Fake RetroPIE Oficial facebook group

cyperghost

@mediamogul said in Fake RetroPIE Oficial facebook group:

If I can't communicate with someone using my Sports Illustrated shoe phone, they're not worth talking to.

mediamogul

Ha! That's it alright. It's funny, actually seeing a picture brings back memories of working up my nerve to call a few crushes back in my middle school days. Of course no girl can resist the undeniable allure of a guy with footwear for a phone, so I don't know what I was ever worried about.

mitu

@mediamogul So you really had this novelty phone back in the day ?

mediamogul

@mitu

I did indeed. I remember the mechanism to hang it up when placed flat on a table was located near where your chin would be, so you had to be pretty careful to not accidentally brush it and end the call... That and the intense smell of feet.

cyperghost

@mediamogul said in Fake RetroPIE Oficial facebook group:

Of course no girl can resist the undeniable allure of a guy with footwear for a phone

Hehe ... Wohooo whatever happend to the 80's?

... so I don't know what I was ever worried about.

LOL the first sentence.... "Hello? I want to talk to your daughter Mr. Muller is she there?" ;)

mediamogul

@cyperghost said in Fake RetroPIE Oficial facebook group:

Hehe ... Wohooo whatever happend to the 80's?

I miss the days when phones and phone companies had some personality

cyperghost

@mediamogul
So a small story from other countries

This nice phone was one of the standard device in germany during till the late 80's. It wasn't allowed to use other phone (by law!)- so you rented them and paid a fee every month (~1,5 USD).

If you were owner of this one... then you were the king of the hill ;)
It's official name is Post DFeAp 322 Mickey Mouse Telefon

So no chance for a shoe phone. The market was opend in the late 80s from a state regulated authority to a private buisness ;)

mitu

@cyperghost said in Fake RetroPIE Oficial facebook group:

It wasn't allowed to use other phone (by law!)- so you rented them and paid a fee every month (~1,5 USD).

Was is also 'STASI Approved' ?

mediamogul

@cyperghost

Very interesting! The locals were probably sick and tired of seeing it, but I actually really like how that phone looks.

Clyde

@cyperghost said in Fake RetroPIE Oficial facebook group:

This nice phone was one of the standard device in germany during till the late 80's. It wasn't allowed to use other phone (by law!)- so you rented them and paid a fee every month (~1,5 USD).

Yeah, well … or you just used imported phones illegally like what felt like half of the general population. 😛

@mitu said in Fake RetroPIE Oficial facebook group:

Was is also 'STASI Approved' ?

Wrong Germany. Those phones were sold in the western part.

edit: Hah, beat @cyperghost to it. 😉

cyperghost

@mitu I'm afraid I have to disappoint you. The STASI was (at least officially) a state apparatus in the East German part. I grew up in the western part ;)
But I was not born there ;)

thelostsoul

Guys, the talk about these phones is really interesting to read and see (I have nothing to add, but I read, Big Brother is watching you). It is just a Bummer this gets lost somewhere below in an unrelated posting "Fake RetroPIE Oficial facebook group".

mediamogul

@thelostsoul

Well, the conversation branched off about as organically as these things can. Speaking of which, isn't it strange that Grape-Nuts cereal has never contained grapes or nuts? Shouldn't someone have been fired over that by now, or is General Foods just asleep at the wheel?

cyperghost

@thelostsoul No not lost! Only hidden ...
We talked about a facebook group, switched to mobile phones and to social media and took a small approach to retro phones.

And thats the point I hook up ;)
In the European and North American world we are talking about Social Media, Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat..... and we believe that this are the world greatest social media platforms.

Take a look out of your filter bubble ;)
We have India, China, Russia, South America - these regions (or countries) use other platforms seperated by it's own bubble ;)

So I told a bit about the german phone market (strongly regulated!) till the 80's so most people forget this uncommon practise.

Clyde

@thelostsoul The forum search should be able to find it here if necessary, but it will be lost to others who only see the title among the unread threads, so I understand your concern.

@cyperghost Most people forgot or did never know. It is the kind of topic that tells about your age and/or makes you feel old. 😉

hhromic

ironically, one of the moderators of this facebook "official page" just sent a pull request to RetroPie to include a theme :)

mitu

@hhromic I wonder if the next PR will be to include some ROMS ?

Rascas

Most of this guys, the admins of that group, are the guys who make the "RetroPie builds" full of roms available at Arcade Punks site.

edmaul69

@mitu im a part of a retropie group that does not claim to be official. It does not allow roms, images or pm’s to obtain them. Half the posts are just other retro stuff. Most of the retropie posts are helping people troubleshoot. They dont tolerate bs either. The admin booted 26 people the other day just from 1 thread. You can sell pi setups there but you arent allowed to have any software at all on it when you sell it. I wish more Facebook retropie/ raspberry pi pages were run this way.

mitu

@edmaul69 My comment was only half sarcastic - I'm sure there are knowledgeable people in that FB group (and others, as you noted). These forums are not the only support avenue for RetroPie and I think that's a good thing, more-so when they are trying to keep the RetroPie project not associated with ROM piracy and the 'easy-retro-fix-of-the-day'.