I prefer to buy GOG when possible, Steam second. I even have some duplicated titles across vendors.
Excellent that they don't engage in Nintendo level community hostility and at least let people who care about old games preserve them.
Stream goes one step further and actively maintains their legacy games playable. That is commitment.
Wii was the only console I ever bought. I prefer playing with keyboard and mouse, so consoles were never really my focus.
I had a lot of fun with it, it had some amazing games that made good use of the controllers. It was a great family console that even older people or people that don't usually play could use.
It was also great at running old school emulators for other consoles (SNES, Genesis) after some tinkering.
It also drove home my main hate regarding consoles: they are closed systems, owned not by you but by the manufacturer. The games were and still are expensive, unlike PCs where games get cheaper over time. They can also disable the servers providing services for your console (news channel, weather channel) when they feel like you should move on and buy their next console.
So I won't buy another console again, even if I still love my Wii, that I power on occasionally.
You'd expect Microsoft to have figured out how to copy Linux update methods, we have a lot of them to choose from and some are actually decent.
I'm gonna go with Tom's Root Boot. Or maybe the father of all live distros, Knoppix.
Someone gave me a PowerMac and of course I had to try to run Linux. It was an interesting experience, it would boot to MacOS and then run the Yellow Dog bootloader. Couldn't get it to boot directly. That little experiment showed me how tightly Apple controlled what would run on Apple machines back then.
Good old Smoothie. Served me well back then. I think it went commercial at some point.
I posted from Boost for Lemmy, but formatted nothing.
Both end songs are on my playlist, I love it when the randomize function picks them up. You could say it is a triumph.
I'm still playing this game today. Undoubtedly my favorite game.
The Next version of this game is simply stunning, even on my crappy little Blaupunkt TV. Recreated by Matt Davies and Simon Butler from the original Mike Singleton release, it shows just what a brilliant games machine the Next can be.
If you remember the Speccy scene in the 90's, you must have no doubt downloaded some games from the old ftp.nvg.ntnu.no FTP server.
After World of Spectrum came along, I had mostly forgotten about it. This week I remembered and took a peek... and what a nice surprise, the old geezer is still there, complete with a README file from 1995/03/11 signed by Arnt Gulbrandsen.
Have a look, there are even some messages from the comp.sys.sinclair USENET newsgroup.
Good times.
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Good looking mechanical keyboard project for the ZX81 (or the modern equivalent, the ZX81+38), including all the designs and schematics.
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I've been using XFCE for so long that it feels really awkward when I have to use Gnome or KDE.
XFCE is solid, reliable, stable, unobtrusive, lean, responsive.
It is also the reason I've not used Wayland yet.