Or include two midnight madness modes, and choose one at random in software! I think Midnight Madness is a very cool feature. Every player that I know that has seen it has been completely taken by surprise.
I like the idea!
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Quoted from Bigdaddy1000:FYI for those considering Windows 7 - this is standard functionality in the OS as well. Hit the power button and it will do a safe shutdown. You should disable automatic updates as well to avoid any unexpected reboots (assuming you have an active network connection) as well.
Correct. Its actually standard for most operating systems. It also depends on whether or not ACPI power down is supported in the BIOS (which most recent motherboards support). Very handy in a pinball machine! 
Quoted from bangerjay:Color dmd is in hooked up by the man himself, 'cause anybody that knows me also knows my ass couldn't do it. I would also like to add that it F'n rules!
This makes me happy. Props Eric, and awesome that you snagged one, Jay.
Always good to see new developments getting out there into the hands of players.
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That seems about right, epthegeek. Glad you're implementing this (along with the host of other features).
You will -NEVER- be finished! 
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Quoted from Mr68:Now that you've posted your idea, I imagine Andre has already stolen it.
Unleash the "moders"!
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I agree that Eric's work is a real treat to all of the CC's out there, even though he'll deny it if you ask him. For those who choose to do something similar in the future (as in create your own custom game software) and want to give it back in the same spirit that Eric did, you can license your work under GPLv2 or newer and any modifications must also be open source. Free and Open Source licenses have nothing to do with charging for the work, mind you. Free = Free Speech, not free as in beer. If you want something like that, then you'll have to add in your own clause or find a license that supports it.
(I'm not a lawyer, just an accidental copyright expert)
Quoted from banderas:- CCEE WAS not and IS not a commercial project and we never sold / sell it, so all this commercial talk is completely a lie
Quoted from banderas:- People asking to get the CCEE code which we refused, now try to make trouble on the net and spread wrong information as you can read here.
Okay, so lets cut the crap and just clarify that you sell systems with the code pre-installed. The only way to get said code is by buying one of your systems. Why else would you make and promote "deluxe editions" of the system? Why are you specific about who you sell to? Why would you reject anyone? Why is there a restricted "members only" portion of your site? It seems that you've gone to considerable lengths to promote the product and its "exclusivity", so calling it a commercial product is probably the most appropriate.
How microsofty of you.
Quoted from ClarkKent:Is it legal to take an open source code, modify it and sell it along with hardware without providing a free download link to the open source software?
This depends on the license. At the time, such modifications were permitted under the license that CCC was distributed under. The license has recently been changed to prohibit redistribution of derived works. However, the license isn't retroactive, but any new derivations going forward (including ones where banderas wants to take new features developed in the original code base and include them in CCEE) are prohibited from redistribution under the new license. The new license, however, does permit making changes for your own personal use. The new license is reflected in the 'Continued...' GitHub repository.
Quoted from Dmod:Andre is an opportunist and knows exactly what he's doing. CCC gaming computers were being sold (with the CCC code) without Eric's permission, even before Andre introduced additional features.
From my understanding, he was asked to stop and ignored the request.
I agree completely.
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Quoted from djb_rh:FYI, RPi’s can suck a LOT of juice. Like 3A by themselves. So be careful where you power it from. You are correct, though, that they have no integrated power switch.
But there is another way to *avoid* corruption….but it will require a little hacking. You could just keep everything mounted read-only. Maybe move the high scores and the game settings to a small partition and remount that rw when you need to update something and then back to ro when done. You can do that so fast that it’s *unlikely* someone would hit the power switch while it’s happening, anyway, and even if they did it’s a reasonably small thing to fix.
Pretty sure my machine has the CSSC, which is probably the best way to handle it. An RPi can be made to shutdown cleanly very quickly.
—Donnie
Correct in general. The hard part tends to be getting the OS to run normally under read-only mode. Seeing as this is sort of "what we do" in the industry, Eric reached out to me this morning and I'm spinning an OS image that should run on a Pi4 and testing it now.
You should have updates soon!
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