Welcome to the show, it's me, John Park, and you are here for John Park's workshop. And so am I, and so's Lars. We're all here, it's so fun to have everyone in the workshop today to get together and build some stuff and show some things. Let's see, what else is going on? First of all, who am I talking to? You may wonder, I'm talking to our chats. So we've got chat over in the YouTube land, hello everyone there, and also over on our Discord. So if you're somewhere else and you're wondering, hey, where is the chat? Well, that's it right there. That's the Adafruit Discord server. You can get there by heading over to adafruit.it slash Discord. Look for the live broadcast chat channel, and that's what's going on in there. Let's see, what else? The, hold on one second, I'm just gonna fix some semi-broken things here. Let's go, whoo, that's smaller, there we go. Just like that, there's our chat. And what else? So we've got a action-packed show for you today and by we.me.me, I've got fun stuff I think I'm excited about. But before I get into that, I wanted to give you a coupon code that you could use today. If you wanted to go buy some stuff in the Adafruit store, maybe you'll wanna do it later, maybe you wanna do it at all, there's no pressure. But I'll show some stuff that I'm using for my arcade board project that is Adafruit goodies that you could go get.  So just head over to Adafruit and hey look, there's some arcade stuff right there. In fact, we have a lot of arcade stuff. If you go and just do a search, arcade. You'll see loads and loads of buttons and wiring harnesses and joysticks and on and on lots of buttons, lots and lots of buttons. This small arcade joystick, I'm gonna use one of these today actually. Unfortunately, we're all sold out at the moment but that's a nice little stick. I've used that in a number of projects. We've got light up buttons, we've got regular non light up buttons. So if you're looking for that kind of stuff or who knows anything else, go ahead and type in 10% off. Go ahead and type in JAMMA, that is, for 10% off in the Adafruit store. I mentioned this last week and I got the name wrong. Let me check my notes because I think I'll get the right name here today. JAMMA stands for, oh I didn't write it in this set of notes, did I? It's Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association. Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association. They do a lot of things but one of the things they did back in around 1985 was got together and came up with a fairly standard setup for arcade peripherals and connectors so that people could, arcade operators could keep a cabinet, everything, swap in a new game just with the PCB board and hook it into a known system. Before that, every game was kind of customized as far as what wiring harness for joysticks and coin acceptors and lighting on the marquee and power supply, all that stuff was all over the place. So JAMMA, they're the ones who made a standard that I think still stands today. I think it's still in use. So JAMMA, that'll get you 10% off in the store today. I'm not associated with the JAMMA. I just like the word, honestly. So what else? Let's talk about the show I do on Tuesdays. That's the product pick of the week. There's the logo right there, JP's product pick of the week. I like to grab something new or something old or in this week's case, something that was old that is new again because it's back in stock. We've got plenty of them and that's this guy right here, the QDPI with the M0 on it. And I give you a 50% off typically. So it's 50% off for these boards on Tuesday if you're watching during the show. So tune in while JP's product pick of the week is happening, which is four o'clock Eastern time, United States Eastern time allowing for daylight savings, changes and things. So use your computer to find out when that is in your local time. And the thing I like to do afterwards is condense it down to a little one minute segment that you can enjoy right here right now. So here it is. That's my product pick of the week this week. It is the return of the QDPI SAMD21. Some of the things I love about it, one, USB-C. Two, the fact that it is USB HID compliant all the way through so you can do MIDI projects with it, keyboard projects with it, mouse projects with it. Also because of the STEMI QT port on there, you can plug in the many, many, many, many I squared C peripherals that are available out there and especially the ones that have that STEMI QT port. It makes it plug and play. We Chuck adapter, let's use various Nintendo accessories and a little OLED display. So you can see no soldering, just plugging and playing and you can get a project up and running. That is my product pick of the week this week. It is the QDPI SAMD21 Cortex M0. That, hey, whoa, hey, it's starting all over again. Well, there it is. Found it. Sit that down. I don't need that in there anymore. I noticed over in the chat someone was mentioning Xbox controllers and arcade buttons for assistive technology. I actually did a project a couple of years ago using the really excellent, let's see, where is my learn? Let me bring up a Chrome window for you. Actually, I'll just put that in this one. Hold on, let's go to this Chrome cap right here. There's a Xbox adaptive, oh, I'm gonna learn. Xbox adaptive controller that was designed for assistive technology, adaptive technology needs. So that's the controller and you can see it comes with a sort of standard sized D-pad and a couple of other buttons and a couple of really large buttons and then it has a bazillion 3.5 inch mono jack connectors on the back that you can use to hook up any switch that you want. So in the guide there, I used some, I think arcade buttons, some foot pedals. You can see they're a really large button. What else did I have in there? Some little limit switches which are really low force. So depending on your needs, there's a foot switch, hefty on-off switch if you wanna just leave a button pressed. So that thing is really cool and you can see the sort of bread and butter for the project for me building this was a lot of different arcade buttons. You can also use analog inputs with this for some of the, I guess it would, I guess like the trigger type of buttons you find on a modern game controller that's usually an analog input for things like gas pedal in a racing game. So for that I hooked up a couple of potentiometers or a joystick for that. So anyway, that's a really neat thing that Microsoft did was building this as a really inexpensive platform. I think it's $100 for that controller roughly. If you look out in the adaptive technology world these things cost so much money and then every peripheral costs a ton of money. A lot of them are built to last, they're really ruggedly built so I don't wanna diss them but if you're looking to do adaptive technology stuff and roll your own controllers that guide will help you maybe get started with that if you're interested in those things. And I think that Xbox controller will work on a Windows PC as well as the Xbox. I don't know, I don't think, I can't remember if it'll work. I think it's just Bluetooth but I don't know that it would pair with other controllers. If anyone knows, let me know. That's an interesting question is what else can you hook that up to? All right, so let's see. Oh, Skir was saying in the chat I was thinking of one shaped like a normal Xbox one controller but like four times larger though, a lot of fun, just the big, like the Duke. All right, let's see what else. Hey, let's do a circuit Python parsec. A circuit parsec. Okay, let me bring up this window here. So, this is one I realized, I don't think I've ever done and if I have, let me know but I think this is a new one and it's, I think a good one because a lot of people are really familiar with Neopixels but what I wanted to show today on the circuit Python parsec is how to set up dot star LEDs. So, dot star LEDs are very similar to Neopixels but they use two wires instead of just one for their connection to your microcontroller. They have data and clock. What this does is it opens up a lot of boards that can run them without the timing restrictions that are necessary to run a Neopixel and they can be run much faster so you can do things like persistence of vision projects. So, here's how you set up dot stars in circuit Python.  