@dev_ric yeah bollocks to all that, our basic criteria for a hoover are "does it suck up stuff well" and "does it not clog up too often" and a good old Henry is all we need for that :)
@The4thCircle maybe it's that, could be possible, I didn't pay that much attention to the advert except to tut at what seemed like a clear case of AI-bandwagon-jumping.
@dev_ric I had a Dyson, got one at my mum's recommendation when I first got back from the US. It was an early model and it just didn't cope well with bits of hay and stuff, and when it clogged up you had to take a screwdriver to it to open it up to de-clog it.
A much wiser domestic engineer than me told me to bin the Dyson and get a Henry and since then the little red chap has always had a home here :D
@brokenscholar the sequel to Hover Bovver was originally planned to be a game where you were Gordon's wife trying to get the hoovering done in the house while Gordon and the dog got in the way, hopefully amusingly.
Bit sexist to modern sensibilities, no doubt, but back then it might have fit the intended Terry-and-June-style comedy well enough. Plus I am sure I could have come up with a variety of amusing ways for Mrs. Bennett to get her own back on Gordon :D
@jakesimpson yeah it's the atgames legends virtual pinball table, I got the HD one and they just brought out a 4K one (twice the price mind). Both of them come with the ability to bypass the built in systems and drive them from a PC just using their displays and controls.
Still enjoying studying the bovine artwork from that "Dogies" EM pinball. Just look at these three cows, all swooping curves on their backs, tails and horns, almost veering into Picasso territory. And contrast them with the angular cowboy who's all straight edges and looks like he wouldn't be out of place on the cover of a Frankie Goes To Hollywood record.
Just look at this guy here, a delightful and unusual direct overhead view, still wonderfully curvy (look at that spine and tail!) and with his hooves splayed out so it looks like he's skidding to a stop. Absolutely delightful! Even of the somewhat odd colouring makes him look like he is wearing suspenders :D
This from the German release of the table it seems; looks like he's sliding into Oxen Canyon 🐂
@cat There is a port of it running on visual pinball, I'll have to get that going on my vpin one of these days.
Bovine themed pinball tables aren't very common. Found one called "Cow Poke" which has no cows or associated poking despite the name. There's two El Toros, but I'm not keen on the bull-torture theme for a pinball.
@Farbs those flippers are particularly weird in that they can move towards each other, effectively closing the drain. One target on the playfield closes them together, a couple of other targets it's almost impossible not to miss opens them up again. These were called "zipper flippers" and apparently there were 17 tables (iirc) that used them.
I just seen this .. I think "it's worth reporting it here for a comparison" given that most of us here are "standard people with standard lives" .. or such .. "I would not believe such things exists if I would not have seen them" .. 😱 😮 😐
@xot that's how some DMA works. DMA does not always work like this on every system. Famously, the Sega Genesis featured something called Blast Processing, which is the ability for the 68000 and VDP to access the same bus at the exact same time during DMA, so you can write directly to the scanline during active scan to drive it at 8bpp, despite the Genesis only formally accepting 6bpp color.
@GabeMoralesVR@TomF@xot the code for the rotary controller in T2K was basically made using a VCS driving controller as a basis, just in case they did decide to make an actual controller at some point after the game was released. It was done in the last days of final test of the game and I never had a chance to test it out with a real weighted controller, it was just "put it in there in case in the future someone can use it".
@GreyAreaUK nah we couldn't get our pi setup to play nicely with the CRT in the mamecab for some reason, so we reverted to an old-but-working PC that we used to use for the cab a while ago. Not quite as neat but works like a champ.
@troed@gilesgoat It is entirely possible to use it for external tables, loads of people are doing so successfully. May take a bit of fiddling to set up but it can for sure be made to work, so don't let that put you off it, it's a great machine :)