Then I thought maybe my TV was doing something wonky with the VGA but a VGA to HDMI didn't work either.
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Then I thought maybe my TV was doing something wonky with the VGA but a VGA to HDMI didn't work either.
Finally some 91% alcohol on the expansion pack and cartridge loader did the trick.
Next I'm going to introduce my son to games like Legend of Zelda and the Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye 007, and Cruisin' the World.
Basically I get to relive my childhood with my son.
I think I have a classic 8-bit and a SNES here somewhere. If so they've been boxed up a while. The kids don't want them and eBay prices aren't high enough to be worth my trouble yet.
At one point, I had a VecTrex tucked away somewhere. It's long gone, now. These days, that would either be a valuable collectors item, or a forgotten bit of trivia. Probably the latter.
I literally never heard of it until now.
Woah, that was super ahead of its time!
It was pretty good. Many of the games that could be added in were kind of trivial. You eventually would beat them or they would beat you. There was no middle ground. Either they were so simple that you would win every time, or they reached a level that was impossible and you would lose every time. I barely remember most of them.
However, there was an asteroid game that was really awesome. It was easy enough, and fairly routine, up to level 13, at which an invisible killer ship appeared. You basically couldn't see it unless you were looking for it and had really good eyes, and it would lock on you and kamikaze in. There was no real running from that, you either shot it first or you died. If you made it past that level, some increasing levels of weirdness started happening. It wasn't even clear if they were intentional or a bug. Even that killer ship seemed more like a bug than an intentional inclusion, as who would add a maniacal, invisible, opponent?
Ah yes, Adam Smith predicted this with "The Invisible Hand of Game Developers"
In this case, it was more of an "invisible finger of game developers". I might be wrong about the level at which it happened, too, as it might have been 32, not 13. Both numbers come to mind. Whatever it was, it felt like there was "the game as intended", a barrier that may or may not have been intentional, and then an infinite, barely thought out, expanse beyond that. If you could survive that invisible hunter, they never showed up again. You could then play on for a very long time in bizarre levels that seemed to be almost randomly generated rather than incrementally increasing difficulty as the earlier levels were.
Set out for a bike ride this morning, but quickly realized I had fixed the wrong thing. I fixed the front brakes, but they were working okay, and probably only needed a minor adjustment. It was the front derailleur that was a problem, and I think there's something broken in the mechanism. Without that, I would have been doing a LOT of pointless pedaling, as I couldn't get to the high range.
I decided that getting in a ride wasn't going to happen, so I went for a walk and got some yard work finished.
I just had a message from OneDrive about "My Memories From This Day". I was using OneDrive as a backup for a programming project (until I switched to GitLab) and nothing else. Those "memories" messages pick up whatever image file and show that to you. The images from that project are icons and the like. It's kind of funny seeing them.
People here are trying to bring on Summer early here. We've had some warm dry days and the grills are coming out.
Neighbor had me over for her "Grilled Potatoes Alfredo" which has ground beef and broccoli and was pretty good. I brought a fruity salad based on chopped apples, celery, and rehydrated sweetened cranberries tossed in lime juice. We ended up sharing it with a young single guy across the street from her who says he smelled it. He says he doesn't cook, so he brought some Bell's "Light Hearted Ale" IPA.
We had summer. It was fun. Maybe it'll come back in a few days?
We didn't break 70 degrees, but with the sun and some imagination we enjoyed not having nightly freeze warnings for a while.
We've actually only now entered the period where crabapples and redbud trees bloom along with daffodils and tulips, so we can't complain too much.
I've been chuckling like an idiot for the past hour, thinking of a video where a Brit mentions what saying "RC Cola" sounds like to him. Hint: not the best cola.
Is RC Cola still a product?
Haven't seen it around for a while but I don't buy soda's anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I started buying Dr. Pepper with Cream Soda Zero and honestly feel like my parents with Diet Coke.