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[Table] I am Dave Plummer, author of Windows Task Manager, Zip Folders, and worked on Space Cadet Pinball, Media Center, Windows Shell, MS-DOS, OLE32, WPA, and more. (pt 1/2)

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Space Cadet Pinball, how does it feel to be the most played "bring your child to work day" game? I remember it fondly. The best part is that I used to "teach" computer lab when my kids were in K through 6th grades, back when Pinball was still included and well known. The kids could care less about anything technically hard or interesting that I'd worked on, of course, but Pinball gave me instant street cred with them.
Especially cool was being able to walk over and enter a secret code that only I knew that would turn on all the cheats, like infinite lives. They thought I was a wizard at that age!
The code, by the way, is "hidden test" without the quotes! Then various keys do different things, you can click and drag the ball around, and so on. Google it for the gory details!
I always like to point out that I was working with a full set of original IP from Maxis, so I had nothing to do with the design of the game, or it's art, etc... that was all done! My contribution was volunteering to port it, including a partial rewrite from asm to C, to work on MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, IA64, ARM, and so on, which was actually a lot of work. But I got it into the Windows box, which is how and why everyone knows it today. But all credit for the gameplay and so on goes to Maxis, all I did was not screw it up in that case!
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To add a bit of detail re Space Cadet Pinball: we built Space Cadet originally at my company Cinematronics and did a deal with Microsoft to ship it with the Plus Pack that accompanied Win 95 and Win 98. While it technically didn't ship w/ Windows, the Plus Pack had something like a 25% attach rate and pinball wound up on most systems anyway. Microsoft actually had an option in our original contract from 1994 to ship it with the OS itself or the Plus Pack. Maxis was our publisher for the subsequent retail version, and later bought my company. More germane to this thread: I believe Dave's port entered the picture a few years later, after Win 98, and was likely critical to pinball continuing to ship on later iterations of the Windows OS (i.e. 32-bit). I definitely appreciate the time he put in to give the game extra years of life on the Windows platform. Kevin Gliner, game designer and producer for 3D Pinball, and co-founder of Cinematronics. Pleased to FINALLY put a name to the game design! You should update the Wikipedia article for the game, as I think it lists Matt Ridgway, who might have been sound? I've been crediting Maxis for years, not knowing the role of Cinematronics who was who. One thing that confused me: wasn't there a company that did video games in the 80s called Cinematronics? Any relation? Star Castle, Armor Attack, etc...
As for timing, this likely between the Win95 and Win98 Plus! packs. It was very early on at least, and shipped at least in NT4, and perhaps earlier in "SUR" release that ran atop NT 3.51, but I don't have access to any source files to check dates!
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I keep meaning to fix that wikipedia article, there's a significant number of people that worked on the game and for some reason only Matt (an independent sound guy who did some excellent part-time contract work for us) is listed. There's also a lot of confusion about the timing of various releases and the companies involved, and who owns it now (EA). I actually have all the original source, although no rights to any of it anymore. Hard to say on the timing of the port. I was working in Redmond in '99 when I got word someone had done an NT4 and Win2000 port (I'm assuming that was you), so that was the first time the port showed up on my radar. I have a more confident memory (and contracts, email, etc) of all the events related to how pinball came about and the first couple years after it was released. I like to think pinball was the very first Win95 game (it was fun to watch Gates and Leno pretend to play it on stage at the Win95 launch event), but of course there were other games that shipped with the launch too. You're correct, there was an 80s arcade game company called Cinematronics that went out of business long before we started in 1994, and someone had let the trademark lapse. How we came to be called Cinematronics is a long story for another time... NT shipped in 96, so the version I did for it would have been done in 95. I remember working on it about the time Win9X was shipping or in late beta. I could be wrong on that part, but Nov 95 would be my guess.
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Damn dude, porting assembly? You are a legend! Thanks - we actually did all of our debugging in assembler. We didn't have any source-level or line-level debugging at all (except as noted below). So you'd connect to a machine through an ssh-like tool and then, if the symbols were right, you could get a callstack and inspect memory, disassemble functions, and so on. But since we spent much of our day staring at assembly, I became reasonably adept at it.
I say "reasonably" as I was lazy enough that I would compile the components of interest to me with Visual Studio PDB symbols so that, if I could repro on my own machine, I could then source-level debug it. That made me fast at some stuff that others were slow at, but I likely never got as proficient at asm debugging as someone who never had an alternative. I had a developer friend named Bob whom was an ntsd (our debugger) superstar, and he'd write expressions inside of breakpoints to fire conditionally, that kind of thing. So I did learn that trick, but I'm sure there were dozens I just never knew.
That all said, we rarely if ever coded in assembly. All coding was in C/C++.
In the Pinball case, parts of the original were written in hand-coded in asm by Maxis, like the sound engine, and wouldn't have had a hope of working on anything but an x86. Rather than be lame and not have sound on the RISC platforms, I opted to rewrite that stuff in C so that it was portable.
The RISC platforms also bring their own set of problems like 32-bit alignment for data. And being on Windows NT (now just "Windows") meant being Unicode, but fortunately there isn't a TON of text in a pinball game!
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boytekka: damn, the only time that I did assembly language is when we tried moving a small machine through the printer port.. I miss those days LordApocalyptica: Only time I did assembly was when I wanted to make a game on my TI-84, and decided that I didn't want to. I miss those days too. First game I wrote in assembly I did in a machine language monitor on my C64. You can't (easily) relocate 6502 so to add code you'd have to jump out, do stuff, and jump back... Crazy!
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If I can ask a question, how does it feels to go from coding with basically zero help to working with modern IDE and code editors that give you a lot of infos, tips, error notifications and so on? I've started programming like a year ago from zero, and I don't think I could be able to program like y'all did 20 years ago or more. Thanks for doing this AMA anyways! You're very welcome! The progression in tools has been amazing, really. I remember HESMON and my first machine language monitors for the PET and C64, then really nice ROM dev environments, and CygnusEd for the Amiga... all the way up to PlatformIO and Visual Studio Code.
My most recent "WOW" moment was adding a line to my lib_deps line in platformio, which magically included the library being developed at the URL on github. So you can link to online projects... cool.
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Just wanted to say thanks for the Alpha port! Alpha AXP was by far the hardest to debug! "Branch later, maybe"
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I just want to thank you for my first experience with pinball. I am now a top 100 competitive pinball player and own 16 pinball machines. That's cool, which do you collect primarily? I was always a fan of Williams, and am FB friends with a couple of their older devs like Steve Ritchie, Larry DeMar, and Eugene Jarvis (but I should be careful, Bill Gates warned me never to name drop :-) )
I have a Black Knight 2000 as my own machine right now!
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I have a wide range. Some modern Sterns like Metallica, Jurassic Park, Tron and Iron Maiden. Older Bally’s like Frontier and Fathom. 2 classic Bally/Williams Dr Who and Attack From Mars. Plus a few EMs. I like them all! Attack From Mars was the game that got me into the physical world of pinball. Collecting has been more of a recent pandemic thing since I can’t go out and play. I miss traveling around the country playing in big tournaments. Oh yeah and Steve Ritchie is quite the character. You must meet him some day. I’ve met him a few times and each time has earned a place in my pinball stories I talk about with friends. Congrats on the collection, that's a nice set! I've never met Steve - I did meet Larry DeMar in vegas. I was playing at a slot machine and he was next to me, and had a name tag, and I was like... "Excuse me sir, but does the word Robotron mean anything?" and it turned out to be him!
Asking as someone pretty new in software development, did you experience impostor syndrome? If so, how did you deal with it? My first couple of years were very productive, so I wasn't insecure about my output, but even so I definitely experienced imposter syndrome. I think most people who achieve aspirational roles do... I have a friend who was in the NFL who describes the same feeling.
Being as productive as your peers is sort of the pre-requisite, and if that's true, then remind yourself that when you were in fifth grade, the eighth graders on the playground seemed so old and mature! It's odd in that I started in 1993, but to me anyone who started in the 80s was a "true" Old Timer and remains so in my head to this day. And similarly I'm no doubt the grizzled veteran to people I hired a few years later.
I know when I started I felt like the dumbest guy in the room, and by the end I felt like the smartest guy in the room, and I don't think I'd gotten any smarter along the way. So it's all relative and perception. Well, that and the stock caused some serious attrition of the "really smart"!
I remember visiting Google a couple of years ago in the bathrooms they had posters that read "YOU ARE NOT AN IMPOSTER", and info about seminars and so on about it, so it's very common! I wish I had a concrete strategy for you, but I don't other than "It's commonplace, and I bet there are a ton of resources on the Web. Don't be surprised you're experiencing it!"
What would you encourage someone to start learning today related to your field? I'm learning React at the moment. Let's face it, the web development experience is utter nonsense. So I kept hoping for something that would make it clean, and easy to make components, and to work with REST apis. So I went looking for a solution. Then I read about Angular, and it seemed like "too much" to learn for the sake of making a SPA.
But React seems understandable enough and solves a ton of problems with web development, not the least of which is being able to intermingle HTML and Javascript (via JSX).
As for languages, I'd probably start with Python. I prototyped a complicated LED system a couple of years ago and it was admirable what it could accomplish for an interpreted language. And you probably have to know modern Javascript as well.
Now, would you be rather interested in working for windows, macos or linux ? I work in all three. For my own projects I write to the ASP.NET Core 3.1, and that's available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I originally wrote my LED server to it under MacOS, then moved it to Windows with about 5 minutes of changes (related to the consoles being somewhat different). Then I moved it to Linux, where I made it work and then containerized it with Docker. I got it up and running on my Raspberry Pi and in a Windows HyperV and under WSL using Ubuntu. To me that kind of stuff is super cool.
Once I had it working in a Docker container I deployed it to my Synology NAS, which is some variant of Linux. So my NAS runs my Christmas lights!
I love stuff like that when it works!
My main workstation is a Dell monitor that has an internal KVM. I have a 2013 Mac Pro connected to it, which is maxed out and then has an eGPU and eRAID setup via Thunderbolt. And then I have a 3970X Windows PC connected as well, and I can jump back and forth with a button.
I spend most of my day in Windows now, unless it's video related, in which case I use Final Cut Pro.
Hi Dave, thanks for the AmA! In regards to task manager - often times I have to click the 'end task' button more than once to get the frozen program to actually close. Why is this? Thanks again. Remember that, at least in my day, End Task is different than End Process. The former sends a "Please close yourself" message to the app, and if it's hung, it should then detect it and so on, but doesn't always. Imagine the app is in a weird state where it's still pumping messages, it's not hung, but it's broken. End Task likely won't work.