Then I'm setting a variable num dots, it says how many I have. So, you can see here I have a little 64, not Neopixel, 64 dot star grid. And then I'm creating the dots object by saying dots equals dot star dot star. I'm setting the clock to the board SCK. So, this is running over SPI. And I'm setting the data on MOSI. Then I say how many dots I'm using, the brightness I wanna start at and if I'm using auto write. You can use this on regular GPIO pins as well but it is much faster running it over SPI. The next thing I do is have a little random color generator and then in my main loop here you can see when it runs, it's going to pick a random color for every dot there and display that. You can see that I'm putting that under a little diffusion there so make it a little easier to see on camera. You can see these are running pretty fast and I'm actually putting a delay in here. Now you can also do things like instead of hitting every individual dot we can just run the whole display all at once. Let me save this over here. So now I'm changing all of those and you can see it's just running blazing fast here. You can see it just kind of flickering because it's running so fast. If I put a little bit more of a delay in here you can see the effect a little bit better. And so the call for these is simply dots dot fill and then I'm giving it a tuple of RGB colors or in the case of individual dots I'm saying dots dot and then anywhere zero to 63 in this case you can call out one individual dot and set its color and then we get the multicolor effect. And so that is how you can set up and use dot star RGB LEDs inside of CircuitPython. And that is your CircuitPython Parsec. That's CircuitPython. Where did I go? There I am. These are really neat by the way. Let me show my down shooter. This is a really cool little grid. I was just trying to hold it in place with those wires that are like staples. But you can see here I'm running off of a feather and then I've got my little dot star grid. These are really flat. You can surface mount these essentially. I went and added some header pins there so I could plug it in just for this demo. But you can see these have just four little pads there to plug in your power ground and the two data lines both in and out. So you can chain these together and make bigger strips of them. These are nice little mounting tabs on here and you can snap those off if you don't need them depending on your project but those will lie perfectly flat if my little header weren't in the way there. And they're great for things like wearables, jewelry, small props. You can do sci-fi types of displays with those. In fact, one thing I really like to do is to set one of these colors. Let's say red. I'm just gonna leave that at zero. And now we get sort of just greens and blues only. It's one of the things I like to do makes it look a little more intentional than doing all rainbow colors at once. There's a nice pinks and magentas and reds and blues and we can also do reds and yellows and greens like that. So that's a little bonus trick there I like to do rather than full rainbows. It's just pick two color components to adjust. Todd, someone says it looks a lot easier than programming those pixel purse displays. It'd be cute to make a little coin purse with one of these things. And I have coin purses on the mind today because of this arcade stuff. I actually had to grab a little coin purse full of quarters so I can see if I can get that working on the arcade game. All right, let's see. What else do we have? I think this is, a good time to jump into what's going on with this Frogger project. So let me unplug this and put this away. By the way, I have one of the reasons I had dot stars on the mind. If you look at my back of the workshop there where Lars is hanging out, he's chilling with that big 255 neopixels. It's not neopixels, it's dot stars. So that's a big, huge thing of dot stars there that I have under a piece of acrylic that I was running on my Tuesday show. You can see that right there, running through all of its beautiful two color component patterns. And yeah, Jim said nice CRT collection.  One of them, the one up on the stand there is composite only, but this one, this one's been really helpful for this arcade stuff because it has RGB sync as an input on BNC connectors. That's a Sony professional video monitor PVM used for things like confidence monitor in the field for video assist on film recording or inside of a studio van, a remote van, that kind of thing back in the CRT days. But one of the nice things about that one and a lot of the PVMs and BVMs is that it has a bunch of different ways to get video into it so they'll usually do both PAL and NTSC, composite, S-video, YP, PV, BR and RGB sync. So that's what I'm using because that's what the arcade boards have coming off of them. So to catch you up, last week I kind of did the very sloppy-ish solder wires to the edge connector of a arcade PCB. So this is a Konami scramble board that was modified at one point to run a Frogger knockoff called Frog, hence today's title of the show, Frog Harness. And despite my coupon code of JAMMA today, this was pre- JAMMA. This was a, what is this, 32 pin connector that was consistent among a number of Konami boards, Konami Classic pin out. So front and back side or part side and solder side are different pins running to your different power rails, your ground, all of the input buttons, sound output and the video output. So there's the four channels on there for red, green, blue and a sync signal. And I got that working-ish last week, but I was having problems with it resetting anytime I really tried to play the game. And so what I decided to do was get a proper power supply because I had suspicions that the bench supply I was running just couldn't provide enough current. The, I don't have the full specs on this board, typically the five-volt rail on these boards is specced for up to like 12 amps. Rarely would that get used, but I was hitting a limit at like somewhere around 2.75 amps. I just wasn't providing enough current. So I got a inexpensive proper power supply and wanted to try that out. But since I had soldered wires directly to the board last week, that was kind of a little bit of a pain to swap things out or try different boards. I have duplicates of this board. So what I decided to do is build a harness. And if you look at what I've got in the down shooter over here, let me switch that to, let's go to that view there. This is what I used to essentially build my own wiring harness for the Konami Classic Standard. So first of all, I grabbed a edge connector. So this is a 36 pin, what I said before, 32, it's 36 pin edge connector. So it has separate connectors that are solderable there to a edge mount PCB. That means I can plug that into the arcade PCB like that. It's kind of a tight fit, but I'll wiggle that on there. And that typically would have a whole ton of wires coming off of it bundled into little sections for the subsystems on the board. Usually with either like a spade connector or just solder directly and hopefully with some heat shrink around it so that things aren't too likely to short.  And I decided to actually go a little fancier than that and a little easier for me to wrap my head around and keep from getting confused. And I bought this for like $1.95. This is a breakout for a 36 pin edge connector. So what I did was soldered that to the pins of the edge connector and then I'm able to either solder wires to this or pin connectors so that I can run that off to different things and try different stuff, swap out my connections and keep it all reversible and modular. So this is just a breakout, sometimes it's called a fingerboard breakout. So this is a fingerboard breakout for a, I forget the exact spacing on these, I can look that up. But for whatever that spacing is of edge connector and these come in different sizes for like 44 and 36 and 55 pin, there's a number of different sizes. So with that put together, I was able to do this, which is I put some, let me zoom in here. It has a non-standard spacing down here, but I was able to basically take a header pin and yank the middle pin out and fit in header pins that I could then plug in these Dupont connected cables out to my different power rails, ground, the video and so on. So I'll go through, for a second here, I'll go through what we have. This is a pair of power connections. We have a negative five volt and a plus 12 volt and then we have two positive five volt connectors here. And what I got is this, which is not plugged in right now. I got this for about $30. I'd probably be better off with a mean well power supply, but this is what I got quick and easy off of Amazon. This takes in 120 AC and it gives us a 12 volts at they're claiming up to four amps, the negative five volt at up to one amp, a couple of grounds and then this one is the plus five volt up to 16 amp. It also has a crude output adjustment, which lets you tune those a little bit, but it kind of robs from one to give to the other. So I wanted my five volt to be five volt or even slightly, just slightly above that. That is the pickier one. 12 volt I think is mostly used for the audio amp and negative five volt if it's used at all is usually an audio thing. I don't think this board needs it, but it can vary by board if it needs it. So now I've got those connectors that run to their proper spots on my little finger board here. And then I have for now actually only hooked up a single set of controls. So you can see most of this center section is running to four buttons that I have here and a joystick that I have here. So one of those buttons is actually meant to be the coin collector. And I think we're gonna try and experiment with that in a little bit, but you can fake it with a button just by kind of tapping that to pulse and it'll make it think that it's gotten a coin. These are per player, the standard in JAMA is you get a start button, player one start and a player one button A and a player one button B.  