Deebster

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's definitely some names I recognise from the old place here already, and I think we'll see more after the 30th.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's great advice. Nearly 20 years ago I found a local group through my country's Go Association website, and there are a lot more thing online now.

@[email protected] have you tried https://baduk.club/map ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

From the thumbnail, I thought this was going to be a dinosaur comic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
 

I've come across "diagram" in translations from Chinese weiqi sources, but I'm not sure what is meant by this. Would the usual term in English be something like game record/kifu, opening patterns/fuseki, patterns generally or an idea that's not got an easy translation?

It's apparently translated in Chinese-English Dictionary of Weiqi Terms but I don't have access to that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, I get "This app is not available for any of your devices", even for the old Pixel XL I pulled out of my abandoned tech drawer (I can't believe it still boots!).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ok, so they're legit and official - I wasn't sure. The 90s-style design made me think it was ok, for some reason, but a few other things gave me pause.

Is their emulator recommended, or do people use a different one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Turrican II is the one I remember most fondly (especially how you could upgrade your gun to fire plasma(?) bolts bigger than you), but James Pond 2 was great as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was so heartbreaking to fall down at certain places and drop half the tower.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, and Turrican II and Desert Strike and Superfrog and those amazing demos. Many of the cracked games my dad got had better graphics+music on the crack intro than the game that followed. Good times...

 

I absolutely loved my Amiga back in the day, and we had a few throughout my childhood home.

What are the things I need to know about to geek around today? I see there's multiple emulators (some free, some not - are they official?), and I assume there's places with old ROMs of the games and software I used to use, like Zool, SWIV, Cannon Fodder, Skidmarks, Speedball 2, Deluxe Paint, etc, etc.

Share your retro wisdom with me!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How many books are we talking about here?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I imagine the devs have stats on uninstalls - I wonder what they show.

 

I'm still on Goodreads but it's so slow, the app's just an even slower webview of the site and the redesign has made me have to click more to do what I want.

What's the alternative? Obviously we're on the fediverse and I see people talking about Bookwyrm.

I used Anobii till 2010 and I can't remember why I left but it's still there. I've poked StoryGraph a bit but it was lacking several of the books I wanted to add.

There must be more! What do you use/recommend?

view more: next ›