That's when you need End Process, which tears everything down for you. The substantive difference is that the program gets no choice in the matter and no notification. End Task can be graceful. End Process is brutal.
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What about when the task manager stops responding? We need a task manager manager to manage the task manager. Lol I've never seen that happen, ever, unless the system itself or the window manager is bunged in some way. Your puny Task Manager cannot save you now.
Then again, nothing can, save a reboot.
What cool new tech are you excited about? Right now I'm actually trying to productize something of my own, a system for doing hidden, permanently-installed LED holiday lighting. It receives the effect entirely over WiFi, or it can fall back to built-in effects and so on. Quick demo from 4th of July here:
https://youtu.be/7QNtj2hZtaQ
I'm done the software on the ESP32 and on the desktop, and working on the phone app now. So the next step is to find someone to manufacture the actual addressable LED strip fixtures. They'd be like under-counter LED strips that snap together end to end, but weatherproof, and with WS2813 LEDs internally.
In terms of stuff that I'm just benefitting from, the latest CPUs from AMD are amazing. I have the 32-core 3970X and the raw computing power is hard to comprehend. That you can buy a 32-core chip for $2K (or 64-core for $4K) amazes me! Now I need to learn AI or something to make use of all of that hardware...
After the rise of WinRAR, did you continue to use the trial or did you pay? From: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 3:14 PM
To: Dave
Subject: Your BuyRAR.com Order #: 122229610 License Key
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​ Attachments: rarkey.rar
My WinRAR order number, from about 15 years ago, is above. And my WinZip license is much older than that. As someone who (a) made their real living in shareware and (b) worked on Product Activation, I'm the kind of guy who always licenses everything! You'll notice in my PlatformIO/"Arduino" video I even walk people through how to contribute to show how easy it is. I love good, cheap software.
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Would you download a car? My wife's Tesla downloads update all the time. I'm sure they're just as complex as the mechanical components of the car, so in a sense, we already do!
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But... why did you keep the email? I have a folder on my OneDrive called Registrations where I keep copies of license keys and registrations. So it was handy. Looks like Telix is my oldest registration from 1989 or so.
Also what was Microsoft really like back in the 90s? As a user of MS-Dos 3.30 forward till now. I’m assuming there has just been a whole tide of changes. Was double space really as funny on the dev side as it was on the user side with the slowness and the pufferfish as a logo :) I worked on Doublespace in that I wrote a thunking layer that could live in low memory and then moved the rest of the code into the HMA. I didn't work on the compression, but odds are the guy who did is reading along right now, I bet!
I don't really know if it was faster or slower than its contemporaries like Stacker. I wrote one for the Amiga, though didn't get it quite finished before starting at MS, and it's an interesting and hard problem to do well. At least on the AmigaDOS it was, FAT would be a tad easier.
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I mean for its time it was great. But back then floppy disks and 10M RLL-MFM drives were more the norm. It was actually awesome to have it included IN the OS instead of having to buy stacker. I think this is why I get so much of a kick out of every phishing AD that says download this to double your RAM. It just takes me back. RAM Doublers are a whole 'nother ball of wax. Raymond Chen, in his blog "The Old New Thing", covers them well. If I understand it correctly, in the most famous case the code to do the actual memory compression was disabled, so it literally did nothing, but did it with overhead.
On the other hand, I note that current Windows, the HyperV, and even my Synology NAS offer "Memory Compression" now so perhaps there's a time and a place on modern cpus and systems.
I'm an Engineer and regularly use MS Office to produce reports and calculations. Subscript and Superscript are something I use all the time. For at least the last 15 years, in MS Word I can hit "Ctrl +" & "Ctrl Shift +" to make the highlighted text Subscript or Superscript. But MS Word sucks for calculations, so I use MS Excel. But MS Excel it's about 8 clicks to make something super or subscript, and the hotkey technology hasn't made it in. So my question is, why was MS Office 2003 the best version of office that was ever produced? I retired in 2003. Coincidence? I'll leave that one up to the scholars.
If you could go back and change anything about Windows without consequences or worrying about backwards compatibility, what would it be? Format! I wrote that and since I was used to using the Visual Studio Resource Editor for dialogs, but couldn't in this case, I just laid out a stack of buttons and labels, content in the knowledge that a Program Manager or Designer would come up with a proper design for it that I would then code up. But somehow, no one did, and no one has for 25 years! So it's a big tall stack of buttons like a prairie grain elevator.
Ever met Bill Gates or have an interesting personal experience with him or another higher up you can share? Yes, even when I was a new college hire he had the 30 of us or so over for beer and a burger in his back yard. It was a nice touch and quite informal. Obviously, at some scale, it wasn't 30 people anymore and they couldn't continue it!
Ever play the video game Star Castle? It was like that. Concentric circles of people standing around BillG each armed with what they hope is a question or comment so clever they'll stand out in some way!
If every software you need would be available for both systems. Would you use a Linux distribution or Windows 10? Right now I'd use Windows 10 because, if the same client software is available, I'd do it on Windows simply because I have a new 3970X w/ 128G of RAM and triple RAID0 SSDs plus an Optane stick. All for about 1/10th the price of a Mac Pro. Since the hardware is so cheap and powerful, it's really hard to resist.
Even if all the client software were magically available, or Parallels for Linux were a thing, I'd stick with Windows because I haven't seen a Linux UI that I really like. I know everyone has a favorite... if there's an actually good and attractive one that works out of the box, let me know what distro, and maybe link a screenshot!
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Give Mint 20 with Cinnamon a fair shot! I have struggled for years trying to like a Linux distro but never found one that felt and looked right which I think had been the reason Linux hasn't been adopted mainstream but Mint20 with Cinnamon is possibly it..if not its very very close.. Has awesome multi-desltop winodws feature and you can make it basically just like Win10.. Would love to know what you think of it! 20.1 BETA just dropped and has a super interesting feature called Web Apps that needs to be checked out asap! Heres a link to the 20 long term support version.. some people do not like the Minto Logos/Backgrounds out of the box..keep in mind there are a ton of nice ones included and many more you can get quickly if that's something you don't like..what is really neat is that you can make Mint20 look like any OS.. there are themes that make it exactly like MacOS I just have not personally tried those out yet. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3928 Thanks, I'll check out Mint!
I am looking at my copy of Douglas Coupland's "microserfs". Although it's fiction, do you think it resembles the Microsoft Culture of the time? Lord no, that book bugged me. On the one hand, they're a bunch of pretentious and precocious, annoying kids. I worked on a team (NT) where the tone was set by Dave Cutler and the guys he brought over from Digital, so it was rather different. On the other hand, it's such a big company that odds are those four main people DID exist somewhere in the company. Just not around me!
Why was (is) a monolithic registry preferred over distributing the settings in a number of files like Unix? Why did windows remain single-user focused for so long when Unix was multi-user since the 70s? In my understanding, if there is just one user, that user has to be admin which opened Windows up to security issues. (I don't even recall any sudo-like privilege escalation in pre-XP Windows.) Windows NT was multiluser from birth. And there's nothing about the Windows architecture that requires users to be admin; the reality, I think, is that most apps started out in Win95 land and just didn't work if they were run as non-admin, so people ran as admin because the apps required it.
We couldn't just break all those apps and say "Oh well, get better apps" so what you got was a convention of people running as admin. But again, there's no need to. Same as Unix.
The one exception is that under Unix it's easy to sudo and so admin work briefly. I wish Windows had (or exposed) a simpler mechanism for letting me run as a non-admin credential and escalate when needed. I know UAC does the same thing, more or less, if used cautiously.
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Yeah NT did eventually get around to fixing it. My question was really about the earlier systems, because I think you said you worked on MS-DOS? Since there were existing systems with multi-user and privilege escalation even before the first Windows, somebody must have made a conscious decision to not include that functionality. MS-DOS was only the second or third OS I can think of for a Microprocessor (CPM, SCP, then MS-DOS). What existed for mainframes and minis didn't matter much in the memory limits available on the desktop.
What was the inspiration for Space Cadet Pinball and what is your high score? I don't know, I wasn't the designer, the inspiration part happened separate, I provided the perspiration part! I was actually pretty good at the game, since I was literally paid to play and test it... but I don't know the score, sorry! I do have the world high score on Tempest, though! But not Pinball :-)
1. What's something super useful within Task Manager you think even seasoned Windows users don't know they can do? 2. What do you think a future version of Task Manager should be able to do? I think CTRL_SHIFT_ESC is a surprise to a lot of people!
I think Task Manager needs Dark Mode, and a way to show who has locked what file or device so you can kill the offender when needed.
Why is it that I can still find dialogs in Windows 10 that were clearly built using 16 bit Visual Studio 97 version? This should explain it. When you achieve perfection, you leave it alone:
https://youtu.be/l75a8CvIHBQ
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Please for the love of God, use your Microsoft contacts to stop the snipping tool from going away. It's literally perfect but they keep trying to discontinue it. One Compound Word: SnagIt. It's what you need to make your life complete.
After my time, but I heard the new snipping and history that's being built in to replace it is pretty good. It better be if they kill snipping tool!
Thanks for task manager! I use it for so many things. How do you feel about newer versions of Windows de-emphasizing the control panel in favor of their new settings app? I'm all for it if they made sure they had 100% coverage of all settings. It's sort of weird that in this day and age, with an R&D budget in the billions, we still have a mix of new control panel and old property pages. But I like the new stuff if it covered all cases!
Hello Dave! Why does Windows have such a rough time transferring a lot of small files? Is it a limitation of NTFS? It's not Windows, it's all operating systems. Part of it is filesystem related:
Imagine copying a file takes 200ms of overhead plus 10ms per MB. Coping 100M of large files will take 200ms + 1000ms = 1.2 seconds.
Now imagine you have 100M of 1M files. Now you have 100*200ms + 1000ms = 20000ms or 20 seconds. 20 times as long for the same amount of data.
Did you ever get a chance to work in/on OS/2? I stuck with OS/2 until 2005/2006, before moving onto Linux, and would love to hear any opinions and stories you might have. I didn't! I used OS/2 a bit but never had a chance to work on it. Many of the people I worked with did, though... but if OS/2 were Kevin Bacon, I'm one degree removed.
I had waited more than 20 years to ask this... What the fuck is Trumpet Winsock? That's what you need to use TCP/IP on Windows before it was included in Windows. You're welcome.