That would be a duplicate of all that stuff for player two. I think even coin, because some coin doors will have the two, although usually I think either person can use those as credits, but I could be wrong. And then for those pins are out to the joystick. So that's running to the joystick there. And I made a little intermediate board here so that I could plug in on a 0.1 inch spacing, some of these JST connectors that work with our arcade buttons make that easier to plug in and a bunch of ground. So I have ground running to everything that wants ground, which is all the buttons want their own ground and the joystick wants a ground. And then finally I've got these for here running to red, green, blue, and sync as well as ground out to the monitor. So for that I have BNC connectors, which maybe I can turn it around and show it later that give me the signal to the monitor. So that's that setup. I'm just gonna pop open my discord here so I can see if there's any thoughts or questions before I continue on. And okay, no, we're good. Okay, so here's how we set this up. You can see by the way, this is my board that I was using last week. It still has some blobs of solder that I haven't really cleaned off, but the connector does fit onto there. So I can plug that in like that. And like I said, that's how an arcade owner, arcade operator would connect a new board or a swapped out board into the cabinet. So this really represents the wiring loom that goes to everything else. So that's kind of nice and plug and play. I'll zoom out here so you can see a little better what's going on. And I also, this week, plugged in, I didn't have a speaker going last week, but I've taken a, again, I'm not sure on the specs on this, I just risked it and it happened to work. There's a four ohm, three watt speaker. I plugged that into the audio outputs. There is an amplifier here. I think it's mostly under this heat sink. And there's even a potentiometer there that I haven't touched because the audio is fine, but there is a potentiometer there that can be used for changing volume. I think on some cabinets, there'd be an actual potentiometer available with a knob on the back, maybe it's for the arcade operator. And I don't know if that's a bodge or a hack that you could do with this board, but for now you just use this pot to change that out.  I just plug in the power to this power supply. And you can see here, this is booted up. Let's switch it over. And I'll go ahead and turn off, let's see, do I have to remote for that yellowy? Where'd you go, little remote? No, you're not over here. Let me just flip that one spotlight off, which will make this look a lot brighter. There's still some reflections in there, but hopefully you can see that well enough. So this is, if you weren't here last week, this is a scramble board from Konami that had a bootleg Frogger called Frog put on it. It's believed that that was the real Frogger ROM, which was extracted, and then hacked a little bit to do a color change on it, so you'll notice the colors are weird. I don't think that's because I've swapped any color wires around or anything like that. It was just a weird, I don't know why someone decided to change the colors of Frogger. I make this game called Frog. And then there were some modifications done to the board. You see, there's a number of bodge wires on here that I think were part of getting the scramble board to accept the Frogger ROM. But if I go ahead and put a coin in it here, hey, we got some good sound, you can hear that that's the successful coin insertion sound. This red button here is what I'm using for player one start. Hey, we get our, and now I'll try to play it backwards in the reflection or the monitor here. I can barely see that Frogger. Oh gosh, yep, I've gone into the drink. Oh, yeah, my delay with the camera, the thing is, I'm probably not gonna be able to get a point. So, let me plug that back in so it doesn't play. It doesn't play a song during the attract loop, which is interesting. Another interesting thing is that I have a set of dip switches on the board here. Let me turn that light back on and I'll switch cameras. If you look right here, you can see there's this set of dip switches, marked one, two, three, four, five, and six. These are used in scramble, for example, the positioning of these dip switches is used to determine, I believe, how many lives the player gets per quarter. And there are a few options you can do there. I think it's three, five, and 256 or something like that. And then it can vary by game. So for this Frogger, and I think maybe for scramble, but for Frogger, this could be both a upright cabinet or a cocktail cabinet where it's built into a table. You can play two player on the upright just by saying, okay, it's your turn and someone uses the joystick. On the cocktail cabinet, it was built with a joystick on either side for Frogger, I think. And so when it became player two, it flipped the graphics upside down and switched which control was being used. I think there's a combination of these that does put this into cocktail mode because when I was testing earlier, I saw the screen flipping itself upside down and right side up. From what I read, it's kind of hard to find out because I think there's a transposition from the scramble board to Frogger, ROMs that are hacks that is not anything I found in any manual so far. I do believe that whatever arrangement I have right now is giving the Frogger player a ton of lives because my son was in here playing it earlier and I noticed he went through like six or seven lives and the game didn't ask for a new quarter. So I think that's the first two switches here or the might be the number of lives per quarter. So I think that might be all you can do is number of lives and also free play. I think it might be possible to set free play. I don't believe the sixth switch is used but I think the first five are. So combinations of those are gonna be my next mission to figure it out. Also you can see here while I've got this closeup, here are some of the aforementioned bodge wires that were added to I believe trick the board into playing Frogger. I think if I were to get a set of ROMs to swap out for scramble, the original, I would need to reverse all of that basically and I think in most cases it was non-destructive. I didn't notice any cut traces. I think it was just making connections to pins that weren't there originally. I noticed in the chat, C Grover loves this, resistor polarity uniformity. Not flipping those back for you. It's not, you know, they're not polarized but the color order is red left to right. So when someone is putting a board together and paying attention you get this kind of nice arrangement here. So another really thing I'm really happy about is now I wasn't sure before if I had three working boards. I got three of this identical board. Now I can test that out and I have. So if I take that board there out and swap in that one there, now I can just plug it in. I wish it were a different game, but it's not. It should be identical. I do have a different arrangement of dip switches on this one, but I don't think that's gonna do much anything. So now I have a different board in there and I should be able to plug that in. Oh, I had it plugged in. All right, thankfully I didn't break anything. I didn't realize I still had that running. That's the bad part about me not looking at the monitor and it being perfectly silent when it's in a track loop. There we go. All right, I'm gonna get one. Ah, no I'm not. All right, I'll plug that. So the next thing I wanted to do actually with this is try to make it a little easier to play. So you can see I've got this little mini joystick that I'm just kind of holding. I have done a couple of arcade projects that have left me with some empty prototype boxes in the past. This little cigar box that I had actually mounted an Arduboy on and taken over, if you're not familiar with the Arduboy, it's this little, in fact this is the very one. So this is kind of a gutted one. This is little handheld game player and I mounted it and took over, there's nice pads on the back there for taking over any of the controls. So I had used the joystick and a couple of buttons to make a very small game, have some very big controls. But this has two buttons connected on it, same little lug connectors. So what I'll do is I'm just gonna mount the joystick and the two buttons that I'm using into here. I think I'll have the clearance that I need. So let's just put that together. That should be pretty straightforward and I am unplugged now. And typically in an arcade setup, the different parts would just be kind of bolted on the inside of the arcade. So this is kind of in keeping with that idea. I've got parts kind of strewn about. I may have mentioned these spade connectors, by the way, are not easy to pull out. Let me grab some pliers to do that with. I think I mentioned there are some really neat products out there that usually go by the name Super Gun. Come on. All right, how do you get these off? These are really on there. I'm gonna break it. There we go. You just have to commit. All right, so that one is gonna be my coin. I'll just use the red one for coin. So the Super Guns take this concept and put it into a nice little neat enclosure and give you usually a SCART connector to go to your RGB monitor or other. Some of them will have a converter in there so you can get S-video out or other component, other types of video. And they'll often have jacks for plugging in regular controllers if you just wanna use, I think there's maybe some standards of like a Neo Geo controller port that might be like a DB9 or something. Some of them all just have ports that you can use more modern game controllers with. So those look pretty neat. I was investigating them, but by the time I got this built and working, I decided this may be enough for me. I'm not really sure if I'm building a cabinet here or what the heck I'm doing yet, but mostly just having fun. All right, so those two buttons should now be part of that party. And then this is up the way I've got it wired on this joystick. So