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  1. Exploring Barkerville Historic Town Cemetery!

    in Quick, Tell Us A Story!

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    Part of a recent Well's Gray Ltd. trip (Skeena and Inside Passage package) we stopped at the the Historic Town of Barkerville and I decided to check out the Cemetery as it was not on the tour agenda but I took it upon myself to break away from the other tourists and check out this historic Cemetery since I would not get another chance. If I seem somewhat out of breath don't worry I am fine, I was not expecting the hike to be so out of the way and I was rushed since I was on a schedule! Well worth it and I am happy to share with you all.
     
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99uoI38N0Ug
     
    Check out these related links for more info on Barkerville and the Cemetery. WELCOME TO BARKERVILLE : 
     
    https://barkervilleblog.com/welcome-to-barkerville-bcs-gold-rush-town/
     
    Barkerville Cemetery Accessible Trail : 
     
    https://cariboord.ca/services/recreation-2/accessible-trails/barkerville-cemetery-accessible-trail
     
    -------------- Barkerville Cemetery -----------------------
    Meet Reverend Reynard at the Anglican Church and journey with him on a 1 km walking tour to Barkerville’s original cemetery; the final resting place of Barkerville’s famous (and not-so-famous) residents and one of the most interesting historic cemeteries in British Columbia. Many of the headboards have been recently restored, and the tour benefits from up-to-date research.

  5. Sega Master System Questions

    in Sega

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    That is awesome kamakazi20012 ! I lucked out a few years back getting a pretty nice SMS lot (ebay if I recall?), even including the 3D Goggles and some boxed games. It really IS a fun system I pretty much ignored back in the NES days as well. Honestly I really need to give it more playtime, it is a great part of SEGA history. It is one of the systems I wish I had picked up an Everdrive for back when I was still buying and had the means :P Sure I can load them on my EverdriveMD and play them on Genesis but it is just not the same. Is yours an original version? I love the look of that one as it was so different. Keep us updated and congrats. 

     

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  8. Your favourite 80's music / videos?

    in Radio & Music

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    Oh man, my wife and I sometimes just load up playlist after playlist of 80's hits on youtube and let it play in the background. So often it is always like "OH WOW, HAVEN'T HEARD THIS ONE IN YEARS!", of course we have our favourites but their are so many great 80's songs I don't recall until I hear it again :spot: .

     

    Bonus is enjoying so many videos and seeing some for the first time, some so cheesy or low budget but it didn't matter as it was all about the music. :thumb:

     

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    :beer:

     

     

  13. Old-school PC Benchmark for your modern PC

    in Classic Computing

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    UserBenchmarks: Game 67%, Desk 62%, Work 52%

    CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X - 67.2%

    GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB - 72.3%

    SSD: WD Green 120GB (2016) - 47.4%

    HDD: Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB - 97.6%

    HDD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) - 103.3%

    RAM: Unknown V02D4LF8GB5285282400 2x8GB - 85.7%

    MBD: Asus PRIME B350M-A

     

    After adjusting some BIOS and Power plan Settings (I was initially disappointed with CPU results,

    I still plan to do some tweaking in hopes of getting SSD improvements) 

     


     



    UserBenchmarks: Game 69%, Desk 68%, Work 56%

    CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X - 76.3%

    GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB - 72.9%

    SSD: WD Green 120GB (2016) - 45.6%

    HDD: Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB - 99.7%

    HDD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) - 105.2%

    RAM: Unknown V02D4LF8GB5285282400 2x8GB - 86.1%

    MBD: Asus PRIME B350M-A


  14. MaximumRD's YouTube Videos

    in YouTube Community

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    Well I had to learn to use a new editing program as I went along BUT other than some auto focus issues and one camera drop   icon_lol.gif 

     

    I am quite pleased with the end result. 

     

     

    Video description:

     

    Contest winnings from mr_intv UNBOXING ! Such fun! Some nice INTELLIVISION RELATED items I won in a little giveaway held by mr_intv over on Atariage. 
     
    Music: www.bensound.com

  17. The New Atari "VCS" - Official Topic

    in VCS Topics

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    Not the least bit surprised, not because I have any faith in the project but because time and again we keep seeing people blinded by nostalgia goggles grasping at wishes and dreams over and over. People are stupid and refuse to see common sense or even remember history of failed similar fantasy consoles. It has the Atari name and woodgrain and sadly for many that is all that is needed. Not surprised they got funded, I will be shocked if anything comes of it.  ;)  I suspect NOW the real shitshow begins  :pile:

  22. Does anyone collect gaming magazines?

    in Comics & Books

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    While I do not currently (at least intentionally) collect any gaming magazines I used to, boy did I ever lol. Various video gaming and computer magazines because of course many of those early computers were something we SAID we wanted for "school work" but really wanted for the videogames. As far back as I can recall I would say I really started with Electronic Gamines Magazine in the early 80's which I thought was a brilliant magazine, by the way some nice online digital archives can be found here:

    http://www.digitpress.com/library/magazines/electronic_games/electronic_games.htm

    and HERE:

    https://archive.org/search.php?query=Electronic%20Games

     

    I suspect like many, who could not afford many videogames it was delightful to pour through these magazines and dream. OF COURSE they would help to ignite our imagination and anticipation with various articles and images and give us some insight we pretty much could not get anywhere else. Taking them to school and comparing and discussing with our fellow gaming friends what sounded like the next or current cool video game or accessory was always great fun. I would wear those magazines out from wear reading them over and over. There were of course other magazine or articles in typically non gaming publications wanting to give their opinion on this new powerful wave of entertainment (often not flattering as that nonsense started early) as well there were offshoots and one off magazines that were mostly forgotten or quickly discontinued. Of course after the rise of the mighty originally 8 bit Nintendo there was a resurgence in the video-games scene and revised and new publications to reflect that. I would go on to collect many of the usual suspects like GamePro, various dedicated Sega / Nintendo / Amiga Computer magazines. Eventually covering all the 8 bit and then following up with all the 16bit era. I was still reading and collecting when the new powerful consoles hit, I had collected many Dreamcast magazines as well. 

     

    Most of my collection was lost or given away over the years stupidly now that I think back on it, I have of course Gigabytes of various gaming magazine related PDF's sitting on the hard drives. A few years back though through various videogame and computer acquisitions through my collecting phase I would end up with a video game or computer magazine here and there, usually an issue I had read many years prior but still, I admit there is something so nostalgic as the retro games themselves, so fun to read through them with the fresh eyes and excitement many of the articles and images gave you and to remember looking at them the first time and wondering what it would be like to play them yourself first hand! Good times and a huge part of the history, memories, preservation of the video games era right from the start. 

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