What was the idea behind having "generic" activation keys starting in Windows XP that would activate any version, it was said they were for [educational purposes], did Microsoft provide them to 501c3/non-profit schools, or was there a different reasoning? I'm not sure what you mean by "generic". I remember retail and oem, but what was a generic key?
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There was a set of keys that became public knowledge partway through XP life that appeared to activate unlimited machines as valid, though added a banner "For Educational Purposes Only". I remember trying it back in the day and always wondered what the intention was that was important enough the key activations were never blocked. [I did have multiple legal keys, but curiosity killed the cat and I had to swap one to the "educational" key to see for myself, lol] I don't actually know! But I can surmise that if it was displaying a banner down in the bottom right corner of the screen, it knew it was not licensed and was likely limited or time-limited in some way. Unless you could actually ACTIVATE them with that key, which would surprise me.
How does OLE still work? I can't think of anything else that complex and old that still runs. We've got a legacy piece in our application that uses it and I can build against it using .net 4.0, in an Azure pipeline and deploy to windows 10 hosts and a piece of 90s technology still works perfectly. How and why? It was complex, but pretty well written and very well tested. That's not to say there aren't a lot of bugs outside the common case codepaths, but I bet if Office used it, it's pretty solid, and will be forever.
Other than your personal phone number, did any Easter eggs make it to general availability? There was one in the Win9X shell, but I think we removed it for Windows XP and later. So not that I'm aware of!
Have you ever wanted to make a "sequel" to Space Cadet? There are actually two other tables available in the original Maxis game that should work, in theory, but I think Space Cadet was the best of the 3, so...
Were there ever any 3rd party edit/change to shell that made you think, "Why didn't we think of that?" Not offhand, but "Stacks" on MacOS where it tries to rescue your mess by grouping things by filetype (Images, Docs, etc) is pretty clever. So that's something I wish we'd though of!
Have you worked at all with Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich?? Also, what was your initial response to Process Explorer /the Sysinternals stuff?? No, but the SysInternal guys are geniuses of the highest order, so far as I'm concerned (and I say that based on their products, no knowing them). They know their stuff.
What are your best/oddest purchases you were able to justify as a work expense (for example, were you able to get MS to buy pinball machines as an R&D cost)? I had DirecTv in my office! I was working on the Media Center prototype and we couldn't get cable on campus, so I got the dish installed on the roof, etc....
I had a Tempest machine in my Office but at my own expense. I started right around the days of the "shrimp vs weenies" memo, so they were pretty cost conscious.
Is it true that you and Dave Cutler got into a knife fight over a hand of poker gone bad? A broken bottle is not a knife.
Was DoubleSpace stolen from Stacker? No. As I understand it, DoubleSpace was licensed from an Israeli developer. Then I heard that Stacker had somehow been awarded a patent on using a hash table in compression, which sounds pretty ludicrous if true. There was a trial, and even though it revolved around hash tables and math and compression engines, and no one on the jury had been to college, as I heard it. So the big guy lost. That's the story I heard, your mileage may vary. I'm not a spokesman, etc.
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MS-DOS 6.21, the most useless version. I remember writing an extra "2" on my 6.2 OEM disks when the update came out (no point wasting disks). You say "useless", I say "canonical".
I think I actually worked on 6.22, not sure. It was 6.2 something. In terms of usefulness, the features I added to it personally were:
- Moving Doublespace to HMA to free up a lot of low mem, as noted
- Giving Diskcopy ability to do it in a single pass with no swaps
- I wrote a new version of Smartdrv that added CD-ROM support
- I wrote a special version of Setup that worked via deltas and put everything on a single floppy (no point wasting disks).
Mind you, I was just a summer intern when I did that, and it took me about 3 months.
What are your favorite DOS command-line tricks that still work in Windows 10? doskey!
What actually happens if someone deletes Win32? Human sacrifice, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria. Do not attempt.
Did Bill ever swing by your cubicle and tell you'd he'd take your assignment home and finish it in a weekend if you didn't hurry up? Cubicle? It was the 90s at Microsoft! I had a corner office with a table, chairs, a Tempest machine, and a sofabed.
What is the best project you worked on or had friends work on that was canceled, that you would revive if you had the resources? Windows Media Center, I'd say! And I wish they'd done a great AutoPC that the OEMs could have licensed and made common to most cars.
There has been a lot of hate on Windows / Microsoft from the Unix / Linux advocates. What are some narratives that you disagree / don't think are true? I used to love the Amiga, so I know what it's like to feel a sense of advocacy for a platform that you feel is superior but overlooked in the marketplace.
I think the most untrue narrative I've heard about them is that they all have neckbeards. I think it's only "most", not all.
How do you introduce yourself at parties? "Does anyone here know how to update my Groove subscription on my Zune?"
What OS are you using now? What's your favorite OS of all time? What's the worst OS of all time? What's the worst Microsoft OS (if different)? The best OS of all time was Windows NT 4.0 with the Shell Update Release.
The worst OS of all time was the TRS-80 Model 1, Level 1 DOS that didn't have the keyboard debounce code in ROM yet so you couldn't even type on the thing.
[deleted] No, I never put a true easter egg in anything. Especially in an operating system, I don't believe in them. You have to be able to trust the OS, and I think it goes against that.
How did you get started in this specific field? I first wandered into a Radio Shack store in about 1979 when I was 11, where I saw my very first computer. It was not connected yet, as the staff had not figured out how to set it up yet. Being somewhat precocious, I asked if I might play with it if I could manage to set it up. On a lark they said, “Sure kid, have a shot”, and ten minutes or so later I had it up and running. This endeared me to the manager, Brian, enough that every Thursday night and Saturday morning I would ride my bike down to the store: I’d type in my crude BASIC programs and they were kind enough to indulge my incessant free tinkering on their expensive computer. So that's pretty much how I started!
Do you ever have moments where you’re like “they have it so easy nowadays” or do you think that because of the groundwork put in place 30 years ago that systems have become exponentially more complex? Only when someone spools up an entire docker instance to pipe something to it on the command line... then it's like "Really? You're basically booting a virtual computer as a command?"
What's the best C++ expert tip you can share for fellow programmers? If you make anything in your class virtual, make the destructor virtual, particularly if there's any chance that anyone might delete an instance of your derived class through a base class pointer. Otherwise, the behavior is undefined, I think, but even if it works, it's not what you want!
the below is a reply to the above
Wow this is eerie. I literally fixed a bug a couple weeks ago that was this specific case. They can be weird bugs to track down, too!
Tabs or spaces? Spaces on an indent of 4, tabs set to 8.
How can I open an MS Binder file? Push down on the metal tabs at the top and bottom of the central spine of the binder. That will release the 3-hole punch claws, and then you can remove your printed file.
"It's now safe to turn off your computer" Why was this splash removed? I think most current BIOSes can do it on their own by now!
Do you have any insight as to why MS decided to build Windows 95 from the ground up instead of building off of an existing *nix system the way Apple did with OSX? Was it just for backwards compatibility or were there other reasons? Also, had you gone this way, how do you think Windows, and the industry in general, might be different? I'm asking as someone who thinks that WSL is the best thing to happen to Windows in years. Windows 95 was not built from the ground up, but NT was. The most succinct reason (and just a guess, I'm not a spokesman) is that even though MS had Xenix on hand, there were fundamental problems in the way Unix handled SMP multiprocessor locks and so on at the time. I presume these have long since been solved in Linux, etc, but not without significant work.
WSL is one of my favorite things too, but for the library of tools and software, it makes available to me, not because of some fundamental architectural superiority, I don't think!
What are your feelings about "Microsoft Bob"? https://youtu.be/rXHu9OmLd8Y
What did source control look like in the 90's? How did MS keep its code from leaking out to the public? How did you handle versioning and different developers working on the same feature? We used a tool called SLM, or Source Library Manager. It was sort of available briefly as a product under the name Microsoft Delta.
It was OK for smaller teams but did not support branching, so just before I left we moved to Source Depot.
Why was Ctrl + Alt + Delete changed to Ctrl + Shift + Escape? It wasn't! Ctrl-Alt-Delete raises the "Secure Alert Sequence" which triggers the OS to switch to the secure desktop, where you have the ability to click a button which will start task manager upon return to your regular desktop.
Ctrl-Shift-Esc is a feature built into Winlogon that launches a TaskManager on the current desktop without switching to the secure desktop.
There are theoretically hacks and exploits that can only be caught by switching to the secure desktop, so if you're ever in doubt, ctrl-alt-del is the more secure way to go.
How did DOS ever get away with just pulling device names like "COM1" out of thin air when it came to output redirection etc..? That's for compatibility with MS-DOS.
What are you currently working on? Mostly on LED and Microcontroller projects that I detail on my YouTube channel, and the channel itself takes a fair bit of my time! If you're curious, you can check out my current successes and failure adventures at http://youtube.com/d/davesgarage
Did you work with Kris Hatleid on Super Hacker and the game Evolution? I worked with Kris on an unreleased title called "Commander Video". That's largely where I learned assembly language, since he did the bulk of the coding, I watched and did level design, etc. 1982 or so I believe!
Got any dev back door mainframe access codes for pinball? hidden test
Dave, how did you manage to do all that without being able to google everything? That's one of the craziest things... I got a degree in computer science before you could even look anything up!
The hardest part was OLE2. Coming form a different platform (the Amiga) it was a monster to wrap my head around, and the book (Inside OLE2) was not the best for introducing devs to OLE. It scared me, and I sure could have used a YouTube tutorial or two!
Hi Dave! So here's a bit of an odd one. I loved your Space Cadet Pinball! I must have spent countless hours on it as a kid, and even now I still occasionally try to find ways to boot it up. A legitimate classic. But lately, the version windows offers just... don't feel the same. They aren't as nice. Is there a game you can name that you would say feels like a worthy successor to Space Cadet Pinball? Or even any more general pinball games you would recommend? I have a real Black Knight 2000 machine here in the house that I fully restored, so I'm a fan of physcial pinball as well!
I think the two best video games are (a) arcade Tempest, and (b) XBox Geometry Wars 3.
GW3 is a classic, or should be!
Woah woah woah, University of Regina?!? Are you from here? Cool to see a UofR grad had such a major impact! Yup! Check out the regina sub for a recent article
When working on MS-DOS what did you think of alternatives such as 4DOS, NDOS or DR-DOS, were they source of inspiration for new features or not at all ? No in general, but Norton had NCD. It was a change folder command that could jump around the disk, so if you typed "NCD drivers" from the root, it could go down to "C:\windows\system32\drives". Super handy.
So I tried to write one for NT, but it meant changing the working directory of the PARENT process (cmd.exe) and I could never figure out a clean and elegant way to do it without modifying CMD itself!
Which is the best version of Windows? (Figuratively speaking). Windows NT 4.0
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help a degenerate noob with 888 poker 6 max: full tilt with almost 10 buy ins

