Very comfy but I would have liked to have seen more of the build. Hoping he still continues to do arcade restoration and other relevant videos about running the business.
I've been kind of wondering this myself. I'd think that the lack of light and noise might make it a bit of a difficult place to casually hang out.
I think they've started off with a lot of good decisions. They're near an airport. They're between twin cities. They're a great stopping place on the way in or out for nerds visiting the area. I've never been to Texas, so I'm just going by the map in the video. Hopefully that area gets a lot of travel from people with kids and families. Bonus if the sign can be seen from the major roadways.
Don't trust his judgement after saying that Oreo Coke fucking sucks (it's literally the coolest thing ever)
This is why it'll be a success. They have a business partner who already runs a successful arcade. He will know what he's doing and is probably making all the big decisions. As 8-Bit Guy shows in the video; his role besides his investment is changing the lightbulbs and microwaving the hotdogs.
They've shipped a bunch of them. They started shipping the first 150 units almost a year ago: https://cx16forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7043
The crazy thing about the X16 is how he thinks it has potential to be the next Raspberry Pi in the American education market, while completely misunderstanding what made the Raspberry Pi so successful within it.
I think I agree with the one point such people often make that modern programmers are poorer programmers for being so abstracted away from the metal that they basically don't know how computers work. This defintively makes people worse than they could be. The upside of such primitive systems is that you can know *everything* about them. That's difficult to do even with a Pi, most of all because some things are straight up squirreled away in some proprietary driver blob and unknowable.
That's Gen X in general. The current "fuck the chuds by making everything gay" schtick in gaming and movies is almost entirely down to gen X dudes having melties over internet comments. I don't know what's up with that gen but they need to dial it back a little.
You can program the Pi at the bare metal and in fact it's not even uncommon or difficult. There's dudes on youtube that'll teach you how to write ARM assembly and link a bootloader for the Pi in like 20-30 min.
I think it was in his review for that pop-up egg omelette sausage maker thing. Wish he'd do more kitchen gadgets. I don't want to buy any of them, but his reviews were amusing.
That's nice to see. I won't be buying one because Commodores aren't very interesting to me, but I always want these retro tech endeavors to do well.
I saw a Commander X16 irl earlier this year. It looked cool, but if I really wanted a modern Commodore homage, I'd buy a MEGA65.
That's probably about right, it's not like these sorts of machines are ever going to sell by the tens of thousands.
Pi Pico is great too. Those things are extremely cheap compared to Arduino stuff.
He almost never does since he knows it would date the fuck out of his videos.
