@buzz said in Nintendo's got everyone scurrying for dark corners:
I don't believe that the primary goal of many of these sites is preservation. I suspect making money is the priority. They are all covered in advertising. I don't care at all about these sites being taken down.
You should care. Who will now stop the hordes of people asking for ROMs here? :P
That's some mind blowing news! I'm reading about it and it feels almost as shocking as SEGA games being released on Nintendo systems back in the early 00s :)
Indeed, it was fun while it lasted. Microsoft seems to have focused heavily on making customisation harder for 3rd parties while in all honesty, the Windows 10 GUI gets extremely boring after a while. The case seems to be the same for Mac OS, however, Apple has managed to make their OS look still attractive even after years of usage.
This all comes in contrast with the amazing theming capabilities of Linux GUIs... another field that open source makes things much, much better.
My final conclusion is that Windows 10 has some theming capabilities that are currently limited to two options (which can be used simultaneously): Cairo Shell (open source) and WindowBlinds (proprietary). Neither of them is a complete shell replacement though.
After several years of using a Mac mini for office computing, a low-end linux netbook for everything else and a gaming/3D rendering workstation with Windows, I looked upon options to replace the boring interface of the later.
It appears that since Windows 10 came out, shell replacement software development seems completely abandoned! It's also verified on Wikipedia that virtually all options are out of question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows
Back in the Windows 98 and XP days, I remember using LiteStep and being very happy with its theming options. The aesthetics of Microsoft operating systems have always been quite unattractive for my taste.
Is there something I've been missing? From what I suspect, Windows 10 makes changing the GUI shell impossible for 3rd party software...
What inconvenience? This is excellent! Thanks!
It's really, really easy to make it yourself via the official images. You are responsible for the content as well as your own hardware.
Pre-made images will never work fine for anyone, you'll always need to keep fixing things and you'll end up frustrated.
Don't forget that pre-made images can be dangerously overclocked destroying your CPU (or at least your guarantee) and could contain malware such as crypto miners.
Stay away from them and do it yourself :)
@youxia that's giving a more accurate and sharp image but frequently changing back to HDMI isn't very convenient even by using a tvservice startup script. Also setting things up for different arcade games is a pain. Quite ideal for setups permanently hooked on a CRT though.
@athman8 280p is supported via HDMI but you'll need to find an adapter that will give out the same resolution and also a CRT monitor that accepts 240 lines. The easy way to get 240p out of the Pi is via composite on a CRT TV by setting sdtv_mode to either 16 or 18 (NTSC or PAL).
Whoah that's a lot of media! :/
I suspect that even though they're powered by external PSUs, they're also drawing some power that the Pi can't handle. I would recommend using a small form factor PC with Linux (or Windows) instead of the Pi.