my deposit was 10.00 then I won 5 bucks with 6 Max somehow.
15.00
and played roulette. the previous day i had seen success betting on a train of reds and blacks. the next day i picked the correct number, and won
4.90 with 0.10 bet on a whim. there were two triplets that day....so why not a double....after all there are patterns in random....
19.90
feeling good. I fall asleep. the next day I hope to repeat my success....like a stupid heres my thought process and if you can point me to right direction I would be grateful. so i went from 10 to 20 and then went on a full tilt and lost it all.
i had some issues with my back shoulder....had to lay in bed couldn't sit completely or stand so laid in bed decided to play poker and well heres how i lost it all
went to 17.99
i should quit come back when theres more players...but i feel insulted by that slow play.
goes to 15.99
okay get up. this time i get sucked out with KK. cmon man!
9.99
okay definitely walk away. this time I get slapped around like a whore by bigger stack. no honour!
4.00
on my last buy in I thought 'okay playing AAs only.' Shove! bad beat. how is it that i am getting beat with a shit hand when the chip difference is significant?
2.00
I get frustrated and bet it on a number on a roulette. I lose of course.
0.00
I vow never to use 888poker again...
on pokerstars, back when I was a degenerate gamblger...literally went into debt which I paid back. I lost $10,000...also I was on anti-depressants and for some reason started to gamble and I looked at the fucking symptom list and gambling is part of it lol...
so like a stupid person I thought I could make back what I had lost on wsb-esque dangerous stock option bets. calculated insanity mind you but who could predict SEC freeze would end reliably at the end of the day....I fucked up shoving all in...coulda made a million fucking dollars with about $15000. The previous similar shove on this same stock have netted me $5000 USD man I was fucking hooked. thats why I went all in. well some contrarian extremist like me bet almost half a million...poof gone....he lost his entire fucking fund....I think $400K? Imagine buying 400,000
GOAL: I really wanna make back the $10,000 I lost playing also tournaments but dont wanna spend any more than $200, do you know any good stuff on that too? I have already sunk $125. $100 in 888 and $25 in pokerstars..... so I 'm gonna try my luck with bodog.eu with a 40 deposit which I've heard is softer. tbh pokerstar felt softer compared to 888 as it nowhere near has the pokerstar number of players...but pokerstars felt very quite hard.
should I continue or nah? are the tutorials on youtube any good? what books should i read?
I don't think I am reckless as before....back when I was on anti-depressants when I played $500 Spin and Gos...holly hell....what a fuking degen...I just had no sense of fear at all...now I just look back in complete regret
now I strictly fucks with very small buy ins...like 10, 20 deposits that I have lost....this helps me control.
question: are there people out here that make rent by grinding 0.02/0.05 6 max zoom/snap poker?
edit: heyhey i just wanna learn how to do this properly. I appreciate any help.
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Our Hero (A poker dream, a poker nightmare)

