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Contacting Apple re: Honda Music Link

Well, let’s see what this gets me. The people it’s addressed to are Jaime Schopflin and Tom Neumayr, Apple’s PR contacts for ‘iPod’ and ‘Manager, iTunes & iPod’, respectively.

From: "Steve Vigneau"
Subject: Honda Music Link iPod Adapter Review
Date: Mon, January 9, 2006 9:20 am
To: jaimes@apple.com,tneumayr@apple.com

Hello,

I have recently come into possession of one of the Honda Music Link iPod
Adapters which was announced in an Apple press release on September 7th,
2005 (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/sep/07ipod_auto.html).

Due to my extreme dissatisfaction with this product I have been
maintaining an ongoing log / review of my experiences with it at the
following URL:

http://www.nuxx.net/hondamusiclink.html

Due to the apparent disparity between Apple's hopeful-sounding
announcement with regards to this product and my actual experiences with
it I wanted to make Apple aware of this information. I am also interested
in any comments which you may have with regards to my experiences with the
product.

Thank you,

Steve Vigneau
admin@nuxx.net

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MAME Cabinet

Well, talking to some #llamasoft people got me thinking… I should just replace the monitor in my MAME cabinet with a real, decent sized one. So I think I’m going to see if the Vision Pro 27″ SVGA Universal Mount Monitor from Happ Controls. It’s US$349.95 for the tube, plus another $13.15 for the monitor bezel. As long as it’ll fit in my cabinet, I think I may go that route… It’d be a great, massive display which would actually accept a VGA signal.

Hrm… That really would polish off the cabinet…

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Painting…

Blah. I kinda screwed up in painting part of my MAME monitor. I didn’t paint enough of the bezel, so when one looks into the monitor at a very low angle, there is still some beige visible. I’ll have to fix this another day. :(

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Arcade Update

Well, the plans to run AdvanceMame under Linux on my arcade game are now out the window. It just seems too complex for what I’m wanting to do.

I’m now going to try it with FreeDOS for sake of simplicity.

If things go according to plan, I’ll have the whole thing (nearly silently) running off of a CF card by this time next month. (Waiting for parts…)

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Leenucks

Gur. I’d forgotten what a pain in the ass it is to get anything working under Linux. I want to install one silly app and the requirements become a strawman diagram. :\

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Stuff done today…

Well, since Kompressor has taken his site down, I have mirrored it here.

I also just finished upgrading the hardware in my MAME cabinet. The Slackware 10.2 discs are coming down via BitTorrent right now, then I’ll get to work on redoing the software. I’ll also try and get some good photos of it once it is done, too.

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