Son Of General Retro Discussion

Steve X2

They should have just taken pre-orders :mad:

Dale Parish

I have one in my farnell checkout but the price has gone to 60 quid. What is that about.

Dale Parish

Doesn't matter now, it was crashed so long that my session expired

Doge

Dale Parish wrote: »

I have one in my farnell checkout but the price has gone to 60 quid. What is that about.

Are you sure you don't have 2?

If snot, that is bad form from farnell.

Dale Parish

the time vortex happened again

Steve X2

This is madness.
Was it organised by brain dead monkeys or what.

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Dale Parish

Back to the €40 order for me again...
Doesn't look like we'll be getting ahold of them anyway

Steve X2

rs-online.com have sold 0 Rasp Pi's apparently.
Someone rang them.

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi

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Doge

Are you sure they're sold out on farnell?

About an hour ago when I first got on, it said awaiting delivery, 30 days.

So that was probably like that from the beginning.

Managed to order one anyways.

Dale Parish

Now they want 108 quid.

Steve X2

I got one from farnell.
39.20 euro inc delivery.

Edit:
Estimated delivery on 12th March. More stock in 30 days.

Doge

Steve SI wrote: »

I got one from farnell.
39.20 euro inc delivery.

Edit:
Estimated delivery on 12th March. More stock in 30 days.

Same here, just got my 3rd e-mail which has the PDF of the order attached, which says stock allocated.

Now I wonder if that means we bought one of the 10K, or are we on some pre-order list.

They did tweet that they farnell were sold out "apparently" after a half an hour but I'm not sure what the story is.

Dale Parish

Getting a little bit pissed off now. Site still not loading

Doge

Well according to the latest tweet, we'll have a second chance of buying from RS at the end of the week.

Not quite the launch the team were expecting on RS!

Dale Parish

That's pathetic though.
I was on the checkout ready to click confirm order when the thing first went down. by the time it came back up the cart was empty.

Doge

A gun in the other hand would be more apt!

Steve X2

Dale Parish wrote: »

That's pathetic though.
I was on the checkout ready to click confirm order when the thing first went down. by the time it came back up the cart was empty.

Really badly organised if you ask me. I know its the partner sites that are having the problems and not the Rasp Pi foundation itself, but if I was selling something as crazy popular as this I'd have wanted load tests done on the server before I pick a partner to prove they could handle the massive increase in bandwidth over such a short period of time.

Might grab a coffee now as I had less than my usual 4 hours sleep last night

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Dale Parish

Why the hell does my order keep going from €40 to €120?

Steve X2

Dale Parish wrote: »

Why the hell does my order keep going from €40 to €120?

Page timing out and you reloading which is adding multiple boards to the order?
Happened to me earlier.
I really wasn't happy putting my cred card details in to be honest as the site was so shaky. But I really wanted that board :rolleyes:

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Dale Parish

Steve SI wrote: »

Page timing out and you reloading which is adding multiple boards to the order?
Happened to me earlier.
I really wasn't happy putting my cred card details in to be honest as the site was so shaky. But I really wanted that board :rolleyes:

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Yes it thought i wanted 4 of them. Time to change to 1 and then do the 2600bps modem thing again.

Doge

Dale Parish wrote: »

Yes it thought i wanted 4 of them. Time to change to 1 and then do the 2600bps modem thing again.

So much for only 1 order per customer anyway. :pac:


How many did you order Steve?

Dale Parish

Just clicked confirm... *hopes it goes through*

Dale Parish

Did anyone else notice that the description says it's the model B they are selling?

Steve X2

waveform wrote: »

So much for only 1 order per customer anyway. :pac:


How many did you order Steve?

Just the one. I was afraid if I put more than that they might cancel the order later on. And that would be bad, real bad.

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Steve X2

Dale Parish wrote: »

Did anyone else notice that the description says it's the model B they are selling?

Thats all they have in this batch I think. No A's until the next one as they are cheaper and in less demand. They did manage to boost the ram on the A boards to 256MB without increasing the cost, which is cool.

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Dale Parish

Ah I see what they mean now; I thought they were selling a 256mb model A now. :pac:
Web page confirms order; no email though

Steve X2

Dale Parish wrote: »

Ah I see what they mean now; I thought they were selling a 256mb model A now. :pac:
Web page confirms order; no email though

Takes while for the email to come through. You'll get 2 or 3 of them in a min.

BBC is all over the Pi:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190334

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918

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Steve X2

Well this explains some of the madness this morning with the Rasp Pi.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/raspberry-pi-22-computer-starts-29th-6am-1155542


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Dale Parish

Just got the 1 email off them. Damn.

Steve X2

Dale Parish wrote: »

Just got the 1 email off them. Damn.

