"Hey, look!" She said trying to not doomscroll or get into CNN News Junkie Mode.
I got the Atari 800XL up and running! Just seeing it boot up and the keys register was good. Getting software to run from a flashcard was a little dicier, but I got most of it working.
I'm not sure if I can stream from it, though. The real-time video encoder I use does NOT like the video signal, showing it as a black and white semi-scrambled video signal (almost like composite video over component). But it does show it live making it easy to play games.
My elgato shows it fine, but there's a 1 second delay between what the Atari outputs and when it shows on screen making it impossible to play action games.
I think I did this before with my VCR and pumping a signal through composite to an encode AND coax to a TV. I'll figure something out.
Now...well, can't put off CNN News Junkie mode forever....
[Music Before Bed]
I am many different musical songs at any given time. This is one I wish I was more often: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BhWXi5lzo
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Someone mapped 3-digit web server error codes to phone number area codes. I grew up in Expectation Failed. Why they gotta call me out like that?
@socketwench - Akira really comes across as ground breaking animation and hugely influential in the US, but like you said, had a so-so reaction in Japan.
Japan had had cinematic animation for a while by the time Akira came out. The Macross and Dirty Pair movies are lovely to watch (And a few of the Urusei Yatsura movies, while not as detailed, had been out a half decade before all these). So when Akira released, for them "it was Tuesday."
For us, though...Streamline took a chance releasing Akira theatrically, and while it was critically panned, it at least showed the US audience that "animation for adults is a thing, and it can be great looking if you you put money into it."
I know those of us in the C/FO were celebrating Streamline's release in the US. Sadly, I think it was the failure of Akira in the US Box Office that kept Troma's (absolutely straight) dubs of the Studio Ghibli movies from being released outside of a few test runs in Austin. We had an almost ten year way before Disney would pick up that thread.
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@pandora_parrot - I had a moment like this with Monopoly of all things. My mother and I were massive monopoly players. She still plays a video game version every night. But at one point, there's came a lightbulb realization of "Oh, wait, the cutthorat rent collection and bankruptcies...THAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING." And it really hit home after it started happening to me.
Can't play the game anymore - it's too dark for a family home fun game.
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