Preorders Have Started. (Previously named starts in two hours)


Klumpen said:
The man is married, give him some time for keeping it that way too. ;)
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I wonder what EvilDragon's wife thinks of his minor celebrity status. Does she get a good laugh out of all of us crazed project fans? Did she lurk in the keyboard threads with a mixture of fascination and disgust? Is she ever annoyed if/when EvilDragon gets recognized by a crazed fan while going through a grocery store?

Spouses rarely share direct interests. My wife has no interest in electronics beyond, 'Name the item in this picture,' "free" advertising supported games. She has a good line for when I was using my Pandora though: "The Keebler elves called. They want their computer back."
 
I don't want my wife to have the same electronic interest as me. I've given her my whole life, but that's about it. I don't want to share my electronic toys with her. Good she she has no interest in them, or else I'd have nothing left.

My kids are taking over my stuff though...
 
Shenmue said:
I don't want my wife to have the same electronic interest as me. I've given her my whole life, but that's about it. I don't want to share my electronic toys with her. Good she she has no interest in them, or else I'd have nothing left.

My kids are taking over my stuff though...
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If I have Kids, I'll start them off on what I did... This is a Timex Sinclair ZX81, good luck actually hitting a key with this lousy keyboard, also you need to hand code everything you want to use. Then Walk away laughing maniacally...
 
The 27th 24 hours of pre-orders is now up.

We got :

350 Pre-orders the first 24 hours (350)
79 Pre-orders in the second 24 hours. (429)
49 Pre-orders in the third 24 hours (478) (Some double up Pre-orders were removed though)
29 Pre-orders in the fourth 24 hours (507)
18 Pre-orders in the fifth 24 hours (525)
26 Pre-orders in the sixth 24 hours (551)
12 Pre-orders in the seventh 24 hours (563)
10 Pre-orders in the eight 24 hours (573)
17 Pre-orders in the ninth 24 hours (590)
11 Pre-orders in the tenth 24 hours (601)
9 Pre-orders in the eleventh 24 hours (610) - Note , the number would have been higher, however a number of duplicate orders were removed.
11 Pre-orders in the 12th 24 hours (621)
8 Pre-orders in the 13th 24 hours (629)
16 Pre-orders in the 14th 24 hours (645)
8 Pre-orders in the 15th 24 hours (653) - Adjusted
12 Pre-orders in the 16th 24 hours (665)
10 Pre-orders in the 17th 24 hours (675)
7 Pre-orders in the 18th 24 hours (682)
5 Pre-orders in the 19th 24 hours (687)
8 Pre-orders in the 20th 24 hours (695)
3 Pre-orders in the 21st 24 hours (698)
5 Pre-orders in the 22nd 24 hours (703)
3 Pre-orders in the 23rd 24 hours (706)
4 Pre-orders in the 24th 24 hours (710)
2 Pre-orders in the 25th 24 hours (712)
4 Pre-orders in the 26th 24 hours (716)
5 Pre-orders in the 27th 24 hours (721)

Daily average over the last 7 days was 3.71 Pre-orders a day


Note: Daily figures also include converted Pre Pre-orders. As such , actual new pre-orders would be a little less than quoted figures.
 
TrashyMG said:
If I have Kids, I'll start them off on what I did... This is a Timex Sinclair ZX81, good luck actually hitting a key with this lousy keyboard, also you need to hand code everything you want to use. Then Walk away laughing maniacally...
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I'm actually really looking forward to teaching my kid BASIC, not sure they'll enjoy it though.
 
My kids, should I have some one day, shall have it better than me. I'd take away there toys and leave 'em with something like a rpi, some peripherals, a LFS CD and book, and a dictionary. Then I lock 'em in with the doorlock being accessable over eithernet. If they make it, I'll be proud. Otherwise I'll need to procreate anew.
 
Djoga'Ro said:
My kids, should I have some one day, shall have it better than me. I'd take away there toys and leave 'em with something like a rpi, some peripherals, a LFS CD and book, and a dictionary. Then I lock 'em in with the doorlock being accessable over eithernet. If they make it, I'll be proud. Otherwise I'll need to procreate anew.
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Sounds like the nerd's version of throwing them into a wolf's pit and testing whether they are worthy.
 
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Djoga'Ro said:
If they make it, I'll be proud.
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Kids have M4d social engineering skillz. If that fails, they use the Russian method. (While Americans developed a pen that could write in space, Russians used a pencil; i.e. law of least resistance). So they'd climb out the window, go to the toilet, go to the fridge, grab some snacks, and get back into their room... and then... just to prove a point, unlock the door with the rPI...
 