I'm sure it'll be fine. If you got the order in and a order number then your sorted.

On another note, cave_world_en started following me on twitter this morning when I was tweeting about the Rasp Pi. Seems fairly random

Edit:
Ah here, already:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raspberry-Pi-SBC-one-everybody-talking-/290677406685?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item43adb93bdd

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safetyboy

Any good games available on the American XBLA as i have a few points to spend.

Steve X2

In case anyone missed out on the rasp Pi sales earlier. Here's one on ebay for the fine price of £999.00 sterling plus £5 shipping of course.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raspberry-Pi-Model-B-Ethernet-700MHz-ARM-SBC-/170793413181?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27c414aa3d

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Jack burton

I didnt want to get Rasp Pi, because I dont know anything about programming or anything and I'd prefer to know that if I let other people get them it would be for the greater good

Dale Parish

"The Greater Good"
It comes with Linux too though so you can.. linux with it?
I'll be doing the Commodore Mod Steve_SI suggested

Jack burton

Ah yeah but I'll wait till theres a strong community for it and theres some really cool stuff made for it and them possibly put it in a broken mega cd case

Professey Chin

Resident Evil 2 & 3 free for Playstation Plus members

DinoRex

Playstation Plus has been getting pretty cool lately.

Professey Chin

DinoRex wrote: »

Playstation Plus has been getting pretty cool lately.

To be fair to it, for how much it is Ive made it back many times over with the games and crap Ive gotten for free from it. The 2 RE games would set you back 15

Jack burton

Or nothing at all if you already have them.......which you should!

Doge

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iz feeling 1% happier nao.

Atavan-Halen

Who pissed in your cornflakes? O.o

Mr.Saturn

I'm a bit late to the party, but there's a new SNES title on the horizon:

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/02/new_snes_title_on_the_way_in_2013

Most Nintendo gamers are currently pre-occupied with their current consoles and perhaps looking ahead to the arrival of Wii U. It's surprising, therefore, to hear about a new title for Super Nintendo, but that's exactly what is on the way.
Retro developer and publisher Super Fighter Team has confirmed that it is currently developing a brand new SNES title called Nightmare Busters, due for release in 2013. According to the developer this will be the first new game released for the platform in the U.S. since 1998. Described as a 'run and gun' title, there has been such demand that not only has the company decided to accept pre-orders, but is also boosting the initial run to 600 copies, double the normal first batch. Citing production costs as a factor, the game will cost $68 dollars for U.S. customers and $75 for the rest of the world. As stated on the game's web page, the package contains the following.
One (1) copy of Nightmare Busters for the Super Nintendo; a game cartridge with full color label, which supports both PAL and NTSC based systems.
One (1) full color instruction manual.
One (1) full color cardstock box to house the game cartridge and instruction manual.
Shipping is expected at an unspecified point in 2013, and the developer is keen to express that only enthusiastic buyers should consider pre-ordering. At present there are no concrete details about the title beyond its genre, but with a dedicated website promised in the near future there isn't long to wait.

Atavan-Halen

That's a bit pricey. Pier solar was only about €30

Doge

atavan-halen wrote: »

Who pissed in your cornflakes? O.o

LOL!

That gave me a chuckle.

Just a bit of lagged upset over the way the Raspberry Pi was launched today.

If we were given a little hint that they would be totally abandoning their mailing list for notifications, and their store, then it would have eased the blow a little.

In a way that wouldn't have spoiled the surprise about the 2 distributors.

It was very hard to tell whether you secured one or not from Farnell until later today when the order status went from shipped..
to partially shipped, to cancelled... (edit, got mixed up with the list of statuses you can have)
and even if you did secure one before they sold out,
unless you live in the UK you would have had the ordered pulled from you,
as Farnell announced a few hours ago, that they will not be shipping outside of the UK,
even though it was meant to be sold internationally.

The lack of knowing where you stood was a head wreck to say the least.

RS didn't even put the units on sale, and postponed the orders until they have the boards in stock.

Probably a wise move by them in hindsight, they just side stepped a lot of frustrated users.

Pyongyang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXhSYYsN26w

CiDeRmAn

Should be getting a 20" Sony tv tomorrow, guy is lugging it up from Wicklow on the bus!
Still, should be perfect for all my Tate needs...

Doge

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Should be getting a 20" Sony tv tomorrow, guy is lugging it up from Wicklow on the bus!
Still, should be perfect for all my Tate needs...

Feckin hell! Fair play to him!

Hope you're paying him well!

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Should be getting a 20" Sony tv tomorrow

Looks like we're all getting in to CRT madness this week!

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Should be getting a 20" Sony tv tomorrow, guy is lugging it up from Wicklow on the bus!
Still, should be perfect for all my Tate needs...

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Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1c6sjtKoaU