Great video. Wish it was made 5 or so years ago ha.
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Quoted from JodyG:Stern probably does not want people to buy their boards and build their own machines from them...so if you make the sum of the whole system prohibitively expensive, you will exclude people from doing that.
I seriously doubt that plays into it. There's like one or two crazy people that are capable of doing this sort of thing, and it's for the challenge...not the cost savings.
Hell, I would argue Stern should sell Spike stuff to homebrew hobbyist like Multimorphic and Fast boards. Not make it a core part of the business or anything, but send an email to sales and talk to a human to buy some stuff to play with. Seems like a way to start cultivating more design talent to replace the designers aging out of the industry.
I think their boards are simply expensive because of low volume and R&D. Who knows how much money they spent to develop the Spike and Spike 2 hardware, associated software, and developer tools.
Quoted from JodyG:I was thinking a homebrewer that goes into selling actual production games, like Spooky.
Why would Stern be against that? I'm sure they'd license Spike for the right price. Then they get a taste on all the games being sold that they don't make.
Multimorphic powers Spooky and American Pinball afterall. (Of course if I was one of them, I probably wouldn't want to become overly reliant on Stern)
Quoted from PoMC:Has anyone looked into replacing the dual core processor on the carrier board with a quad core like George mentioned Stern would be doing soon? I’d like to use a quad core on my Aerosmith for smoother playback of live videos I used to replaced the animated backgrounds with.
I imagine it wouldn't help if the game code isn't programmed to take advantage of the extra horsepower. A computer doesn't automatically know how to split the work load from a dual to a quad core. (Assuming the CPU is the bottleneck)
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