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[333.00 --> 338.64] And I was sort of moving my head around in real time thinking, wonder where we'll be in 20 years. |
[339.04 --> 339.70] Oh, no kidding. |
[340.00 --> 347.30] I've heard, though I've never seen it, but I've heard that the team also really nailed the Pacific Northwest because obviously Redmond, their hometown area. |
[347.30 --> 347.98] Oh, sure. |
[348.10 --> 351.96] So if you want to fly around my neck of the woods, I guess it's supposed to be pretty accurate. |
[353.00 --> 359.56] Yeah, they use this photogrammetry thing, which is based on the famously good Bing maps. |
[359.56 --> 366.74] Although actually it is pretty impressive, like the 3D modeling and stuff of certain cities is truly spectacular. |
[367.32 --> 374.00] There's a few things like bridges over the River Thames, for example, that are definitely in need of some work. |
[374.00 --> 379.18] But they're issuing patches all the time and it's improved hugely since launch. |
[379.34 --> 386.08] So, you know, if you have a VR headset, you're thinking about buying one, I would say Flight Sim is probably a must play. |
[387.08 --> 387.18] Huh. |
[387.70 --> 390.08] Well, now you've really made me want one, Alex. |
[390.08 --> 390.38] I'm sorry. |
[390.38 --> 391.04] You know, you do that. |
[391.10 --> 393.20] We do these episodes and I'm like, I got to get that. |
[393.44 --> 395.30] It's easy to spend other people's money. |
[395.44 --> 396.00] I'll tell you that. |
[396.68 --> 399.24] You know, I think we have a theme, though, today that could save people some money. |
[399.24 --> 405.60] But I was about to say, you know, we're on the topic of gaming and a listener wrote in with a project called RetroNAS. |
[406.16 --> 413.06] And I thought with the Steam Deck coming out soon that we might see a resurgence of handheld gaming, of retro gaming. |
[413.38 --> 419.80] You know, people playing Mario Kart on handhelds as well as, you know, Grand Theft Autos and all sorts of cool stuff. |
[419.94 --> 426.60] I know the Steam Deck can play some AAA titles, but I doubt that will be the primary use case for a lot of folks. |
[427.22 --> 427.98] Oh, really? |
[428.36 --> 428.64] Hmm. |
[429.24 --> 429.64] Okay. |
[430.44 --> 432.90] I do like the idea of getting some of my retro games on the deck. |
[432.96 --> 433.66] So you're right. |
[433.82 --> 437.16] I will be getting like a Super Nintendo emulator on that. |
[437.16 --> 444.64] One handheld device that can play Nintendo games, Sega games, PC games, anything you can think of pretty much. |
[445.04 --> 446.70] Because it's just a computer, right? |
[446.74 --> 450.46] It's just a laptop, essentially, in a little handheld Switch-sized device. |
[450.46 --> 459.18] And wouldn't you think within a short period of time, the Linux community is going to have re-spins of Steam OS with emulators baked in and whatnot? |
[459.18 --> 462.90] The community for this thing is going to be bonkers. |
[462.90 --> 465.42] You think how big it is for the Switch. |
[465.42 --> 468.04] Now, the Switch is a lockdown platform. |
[468.04 --> 473.82] Think how big it's going to be for the Steam Deck that is free and open and running Linux, baby. |
[473.82 --> 475.38] I mean, how cool is that? |
[475.80 --> 480.30] It might be the most exciting thing that's happening on the Linux desktop at the moment, period. |
[481.18 --> 481.86] Yeah, it could be. |
[481.94 --> 482.20] You're right. |
[482.24 --> 483.72] Because it's also a plasma desktop. |
[483.72 --> 486.02] So anyway, we were talking about RetroNAS briefly. |
[486.40 --> 491.56] And this is a project which allows you to use any kind of Linux computer. |
[491.56 --> 500.76] So a Raspberry Pi, an old PC, a VM, whatever it might be, as a network storage device for different gaming consoles and emulators. |
[501.70 --> 506.70] And at first, I was like, isn't RetroNAS basically just Samba? |
[507.02 --> 510.56] Like, what is this project doing that a network share wouldn't do? |
[510.60 --> 512.42] And it turns out, actually, it's doing loads. |
[512.42 --> 525.02] So a lot of these older consoles require things like Samba version 1 and Apple file protocol and all sorts of stuff that's been a long time deprecated for security reasons. |
[525.52 --> 530.92] And so what RetroNAS does is it very clearly states, we are doing stuff that is insecure. |
[531.34 --> 532.10] Here be dragons. |