I'll have to, with this one, I'll just have to kind of turn my box this way to use it vertically. Or maybe how about the other way? Let's do it like that. That'll be the vertical orientation. And then I've just got some M4 screws and nuts here that I can put into there. Oh, did I leave that little, yeah, let me get that white disc. I'll put that on the top. Doesn't go there. Yeah, Todd, I agree. Old cigar boxes are really classy, fun project boxes. Todd wants to make a Frogger game with a Kraftwerk soundtrack. Ooh, Paul Cutler, you're working on arcade cabinet. That's cool. What are you building in? Is it modern, like with a LCD? Are you using a CRT in there? Looks like a lot of the classic games have a roughly 19 inch CRT tube in them from what I've seen. I've got a few 20 inch CRTs that I think could be modded to use RGB input, which would make them good candidates for an arcade cabinet. All right, so I think what I'll do is just kind of hide all of this jazz, all those connectors under here. Actually, you know what, it'll be safer. I don't wanna unplug stuff by accident. So let's see, maybe like that might work. Put that into there, that's a nice sound. And let's put our ball back on the joystick. Let's fire this up. You loved that sound. Okay, let's, I guess I'll leave it connected like that. You know what the Frogger looks like. So here's my coin. Hey, player start. Yeah, that's better. Now I've got, okay, now I really can't see it. This is gonna be the time. This is gonna be the time that I'll make it. No, I'm not. All right, let's unplug that. So now the other thing I wanted to try out is I have, this is a project I put together years ago and I think I have a guide up on it. So we sell these coin collectors in the Adafruit store. So it's a full coin collector assembly. I built the case around it, but it's the full mechanism for collecting coins. And the way it works, I do need a mirror, Andy, the way it works is it gets, there's a bunch of dip switches on it to say what you're kind of trying to do. But you put it into a training mode, and I think I put this in the guide. Once you put it into training mode, it wants you to feed in about 40 to 100 of the coin that you're trying to train. So I trained it on quarters, and that way it will reject things that aren't quarters. It has a power, I forget what might be nine volt power that it's running off of. What are you, yeah, nine volt. So I've got a nine volt power running to it, and then it has a ground and data pin output which send a pulse. That's this thing has a startup noise, that little beep. It sends a pulse over that data line when it's received the coin. I don't remember what that's set to, if it's something I set, if it's something I changed so that I could use it, because I was just using it with like a Raspberry Pi on a little Picade. But I decided what the heck, let's try plugging it in where the current coin button goes and just see if it works. So I'm gonna look, let me flip back to this camera. I'm gonna look at where this wiring is going right now. That's gonna be this blue here. Okay, so what I can do is I can unplug from the board, this line right here, I'm gonna just double check it. Yeah, so that's it. So this line right here, and instead I will plug in the coin receivers output pin, which I believe sends a little five volt pulse when it receives the coin. And then I need to hook into ground. Do I have a spare ground I can use? Where are these grounds going? I think I can grab one of these. These are two that are both running to the power supply. I don't believe I need them both running to the power supply. So we'll take that one over there. And hopefully I don't blow everything up. So let's see. So I will power this up. I mentioned coin purse before. Borrowed a very cool coin purse from my daughter.  So let's see if this happens to work. It would be great. I also have no huge high hopes that it will. Let's see. Yes, it did. It totally worked. It lands with a thud inside of there where you can collect them. Let's put two quarters in. And apparently back when I tested this, I had a two Frank coin that I was probably testing to see if it were rejected. Let's see if it rejects it. Does not reject it. Okay, I don't know if I have to retrain it. I don't know if that's lost all memory of what was acceptable or not. You might be able to put any washer or slug you want in there. That's kind of fun. I don't plan to charge for this. That's highly illegal. I'm sure the state of California would freak out. But now I can put coins in to start it up, which is much cooler than a button. How about that? All right, this is the one. This is the time when I'm gonna successfully play Frogger through a reflection of a monitor. No, I'm not. All right, I'll turn the monitor. So let me unplug that just for a second. So what I'll do, wires are gonna get tight here a little bit. But what I'm gonna do is turn the monitor around so you can see, I said I'd show you what the back of that looks like. And then I'll be able to see the game and you'll at least probably hear me successfully get a frog in there. All right. This monitor, by the way, is on its side because that's the orientation that Frogger is in. It's a vertical game. A lot of monitors don't love being shifted around. They'll lose calibration. I think this one's pretty good at it just because it's a fancy professional monitor. All right, so I don't have a good way to share that with you. So you'll just have to listen to the resounding Frogger success of me getting that in there. But you can see, yeah, I should be able to see there. These are the red, green, blue, and sync connections that I have going to BNCs back there. All right, so let's pop a quarter in. Hey, it didn't register that. It says credits zero. I think it might not be sending enough pulses so I think I need multiple quarters to, yeah. So two quarters is enough pulses for it to register one coin, which is interesting. All right, so I have one credit. It's so much easier this way. Ba-boom! You will see my triumphant one frog up at the top there. There he is. All right, I won't attempt to do that again backwards because the lag of it going through a camera and back is too difficult. All right, so let's see. Any thoughts or questions that anyone has about that? Let me know. Time to make my own tokens. Expensive game, yeah, it requires 50 cents for one play. Although, like I said, I think it's maybe, it's somewhere over five lives, I'm sure my son went in the water for like five times because he didn't realize where he was supposed to go. Kids today, they don't actually know how Frogger works. So before, where kid was trying to jump onto like the land parts up at the top. Let's see, what else? Two players stand up arcade, Paul's building. Modern, yes, with the LCD.  Yeah, good. All right, so we've got it working. I don't know if I will mess with trying to put other ROMs on there. There is a ROM hack that someone wrote that converts these ROMs to just, it just edits a couple of resources and it says Frogger instead of Frog. And I don't know if it puts the copyright back at the bottom. I think this is supposed to, even though Konami made this game, it's I think copyright Sega. I could be wrong on that, but I think that's what I've read. And then I don't know if it color shifts it back to normal colors. It might just be stuck on these weird ones. I would love to get Scramble on here. It's a really cool early defender-like sideways like a horizontal shoot them up. Which apparently pioneered both having the concept of levels and not just being kind of getting your high score by going endlessly in a horizontal game and the fuel. There was fuel pickups you needed to do to keep going. So Scramble's cool looking game, really cool looking cabinet. That's what this board is from. So maybe it could run it, like I said, with the proper ROMs and maybe getting rid of some of those bodges that were done on it. So I, at this point, need to figure out what the heck I'm doing with this. If I'm gonna try to mount it into some sort of skeletal version of a cabinet, maybe get a real sized monitor. This one's good for testing stuff, but it's not that much fun to play on. So get it up on a larger monitor would be fun. And I actually wanna know what you think if you've got ideas on things to do with that. Some fun potential hacks for playing that, what could be done. The other thing I actually wanted to do, and this was Katni's suggestion, a couple things I meant to mention with the, let me jump back to this screen for a second. Go back to my little down shooter here. Yeah, one thing I wanted to mention about this is that I was talking to Katni and she said the warm white dot stars that we sell actually are on the proper wavelength to be used as grow lights for plants as are the blue and the red. So part of the sending different wavelengths to tell the plants that it's day and night or something like that involve the red, blue and warm white. And so if you look at those warm white dot star, not neopixel, the warm white dot star strips that we have there actually working really well as grow lights and Katni has an upcoming guide on building a grow light system using dot stars. So look for that. And another suggestion that Katni had is, if you wanna let me know things you'd like to see in upcoming circuit Python Parsecs, if there are topics you'd like to see me cover, please let me know. I believe today was the 90th episode of those. So I haven't run out yet, but I would love to hear if you have specific things that you'd like to see in the circuit Python Parsecs. So go ahead and leave a comment on the YouTube video when that goes up or right in the Discord or YouTube chat and I'll check out your suggestions. Let's see what else have we got? Any other stuff going on in the chats? Mod it to accept Apple Pay or Bitcoin. Oh, a huge projector, that'd be kinda cool. Have you seen those giant LED matrix versions of Space Invaders and Pac-Man that they have at arcades now? They're amazing. It's like an eight foot high wall of LED matrix panels that are playing some arcade games, really cool. All right, I think that's gonna do it for today. Thank you everyone so much for stopping by and I look forward to working on this and some other cool projects coming up. I'm also working on the hex keypad guide for the little hex pad and I keep threatening to finally finish the L-cars display. I have some woodworking to do so I'll hopefully get that done sometime soonish and be able to show that to you all. So thanks everyone for stopping by for Adafruit Industries, I'm John Park. This has been John Park's Workshop, bye-bye. Oh, and before I forget, 10% off in the store today using JAMA as your coupon code. So on the way out, go buy some cool stuff. This works on things. 