It's software this time!

[Grench]

Dont ask me why i listen to Jonny Cash or Gunter Gabriel ^^

I'm not fond of 90% of what falls into the genre of "Country Music", but I do like Johnny Cash. I think it is mostly due to the story telling aspect of his songs.

But, we're straying off topic again - this time into music.

Software developments - most of those are over in Dave's thread right now. The real cure for the off topic here would be a new news thread - which should wait until there is new news.

 

[spud42]

Any thoughts on coding a program to create a 10 to 20 second video by pressing once on the camera capture button

impossible . the PYRA doesnt have a camera. and if that was supposed to be a joke.. i dont get it.

 

[TrashyMG]

USB cameras exist.

 

[matzesu]

I know, there is no exactly Date for the Produktion yet, 2 - 3 Weeks after the last thuesday when EvilDragon made this post may be end of next week
But how will the Gamescom delay the Produktion? Is Dragonbox Shop going to be there, or not because its only Digital this year ??
I know from our Conventios whe had at our Beeceeper Busines, that the preparing of such a Booth can eat lots of work hours, so not going to the Convention means less work, but also less orders..

 

[EvilDragon]

I know, there is no exactly Date for the Produktion yet, 2 - 3 Weeks after the last thuesday when EvilDragon made this post may be end of next week
But how will the Gamescom delay the Produktion? Is Dragonbox Shop going to be there, or not because its only Digital this year ??
I know from our Conventios whe had at our Beeceeper Busines, that the preparing of such a Booth can eat lots of work hours, so not going to the Convention means less work, but also less orders..

We have two live slots at the Gamescom digital where we'll show some upcoming new games for Retro consoles as well as general new hardware for retro stuff.

These two slots will not affect the production at all

First 300 Cases are being coated right now (black color), the mass produced heatpipes should be finished August 8th, I'm waiting for the final box design from Traylorpark and am working on the manual right now.

Then all the hardware will be here, so hopefully, daveshah will have squished most bugs then as well... as it would mean we'd be ready for shipping.

 

[FBnil]

Are there still spaces for preorders or would a current preorder fall into a second batch?

There is ALWAYS space to preorder. That being said, the Second batch is still quite optimistic, maybe third batch. Remember, there were more than 500 preorders in the first week alone.

 

[Bosbeetle]

We have two live slots at the Gamescom digital where we'll show some upcoming new games for Retro consoles as well as general new hardware for retro stuff.

These two slots will not affect the production at all

First 300 Cases are being coated right now (black color), the mass produced heatpipes should be finished August 8th, I'm waiting for the final box design from Traylorpark and am working on the manual right now.

Then all the hardware will be here, so hopefully, daveshah will have squished most bugs then as well... as it would mean we'd be ready for shipping.

300 black does that mean youve already did a colour survey or are you making 50/50 black/chrome

 

[EvilDragon]

300 black does that mean youve already did a colour survey or are you making 50/50 black/chrome

No, we simply started with 300 black ones as I guess we will have at LEAST 300 (out of 1000) black ones so we can start with the assembly
I'll do the survey end of this / early next week.

 

[matzesu]

Och nö I wanted dark chrome
„(heul)“

But it’s seems like it’s now getting serious whit the Massproduktion



Whit best regards, Matthias

 

[Djoga'Ro]

So basically, if you're in a hurry, opt for a black one. I won't be manipulated like that, though. I wait for dark red or safety orange. Nah, I go for dark chrome. Still hoping for cases in proper colours and/or transparent (but from the latest mold revision) being available sometime later.

 

[rSl]

i'm all for 64 super-rare-limited light-beige cases after the black ones.

 

[lordbobjones]

Exciting report! Looking forward!

 

[Bosbeetle]

No, we simply started with 300 black ones as I guess we will have at LEAST 300 (out of 1000) black ones so we can start with the assembly
I'll do the survey end of this / early next week.

Ah clear, I guess you will get 300 people who go for black indeed.

 

[EvilDragon]

So basically, if you're in a hurry, opt for a black one. I won't be manipulated like that, though. I wait for dark red or safety orange. Nah, I go for dark chrome. Still hoping for cases in proper colours and/or transparent (but from the latest mold revision) being available sometime later.

Nope, that won't change. Dark Chrome and Black will be ready at the same time, but we'll start assembling the lids first, then the rest.
So we'll start assembling 300 black lids and until then, the poll and the needed number of case colors will be ready as well.

 

[ClockworkCoder]

This is absolutely fantastic news! Full steam ahead!

 

[Kev2442]

i'm all for 64 super-rare-limited light-beige cases after the black ones.

Breadbin or C64C ?

 

[TrashyMG]

Breadbin or C64C ?

Personally I'd be for SX-64 portable color scheme.

 

[Kev2442]

Noice.

 

[levi]

Personally I'd be for SX-64 portable color scheme.

Curiously that is still a brown colour, though it's only arguably a beige, because most things on wikipedia's beige page at least are significantly more yellow or more red, whereas this colour, if you boost the saturation and increase the value, you get orange. If you start at pale brown and reduce the saturation even further, that's what you get.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Personally I'd be for SX-64 portable color scheme.

Heeey I have one of these things!