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Probably up next on my retro gaming to-do list!
Probably up next on my retro gaming to-do list!
Yeah, I’d actually only ever played VII and VIII before recently.
Now I seem to be going backwards through the series. Played VII, VI, and now V, where I currently find myself doing some rather boring endgame grinding to try to defeat the final boss battle.
Oldest this year.
But maybe up until this year, or in the last 5 years would have been the more interesting question.
Yeah, playing Resident Evil for the first time was something incredibly atmospheric and special. I rented it from Blockbuster and knew straight away I had to buy it.
Before it released my friend and I used to speed-run the Resident Evil 2 demo which let you play as far as you could get into the full game, but with an 8 minute time limit.
Yeah, I very nearly added seeing the Mortal Kombat arcade to my original post but decided maybe I was writing too much!
Shake it baby!
I feel the same way about it being a privilege. I missed the earliest part… but even to have lived through the NES and Master System era through to today has been amazing.
Games will continue getting ever more impressive, but nobody again will witness the kind of seismic leaps in what games could accomplish that people saw between the 70s and 2000s.
Just remembered that seeing Doom for the first time is another obvious one. Man that game was incredible when it came out.
All my friends and I used to have Yahoo! email addresses. But for some reason around 2010 almost everyone’s accounts seemed to be getting compromised and sending weird messages around to their contacts… and now I don’t know anyone with a Yahoo!
I never figured out what was going on and why Yahoo in particular seemed so affected by it.
Excellent work, my favourite Mario Kart due to countless, countless hours spent playing at uni.
Need to set that bad boy to 4:3 not 16:9 for the aspect ratio to be correct though!
Oh wow.
I’ve had so many issues with black screens on so many distros with my mid-2012 retina 15” MBP and never knew this was the reason.
Others here with old Macs seem to have had a much smoother run than me!
You can absolutely run Linux like a champ on that machine, but for reasons I’m not advanced enough to know/understand I’ve struggled with even booting the live USB for multiple distros on my Mid-2012 15" Retina. Maybe it’s the version of the hybrid Intel/Nvidia graphics on the model, I can’t really say.
I’m currently writing this from Linux Mint on said Mac, and all is well; but I’ve experienced the following:
I totally recommend Linux Mint overall. I’ve decided I like Cinnamon best, “it just works” far more than anything else I’ve tried. I consider it the closest to macOS in terms of being thought about from every angle and set up and ready to go as a beginner or as a more advanced user.
Yep.
And if you knew it was bad, but didn’t know how bad:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/oct/12/girl-loses-fingers-school-art
Glad I read this - all my other devices block ads perfectly well already, but was wondering if I could block YouTube ads on my Apple TV… I guess not!
It’s an older system sir, but it checks out
Yep, absolutely this.
You cannot listen to music losslessly with AirPods Max, cabled or not.
From Apple’s own site: “The Lightning to 3.5 mm Audio Cable was designed to allow AirPods Max to connect to analog sources for listening to movies and music. AirPods Max can be connected to devices playing Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless recordings with exceptional audio quality. However, given the analog-to-digital conversion in the cable, the playback will not be completely lossless.”
If someone thinks AirPods Max sound amazing, they’re agreeing how good compressed audio can sound, whether they realise it or not.
Playing 2600 on original hardware is pretty awesome.