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I am not naked. I promise you I'm wearing a white dress. Hey guys. Welcome to my channel for today's video I am going to be doing one of my most recent highly requested videos my wedding makeup tutorial Most of you know by now, but yes, I did say my vows this weekend And of course one of the most important parts to me of this wedding was what makeup I wore If you don't know I'm actually a bridal makeup artist. I haven't done much work this year I think I only had like one wedding this year and a couple towards the end of this year because You know, but I'm so excited to get back into bridal makeup this up-and-coming year But anyways, it was fun for me to decide what makeup I wanted to use to get into kind of the ins and outs of the wedding How this happened why this happened why I didn't tell you guys I'm a very private person Like it's not even just an internet thing literally in general. I'm very private I don't tell my family my friends anything until after it happens if they're lucky So the fact that I didn't tell you guys don't take it personal. I'm weird about big news. I don't know I'm just I'm very private. Obviously. This is a pretty big deal. So I did tell you I got married So I mean this would probably be the most personal video I've ever done on my channel. I'm not really into talking about me I like talking about makeup not really about me But first let me tell you the vibe that I was going for this video is gonna be like an hour long So pause this and get a snack But anyways the vibe that I was going for since I had a flower headband not this one I will link the one that I got I purchased it from an Etsy shop down below But it had like peachy it pink flowers on it and obviously my hair wasn't like this I had it curled in loose curls and then I put a flower headband along the back of my head I didn't want to put it like over I felt like that would emphasize my larger forehead So I wanted it back I like my hair covering my face and just the tones of the flower in my wedding were like pinky peachy So I knew I wanted to go for a blushing bride kind of look So these are the exact products that I use I didn't take any of these products out of my makeup bag since the wedding day so that literally you got the legit products so I used a little bit of the Smashbox photo finish primerizer I forgot to put on sunscreen you guys I mean normally it's not really recommended for your wedding day for flashback purposes But you can put on a little bit of SPF, you know, and it was sunny. I forgot but whatever I didn't get sunburn So one day. It was just one day. It was my wedding day It's okay, but I liked this because it basically is a moisturizer for me It's so lightweight so I put on two primers This was the first one that I put on and then for something a little bit more smoothing a little bit more poor filling also moisturizing I really love the Tatcha the liquid soak canvas I really do feel like that this smooths out my face So I decided to go for this but I did film a wedding vlog But it was the worst vlog ever because I don't vlog I've never vlogged before I feel like people don't care about my life nor do I really care to share my life Because of you know that private thing that I have a problem with I did vlog But it's such an awkward vlog because I did like the day before the wedding like the morning of Everything before the wedding and then obviously I was getting married so I forgot to bring my vlog camera And so it stops at me showing you my makeup like okay. I'm almost ready and then the next footage is like Okay, I just got married. It's like five hours later So it's weird. I don't know if I'll end up posting it Jose. That's my husband. He's editing it for me He's an amazing video editor He's never edited my videos before but I gave that for him to edit because it's so poorly filled So I don't know if I'll end up uploading that because it's just awkward going from before right before the wedding and then straight Okay, we got married But I'll see what he does with it as far as editing and then I don't know I just want to have it anyways just for me and him to look back on even if we missed the wedding by the way the Foundation I went with is the Dior Airflash spray foundation. This is my all-time favorite foundation you guys I Just spray it directly on the sponge and then put it on I just think this is so skin like and it lasts a really long time And even if you're hot and sweaty like the way that it fades because you're hot and sweaty It still looks really good. So even if it's not like it's gonna last you 24 hours when it fades away It at least is not going to look cakey and gross. So I love this for events for photography Stupid expensive, which is why I only use it for special occasions But it's my all-time favorite foundation I knew for years like before I even got married that this was gonna be the Foundation that I get married in because it's super amazing if you don't know Jose actually He's from Spain his family all lives in Spain. So obviously none of his family could come to this which is really sad So we are planning a couple years down the road We do want to have a celebration in Spain And I don't think we're gonna do it like a whole big wedding part too But it's going to almost be like the reception So we had the ceremony in America and then we're gonna have the reception in Spain just to celebrate a couple years later So I'm really excited about that. So his family could be there They did get to see it through video chat and everything but language barrier and not having perfect Wi-Fi It's just it's not the same, you know So the nice thing I did was I used my Pat McGrath concealers and shade LM 12 and M 17 to Spot conceal because I I do have a little bit here I don't really have that much acne nowadays But I did want like some coverage on my cheeks And then I had a little bit of a breakout somewhere on my face on my wedding day Please ignore the fact that that concealer put on was way too dark I accidentally put on the wrong shade But honestly sometimes when you use a little bit of a darker shade that covers a little bit better Especially since I was putting blush on top. So that's why I was really unbothered by it But yes, I do realize it's too dark I use Pat McGrath to save the day the engagement where when did that happen because I certainly didn't tell any of you guys about that Oh, this is not the right color. We did not have a very long engagement period you guys we Had like a month and a half Engagement period and I know that sounds crazy But just with all of the uncertainties in the world and if things would close down or whatever We just wanted to get married right away and we knew anyways We're gonna split it between Spain and America since all of the cancellations happen like everything We wanted the venue the photographer just everything everyone was available So as far as getting what we needed it was so easy Which is a struggle for weddings is getting the vendors and everything you want without having to book a year or two in advance It just worked out perfectly. It was so easy It gave me a reason to have a really small ceremony because you guys I'm like a really I don't like being the center of attention I don't like making a big deal out of things So it was just perfect for me to have a small wedding and I still will get that bigger Experience in Spain because Jose has a bigger family than I do not only that Jose and I have been in a long-distance Relationship for over two years with the whole COVID quarantine situation It was the first time in a relationship that we were together for more than like a week at a time So it's almost a test of our relationship really just making it like an actual relationship you guys and I mean obviously it went very well and we really kind of solidified that this is the person that You know we want to be with I did not do my eyebrows this bad on my wedding day My eyebrows look way better But I think me talking and doing makeup at the same time is making me a little bit more lackadaisical But I'm using my Sigma tint and tame brow gel to set my eyebrows in place Yeah So for those of you who don't know Jose is