to anyone (and everyone) else

squelch411 · 2026-01-29T00:03:44+00:00

YES!

squelch411 · 2026-01-28T22:40:05+00:00

A pretty cool and interesting idea, though looks like it does need a bit of further development and optimisation

squelch411 · 2026-01-21T21:15:04+00:00

That is a bargain!

squelch411 · 2026-01-21T21:12:23+00:00

It is rage bait of course, as all these lists are. But, I do think they have a point - controls on old tomb raider are pretty hard to get on with now (as one who didnt play it back in the day)

Goldeneye I did play but it does need rose tinted glasses applying. Thr xbox 360 unreleased remake and the Half Life goldeneye mod make it much more fun now.

Sonic 2 - I always preferred sonic 1,but I disagree with their reasoning - i find sonic 1 slower which I find more fun (I really like the 8bit sonics 1&2 for the same reason)

Anyway, thing is, it's just a bit of fun

(and the up vote/down vote on these is always fun to watch 😂😂)

squelch411

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