WhollyMindless

Here's the article on it: http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/...oshis_Boxx.html Quick info: Yoshi's Boxx Made by Yoshi on the Screen Savers back before G4 turned TechTV into a whore. The following systems are installed in the Boxx: * Atari 2600 * Nintendo Entertainment System (8-bit) * Microsoft Xbox * Nintendo GameCube * Sony PlayStation 2 * A custom PC Of course a remake would need some more stuff in it. I notice that the SNES is missing and I'd be hard pressed not to get a Dreamcast in it. If you dropped a PS3 and/or a 360 in it you'd have to have 4 power lines.

Looks like the keyboard needs some work. The shift keys are obviously broken!

I've got a handle on all the technical bits, but what's this "Girlfriend" thing you're talking about?

And I give a *expletive* because??? Were you just overwhelmed by a PR guy? (Now there's a Left4Dead mod we need... Replace the zombies with PR clowns and Affiliate spammers....) Sorry about that! I realize that my comment was a bit more rude than I intended. Every time I hear "Patent Pending" for a software product I just get totally turned away from it. If I were to use the product or even go to the site, I couldn't program for a living because now I'd be held liable for knowing about the possible patent. I can't look into it to see just how cool the product is because it would taint me from a patent perspective. If I were to write my own functionally similar algorithm without having seen the other product or known about it, I'd be free and clear so... It's better off not knowing. In the patent game, ignorance is bliss.

All good advice - I'll second the "decent" video card - look into nVidia's PureVideo drivers. They aren't open/free but they are incredible and make for some great sound and image quality. (yes, sound - Dolby Digital!) This is really important to offload what dedicated hardware is good at (decoding video). One serious problem I had with the other solutions is that if I ever watched "live" and didn't stop playback before I left they all thought I loved what was on. My Sage box loved Barney and could NOT stop watching it. Talk about frustration. Make sure you have a decent remote (a wireless keyboard isn't so great after a couple of beers or when the girlfriend comes over) and a ROCK SOLID tuner changing setup. CableCard goes a long way in fixing the issues with older cable and satellite boxes. I do wish you luck but know that it's a HUGE undertaking, but can be fun. MAME on a 36" TV can be quite impressive but won't impress most girlfriends.

Evil Server has worked out his own Holograms. That's what you get for letting him watch CNN.

I lost interest when you said "Better than a Tivo". If you've owned a Tivo and then tried to replace it with a PC running anything (Myth/Sage/Media Center/xbmc) you'll have found the same thing I did. After a year of screwing around - multiple hours a week - trying to make something that was better, I finally settled for something OK and spent so much time fixing it that at 3am one morning I ordered a Series 2 and a 320G hard disk and I haven't had to mess with it once. I realized that I didn't want to play with a PC, I just wanted to watch TV. If you've never owned a Tivo and used it for more than a month, you have NO IDEA what you're trying to replace. Good luck! I'd love to find something better, but honestly, I haven't found it yet.

And this is special somehow? I thank GoDaddy for sponsoring Hak5 and helping keep them in gear, but really, do we need affiliate scammers out here? (And anyone that doesn't use DNS privacy deserves all the junk mail and stalkers they get)

Just hardcode dns to OpenDNS. It's faster and not managed by the network owners. 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220