I’m surprised by the ingame emulation setup. That basically exists today on retropie. Or does it have a different name to it. He could’ve used a mac mini but it may have been expensive compared today.
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The system used would've been rather expensive back then, but I'm still using some of the same emulators with only slight tweaks on an old system to get near 0 lag on 60FPS 15Khz emulation for the core of my emulation rig for old I3+ cores. Combined with an RGB modded CRT this makes for a great experience. This setup is actually perfectly valid even today and a great shell to boot.
I remember also seeing him around a RPG forum back then.
Yeah, I worked at an Apple certified repair shop when the Mac minis launched. They were expensive. My buddy bought one as his media box and LAN server & we were impressed.