Are you looking to run on actual hardware?

If not then you might want to also consider fantasy consoles.

Is the Retro City Rampage / Shakedown: Hawaii guy working on anything?

For offline software I wouldn’t consider it a problem, but for something that connects to the internet I would want it to have the latest versions of its dependencies.

It looks like the dev has been updating their funding details recently, hopefully they have an update planned.

https://github.com/TachibanaGeneralLaboratories/download-navi/commits/master/

When I give a digital game as present I go to the shop to print out the cover art on photo paper and then put it in a card. It gives them something they can immediately look at, handle, and discuss.

Here are a few I’ve used recently, they are more literal than the cartridge era but they are still artworks in their own right:

10s of MB software with the rest of the disc as CD audio was standard for the time.

Even with those constraints PS had noticeable mid-battle lag as it loaded in animationss.

There is some lemmy.world sure but also:

• lemmy.ml
• sh.itjust.works
• programming.dev
• lemmy.dbzer0.com
• programming.dev
• lemm.ee
• lemmy.kde.social

If a topic suits the philosophy of its lemmy instance its more likely to attract a healthy population. Then when I’m looking for a community on a topic it doesn’t really matter which instance that community is on.

problem is I have no idea which of these communities is “best”

Its a bit basic but so far I’ve just gone with the largest population. Usually I’m just after the most activity and that generally scales with population. It keeps things relatively simple.

This name already means something :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix

MicroProse, a Company With a Long History in Gaming

This is understating things! I believe, IP rights aside, the current company has nothing to do with the brands glory days.

I enjoyed the green hill zone set.

The others seem a bit pricy!

The fact emulators are faster than the real hardware, can you blame them?

This is a problem Nintendo has had a few times before, choosing weaker hardware makes it much easier for other platforms to match and outpace them.

My first time playing Pokemon was emulating Pokemon Red on PC. For some reason they put it in Australian stores around a month after the US release so emulation was the only way.

Similarly GBA was playable on PC very early in its cycle. DS/3DS was a bit less attractive because of it screen layout and inputs but that kind of quirk aside underpowered handheld hardware is just asking for emulator support.

The bill text is concise and surprisingly readable.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2426#99INT

They will either need “affirmative acknowledgment from the purchaser” of their rights or provide a “clear and conspicuous statement” clarifying the buying a digital good is a licence situation.

They provide this definition:

“Clear and conspicuous” means in a manner that clearly calls attention to the language, such as in larger type than the surrounding text, or in contrasting type, font, or color to the surrounding text of the same size, or set off from the surrounding text of the same size by symbols or other marks.

For “affirmative acknowledgment” my guess is something like PlayStation does currently might become common. Every time I checkout their purchase button is disabled until I tick a checkbox with this statement:

I request immediate access to my purchase and acknowledge that I will not be able to cancel my purchase once I start downloading or streaming the content.

Both of these scenarios should be displayed as part of the checkout flow, not hidden away in the ToS/EULA.

Square Enix also bought Taito so they had titles from the Bubble Bobble, Space Invaders, Double Dragon, Chase H.Q series on Sega Consoles.

Yes, that kind of packaging is exactly what he is fighting!

I had assumed they were a one and done appliance that would be replaced if under warranty with the faulty unit going to e-waste.

came out of nowhere?

I don’t think anyone expected MS-DOS 4.0 (1986) to release under the MIT license in 2024

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

I’m surprised he had enough contributors give him the OK for that to be viable.

This is something I’ve taken for granted as per app volume control is integrated into the OS on Motorola phones and I’ve been using mid range Motorolas since the Moto G 4 in 2016 (they offer a reasonable price, reasonable performance, microSD card and headphone jack).

Then I was setting up a Samsung tablet last weekend and was horrified to see I had to use the Samsung store to download Sound Assistant for something I had just assumed was a standard OS feature for close to a decade.

I guess it depends on how general you want it to be. A general ai that could learn SMB, breakout, bubble bobble or Warioware would different from something more specialized that is tailored for only platformers like SMB, sonic, etc.

Tennis for Two was a realtime tennis simulation a full 14 year earlier. Of course there wasn’t really a video arcade industry to bring it into the mainstream in the late 1950"s.