actually here like on a student visa because he does live in Spain You do have to start the immigration process a change of status And I'm using my Pat McGrath concealer the skin fetish concealer and LM 9 as my under eye concealer the best concealer in the world I was toggling between this one and two-faced born this way I brought both but I just ended up going with the Pat McGrath. They're both equally as amazing But yeah, so we're starting the immigration process. We're gonna do a change of status So if any of you guys have any advice on that I will gladly accept it because it's a whole new world A whole new level of responsibility to get that figured out. So he is still in school I know some of you had questions like about the living situation right now. So romantic We don't currently live together, but he does graduate in November So then we will live with each other once he's done and we can put an end to long distance. Thank goodness I'm taking a refer P21 brush I'm gonna get just a little bit of concealer on the brush And I'm going to clean up underneath my brows. I definitely don't do this every day But for a wedding I figured I would clean it up and make it look a little bit Sharper and cleaner because I have not gotten my brows done you guys since January. I've been doing a very good job I think of keeping up with them. They're not as perfect and crisp looking as my brow lady keeps them But for at home, I'm not mad at it and for setting my under eyes I have my La Mer the powder. This is super old at least five years old. I did change the formulation This is not the new formulation and you guys did ask me what the difference or if there was a difference There definitely is I feel like the new one has a little bit of a slight sparkle to it I don't know. It's just not as flat as the old one So this is my all-time favorite powder and obviously it's the last I will ever have of it So I saved it for my wedding day. So I'm gonna use that to lightly set underneath my eyes I didn't do any heavy packing of the powder just lightly pressing it in I thought about if I wanted to bake or not because that really kind of sets everything in place But a little goes a long way with powder as well But yeah, that's like all the juicy details of like the engagement our relationship really just we figured out in Covid that we wanted to be with each other forever and we wanted just to like make something positive out of a bad time And because it was very easy to book everything that we wanted We just did it and the wedding was super small. We only had 14 that guest It was all immediate family except for my college roommate came because she lived near the area So I was like why not using my sweetheart's bronzer from Too Faced in sweet tea. I love this bronzer It has a little bit of glow to it. It's nice and neutral. It's not too warm Not too cool and it looks like airbrushed into the skin I was toggling between a number of bronzers, but this one is just a tried and true So I had to use this for those in the DC, Maryland, Virginia area I'll put everything with my photographer and the venue that I went to but it was so Beautiful you guys if you're having a very small intimate wedding I do recommend the place that I got married at because it just was the perfect size It didn't look like I had a really small wedding You know, I was afraid of a venue being too big for the amount of people that I had and There's just this perfect little terrace at the resort that I got married at and it was just the perfect size It made everything feel very comfortable and intimate There's a little bit of drama because it had been Storming for like the past 30 hours and the weather had been saying it was gonna rain all day There was no way and I had kind of accepted the fact that we were going to get married indoors We had everything set up indoors and I went up to get ready literally 30 minutes before the ceremony I was I texted my mother. She did everything you guys she planned the wedding. She said everything up She's amazing and I was like please can we have it outside because that's why we chose the venue You know, it was so beautiful. That's what we paid for So I was heartbroken and that we couldn't have it outside, but 30 minutes before the sun Miraculously came out. It was beautiful. It was sunny and we were able to move everything out doors And it was sunny for the rest of the day. Like I feel so lucky I don't know how it happened But I feel like the sun came out for me because it didn't look like that was gonna happen the winning eye shadow Hell like that one. I was toggling between a few, you know My classic soft glam and I was thinking maybe even Norvina because I wanted to do a more pinky look and then Charlotte Tilbury pillow talk or Xadra eyes and I kind of figured I wanted Charlotte Tilbury because I just Love the look that her eyeshadow formula gives on the eyes and it's so simple and so bridal and Surprisingly, I ended up going with the Charlotte Tilbury pillow talk the big palette and in a million years I didn't think this would be my wedding palette Because I just feel like you look at this and you think it's too bright too deep But now this ended up being what I wore. Let me get a little bit closer Yeah I stayed mostly in these two parts and it was just the perfect color to match everything now This palette has so much sentimental value such a big deal will make up I decided to use so I mixed These two shades from the day and the desk and these are my crease colors Like I said, it was a pinky peachy vibe So literally straight up using a pinky peachy shade in the crease and I really wanted it to be very blown out I'm using VK 201 brush from Brits brush. You know, they do say nothing runs Super smooth before a wedding Wednesday. I got married on Saturday But Wednesday I went to go Jose for the wedding obviously and he Was having like COVID symptoms and he's living at his college So I was like we're gonna have to cancel the wedding and he went to the hospital to get tested And I felt so much better because it did come back negative But then when I go to pick him up, he's in bed with like a 104 fever He did have pharyngitis So there was bacteria in his throat and I really thought we were gonna have to cancel the wedding because there was no way Like he you know, he had the chills. He had a 104 fever. He was not able to function.  I was just kind of sad I was happy to be getting married, but not about the situation But in the end something happened and literally everything worked out Perfect to add a little bit more depth. I used a bk202 I took this darkest shade from the desk palette and then I would mix in just a bit of this Little bit of deeper brown for some depth and when I say a little bit of that deeper brown I mean like barely touching it because I didn't want too much Depth in this look.  I'm pretty proud of that because I'd always imagined myself spending thousands of dollars on a wedding dress Because that's just the way I am. I like nice things. I wanted the full bridal treatment but I ended up ordering a dress online from azos and It was perfect The only thing that needed altered was the straps and the length because I'm only like 411 and it just fit So good and it did not look like it was $175 So I do recommend if you're looking not to break the bang azos has a nice bridal section I am looking to get a fancier dress for spain celebration But kind of shocked at what azos had to offer So i'm going to give you a little bit of a sneak peek at the blush that I used Which was the hourglass ambient lighting blush and luminous blush I just took a touch of the blush that I knew I was going to be using and I used it to kind of pinkify The look and so that the blush and the eyes would really come together Remember in photos, it takes out like 30 40% of the makeup that you're wearing So don't be afraid. Don't get scared And then the next thing that I did was I mixed These two shades from the day section and this was my lid color I wanted that perfect in between of those two shades something to really brighten up my eye And I just used my finger and I spread it all over to give me that charlotte tilbury bridal Ethereal kind of glow trying to think if there's anything else notable about what I wore just that azos dress Which I was very impressed with I will link it down below if you want to If you want to wear the same dress that I did and then the flower headband from etsy And I think I borrowed everything else But those were the two main things and then I took the lightest shape and then I took some Mac fix plus kind of dampened my finger just a little bit like hardly and then I just put it again everywhere To brighten up the whole eye just a touch of the wetness gives it a little bit more of a glow And then I took some of dream right here I mixed this shade and then this brownie shade I did a lot of mixing kind of concocted my own colors and I put this brown Red berry shade just along my lower lash line to define my eyes and this looks so Pretty to define the eyes.  