[532.50 --> 539.26] But what they're doing is they're actually serving games up over the network using all these old protocols to all these old game consoles. |
[539.26 --> 546.54] And one example, we have several links in the show notes of the project founder, his YouTube channel, Dick Freaks. |
[547.10 --> 560.74] There's one example here where he's actually loading up games and ripping ISOs from his PlayStation 3, storing the ISO on his NAS, and then streaming the ISO back to the PlayStation without the disc in it to play it offline. |
[560.74 --> 564.04] And basically DRM freeing the game forever. |
[564.42 --> 565.62] Oh, that's the dream. |
[565.98 --> 577.04] You know, when the very first Xbox came out, I got on board that hacking train as fast as possible because you could get the games on the hard drive and avoid having to fetch the disc and the load times. |
[577.04 --> 586.24] This sounds like the sweet spot because you could get a Pi powered NAS and then you could go pick up a used PlayStation, like a PS3 right now. |
[586.28 --> 587.18] How much could that be? |
[587.72 --> 590.98] And you could basically have trouble free appliance gaming. |
[591.44 --> 593.28] 100, 150 bucks, something like that. |
[594.28 --> 594.50] Yeah. |
[594.60 --> 595.02] You know, it's funny. |
[595.06 --> 596.02] I don't even think retro. |
[596.60 --> 600.86] When you know, when you say retro gaming, I think even older than that, but I guess that is retro. |
[601.08 --> 604.10] PS3 is 10 years ago, maybe more. |
[604.10 --> 607.42] So the list of consoles that supported, there's quite a few. |
[607.58 --> 613.62] So MS-DOS and clones like FreeDOS and PC-DOS, Windows 95 and up. |
[613.80 --> 616.26] We've got Apple GS and classic Mac systems. |
[617.60 --> 619.62] Atari ST is supported. |
[620.06 --> 622.22] Amiga's, the Nintendo 3DS. |
[622.64 --> 625.60] So it's pretty cool to see a Nintendo console on this list. |
[625.92 --> 631.44] The PS2, the PS3, Xbox 360, as well as many more are planned in the future. |
[632.16 --> 632.92] That is pretty neat. |
[632.92 --> 639.08] You know, I know I'm a bigger retro gamer than you are, in part because I've just never really moved on. |
[639.88 --> 644.26] But also, I like retro gaming for the exact reason you don't like it, Alex. |
[644.94 --> 647.96] I so rarely have any time to play. |
[648.92 --> 654.66] And games like Mario are so easy to pick up and play for 15 minutes and then put down again. |
[654.66 --> 664.18] And so I've kind of been biased towards some of the older Marios because I can load them up on low power devices and they're great for road trips. |
[665.14 --> 665.18] Yeah. |
[665.24 --> 675.34] I mean, I still play an awful lot of some of my favorite older games, retro games, but I've always been a PC gamer first rather than a console guy. |
[675.34 --> 685.38] My kind of god tier list of games is Factorio, Open Transport Tycoon, or the original Transport Tycoon I did use to play before Open TTD. |
[685.82 --> 689.22] Roller Coaster Tycoon, SimCity 4 is great. |
[689.88 --> 691.98] I'd say those four are probably my top ones. |
[691.98 --> 697.64] As far as PC games go, I've always, always preferred games that support some kind of LAN play. |
[698.30 --> 705.56] I don't generally finish games, but if I can co-op or group play a game, I will finish that thing all the way to the end every time. |
[705.64 --> 706.74] I love that kind of stuff. |
[706.94 --> 711.18] And I've done some of these early games that required IPX. |
[711.18 --> 725.16] I want to say the first StarCraft I played wasn't over TCP IP on a LAN, but I want to say it was over NetBui or IPX or something that's just totally not even supported anymore. |
[725.30 --> 726.44] Showing your age there, bro. |
[727.66 --> 728.40] I know. |
[728.62 --> 729.60] You're right, actually. |
[730.02 --> 730.20] Right? |
[730.32 --> 739.26] Do people even know the struggles that we had to deal with with NetBui and the pain that Microsoft inflicted upon the networking world back in the day? |
[739.26 --> 740.34] No, nobody even cares. |
[740.34 --> 743.44] I don't even remember a time before TCP IP, I'm afraid. |
[744.06 --> 745.38] Yeah, and then WINS came along. |
[746.26 --> 749.02] WINS was just supposed to solve it, but they had to have their own thing. |
[749.08 --> 750.24] They couldn't choose to use DNS. |
[750.62 --> 751.66] Oh, my goodness. |
[751.74 --> 752.48] You got me all upset. |
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