HYDRA

[Brice Manuel]

For Christmas, my parents bought me a HYDRA:
http://www.xgamestation.com/view_product.php?id=33

I am having a blast with it. I was wondering if anybody else has got one?

[rsts]

I had never even seen one.

Should have gotten that for my son instead of x-box360 It really looks cool.

Let us know how you do with it.

edit - How did they know about it? Had you dropped a hint?

cheers

[Intrigued]

Wifey got me an XBOX 360 also. If you get FFXI, be prepared for some "hoop going through" whoa!

[Kaeru Gaman]

never have seen one, either, but looks quite interesting.
seems to be not that much a 3D-gaming console,
but some kind of a ready-to-program for everyone...

would be nice to read more from you about it,
espacially in 3-8 weeks, when first ethusiams seazed...

[Pantcho!!]

wow! that looks way awesome!

wish i had that in my hands i would play for hours with it!

i am also intrigued to know what stuff you can create with it , update us.

[Brice Manuel]

edit - How did they know about it? Had you dropped a hint?

My parents live close, and my wife and I go out to lunch with my Mom a couple of times per week, so I had dropped some hints. But when my Mom asked what my wife and I wanted for Christmas, I told her I wanted a HYDRA

seems to be not that much a 3D-gaming console,

I know I am in the minority, but I hate 3D, so for me this is perfect

i am also intrigued to know what stuff you can create with it , update us.

Right now, the going has been slow, as I am getting used to everything. The main programming language (SPIN) is easy to pick up, but my ASM skills are a bit rusty.

Unfortunately, right now, I only have the HYDRA hooked up to a 5-inch black and white TV. But, today is my birthday and I will be getting a 14-inch color TV to use with my HYDRA, and any money I get for my birthday will be used to order some more blank game cartridges for use with the HYDRA.

So far, to keep my first game for the HYDRA simple, I have been working on a clone of the Golf game from the Odyssey 2.

I have a domain secured that I am going to use for putting up a site dedicated to my HYDRA games. I will have to start a HYDRA worklog, too

I love the HYDRA, until now my favorite platform to develop for was my TI-994/A. Now it is the HYDRA. I am at a point now where I mainly program for fun and for making games I enjoy playing. I could happily only write for the HYDRA and never write a PC game again.

[Derek]

I am at a point now where I mainly program for fun and for making games I enjoy playing. I could happily only write for the HYDRA and never write a PC game again.

Sounds like it was a good buy, let us know your website so we can see the games.

[Brice Manuel]

Well, 14" TV I got for my birthday turned out to be a POS, so I took it back and got a 20" for only $13 more.

I have completed two games for the HYDRA so far. I finished my simple golf game and I finished a simple fishing game. I don't have a camera so I can't post any pcitures. Somewhere I think I may have a webcam, if I can find it and the software for it, I will see if that can take "acceptable" screenshots of the HYDRA games. Once I clean up the code a bit, I will eventually post the code for these games on my site.

I have been working on fabricating a case for the HYDRA along with cases for the "game cartridges". When I am done, I should have a nice looking "custom" game console

[Joakim Christiansen]

This sounds so cool, I wish we all had little HYDRAs...

[robleong]

Looks very retro - enjoy!

[ricardo]

But, today is my birthday and I will be getting a 14-inch color TV to use with my HYDRA, and any money I get for my birthday will be used to order some more blank game cartridges for use with the HYDRA.

Looks like you are having nice celebrations! he he

[GeoTrail]

Looks like fun