Thanks! @Goatboy They seem ideal and as a bonus the wife said that she’ll buy them for me 
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Such a bargain.
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Good job! And extra kudos for securing it for less than the £60 you were told too 
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Anyone got a drone?
So I finally got hold these yesterday and wow. Just wow. For the money they’re a superb piece of kit. They’re dead easy to pair and once done notes sound crisp and clear; they handle anything from Rachminov to Run DMC to Ra Ra Rasputin. Bass and treble are nicely defined and the wife voice cancelling is spot on (she’s Polish so Phil will know what I mean) Love them!
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Glad you’re happy with them! After using them for a while I’d add that the battery life is really good and they charge quickly too.
I’ve mentioned this bad boy before. The MiSTer. It finally got its clothes today.
So I suppose the first question is “what the fuck is that?”
It’s a few things. At the heart of it is a board called the DE-10 Nano. That’s got two main chips on it. One is a regular old ARM chip, like you’d find in any number of devices, including the Raspberry Pi and your phone.
The other is an FPGA chip, standing for field programmable gate array. You can squirt a chip design down to it, and to all intents and purposes, the FGPA pretends to be the chip you’ve just downloaded. Very well.
What the fuck is it, pap?
Okay okay, it’s a very accurate recreation of :-
- Most computer formats up until the 1990s
- Most console formats until the Playstation era
- Arcade games
Shut up pap, I have emulator on my PC, init
Yeah, but your PC is busy doing other stuff all the time. Pretend machines running on PCs are just software programs like anything else, competing with everything else.
Because of that you get input lag, and because of that, you’ve probably felt like a cack-handed old bastard that can no longer play the games he did as a child.
You’re not. Software emulation is like giving an original console loads of other stuff to do while you’re trying to play Mario.
This machine will actually let you play Mario I’m particularly fond of the NeoGeo stuff on this, because although the console was out here, the games were £250 a pop back then. I didn’t have £2.50
I understand the individual words but then…
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Geek to human It can be most machines from your childhood, and they actually feel like they did back then.
You mean a clockwork trainset and Meccano too. 
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Do I have to rob 10p’s from my mum’s change jar and go to the local shop to play?
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No, and it’s as fucking glorious as you imagine.
I’m a bit old-school though. Unless a game is specifically engineered to be a coin-muncher, I don’t do continues.
You need Minecraft in your life.
I probably don’t.
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It’s unlimited lego, basically.
But shitter
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I pre-date Lego.
Spent all my childhood outdoors, except Sunday morning when I would make an Airfix kit.
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But I’m 45 now and don’t want to play digger, wizards lair and that weird making a sandwich game anymore.
Try my mum. She was way more obsessed (though admit to playing was it lotus (?) a lot back in the day) with games and spends hours on her pc playing card games.
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