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  1. Tues night on the old 2011 Macbbok now running ZorinOS currently, I love PopOS! the most on it so far but I just cannot stop tinkering and Zorin is working great so far. It's by no means a daily driver so I don't mind testing different Distros on the hardware.

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    1. MaximumRD

      MaximumRD

      I like it fine so far for the couple hours I've tinkered. Interestingly there are "paid" options, obviously I am not using that. Paid gives you things like more customization options and themes etc. As is though there is enough to set it to look like typical Linux or more Windows or more Mac like depending what one is use to so that is nice. Placement of start, menus, app display to mimic those other Operating systems. Normal Linux storefront to download more software for free from the Linux repositories. 

      I will likely keep it on for some time, cannot say I like as much or better than PopOS! (that would be surprising) but I tend to keep it on for a while and use over time, it's like a third machine after my main PC and desktop so I don't spend much time with it in the grand scheme of things.

      Here you can see a quick video with a nice visual tour of what to expect in the latest core edition (what I have installed)

       

      Now this one is slightly older but longer and descriptive, I watch this guy for Linux content. Worth the watch imho. 

       

       

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  2. 🤔 Is there any notable difference between Star Trek's "Q" and Samantha Stephens?

    1. MaximumRD

      MaximumRD

      Heh, Sam is much cuter 🥰 :

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      plus......

      She was on The Twilight Zone:

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      She played her own mischievous sister SABRINA:

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      Did I mention she was cuter? :

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      And if you cannot tell already I am a Elizabeth Montgomery fan, early crush. MERRY CHRISTMAS 😝

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  3. Hi everyone, hope everyone is having a great day.🦃🥧🍺

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  4. Anyone know if JUSTIN our site / community creator is OK? Concerned with the chaos of Hurricane Ian in Florida. I attempted to message him here and INSTAGRAM and noticed he had not visited here in a while so just wondering. Hope is is well. 🙁🤷‍♂️

    1. MaximumRD

      MaximumRD

      Yay! A collective sigh of relief form us all for sure! Thanks for checking in Giana ! I feel better and am so glad you responded. Take care, no rush otherwise just glad you two are ok. 😎😌

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  5. Heading out soon for our weekly outing, wife not telling me where / what it is this time, all I know is it's across the bridge on the West Side. Will be good no doubt.

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  6. JUST A PSA MOFO'S !!!!!! If I seem to disappear for a while after today, company coming tomorrow and through the weekend, the usual anxiety 😜and just finished all the "Preparing for company" cleaning and organizing so chilling for now. Dinner at a winery Saturday then they leave on Monday, got to focus on "HOST MODE", you know how it is.

     

    1. MaximumRD

      MaximumRD

      Thanks guys! I know some think UGH FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS DUDE 🙄 but when you are one that only has guests like maybe a couple times a year and you are an extreme INTROVERT with anxiety as well, well I know some of you can relate. I'll get through it and I will appear happy and jovial and I will be relived and so happy when they leave as well. 🤷‍♂️

       

      literally me (IN MY HEAD) when they leave 😆

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  7. I've been horsing around and mostly enjoying Micro Center's Atari Ultimate Dual Fight Stick with Trac Ball for a year and a half, and have had an Atari Spinner installed for a year (it was very easy to do). After all that time, I have discovered (for myself at least) which 10 games utilize the machine the best with the emulators I currently have. This is my top ten list- They are not the best games of all time, but the best on this particular hardware... that I have discovered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UwkSg8Rkqc

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  8. Free right now:  Demon's Tilt for Windows.  Thank you @Atari 5200 Guy for the heads up on this. 

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  9. FYI, added another Twitter handle, WHY? NO IDEA, something to be aware of, maybe the other two are troll accounts? 🤔🤷‍♂️😆Obviously ROB DAVIAU @MaximumRD is the main one I interact with but if any of you haven't already hit me up on there on any of them 😏

     

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  10. Here's a promo for Episode 76 of Retro With Marco streaming Wednesday, February 23 at 9pm ET! Featuring new records in scoring & speedrunning, Venture for the Atari 7800, plus updates on the AtarAge 2600 High Score Club, Atari.io Squad Challenge, & EverythingC64 High Score Challenge!

