MaximumRD

This is great @MaximumRD‼️ Thank you for posting!! 😎

Heh THANKS JUSTIN, well honestly I wanted to uploads SOMETHING and tried to come up with something that I could do quickly mostly because my last couple videos prior where like 6 months ago back in MARCH. Now I had the Grizzly Addams full beard with lots of gray 😆in it, starting to look like the hermit I mostly am but after shaving it down to a goatee I thought it looked much better at least even if I haven't had a haircut since before the whole Virus thing started, we avoid going out and with Melissa working from home YOU MIGHT THINK if anything that would give me more time to organize my thoughts, get my head together and plan and make videos.....WELL WHEN YOUR WIFE IS WORKING FROM HOME AND YOU ARE AROUND EACH OTHER 24/7 EVERY WAKING MOMENT believe me that is not the case 😏, barely a moment to myself these days let alone enough to put together and upload a video 😜I KID, MOSTLY..........no I'm not, HELP ME......😩

Dang.  R.I.P.

I really liked him in the Mandalorian, but now he’s no longer with us. RIP

Love a freshly prepared Salmon! Looks good.

Yup! That's salmon alright. Great fish to eat.

I remember when you got that Caanoo and the OpenPandora and how exciting that was!

Very cool I wanted the Game Park handhelds, but too pricey for me back when they released. I don't remember the Open Pandora though. Only up to the Canoo. I was doing development for the Gameboy Advance when the first GP handheld came out, so that was interesting it was similar, but a bit more powerful. 

FleshChasmer is a great game for the hardware. 

I've never heard of that.  I need to try that out.  Thanks!

I have an old Windows 7 Dell "Studio" laptop.  Super high quality from the early 2000's.  I took the time a few days ago to replace the HDD with a brand new 240GB SSD.  It's fast now, and I've been using it a lot. 

Note my current profile pic as well using one of the filters. It's fun play around with. of silly filters ad regardless of the quality of your webcam, in fact it's a good use especially if you have a lower quality webcam in some ways. Just click allow when it asks for permission to use your webcam and it will work fine. It was a really nice option for free especially back in the day when we might not of had so many options for webcam software but even now I like to tinker with it when I'm bored, a fun lo-fi experience. Share some results with that Dell 😉

Happy new year.  I appreciate you and your posts very much!  Keep on truckin'. 

Happy new year, Max!  Whatcha mean putting up with you?  Its me y'all have had to put up with. Look forward to what all stories we have to share this year.

You look great @MaximumRD!

Thanks much appreciated. I pulled this shirt out of a bottom drawer, not worn for years as I put it away when it was too...er, snug but now fits great again! I was so happy I had to take a pic 😃whatever other health issues at least I still been maintaining a slow but steady weight loss.

I love seeing this Rob! That looks delicious ☕

Is Fry's hot cocoa mix just in Canada? I have never heard of it in the United States.

WOW Rob! You did this all on your own?? That's amazing 🦸

Thank you, I tend to not see anything I do as special but I do appreciate the compliments. I used to draw comics in school and high school of me and my friends, over the years through various hardships and mental issues I just abandoned it but having recently been gifted the Apple Pencil / iPad min 5 by my wife I been having fun rediscovering my creative side, I probably knocked this out in about 10 or 12 minutes or so and yes it was just off the top of my head thinking I would just draw Spidey. Though I am not too familiar with the various modern drawing tools and apps, back in my teen and young adult years I played around with Deluxe Paint and Brilliance on the AMIGA I had back then, art , animation and even basic titling for my home videos I outputted to composite to my VCR. Good times.

I once even drew a image of the Danny Devito Penguin from BATMAN RETURNS with nothing but Deluxe Paint and a standard tank style ball mouse, took me forever but I was quite proud how it came out but sadly lost over the years, but I figured if I managed THAT with such basic tools surely an iPad with Pencil would allow more creative freedom though there is something to be said with creating something identifiable and creative with lesser tools for sure.

Anyway, I AM having fun at least trying to be creative again, I will add anything else I do here for sure, I think it is a good outlet mentally as well, thanks for noticing. I think I WILL get better, I been using a basic tool in one of the apps that I enjoy as these images are never exactly as I picture them, this tool basically if you can imagine creating lines and when they connect the fill in making a solid line, I KNOW REAL ARTIST and digital experts would explain this better, I might do a short demo video at some point, anyway when the lines / shapes I make fill they create the outlines of the image I am trying to create, though I never know exactly the result I been quite impressed and happy with how they turn out, having multiple points of "UNDO" is truly amazing as well. I am also using only free or limited apps to do these, I am thinking though soon I will move on to the apps and tools that truly mimic the pencil to paper experience, with multiple levels of pressure sensitivity and even tilt control with the edge of the pencil for fine shading I have been so impressed with how close it is to the real thing. I really am having fun learning these tools, again I probably should have explored digital art more than a decade ago but I just did not really have the means. I guess it's really never too late though. I will get better. 

I thought he had Parkinson's Disease. Too bad. RIP.

Another 🕯️ of popular culture has left us a little earlier than we'd have hoped. He truly brought Squiggy to life. Loved Laverne & Shirley.

Looks good! 

Aliens stole your hair!!!  Lol.  Looks good, man.  And that picture of you and your wife is just priceless.  But seriously you've been playing too much Space Invaders man.  Those little aliens stole all you hair.  Just Messina with ya man.

I love MAME and all that it offers.  Yet I've always had a few favorites that I just can't get to work correctly (especially controls).  Examples:  Asteroids, PunchOut!, Defender.

yeah works great with my xbox 360 controller but I have not been good configuring stuff like race games that require a wheel or paddle games etc. 

Exactly.  It's my thought every time I think about doing another XBOX/PS2/Wii mod or creating a new Raspberry Pi build.  The desktop PC version is the easiest way to get your emulation fix. 

Rob dunking on everybody with that Microsoft Pro Insider status 🙌

I've been working on laptops today too!  In the garage.  Watching a movie and running virus scans/driver updates, etc on three laptops. 

Heh I love doing updates and backups.......

🤡🍰 Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday.

Except for official posts in Atari I/O. We will never post anything intentionally misleading.

Thankfully, I can confirm my new Wii U is NOT an early April Fool's joke.

Congrats!

Happy Birthday!

I'm so confused by all this Ataribox stuff.

If we ignore it, will it go away?

One of the greatest.

He was one of my favorites. RIP

It was great to go on that adventure with you Rob! It's been a while since I've seen snow. I love what you've been doing with the New Adventures forum

I was just watching him as Klang on Star Trek: Enterprise yesterday. Too bad. He passed away young. :O(

And now nobody wants to talk about it.

Post a picture!

Cool game room Max!