You'll see and then now we're going to go back to the blush I use a refer number four brush and I just wanted a really bright Pinky glowy cheek. So our glass was easily the way to go. This isn't my favorite blush ever you guys It's the best formula and I love a pink cheek And I'm taking it and making sure it kind of blends into the shadow again I really wanted that blushing and bright kind of look. I will say looking at this I think I did go a little bit more deeper in the eyes today than I did on my wedding day I didn't make so much of those dark colors on my eye But I mean you get the gist then for highlight I brought my dior backstage glow face palette in glitz. This is again one of my all time favorite highlighters I do wish though I would have gone more in the direction of like max soft and gentle something a little bit softer Because this is quite blingy. I use this shade right here So if I could go back I would pick a different highlighter because I do love this But it's not like super natural glowy from within that I wanted keep in mind guys Like I have a whole bridal makeup kit, but that's for use on other people I have good bridal stuff in that This one I just dug through my own personal makeup collection and though I love this highlighter Put it on I was like, okay. Maybe not exactly the direction I was going for but it's still gorgeous So that's the highlighter that I use you'll definitely be able to see in my wedding photos that my makeup was softer On the eyes, but this is so super gorgeous. I sprayed charlotte towberry airbrush flawless finish Setting spray. I feel like this really does make my makeup last longer It smells so delightful and I use my tried and true mac black drag fluid line This is my favorite eyeliner of all time with the mac 210 brush because it's super tiny And I created a miniature wing just because I feel like that's what complements my eye shape the best So I'm gonna quietly do this. I think my wings were a little bit smaller But apparently we're going more dramatic today And I use my pat macrath labs perma gel eyeliner and I used it just to tightline the upper lash line So this helps with the lashes to look thicker This is my best look no And more delicious and then because I wanted a more bright eye I actually used a skin tone eyeliner in my waterline. So I use the milk makeup long gel pencil in Bcc. I love doing this on brides. I just feel like it really brightens up their eyes If you are a bride and have smaller eyes, I really recommend doing this because in photos You just look so much more awake. I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I made a rookie mistake as a bridal makeup artist I made two and one of them was I did not have waterproof mascara I use the lonco monster big little mascara sample because I ran out of all my good mascaras. So I was risky I used a new mascara and it's not waterproof and there was a bit of a mishap with some tears So that's all I'm gonna say and like I said, I didn't have my bridal makeup pit So I didn't have everything that I always am prepared for and then I also didn't bring a liquid liner And that ties into the eye lashes because I've hooded eyes So shadow transfers and you need black liquid liner after you put the lashes on to keep that lash line super black So in my photos, you can see that I didn't have black eyeliner to trace over my lashes And I just simply forgot to pack it. So when I was doing my makeup, I was like So now I'm gonna edit my photos to make my lash line look black. Anyways, let me put this on Okay, so as far as falsies that was another big debate for me I ended up going with lily lashes in makeup by samuel. So unfortunately these aren't sold anymore This is my last one in my collection. This is my all-time favorite lash I just feel like it's not too dramatic because I do have smaller eyes. You know, I'm a lash girl I knew I needed some bold lashes for my wedding It just wouldn't feel right to me if I didn't have that but I do have smaller eyes So I always need that kind of perfect in between and I feel like these are dramatic enough while still being appropriate for bridal I'm gonna search high and low to see if these are sale available But I don't even know if I'll tell you guys because I need to buy them all because I just love these lashes. I played around with a few other lash styles I almost ended up going with the wedding lash from lily lashes just because it felt right Obviously, but I just felt like the makeup by samuel opened up my smaller eyes a little bit more And again, like I said, if I had packed correctly I would go over with some black liquid liner to really seal everything and make everything really black But I wasn't smart enough to pack that. Everything's looking very very nice. So now let's move on But do you see how beautiful these lashes are? I love them. They're my favorite and they look so good in photography So last thing is lips. Definitely knew what I wanted to wear So I use the pat mcgrath labs lip pencil and bare rose one for formula because this lasts forever And two because it's the most perfect lip color And then for lipstick, I used charlotte tilbury. It's super Cindy in hindsight I probably should have done a liquid lipstick and I knew I should have but I just I hate the look of dry liquid lipstick lips I would rather have a lipstick wear off as opposed to a liquid lipstick because at least for the color like this in Lipstick form you look okay not wearing a lipstick in like your wedding photos if that makes sense Super Cindy has a little bit more of a peachy undertone to it compared to bare rose lip liner Which ties everything together and then I did put on a little bit of gloss not too much But I used some of fenty fussy like right here And boom, this is my wedding makeup.  It looks so good. I hope you guys enjoyed this video I hope you enjoyed hearing a little bit about my wedding and my relationship And this video was super highly requested and I was really excited to do it because this is a video that I'm gonna look back on when I want to remember what products I wore for my wedding day. So that's all I have for today's video I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so and I will see you guys in the next one


Welcome to Classic Replay. Don't forget if you like this channel, like this video, please subscribe. I can't grow without you. This time we're looking at Star Driver. It was released late in the Amstrad CPC's life in 1994. It's a driving game, the likes I've never experienced on the Amstrad and according to Retro Gamer, they said technically it's brilliant. Baker managed to pull off scaling that was not unlike the SNESY's Mode 7 technique with pixels growing as you got closer and I agree, very impressive. The first time I ever saw this game was in issue 108 as a preview in the mighty Amstrad action. Stephen Long Baker apparently was the author and if you look they mentioned that it's not too dissimilar from Virtua Racing but the comparisons are only being made in the context of the overhead view. It's a single player or two-player game with split screen that sees players driving over a host of asteroids and thanks to the raised overhead perspective. You can see a good deal of the road ahead but warning this is one mother of a difficult game. Sound of exercise. I personally really enjoy playing this game and I find it a real challenge. It's probably a bit too serious for some gamers and there's no decent crashes. Mode 7 owned the Super Nintendo and the experience comes across quite well on the Amstrad CPC and as you can see Amstrad action picked up on that and gave the graphics 80%. Radical software with the people behind Star Driver and many other great games including Fluff which at the time was bounded around as Amstrad's answer to Sonic the Hedgehog. So let's get straight into it. So the asteroid championship is based on simple rules. You've just got to orbit as fast as possible. You get points for an orbit and then bonus points for speed. So this is what happens if you collide with anything. There's no spectacular crashes.  But you can only go on to another asteroid, another level if your time is under 60 seconds. So you get points for an orbit and bonus points for speed and we all know what points make. So at the end of each level you can enter into a double orbit in which you have to complete two laps in 100 seconds which really helps rack up those bonus points.  There's also a fantastic replay option and if you type the name of the asteroid into the right hand side before each game you can practice on any of the eight levels. You've got to be Colin McRae like on those corners and even more so on the straights where you have to maneuver at high speed. You can use the edge of the grass or other roadside scenery to strategically slow you down to give you that advantage. So it's like a high speed driving game that can be infuriating but at the same time for me it's quite thrilling. I think when you first start playing this there'll be way too many crashes but at the same time it's dead easy to pick up and play and the car I'm not sure what model it is but it's great fun to drive. So we've got future racing with mad tracks this is good-looking in my personal humble opinion. It's fast but an undistinguished car driving game. Most will probably think this is bland and a lonely journey. Get in there look at that. Another intergalactic record broken. But whichever way round I like what I like and I think Amstrad Action got this one wrong. I think this is an aging but respected arcade driving title for the Amstrad CPC. There's not enough tracks though and the two player modes a bit crap. You can also play against the computer but you'll need bags of practice before you even go there. Star Driver does need more more of everything really. I do like the handling of the car in this game and it does feel like a rally game to me albeit off-world but for 1994 you can't help but think there should have been more in way of car