     

     

  11. Wishes for a happy birthday to our atari.io captain @MaximumRD

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    1. MaximumRD

      MaximumRD

      THANKS TO ALL FOR THE BIRTHDAY COMMENTS AND MESSAGES, I KEEP IT LOW KEY AND APPRECIATE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE A LOT THESE DAYS, CAN'T BELEIVE I AM NOW 54 ! THE TIME GOES SO FAST,  BUT KNOW THAT I APPEACIATE ALL THAT TOOK A MOMENT TO WISH ME A HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! 😎👍🍻Having port right now. Wine, a nice meal and cocoanut cream pie for dessert, just the two of us quiet at home, similar to Melissa's birthday on the 18th, we just kind of combine birthdays and valentines. Just keeping it simple.
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  12. 📺 Added a cool ‘YouTube’ dropdown menu at the top of the page, hope you’ll check it out and enjoy‼️

  13. 🤔 new year’s resolution: to work on my timing

  14. I gotta tell you, I'm quite proud of these Christmas cards I made for my nieces. 

     

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  15. Wife treated me to an early Christmas gift, an awesome shirt and three comfy brushed flannel Panama bottoms to lounge in. 😎👍

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    1. MaximumRD

      MaximumRD

      Pretty sure it is an Ikea chair Rick! We bought it many years ago when we still lived in Toronto. 

      Thanks Justin, very comfy! 

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  16. Wife treated me to an early Christmas gift, an awesome shirt and three comfy brushed flannel Panama bottoms to lounge in. 😎👍

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  17. Cheers! Earlier tonight we had a treat, Chocolate Spiced Rye Whisky ! 😎

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    1. MaximumRD

      MaximumRD

      Oh thanks guys, appreciate the replies, makes me glad I posted! 😎

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  18. Well, going through my OG XBOX collection I was glad to see this, most I have are demo discs or copies since both my XBOX consoles are modded but I did see this years ago at a Value Village thrift shop, for just 9.99 Canadian even I could not resist this GTA DOUBLE PACK w/GTA III & VICE CITY in very good condition including manuals. 😎 Pretty sure I got a San Andreas copy in one of my binders as well. 😏

     

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    1. MaximumRD

      MaximumRD

      Heh I got the original PS2 style and also a slim and I agree, I am still impressed with just how tiny that thing is, fortunately I got the slim when I was doing better financially as I bought it of I guy who did really good work installing modchips. Now, I have not tried it in a while but that little slim PS2 seemed to boot just about any PS1 or PS2 backup I would throw at it, hopefully that is still the case. I really love the look of the PS2 slim silver color model but mine is just that basic black. My other PS2 is the first system I ever "modded" myself, early days of PS2 tricks so I replaced the systems shell with one that had a "fliptop LID", that along with a set of SWAP MAGIC discs allowed me to boot with an original game, stop the disc spinning after the bootloader, life the lid and switch it with a burned game on DVD-r media, close the lid and continue booting the copy 😆 man I thought it just didn't get any better, well until modchips hit but I had no skill to install those myself. Definitely the Xbox is bigger and noisier for sure, I think both are still working fine, they definitely had a graphical boost but to be fair they were literally locked down PC's that I am sure Microsoft were knowing full well they could put slightly better GPU power in it to out do the PS2. 

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  19. Well, going through my OG XBOX collection I was glad to see this, most I have are demo discs or copies since both my XBOX consoles are modded but I did see this years ago at a Value Village thrift shop, for just 9.99 Canadian even I could not resist this GTA DOUBLE PACK w/GTA III & VICE CITY in very good condition including manuals. 😎 Pretty sure I got a San Andreas copy in one of my binders as well. 😏

     

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    1. MaximumRD

      MaximumRD

      @RickR
      Fair, I had PS2 back in the day and so have much more history with it. As well having the entire PS1/PS2 library playable including literally tons of great titles that never made it to Xbox. I love that history and would not change a thing, would have LOVED to have seen many of my favorite PS2 games that never made it over on the OG XBOX for sure. THAT SAID, since I didn't have it back in the day I am hoping to test the Xbox and all the games I pulled out of storage recently. I have two original consoles, they are modded to boot backups and though I do not have many original games I have a number of demo discs as well as a binder of copies so I may hook it up to my trusty old 14 inch CRT and dig in! 😉

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  20. Today's my birthday, and I'm turning the big 3.0.

    I don't feel 30.

  21. Once again after more tweaking and organizing, I am really enjoying the look and feel of Windows 11 on our main Desktop PC. AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Quad-Core Processor, 16GB, GTX 1060 6GB, Windows 11 Pro 😎🤘

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    1. MaximumRD

      MaximumRD

      @Atari 5200 Guy. Just seeing this, well you hear different things from different people. It's for ME but then I am always on the most recent updates and Widows version, my experience on several machines has been great personally, there are the minor teething problems of any new version of Windows so if you are good on 10 there is nothing earth shattering or life changing you would notice. For me, I know it's the future of Windows so typically I jump right in, get used to it, customize and tame the OS the way I like to work etc. 

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