FBnil said:
Kids have M4d social engineering skillz. If that fails, they use the Russian method. (While Americans developed a pen that could write in space, Russians used a pencil; i.e. law of least resistance). So they'd climb out the window, go to the toilet, go to the fridge, grab some snacks, and get back into their room... and then... just to prove a point, unlock the door with the rPI...
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Even better. I'd also like them for this. :)
 
kabaiakh said:
My son says he will ask for a Pyra this Xmas, so that we can play together ...
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I think it'll be a long time until Pyra2Pyra multiplayer stuff is possible, if at all (never really happened on Pandora).
Connecting a gamepad via USB to the Pyra and this one to a screen via HDMI to play stuff together shouldn't be a problem for long though.
Does someone know if Pyra works as an HID at release? If yes, you could use a second Pyra as the controller although this wouldn't be very cost efficient, you could also use a Pandora for this btw.
 
Djoga'Ro said:
My kids, should I have some one day, shall have it better than me. I'd take away there toys and leave 'em with something like a rpi, some peripherals, a LFS CD and book, and a dictionary. Then I lock 'em in with the doorlock being accessable over eithernet. If they make it, I'll be proud. Otherwise I'll need to procreate anew.
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Awesome. I wish someone had given me a computer as a kid, and forcing me to learn how to use it properly at an early age would have helped me out a bunch. In my first class using computers we made a cartoon.

FBnil said:
While Americans developed a pen that could write in space, Russians used a pencil
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This whole story is bullshit.
 
rygD said:
Awesome. I wish someone had given me a computer as a kid, and forcing me to learn how to use it properly at an early age would have helped me out a bunch. In my first class using computers we made a cartoon.
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Similar for me. I did have a Commodore 64 and a fat book on programing with that and did that a bit. Then I got a 386 PC with DOS and Win 3.11 and had no clue how to do some programming with this. I also had no one to ask and ended up just playing games on it like everyone else. I wish someone would have shown me Linux and given me some books on programming with C.
[doublepost=1464449605,1464449327][/doublepost]I wouldn't necessarily want my kids to become great computer scientists, but when I see what problems our costumers call for, I'd say learning some programming is essential today like learning to read and write and learning math is.
 
Djoga'Ro said:
Similar for me. I did have a Commodore 64 and a fat book on programing with that and did that a bit. Then I got a 386 PC with DOS and Win 3.11 and had no clue how to do some programming with this. I also had no one to ask and ended up just playing games on it like everyone else. I wish someone would have shown me Linux and given me some books on programming with C.
[doublepost=1464449605,1464449327][/doublepost]I wouldn't necessarily want my kids to become great computer scientists, but when I see what problems our costumers call for, I'd say learning some programming is essential today like learning to read and write and learning math is.
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There was QBASIC there :) I had no clues how to program with it (or at all), but I started hacking blindly GORILLAZ and NIBBLES, the two games that were there :D
 
Re: The russians using pencils in space
rygD said:
This whole story is bullshit.
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Well, bullshit is a bit harsh, but I believe the story to be apocryphal. The graphite powder released when you use a pencil turns out to not be great news for circuit boards and computers in a confined space without gravity. Perhaps lead pencils don't powder so easily, but I've never knowingly used one of those so I'm unsure.

Regarding BASIC, I recently downloaded Brandy since it's able to load tokenised BBC BASIC programmes, and I could validate my BBC Micro disc unpacker. It's quite neat, but doesn't support the graphics primitives on anything but RISC OS.

I found the Python tutorial to be very reminiscent of old 'Learn BASIC' books, but it does lack the graphics and sound primitives that were such immediate payback when messing about as a youngster.

Actually RISC OS using real BBC BASIC might not be a bad place to start. It's probably the last actively maintained microcomputer OS (possibly Haiku is also there), and eminently hackable, and runs rather smartly on a Raspberry Pi or even a Pandora apparently. There's no circle command in BBC BASIC, so that was my first introduction to trigonometric functions (you can also do it using Pythagoras' theorem):
10 CENTREX=640
20 CENTREY=512
30 RADIUS=200
40 MOVE CENTREX, CENTREY+RADIUS
50 FOR A=0 to 3.14159 STEP 0.1
60 DRAW CENTREX+RADIUS*SIN(A), CENTREY+RADIUS*COS(A)
70 NEXT
(code untested)
 
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