customization. Like many driving games allow players to customize their vehicle with different parts and tuning options which I think adds a lot of depth to the gameplay and you see that with games like Gran Turismo but you've got it in earlier games such as Supercars. I also think the idea was to sell this game by the bucket loads and then release Star Driver 2 but when Amstrad Action finally closed its doors I think Radical Software followed suit. You had the hardcore members of the community left including people like Radical Software trying to keep the Amstrad CPC alive the die-hard fanbase but then all hope was lost. So I've got a quote from Retro Gamer magazine issue 83 and this is from Rob Buckley the guy that founded Radical Software. The same year Star Driver was released also written by Baker it was a technically excellent pacey overhead racer with impressive 3d scrolling and a two-player mode but it was poorly received with Amstrad Action giving it only 45%. On the decline of the CPC it went on to say around this time the writing really was on the wall for the CPC in a commercial sense and yet much positivity remained. In April 1993 Amstrad Action ran a three-page article looking at the state of the CPC and it noted that the commercial industry support was limited in comparison to other formats of the time but when you consider that this was being written nine years after the launch of the CPC 464 it showed just how resilient the Amstrad had proven to be. More remarkably Amstrad Action was still selling 21,832 copies at the time showing encouraging and astonishing support from users and readers. Buckley went on to say in many respects it was a weird time because this was the rise of the enthusiast where companies selling PD software or groups doing small hardware projects or selling disutilities were big names. Buckley remembers the CPC landscape was dominated by companies such as Robot PD which was run by talented programmer Richard Fairhurst who wrote for Amstrad Action and radical software they released Fluff in 1995, Ball Bearing in 1993, Masters of Space in 1994, Evil Shadows 1991, Mega Blasters 1994 and a graphics package Smart Plus so they were very active and still great times for those that held on to the Amstrad CPC. So that's it mission accomplished I've set out and completed what I aim to do I'm going to give this one a 7.5 out of 10 so I'm going to leave it here let me know your thoughts let me know what you think of this game let me know what you think of the graphics also please like comment and subscribe and don't forget as well you can ring that bell to get notifications for future videos and you can also show your support with a super thanks which is just a click at the heart at the bottom of this video it's been hard work I must love my punishment but hopefully you'll like this vid and thank you for watching until next time bye


Clearly, one issue of creating monopolies is monopolies exercise monopoly power. If you think about Amazon, Amazon, it's squeezing its suppliers, it's squeezing its workforce. If we think about Facebook and some of the other aggregators, we think, oh, they're not monopolies, they're not abusing their power because we don't pay for those sites, but they are, they're just doing it in different ways. If we think about Uber, in fact, there's a brilliant podcast, if you have time to listen to it, by Freakonomics and they look at the demand curve for Uber and how Uber has essentially moved welfare away from its drivers towards them, they've extracted some of that rent and towards us as consumers. Because we benefit as consumers, we sometimes forget that other people in the value chain are getting squeezed. One issue with aggregators is that they exercise, they become monopolies and they exercise monopoly power. The other issue is that rather than help us to manage the abundance of information and help us to get a higher return on our attention, they're actually stealing our attention. Every time you get an alert to say you've been tagged in a photo, every time you get an alert to say somebody's retweeted your tweet, they are hijacking your attention. They're taking you to that site and then you're probably going to spend an hour on that site before you've even realized that. This here is an example of YouTube. YouTube starts the next video straight after the last one you watched. They don't want you to leave those sites.  So rather than help us with our attention, they're stealing our attention and they're serving us up fake news. So they're not taking any responsibility for the content on their site.  So this is a Wall Street Journal site, I think it's called Blue and Red Facebook. So you can go on there any time you want and you can search for many different topics and you can see what conservatives are saying and what liberals are saying on social media and they're completely different. As we found out, if you lived in the UK during the Brexit vote, I don't know, and a single person who voted to lead the European Union. And so it's just, we are living in two different worlds, two different communities because of filter bubbles. So I think, so I'm going to make a prediction, which is I think we are going to see these advertising based aggregation models being challenged. And they're going to be challenged because of regulation, things like GDPR, which are giving us more control over our data. They're going to be challenged, I think, because ad tech has been oversold. So I read the other day that Proctor and Gamble cut their ad tech budget by a billion dollars and saw absolutely no impact whatsoever. I think, so I think ad tech is overhyped and oversold. And I think the other reason is that as consumers, you know, we're starting to appreciate that we are overloaded and we actually need aggregators who will help us to make better decisions. They'll help us to get a higher return on our finite attention. And it's into this, oh, sorry, in this, and I actually think you're starting to see this play out, right? So this is data from Y Combinator and it's data from all of the applications they get to join the program. And you can already see that the subscription based business models are starting to overtake advertising based business models. So I think you're already starting to see this play out. And it's into this space that I think banks can play, right? Because banks can do the role of aggregation. They can take all of our different data sets, contextual data, our locational data, our financial data, which they already have. And they can marry that with all of the other data that they collect, market data, risk data, and so on. And I think they're in a position to really help us, right? To make better financial and commercial decisions, right? Whether that's saving for a car, whether it's planning and putting aside enough money for retirement, whether it's managing a massive portfolio of investments. I think banks really are in a position to act as an aggregator and one that acts in the interest of its customers. And to talk about what externalities that might bring, right? So if they do pool all that information, they can reduce transaction costs. They can reduce transaction costs because we don't have to shop around. If they introduce us to products and services that we actually need and that would improve our financial welfare, then they could reduce transaction costs which would increase the provision of financial services. And don't forget, there's more than a billion people in the world that don't have access to financial services. Reducing adverse selection. So why can't businesses get credit? Why can't individuals sometimes get credit? Many times it's because there isn't enough information, right? Banks don't want to take the risk because there's no credit data. Banks don't want to take the risk because they don't know the financial performance of that business. More data in those situations can lead to less adverse selection and better outcomes. And then if we're pushing more money to business, if we are helping people get access to financial services for the first time, if we're giving loans to people who need them to create businesses, then we will see positive externalities. Just very quickly, if banks do take this role, they clearly need to make sure that they don't become the next Facebook, right? So they need to take care not to turn all the consumer surplus into producer surplus. So what I mean by that is they can't use our information to charge every single person at a different price for the same service. They will need to do much more vetting at their own sites, right? If we get shipped a book and the book is damaged, sure, we can leave a bad rating. That's not going to work in financial services. It's not going to work when we're talking about mortgages, when we're talking about financial advice. So they would have to do a lot more vetting. And then one other, just to leave one final thought about data, which is there's a lot of bias in the data sets that people use to train algorithms. And so I think banks need to be careful to avoid bias in the data and bias being transferred from bankers who then train algorithms. But anyway, just to leave you with a final thought, there is a big gap for banks here. Banks can step into our lives and they can help us to make better financial and commercial decisions. And there is a way forward to be a much better aggregator than the ones we have, the ones we work with today. So thanks. Thanks, Beck. Thanks, Beck.