About 13 years ago, I made this fella.

https://i.imgur.com/hZYFEmC.jpg

It was a huge amount of fun to build and I was very happy with the result. I hardly play it, but sometimes just put it on and let it cycle through games to fill the house with an arcade-y ambiance.

It started off life with an old PC in it, but currently runs a Raspberry Pi 3.

This!

Coding isn’t for everyone, but sometimes you can get involved in a coding project just by contributing good suggestions/bug reports to github.

Be thoughtful about how you report things - if you’re reporting a bug, add as much detail as you can to help the devs recreate it; if you’re suggesting a feature, make a solid case for why the application might benefit from it, think about potential issues it might solve (or cause), consider how you might address users who don’t want that feature (make optional).

It is extremely satisfying to see an issue you’ve reported get fixed or a feature you’ve suggested get implemented. It gives you a stake in the project, something you won’t often get on the corporate-owned platforms.

Iceland. One of the most beautiful, weird, friendly places I’ve ever visited.

Honestly, don’t try to force it. I’ve been gaming for 40 years, and I’ve been through more ruts than I can count. And you know what? I’ve always come back…

But I’ve never been able to force myself to come back. I’ve never been able to engineer a new interest, it always has to happen organically. Some new game will pique my interest out of the blue, or I’ll get see a new piece of hardware I suddenly want, or I’ll wake up one morning and really want to get into speed running Dark Souls. And then, just like that, I’m back in it and as enthusiastic as ever.

Interests come and go. It’s probably more a product of everything else in your life than the games themselves. So just let it ride, find something else to do with your time, and you’ll be back gaming before you know it.

Like everyone else, I mostly remember being amazed by both the graphics and the price. Nobody I knew had one, except one guy who acquired it using money he’d raised through, shall we say, illicit means. As such, he kept it under his bed all the time in case his parents ever found out and nobody saw it. Come to think of it, he may have been making the whole thing up…

As mentioned elsewhere, this was the first system I was enthusiastic about emulating.

“All magazines” to the right of the top bar goes to the same place.

Do you have “Show top bar” enabled in settings? If I enable this, Magazines disappears from the navbar.

I think the problem is that the subscription page (that the script gets its items from) is paginated, and the script will only get the items on the first page.

Ah! It looks like I wasn’t on the latest version… updated and it works perfectly now! Thanks!

This is amazing! It basically recreates my reddit browsing experience and makes the whole site so much easier to navigate!

I can see references in the code to “sort alphabetically” (which would be very welcome!)… but I can’t see the button. Did that function not make it into this version of the script?

Thanks again!