#jsmess 2016-08-31,Wed

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02:06 🔗 SketchCow DFJustin: Agreed - I will make sure when I go hardcore in that direction, imaging will happen
02:07 🔗 SketchCow To be frank, I don't see the value with these shareware ones I'm ripping
02:07 🔗 SketchCow But let me see what happens when I hit the PC/DOS disks again
09:44 🔗 SketchCow I have good news.
09:49 🔗 SketchCow https://archive.org/details/KaratekaIBMBeta19860303ID952
15:20 🔗 DFJustin excellent
15:34 🔗 DFJustin enjoy some hater tears https://twitter.com/MNeko/status/770712085072220161
16:29 🔗 balrog DFJustin: someone should tell him that M+GUI is not MAME :p
17:34 🔗 SketchCow -----
17:34 🔗 SketchCow I want to start by saying thank you for making it possible to re-live my childhood from viewing old websites to playing my favorite retro games. That said I hate the MAME controls so much! Most games use ctrl, alt and arrows. When you press ctrl+alt+arrow in windows the screen freezes and rotates.
17:34 🔗 SketchCow Once you rotate back the game area because tiny. No one can play a game like this, it just makes people angry. Its really nice to see these old games but its like a sick joke because I can't play most of them without hitting the 3 buttons at once (sometimes well in to the game).
17:34 🔗 SketchCow If given access I would personally update the config files and game descriptions to use non-hotkeys and tell users how the buttons are defined. I hate poorly implemented technology, this is frustrating enough to make me want to avoid the entire archive.org site on principle. Please, fix this so I can continue enjoying and recommending archive.org to others.
17:34 🔗 SketchCow ----
17:34 🔗 SketchCow This is my favorite line of all time.
17:35 🔗 bai he's not entirely incorrect, that bites me sometimes too, heh
17:35 🔗 SketchCow Yes
17:36 🔗 SketchCow So he would kindly like our help, or he will boycott the entire site
17:36 🔗 bai haha yeah, that's a great attitude
17:36 🔗 Vito` I can reply with some helpful tips to install linux from source if you'd like
17:37 🔗 Vito` definitely can't rotate a screen with just a hotkey in x11
17:48 🔗 bai sure you can. I think ubuntu's unity has that enabled by default, it's done with xrandr
17:51 🔗 DFJustin I think it's a third-party driver that does that and not stock windows
17:59 🔗 bai mostly laptops yeah, but I think win8 or win10 may have added it natively
18:09 🔗 DFJustin never encountered it with stock win8
18:10 🔗 DFJustin apparently it's utilities that come with intel graphics or toshiba laptops
18:12 🔗 bai ah, that's probably it, intel graphics
18:13 🔗 bai one of my coworkers at my last job discovered that functionality and for a couple months he'd do it to anyone who left their system unlocked (might even work when locked, not sure)
18:13 🔗 bai caused a lot of confusion at first but soon everyone knew how to handle it, heh
18:16 🔗 DFJustin I did that once and then turned the monitor itself upside down so it looked normal at first
19:08 🔗 SketchCow Just did an entire podcast that raved about how great MAME is
19:08 🔗 SketchCow I'll let you know when they make it available, who knows when
22:37 🔗 SketchCow DFJustin: I've begun creating the 0.177 installs.
22:37 🔗 SketchCow That said, I'm interested in how the Floppy sound emulation works.
23:35 🔗 SketchCow apple2gs appears to be failing.
23:35 🔗 SketchCow Might we have the most up to date ROMs somewhere?
23:35 🔗 DFJustin yeah the roms have been reshuffled for that, should be on the usual places
23:44 🔗 SketchCow Updating.

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