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[matchy]

Is this the absolute sign of the new indie game boom? 

A New, $99 Console Called Ouya Is Real and Radically Different From Xbox, PlayStation and Wii 
http://kotaku.com/5923135/a-new-99-console-called-ouya-is-real-and-radically-different-from-xbox-playstation-and-wii?utm_campaign=socialflow_kotaku_twitter&utm_source=kotaku_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow


Bonus video:
Ben Heck's Raspberry Pi (retro style BBC case) Build Trailer

[MrTAToad]

Looks like it!

[erico]

Really great and about time.
I hope it all goes ok with it.
Exciting news.

[Hatonastick]

If that ever goes to production, I'll be grabbing one. 

[matchy]

I should've titled the thread RPi Retro Boxes 'cause check out this beauty!

[erico]

 

I should have never disposed of my cp400(cocoII) neither my amiga 4000.
Altough I still have my kickstart chip + workbench chip and the a4000 motorola 68030 board, I just feel sorry for not having the cases around.

I could be in for great re-fun now.

I never disposed the coco II, gave it to a cousin, I´m afraid to ask him till this day where it went.

Really beautiful red c64 case there 

ps: heck, I once was going around town and saw a cp500 (trs80II) monitor+cable shell right down the trash can...it was about an hour an a half thinking of not actually taking it home...felt really sad for leaving it.

[mentalthink]

The consola seems, it´s creating very expectation....

In this video have a bit more info...  The good thing it´s not a fake, the project it´s real, and some coleague in another forum, comment something about the console will be roteable, and perhaps hombrew developement can be very interesting (I don´t undertand too much the "rooteable" and make thing for the console, but...)

The good thing, I think... whit this price, and having like alternative to Xbox and PS, perhaps they have a lot of sells, and working whit Andriod  GLBasic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CvgdBTmon8&feature=player_embedded#!

[erico]

What about this?

http://indiegames.com/2012/07/indie_tools_amos_for_windows.html

hehe, don´t take me wrong, but it is always interesting.

[doimus]

Hahah, AMOS for windows is bloody amazing!
It's 100% complete & contained retro dev environment. Great stuff! I've never owned an Amiga, but now I'm going to make Pong for it! 

And Ouya console looks great too!
Only thing that bothers me is the gamepad design. Yes, it follows Xbox model and that's exactly the problem - it eliminates most younger kids from the game (pun intended). It's just too big.
Wii/snes style classic controller is much better for the young ones.

[erico]

So it seems the ouya console has a kickstarter campaing and a quite successful one already.

It sincerely feels ridiculous to me that, based powerful companies, take it to raise pre-orders, or, in other words, kickstarter has become a ´lend your money with no interest´ case. It is not the first time, tim shaffer did similar. No need to need funding to pre-sale on kickstater right?

For once, the main industry now understand that a channel of ´what do the consumers want to buy?´ is important as money raising, lets see if they can attend it...
I mean, if they can tell what the consumer wants to buy in the first place, then I guess there is no harm done uh?

Steam is jumping into this boat already, by what I see of the green stuff (calling green is great!).

[erico]

Hahah, AMOS for windows is bloody amazing!
It's 100% complete & contained retro dev environment. Great stuff! I've never owned an Amiga, but now I'm going to make Pong for it! 

It is good for the retro people I guess.
I still have most of my amos code from my amiga HD image and I suspect they can run there, haven´t tried it yet, and have doubts if I ever will.

Not being that retro of a coder, and have spent 10 years searching for a ´next level´ basic language to advance my stuff, I believe I won´t even run it for fun.
Of course I have it inside UAE on my amiga hd image, the only good reason I see into installing this, is if there is any possibility I can easily show the results of my old code to you guys

[mentalthink]

HI Erico thanks a lot... I´m working in Amiga Game.. but I have to use the emulator... this it´s fantastic... but how I put the code in the workbench screen, and after how I return to the Editor... Very usefull link... Thanks a lot...

[Hatonastick]

Erico, for a while now I've had something to say to you and that is this:  Where can I get a poster of your avatar. 

[erico]

Where can I get a poster of your avatar. 

Oliver Jeffer is the man, he illustrated a series of kid´s books, I happen to be a fan, but fear to read any yet.
His page is here:
http://www.oliverjeffers.com/

have fun

[matchy]

There are ways of nostalgically revise retro unit hardware and emulation.

However, I think most of us miss the feeling of being introduced to computers and programming for the first time. I think project like this may relive that experience I guess.