I’ve recently started playing Horizon Chase on Android with a controller … it’s more like a Lotus Turbo Challenge homage, but it scratches the Outrun itch!
I decided to try it after getting Outrun on Mame working and finding the graphics were bad to the point of not enjoying the experience
Star Trek TNG literally started with space jellyfish, too
The lady on the right might be a Sith!
Well, I went and looked it up and apparently since the iPhone 4 onwards Apple actually started to get their shit together and started supporting their hardware for more than 3 years … I do find it funny though that an unsupported iPhone can’t connect to the app store at all while even the evil Google’s old apps can still get live data without problems.
Yes, it’s a 3G. In black if minutiae matter to you.
It doesn’t have maps, and most websites are unsupported even though it’s far newer than the old Android phone.
I can’t use the iPhone 3 I have in a drawer, even though there’s nothing wrong with it. Meanwhile my HTC that runs Android 1.2 still works with Google maps just fine.
I was also pissed off when all the OSX software dropped support for single-core Intel processors which rendered some very expensive 2 year old machines at work useless for anything Mac-specific.
For context, my Dad is still using a PC I built out of parts recovered from a skip in 2008, and it works just fine.
Do they last longer? I have an IPhone 3 somewhere that just decided to stop working, yet my HTC with Android 1.2 still works fine.
Most of what’s held me back from Apple products has been their planned obsolescence, where the OS was no longer supported, which I’ve never had with a PC. I’ve had my cheap second hand laptop for 7 years now and that still works fine with the latest software
Just what we need, libertarian ogres …
Linux Mint is easier to use than Windows
I’m looking forwards to getting stuck into the story mode this weekend, though I have to wonder if I’ll be able to finish it given how long it’s been since I’ve played anything that needs reflexes, lol
Mostly I got the game to play with my partner, and on that front it’s been excelent so far :-)
This is great, because it located me about a full day’s drive from where I live, so I’m still pretty anonymous :-)
Kai trucks are made to fit within a size limit for vehicles in inner cities in Japan, as a result there’s a whole load of odd tiny vehicles still available today.
The closest we get in Europe now are the “heavy quadricycles”, but again they’re made for a specific legal niche (or for specific jobs, like the Aixam Mega Truck for things like park maintenance).
Either way, small vehicles are unfortunately unsafe because there’s no crumple zones, so outside of slow-burning town centers they’re a bad idea (and in town centers it’s better to not have cars at all) so we’re unlikely to see more cute tiny vans in the future … except for things like the electric truck you saw, which can cover commercial needs in zero emissions areas, but again specialised use.
They used to be (see: Bedford Rascal) but then people started thinking they’d like to keep their legs in the event of an accident
Ah, it’s the phones, I thought it was 12 year olds and was a commentary on the GOP or something
Yeah, I use a VME setup at work for data capture and it’s serviceable and reliable (reliable enough to still be working off a coax network cable, lol).
The one I had at home had a 60K-based motherboard with some custom roms and a load of serial ports … I never managed to get it to do anything useful, unfortunately
Yeah, BeOS looked, for about 5 minutes, like it might be the future!
And then it wasn’t :-(
lol, I never had anything like that at home (though I did end up with a 68K based VME system at one point). That AIX server was outgoing tech for SMEs even then, and I never worked for anywhere big enough to have anything Unix-y on it after that :-/
Still, it used to be cool how much oddly mixed hardware there used to be, whereas now there’s a slick VM solution for any size of business.
Oh fantastic! I was one of those young whipper-snappers with the technology of the future for OS installations - floppy disks. I can’t remember what sort of tape was being used during my “learning the value of backups the hard way” experience above, but they were chonky and took about 8 hours to parse each full one so I could pop home and eat between feeding them into the machine.
It all worked like a charm though, no lost data or anything :-)
I want to say my exposure was 5.something? On a PPC server used for a production management database. I liked SMIT from what I can remember (the documentation was good), but everything went well silky smooth once I managed to track down bash for it and basically automated half my job with basic scripts, lol
Also fun fact, I once took the server offline by tripping over a SCSI 3 cable to the raid array (while sorting out the bird’s nest of a comms room) and it took me 3 days to restore everything from backup.
That was my first steady IT job.
Only if the monkey can tap dance