Thanks for that. I recognise his intro, so must have caught some of his other content at some point, but very interesting seeing him working on a TAM!
I was a bit “worried” he was going to rip the guts out and put a Mac Mini inside or something, like I’ve seen others do… but his approach whilst a bit haphazard, was pretty respectable.
I think a lot of his videos are interesting. He is more of a tinkerer than someone who just guts a machine & installs something modern inside it. He seems to enjoy himself & he doesn’t take himself too seriously. His videos aren’t too long either.
So, cosmic, the TAM is a G4 500(ish) now!!!
While I was a bit bored the other night, looking for something interesting to watch, I stumbled on a YouTube video about strategies in Monopoly. I thought, Really!?! I haven’t played Monopoly for years & I watched a couple of other videos on the same subject. Anyway, I have the old MacSoft version of Monopoly on my old G4 so I fired it up last night and had a play. And it seemed to work, at least for one game. Apparently the player who goes first always has an advantage as the next player does over the following & so on. I was bit surprised what hard bargainers the computer players were on the easiest level. Anyway, it seemed to work - I won. It was interesting that what some of these Youtubers were saying was quite incorrect when tested by a guy who did millions of game simulations although their basic ideas seemed quite intuitive. I reminds me of how people have different systems for winning casino games when, mathematically, it is just pure luck. Like the pokies. Blackjack is the only game where you can use a strategy to reduce the casino’s advantage (or if you are very, very good put the advantage slightly in your favour. However, in the last 10 years or so, casinos have been changing the rules to put the advantage back in their favour. There are some states in the US now (not Nevada) where it is illegal for casinos to stop players who are card counting.
There was a YouTube series just in the past 12 months or so about a guy from the UK, I think he was a magician or something but not famous, who went to “Blackjack School” to learn how to count cards, and also all about how to deal with the casinos when they try to coerce you out of your money. He ultimately visited a number of casinos and made some modest wins, but also encountered the push backs from the casinos, culminating in the police being called at one location - although ultimately as he knew his rights, and the police knew he knew his rights, they didn’t do anything.
Yeah, I follow him on YouTube & also Blackjack Apprenticeship, which is where he did the Blackjack school. It’s quite interesting. I actually got pretty good at Blackjack when I learnt the basic strategy. I’m not good enough to count cards though. Even if you can count cards, there is still a lot of luck involved & you need to do it like a job over a long period of time to make any decent money. But you can also be lucky too. I took my kids on a cruise about 8 years ago & spent a lot of time in the casino playing Blackjack. Their rules at the time were conducive to being able to win if you knew what you were doing. Anyway, to cut a long story short, over the period of the cruise I won almost enough money to pay for the whole cruise. The other thing was that I met a lot of nice & interesting people at the Blackjack table along the way…