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Oh hell yeah! been waiting for this!

Found me two Speak™ units for $5 each at a thrift shop. Both have battery cover, and the Speak & Spell™ even had a library expansion cart installed!

Sorry for the miss spelling. My buddy is a Dr. Who fanatic and my mind instantly just read it as dalek.

lol. Not sure if you've ever used a mac, but there's no way an intel labled app/vst will run on a PPC. Two completely different animals. Virtual boxes will be useless cause all the power is being wasted on getting the OS running. Any apps worth their bits will not run at a sufficient speed if at all. If you have any option to compile it into a Universal Binary then yay for us PPC users, but I understand my archetecture is dying. So no feelings are hurt over here if you can't.

1. Playing on the same system they did as a kid is a large drive for alot of gamers out their. nostalgia is a huge deal to some people. Even putting nostalgia aside, playing games on their intended hardware just makes sense.
2. Functional mods like variable clock, as I mentioned just previously, enables one to speed through long RPG grinding, and also to slow down difficult platforming/shooting/flying stages.
3. Pro sound mod is useful for those always playing games using their headphones. I don't like constantly hearing a noise floor when there is not much music/soundFX masking it for me.
4. Aesthetic mods like backlights are obvious. It is alway better to be able to see the game you're playing clearly.
5. Lastly, painted cases and led buttons (like thursday start/select rgb) are just plain fun to install and fun to look at.

I was an electronics hobbyist before I got into the music at all. When I came across MSSIAH and SID2SID I fell in love cause I got to tinker with arguably the most beloved personal computer of all time. Then came my adoration for it's sound chip. Oh my word I'm in love with the SID in every way possible. I listened to DRAX and Jeroen Tel and there was no going back to being just a modder/hobbyist/tinkerer. I became a chipmusician.

One thing I didn't mention is that I also loved audio production before as well, but I was more into mixing/mastering/live audio systems than composing.

That all being said, I don't find it weird in the slightest that someone is here for just the mods and none of the music. Whenever I show off my backlit/clockmod/midi syncable DMG to any of my gamer friends, they drool over the thought of playing their childhood favorites on that system. Be it cause the backlight for a pleasurable viewing experience, or the variable clock mod allowing for fast forwarding through laborious RPG grinding or slow motion for tricky platforming. I actually wish more of the gamer folk would embrace these mods as much as we have.

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