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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:47 am Post subject: October 2003 - Spotlight: The Baton Teleplay Modem |
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I am absolutely not done with this story, but I'm still proud of what I was able to dig up, so [url=http://www.lostlevels.org/200310/200310-baton.shtml"]here you are[/url].
From here, I plan to get some dirt on the Edge 16, and perhaps some other failed modems (the old Sega Genesis one comes to mind). |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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For those who read the article when it was first put up, I just added three more pictures, courtesy of Keith Rupp himself. |
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merp Guest
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Great work on scoring such a story! Really unfortunate when titans slay the challengers. If ROM images ever get released there will be something fun for emulator authors to play with. REAL network based Nintendo games.
Keep it up! |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Plugged. And here I thought Brandon hated me. |
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adaml Staff
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 616 Location: In the VIP
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Whose thumb is that holding the controller in the Baton article pic?? That's not The Thumb, is it?
[Edit] For those wondering, that stuff around my mouth is not blood...whoever guesses what it is gets a free donut. |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Am I allowed to guess?
That's Keith Rupp's thumb. |
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Smeg Staff
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 1600 Location: beneath enemy scrotum
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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adaml wrote: | For those wondering, that stuff around my mouth is not blood...whoever guesses what it is gets a free donut. |
Adam got his red wings! Or is that covered under "not blood"? |
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adaml Staff
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 616 Location: In the VIP
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Smeg wrote: | adaml wrote: | For those wondering, that stuff around my mouth is not blood...whoever guesses what it is gets a free donut. |
Adam got his red wings! Or is that covered under "not blood"? |
I got those back in college, quite by accident.
No donut for you. |
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kap Minister of Paranoia
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 2103 Location: I hate you.
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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adaml wrote: | For those wondering, that stuff around my mouth is not blood...whoever guesses what it is gets a free donut. |
goatse.cx man's ass lips photoshopped onto your face? |
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adaml Staff
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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kap gets the Krispy Kreme!! |
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kap Minister of Paranoia
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 2103 Location: I hate you.
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:38 am Post subject: |
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Now give us a kiss! |
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Quietust
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Behind you
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Just a little nitpick - the modem speeds you listed were very likely "bits per second" (or "baud"), not "kilobits per second" (2400kbps is faster than what most cable modems download at). |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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So a correction would be 2400 baud? |
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lugnut Staff
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 147
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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That or 2400 bps. |
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Ernster BANNED
Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 28 Location: Australia
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Wonderful article as always :D |
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Ballz Staff
Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 610 Location: st. petersburg, florida
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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:51 am Post subject: |
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TheRedEye wrote: | So a correction would be 2400 baud? |
Yup... RANDOM FACTOID FOR RANDOM GOODNESS: my very first modem was 2400bps. It was also circa 1994. |
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Snowman
Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Calgary
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:16 am Post subject: Another Modem...??? |
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I remember long ago, when the dinosaurs roame..yadda yadda... anyway, I think the Genesis had been out in North America for only 2 years. Here in Canada, there was a commercial I only remember seeing once, about a type of cartridge you plugged into the Genesis and it hooked up to cable, as in cable tv cable. They'd had to be digital at that point and I have no idea when digital cable began. Anyway, supposedly 300 titles were planned to be played via this cable modem/cart thing.
Not long after the commercial I was watching a show about electronics and videogaming. It was on peasant vision and I can't remember what the show was called, nor do I care. They had a short feature about this cable-cart, and also pretty much advertised the thing. So far there were subscribers in Ontario and Quebec using it, and it would be shortly available via cable in western Canada soon. Ever since then, never heard anything about it, not even from Genesis freaks who were more into Sega and Sonic than I was.
What do you guys think about this? To be honest this IS from memory, and though unless I got an electric shock to the brain at the time and saw visions of video gaming bliss, I'm sure this thing existed. |
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KingMike
Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 898
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Sega Channel?
You could play 50 games a month a server at the cable company, and there was probably other stuff...but since I haven't owned a Genesis, I have no personal experience with it. |
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Kitsune FURRY
Joined: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Mexico
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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It could've been the X-Band modem.
I think I have some Mexican advertisements for the thing. O_o |
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