It’s the World Series of Poker. The Rio is bustling. Tournaments in every meeting hall, cages whirring, vendors hustling. There’s a certain energy. The known pros carry themselves confidently. They stick out to those in the know, but blend in to anyone else. The Home Game Heroes can’t help but look a little nervous. On the inside, they feel like they can win. They don’t fear most of the recognizable pros. They’ve seen them make mistakes and the game has evolved long past their glory days on TV. There’s a beautiful dynamic that can only exist in a game that relies heavily on chance from hand to hand. Everyone thinks they can win.
Our Hero enters the room for Day 3 of a $1500 event. Only 3 tables remain. There’s a chance they crown a winner and award a bracelet, but most likely the Final Table will play a Day 4. He’s one of the aforementioned Home Game Heroes. He’s in Vegas for fun but he’s all business at the poker table. He has some minor cashes and his Hendon gives away that he’s been playing for years. No rookie, but not experienced enough to feel comfortable playing for a bracelet. The pressure feels heavy. Like his backpack is full of more than a few essentials, like someone put a 5 lbs weight in his hood.
---
He’s confused. The room is spinning. He takes a deep breath and startles in to focus.
“Sir, you can’t stand here!” A woman in a pantsuit scolds him. She's probably already scolded 15 lost souls today and it's not yet noon.
“Sorry. Where’s the fifteen-hundred?”
“It’s been moved to the Coco Room. Across from the Amazon.”
“Thanks.”
Our Hero makes his way to the Coco Room. One of the value-priced events is starting today and it is a madhouse. It has forced other tournaments into smaller rooms as the larger rooms were needed. Extra tables are being set up in the lobby near the gift shop. This was going to be chaos. But chaos the World Series staff always find a way to accommodate.
“Glad I’m not in that mess…” Our Hero thinks the way you might about passing a traffic jam in the opposite lane.
---
He walks in the Coco Room. It’s freezing. It might be 50 degrees.
“What the hell?” he thinks to himself as he finds his seat, glad he has his hoodie. The rest of the remaining field is already seated. Eagerly awaiting their bags and the command from the TD to “shuffle up and deal!” They’re in the money. Min cash territory but there isn’t the pressure of the bubble. Just the pressure of chasing a bracelet and a nice chunk of change up top.
A lady wearing a teal vest walks in with a push cart. The cart has trays with what, at first, look like the previous day’s bagged chips. Each tray coordinates with a table. She makes her way around the room giving everyone their bags.
She places a wet plastic bag in front of Our Hero. Covered in condensation.
“What the...!? What is this!?”
The bag is filled with colored ice cubes.
“No way…” Once again the room is spinning. His breath is quickened. He’s again startled back to focus by an authoritative voice. That of an Assistant TD.
“That’s your stack.” He says firmly.
“What do you mean ‘that’s my stack?’ Where are my chips!?”
“Look man, with all the other tournaments going on, we needed the chips in the other rooms. This is what we have to work with.”
Our Hero is stunned. In disbelief. “This is the fucking World Series!” he thinks to himself. He looks to the rest of the table for support but they’re all stacking ice cubes, smiling and joking around, ready to play, as if nothing were out of place. Our Hero’s ears begin to fill with a cloudy muffled noise that gets louder and louder. He can feel himself protesting to the ATD but can’t hear his own words or those of the ATD. He starts to sway and has to quickly sit down to avoid passing out.
“All done with the tantrum? Ready to play?” the ATD says condescendingly. Our Hero just nods.
---
Once the initial shock of playing with wet melting ice wears off, the typical patterns of a poker tournament manifest. One eye on the clock, another on the action. The Remaining Players count starts to tick down, 27… 26… 25. All the money is up top. Our Hero is here to win. He has a healthy stack and a solid strategy.
After about an hour Our Hero is in the Big Blind. The UTG player limps and it folds to the Button. The Button raises to roughly 5 times the Big Blind. Our Hero looks down. Finally, his luck is changing. A couple of black Kings. “I raise” Our Hero announces as he reaches for chips. But once again he’s interrupted, this time by the Dealer.
“The Big Blind is All-in.”
“What?” Our Hero looks down. Panic. Somehow, he only has 9 BB. Where did the chips go? He tries to look under the rail, at the player’s stacks adjacent to him. “What the fuck is going on!?” He sees a slightly blue colored puddle under his remaining stack. They’ve melted.
And just like that, Our Hero is All-In. Both the UTG player and the Button call and when all the cards are dealt Our Hero has tripled-up. He tries to compose himself. Deep breaths. Coming to the realization that he has about a 30 BB stack, deep in the tournament, it’s okay. It’s going to be okay. But also realizing for the first time that, while it is freezing in here, the chips are melting, he's going to have to get it in more often or the stacks will literally melt away. This is a new wrinkle. A new determination rushes through him.
---
A couple more hours pass. Our Hero is being aggressive and it's working. 12 players remain and since the tournament is moving so quickly, melting chips and all, it looks like they’ll be crowning a Champion today. Our Hero lets himself feel the pressure and the possibilities all at once. He may never get this close again. The two 6-handed tables are hand-for-hand as we work our way to a final table and the big money.
Suddenly a massive pot develops on the other table. 3 players are All-In and a 4th has called. The Dealer raps the table and the River is dealt pairing the board. Our Hero’s eyes dart from player to player in no particular order, the first had a combo draw and turned a small flush, the second quickly mucks and Our Hero didn’t get a good look, the third player a bigger flush… “Ouch” And then the 4th player, a flopped set made boat on the River. A Full House to bust 3 players!
Our Hero can’t help but smile ear to ear! He just made the Final Table of a WSOP event! The TD announces that there will be a 20 minute break while the table is set for the Final Table. Everyone is told to leave the room and return in no less than 15 minutes.
Our Hero complies. Still shaking from the adrenaline of a hand he wasn’t even in.
---
About 17 minutes later all 9 remaining players are in their seats. Eagerly awaiting their shot at glory. The mood is noticeably lighter.
---
Another 30 minutes go by. Still nothing. There is a sense of confusion but there’s no choice but to be patient. Our Hero starts to wonder if maybe they’ll bring the final 9 back tomorrow for a final table. Maybe they want to use the feature table and film it for television! He doubts it, as he doesn’t recognize any of the other players and they all appear to be, shall we say, typical.
---
An hour later the TD comes in with 3 others. All in their vests and slacks. The TD proceeds to pass out slips of paper to each of the remaining 9 players. Our Hero looks at his in disbelief. Printed on the slip along with the requisite tournament information is an amount. $440.
“What is this?” he protest, pointing to the amount.
“That’s your pay slip. Just take it to the ca-”
“I know it’s a pay slip. How the hell did you come up with $440? I haven’t busted! There are no chops here! What the fuck is going on!?” Our Hero is incensed. No cash position was less than the $1500 buy-in. Let alone finishing 9th or better should have netted significantly more.
“We won’t be finishing the tournament. We calculated the payouts based on the chips everyone had left an-”
“The chips were fucking melting! Why the hell aren’t we finishing!?” Once again Our Hero looks to the other players for support of his protest. Again, they carry on like nothing is awry. They shake hands and congratulate each other. Our Hero’s heart is beating out of his chest. He can’t fathom what is happening.
---
Then, I woke up. Still somewhat panicked. I had to resist the desire to text my poker group chat at 5am. I don't know what sort of therapy I desperately need but that was a wild ride so I thought I'd share.
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Splitting the Pot – Poker Independent Chip Model (ICM)

