Not a completely unproductive weekend but not earth shattering either.<\/p>\n
Last night, Sunday, I was messing around with MAME<\/a>. It would really be nice to get some proper arcade style joysticks and that flat panel TV I’ve been promising myself for a couple of years. A decent Linux clone of Gauntlet<\/a> wouldn’t go amiss either (running at 1920 \u00c3\u2014 1080 would be fantastic!) I was never much into Arcade Games, with the possible exception of the original Star Wars when on holiday, I was always far too tight to waste my limited pocket money on them – especially given I could play on my Atari as much as I wanted. Still, it is now possible to play real arcade games for free on a PC (there are a few made freely available by the copyright holders) and I was very impressed with the home built Arcade Cabinet I saw at LUGRadio Live 2006<\/a>… This is ties in with my plans for the TV room becoming a real home cinema room – big flat screen (preferably Hi-Def) TV, a couple of rows of chairs, the second row raised up somehow. Now perhaps also a podium that can be slid in front of the TV that contains either 2 or 4 arcade joysticks. It could work! It will certainly be expensive and something that won’t happen this year!<\/p>\n Talking of expensive… On Saturday afternoon I met up with Keith and Tony and we had a drink at their favourite Coffee Shop and then wandered around a few shops. I was on the look out for the DVD for the First Series of Extras<\/a>, hoping to find it on special offer somewhere – it has been out for a good few months now. I only found it in one place, HMV, and it was full RRP – \u00c2\u00a321.99! I don’t think so! A quick look at Froogle<\/a> when I got home found it online for \u00c2\u00a38.95. That’s rather more like it. Less than half the price for the same thing. The only downside is that I will have to wait a few days for it to arrive. That’s a price I’m willing to pay! This all rather reminds me of someone, who shall remain nameless, who just bought the DVD Box Set of the 2005 Doctor Who<\/a> (just the Eccleston episodes, not the Christmas Invasion) for full retail of \u00c2\u00a370! It’s hard to believe anyone paid full RRP for that set, everyone else I know bought it for more like \u00c2\u00a340-\u00c2\u00a345. That’s quite a difference. It didn’t even occur to him that he might get it cheaper elsewhere. The moral of the story, think before you pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not a completely unproductive weekend but not earth shattering either. Last night, Sunday, I was messing around with MAME. It would really be nice to get some proper arcade style joysticks and that flat panel TV I’ve been promising myself for a couple of years. A decent Linux clone of Gauntlet wouldn’t go amiss either […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-gaming","category-linux","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}