Posted by Danielle

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Does he ever scratch on the drawer at all?

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Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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has he ever managed to get himself into the drawer despite it being closed?

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Nope to both; I think he realizes that both me and the brush are necessary for him to get brushed, never seen him try to brush himself

Posted by Danielle

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What was the most cursed CPU ever?

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You know what, I'm going to say the TMS9900 as used by the TI-99/4A.

Sure, it's a fine CPU on it's own-- a competent 16-bit CPU in an era where home computers generally had only an 8-bit CPU. In this case, the CPU is suffering the curse imposed on it by the motherboard.

256 bytes of RAM-- and that includes the processor's "registers", so it's even less than that if you want to compare it to later 16-bit CPUs. Literally everything else on the board has to be accessed through an 8-bit to 16-bit converter, which takes four wait cycles. Including all your program ROMs. (And let's not even talk about GROMs, which take additional cycles to choose an address)

But it's worse! The system does have extra RAM, 16KB worth, but it's only attached to the video processor! To access it you have to go through the 8->16-bit converter to in turn access ports on the video processor to put in the address to finally get to your RAM.

This motherboard curses the TI-99/4A to have some of the worst performance of a home computer in the era, despite having on paper one of the best CPUs.

Posted by Danielle

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What's your favorite PowerBook model?

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I really want a PowerBook 100 Because it's Sony's take on the Macintosh Portable, and an official Apple Mac designed and produced by another company is not a common thing.

Also the Pismo is pretty sweet with those organic lines; really feels like the culmination of Apple laptop design up until that point, and then they went off in an entirely different direction with the TiBook (the direction they're still in today, really)

Posted by Danielle

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Annoyed at seeing summer stuff like bug spray or pool accessories at stores already?

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uh NO i want it to be warm

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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best video game with super in the title?

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Super Mario USA, because it has America

Posted by ゼンガー・ゾンボルト

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Why would you want it to be warm? Also, how warm?

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Around 70 is just perfect.

Up to you whether that's Fahrenheit, SI, or pseudohydrodecimal.

Posted by Danielle

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Wasn't Butterfly a meme song in the mid-00s?

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I only remember hearing it for the first time much later, but maybe I was missing out

Posted by Danielle

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Wasn't the XBAND far ahead of its time?

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Definitely; shame they didn't have much support from the game manufacturers.

Posted by Danielle

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Most interesting retro gaming related story?

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Look at the saga of the creation of Ms. Pac-Man, it's got everything: intrigue, hacking, backstabbing, the Atari 7800, AtGames manages to get itself involved somehow...

Posted by DarkWitchClaire

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favorite nonstandard sega controller?

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Going to go with the Densha de Go! Saturn controller, because trainssssssssssss

Posted by ゼンガー・ゾンボルト

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Most ugly controller for a game you've ever seen?

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The Gotcha boob controllers. Look, I've seen a lot of boobs in my day, and only rarely are they just domes like that, give me some meat to grab onto-- let alone the bright pink color I mean

...uh, anyways

Posted by Danielle

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Ever owned any of those TV plug and play games from the 90s or 2000s?

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Yeah we had one that looked like an Atari 2600 joystick... fun thing about that was that the joystick did not move at all, you pushed on it and it did register but there was no travel-- I was stunned when I later got my hands on an actual Atari joystick and it actually moved, what a wonder