Personally, I think it may be premature to decide payouts until we learn more about how things progress and how the NBA decides to proceed. But I understand some want a result now. I also think awarding the regular season winner the entire 1st place prize would be providing them more than their actual equity, i.e., gives the leader the best possible result/outcome that could occur.
I know there is some overlap between fantasy sports and poker players, but not sure all poker players, much less all fantasy players, are aware of ICM Calculators. There is plenty of information available about them online if you want to dig deeper, but the short of it is that it calculates a person’s equity in the total prize pool at any given time. It is most often used in poker tournaments when the players agree to “chop” the pot before the poker tournament is finished, e.g., to reduce variance of certain outcomes. It’s also been used by online poker sites when there have been computer crashes during online tournaments, etc.
In poker, you enter how many chips each player had at the time of the agreement, crash, etc., along with the earlier agreed upon payout structure. With fantasy, your current lead or deficit against your opponent(s) likely is not as objective as it would be with poker chips aka “stacks.” However, perhaps wins or total season points (among those still with a chance to make the playoffs) may be the closest we can get. Again, realizing no decision will be absolutely perfect, I don't think this option should be overlooked.
For your league’s consideration (if it comes to that):
https://www.icmpoker.com/icmcalculato#
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Critique my hold'em strategy spreadsheet!

