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by saehn
Fri Jul 02, 2010 10:57 am
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: VIC 20 to RCA Jacks?
Replies: 9
Views: 7901

Pretty sure he's wrong. I had a 5-pin DIN to audio/video/luma/chroma combo cable that I used on both my C64C and my VIC-20, plugged directly into my TV's video-in port. If it's a 5-pin and was made correctly, there shouldn't be any problem. If the following cable is what you mean, and it is five-pin...
by saehn
Fri Jul 02, 2010 9:30 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: "Video games can never be art"
Replies: 20
Views: 3941

Follow-up from Roger Ebert. I did a reply in the Neatorama comments, basically just restating what I wrote here.

http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/01/rog ... his-words/
by saehn
Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:22 am
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release: Odi Est Amo
Replies: 13
Views: 7577

52% :-D
by saehn
Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:16 am
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release: Odi Est Amo
Replies: 13
Views: 7577

Is it odi et amo (hate and love) or odi est amo (hate is love)? ;-) looks good, will have to try it. I meant "Hate IS love" it. So, you shouldn't feel so bad hating this game. BTW, the protagonist graphic is a variation of something you made a long time ago. I thought he'd look cute with ...
by saehn
Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:51 am
Forum: Games
Topic: New Release: Odi Est Amo
Replies: 13
Views: 7577

Is it odi et amo (hate and love) or odi est amo (hate is love)? ;-) looks good, will have to try it.
by saehn
Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:05 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Stack Light Pen software
Replies: 2
Views: 982

by saehn
Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:07 am
Forum: General Topics
Topic: "Video games can never be art"
Replies: 20
Views: 3941

Something else just occurred to me. We've had games of some sort around for thousands of years, maybe tens of thousands in the ~150,000 years we've existed as a species. How many "traditional" games have ever been popularly considered as art? Now of course the majority does not define real...
by saehn
Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:38 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: "Video games can never be art"
Replies: 20
Views: 3941

Last post, sorry. :-D So while many games perhaps aren't art and probably aren't intended to be, that doesn't mean that games can't be art. Some conceptual art is wholly participatory. Games can be a type of concept art; having a computer as the platform doesn't necessarily invalidate the entire con...
by saehn
Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:31 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: "Video games can never be art"
Replies: 20
Views: 3941

Usually, too: the primary function of a game is to play it for entertainment. They often contain creative/artistic elements, but those aren't what defines the gameplay (essential to the GAME). It makes me think of a well-crafted checkerboard, or a chess set designed by a sculptor. Sometimes the game...
by saehn
Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:24 pm
Forum: General Topics
Topic: "Video games can never be art"
Replies: 20
Views: 3941

There's no one definition of art that's going to satisfy everyone anyway, so it's kind of a moot point. The general consensus on art seems to resemble rhurst's description: the purposeful personal expression of an idea with the intent of provoking a response. Whether something is good art or bad art...
by saehn
Sat Jun 05, 2010 9:10 am
Forum: Hardware and Tech
Topic: RF Modulator missing
Replies: 9
Views: 1757

Are you OK with soldering? If so, these are pretty easy... either a standard monitor cable with a separate adapter, or an all-in-one cable: http://radagast.bglug.ca/C64_svideo/C64_Svideo.html http://sta.c64.org/cbmsvideo.html Or you could buy a cable from Protovision in Germany (tell them I referred...
by saehn
Tue May 11, 2010 10:15 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Interesting Commodore 16 discovery
Replies: 17
Views: 5421

...inside an anti-static bag within a box full of desiccant? :-)
by saehn
Tue May 04, 2010 12:38 pm
Forum: Other Systems
Topic: Ultimate Wizard -- C128 mode?
Replies: 2
Views: 970

I've heard of this before (and have seen it with a few games whose names I don't remember). Here's something you might find interesting:

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/i ... or_128.php
by saehn
Sun May 02, 2010 8:34 pm
Forum: Buy, Sell, and Trade
Topic: [eBay] Animation Station, Games, Software, etc.
Replies: 5
Views: 1304

$2.75! Grrr... :-D well I just hope that Payton draws something.
by saehn
Sun May 02, 2010 11:46 am
Forum: Buy, Sell, and Trade
Topic: [eBay] Animation Station, Games, Software, etc.
Replies: 5
Views: 1304

robinsonmason wrote:I bid on the animation station. :)
Thanks ...but I hope it goes for more than $0.01! :-D