I'm a beginner at advanced poker strategy, still learning about it. Recently I've been playing 7-person hold'em tournaments online with friends. I made the below spreadsheet for myself to figure out a some things pre-game: my opening ranges, and some strategy relating to the blind structure.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR8bsZCSE7PufDqvGs9O9KMv1xLzE53I2TYslnstNQhTIZshCeSlzkdGHRTVn6DfW-ZTpT72p94ekMz/pubhtml#
Those of you who are more experienced / expert with poker strategy than I am, I would love to hear your thoughts on the parts of my strategy visible in this spreadsheet.
First, a few things that may be helpful for you to know:
Really looking forward to anyone's thoughts / critiques!
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How work ICM?

How work ICM?
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How work ICM?
To better understand the concept of ICM in poker, take a look at a simple example.
Let's say that three players are registered in the SNG with a buy-in of $ 10. No rake, so the total prize pool is $ 30. The winner of the tournament receives $ 20, the winner of the second place - $ 10, and the player who finished last - $ 0.
At the start of the tournament, each player has 1,000 chips. At this particular moment, the cost of each stack is $ 10, since all three players have the same chance to finish first or second. Do not forget that ICM only considers the number of chips in the stacks of players and does not pay attention to the skills of players.
In the first hand of the tournament, the player is at UTG fold, and the remaining SNG participants are exposed at preflop. As a result of this nomination, one of the tournament participants drops out, so now we have two players left.
One of them has 2,000 chips, and the other has 1,000 chips. If you use any ICM calculator, you will see how the value of each stack has changed. For example, each of the players has already guaranteed himself a second place, so each of the remaining stacks in the game is already equivalent to at least $ 10.
Since the chipleader of the tournament has twice as many chips as his opponent, it is believed that he has twice as many chances to take first place and win the remaining $ 10 of the prize pool. With this in mind, 2,000 tournament chipleader chips are valued at $ 16.67 in accordance with the ICM. This number is formed as follows: shipleader has a 100% chance of winning $ 10 for second place and a 66.7% chance of winning an extra $ 10 in first place. By the same logic, his opponent’s stack of 1,000 chips is valued at $ 13.33.
The most important lesson to be learned from all of the above is that losing chips are more expensive than winning.
Let us explain this point by continuing our simple example.
If we return to the first distribution of our tournament, at the beginning of which each player had 1,000 chips, which is equal to $ 10, we will see that if a player loses all his chips, then the value of his stack decreases to $ 0, however if a player doubles his stack , up to 2,000 chips, then its stack is estimated at only $ 16.67, as we calculated above.
Thus, we can say that if you play on the stack in the first hand of the tournament and have 50% equity against the opponent’s hands, then you risk losing $ 10 and you can only win $ 6.67.
This perfectly illustrates the point that the value of your chips is higher than the value of chips that you can win.
Thus, using the ICM concept will help you learn the right tournament game based on the value of your stack, and not just the number of chips in your stack, and this is a winning strategy.
Source: http://freestylepoker.com/
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MAME 0.216

MAME 0.216

With the end of November in sight, it’s time to check out MAME 0.216! We’ve addressed the reported issues with last month’s bgfx update, and made a whole lot of little improvements to MAME’s internal user interface. In particular, setting up controls should be easier, and several issues affecting macOS users with non-English number format settings have been fixed. Some of the issues caused bad settings to be written to INI files. If you still don’t see the filter list panel on the system selection menu, try removing the ui.ini file.
This month, we’re able to present two unreleased 1970s prototypes from Italian developer Model Racing: their internal code names are Cane and Orbite. With the assistance of former Model Racing employees, the source code was extracted from the original disks. These games are incomplete, but they provide a unique look into early CPU-based arcade development. Game & Watch titles continue to be emulated, with the addition of Mario The Juggler, and the panorama screen Mickey Mouse and Donkey Kong Circus games in this release.
This release brings GameKing emulation to MAME. The system-on-a-chip used in this low-cost, low-resolution hand-held console from the early 2000s has been identified and emulated. Games for the colour-screen GameKing III are also playable. Acorn BBC Micro emulation has been re-worked to support internal expansion boards, and a number of additional peripherals are now available. ZX Spectrum emulation has been enhanced with better open bus read behaviour and support for two Miles Gordon Technology peripherals.
Of course, these are just the highlights. You can get the source and Windows binary packages from the download page.

MAMETesters Bugs Fixed

New working machines

New working clones

Machines promoted to working

New machines marked as NOT_WORKING

New clones marked as NOT_WORKING

New working software list additions

Software list items promoted to working

New NOT_WORKING software list additions

Source Changes

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[USA] [H] Gamecube Controllers, Nintendo Consoles, Games for a Number of Systems! [W] PayPal

All prices include shipping to the US (with the exception of Hawaii and Alaska).
I always give discounts on purchases of multiple games/consoles. Feel free to make your own offer on multiple items. The only prices that aren't negotiable are individual items.
If you are from Canada, please see the note at the bottom of the post. Beyond Canada, I do not ship internationally at this time.
This post is organized as follows. There's a TON here, so please check out everything, as items can be easy to miss!
Feel free to ask for detailed pictures on anything! Pictures for a lot of items are hyperlinked throughout the post. If you want more photos on any items, just ask! I'm honestly cool with taking as many photos as you'd like.
https://imgur.com/a/63a8n47?fbclid
1) Consoles/Console Bundles
Consoles are all tested thoroughly and working. Consoles have all cords needed to play, unless otherwise noted. Games included in console bundles are usually disc only or disc/case only.
Nintendo
Sony
2) Controllers/Accessories
Controllers are all OEM and tested thoroughly. Any defects are noted.
Gamecube
Playstation 2
Sega Genesis
Sega Saturn
Wii/Wii U/Switch
XBOX
XBOX 360
3) Games
Games are CIB, unless otherwise noted. Games are all working great, and condition of games ranges from good to like new. As a precaution, assume discs and cases will show normal wear. Feel free to ask for pictures of any game(s)!
You can get any two games listed at $5.25 or $6 for $9 total. Those games can also can be bundled in bulk in the Build-Your-Own-Bundle Section at the bottom of this post.
Gamecube
N64
CIB
Game and Box
Game Only
NES
*Some of these games have game store stickers or writing on them from the late 80s/early 90s. I've left them on for to verify the authenticity of the games. If you'd like me to take them off or erase the writing, just let me know! I also have a new batch of games in here I've yet to photograph. In the meantime, feel free to ask for any photos of specific games.
Nintendo DS
Nintendo 3DS
[Loose games]
Playstation
*Most cases have imperfections (slight scratches and cracks), as do almost all PS1 games; please see photos for details. A few more photos have been added here
Playstation 2
Playstation 3
Sega CD
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Genesis
More pics here
Games are cart only unless otherwise noted
SNES Carts
More pics here
Wii
Wii U
XBOX
XBOX 360
4) Factory Sealed Games
Playstation 2
*Playstation 3
Wii
XBOX 360
5) Amiibos, Strategy Guides, and More
Amiibos
6) Manuals and Cases
(I know $5 is steep on some of these, but it's the lowest I can go without losing money from shipping and fees; feel free to make aggressive bundle offers with these!)
Manuals
Gameboy
Gamecube
N64
PS2
Sega 32x
Sega Genesis
Wii
Loose Cases/Boxes
Playstation 2
7) Build Your Own Commons Bundles (designed for completionist collectors)
*I've been into collecting a lot lately, and I want to help other collectors check off common games in bulk. Of all the games above priced at $5.25 or $6, you can build any custom bundle from these options: *
Note to Canadian Redditors
I have been getting a lot of requests to ship to Canada, which I have avoided in the past due to high shipping costs. But if you honestly don't mind covering the shipping fees, I'm happy to send you some games! Please use the calculator located here, with a starting zip code of 02032, to calculate the rough cost of shipping. Include that figure in your comment with the games you want, and we can go from there!
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poker chip tournament calculator video

Poker Chip Calculator. If you think you might need a few more chips, or you're looking to buy your first set of poker chips it helps to know how many you'll need for a good game. Once you have your chips this calculator should help you work out a good distribution of chips for the initial buy-in. Just fill in the number of players, how many chips ... Just plug in the details of your tournament, players, and chip set, and you won’t even have to work out the right chip breakdown for each player in your game. If you want to learn some more about poker chip breakdowns, and how to do it properly, read on. If you are struggling with the chip calculator watch the video below for some tips. How does the Poker Tournament Variance Calculator work? Let’s go through an example simulation. First, you need to enter the poker tournament (or SNG / Sit-and-Go) schedule. Let’s say you’re playing the Sunday Million regularly and want to check what variance you can expect. That’s how the settings can look like: Settings. Players: Number of players for the tournament. We assumed 5,750 ... Easy-to-use online ICM calculator. Calculate ICM equity of player stacks for any given poker tournament payout structure. Poker Tournament Calculator Introduction To use this calculator, enter the amount of each chip stack, and optionally any prize money for each place. If there are fewer than nine players, leave the last player positions empty. For example, if there are five players, fill in stack amounts for players 1 to 5 only. Do not skip positions, or you will get nonsensical results. Then click "calculate." Improve your poker game while playing up to 500 hands an hour against the smartest artificially intelligent poker players ever designed. Pick your hands, your position, and the style of your opponents. Poker training will never be the same. There are Poker Tournament Starting Chip Calculator many Online Slots Poker Tournament Starting Chip Calculator games available to play. There’s a slots game that will appeal to virtually everyone. Finding your favourites will be an exciting, fun-filled journey of exploration. If you’re looking for somewhere to start, you might want to check some of our most popular Online Slots The poker tournament blind structure calculator tool helps suggest the best blind schedule based on player and chip count, rebuys, add-ons and game duration. Poker Tournament Chip Distribution. In a typical tournament, players get a particular number of certain-valued poker chips. That chip stack usually includes a few larger values, some of a medium denomination, and several lower values for the early stages when blinds and antes are low. Just as you'd use a poker calculator to better understand your odds in a given hand, you can use a poker chip calculator to workout the perfect ratio of tokens to players. Calculate Your Chips ...

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