Bank Holiday Gaming
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thermalsatsumaIt's a traditional rainy bank holiday, so in this household that means games, so what have I been playing?
Phoenix Wright goes without saying. It really is a superbly constructed game, with each case being turned around numerous times both in the evidence gathering sequences and the court room showdowns with their anime inspired stylings and beat em up sound effects as you present a devastating bit of evidence by shouting 'Objection!' into the DS microphone.
To prove that you can go home, I fired up the mighty Animal Crossing after a hiatus of four months. I spent twenty minutes pulling weeds, digging for fossils and planting flowers, before going to visit all of my animals who all seem to be present and correct. I sent letters and gifts to the ones I liked, and a bit of hate mail to Ribbot in which I called him a metal robot frog freak and hoped that he would go rusty in the pond. It's like I've never been away.
I don't know if playing with a personal video recorder counts as a game, but the Mystuff extensions for the Topfield are excellent - a completely configurable new EPG, automatic searches and recordings, buttons to auto skip past advert breaks, automatic organising of archived recordings and more. Worth a look so you can see exactly what this box is capable of.
Jamie's bank holiday treat was Test Drive Unlimited for the PS2. The developers have done a pretty good job of shoe horning the game from its next gen roots on the xbox 360 onto the venerable PS2 platform. The game features an accurately mapped version of the Hawaiian island of Oahu (I looked on Google Earth to confirm it). Some of the buildings are a bit generic, and there's not a huge variety of traffic on the roads, but the super cars all seem to be well modelled and appropriately shiny. The dashboard view is even better, and you can look around to see different interiors for each car. Even though the drivable area runs to a 1000 miles of road way, a nifty sat nav voice feature directs you to your chosen destination or the next available race challenge. There are police to catch you speeding, but they are fairly stupid and you can usually shake them off by cutting off road for a while.
I can exclusively report that barrelling along the coast road in an Aston Martin DB9 listening to 'Ride of the Valkyries' whilst the sun sets over the Pacific is ACEBEST fun.
Phoenix Wright goes without saying. It really is a superbly constructed game, with each case being turned around numerous times both in the evidence gathering sequences and the court room showdowns with their anime inspired stylings and beat em up sound effects as you present a devastating bit of evidence by shouting 'Objection!' into the DS microphone.
To prove that you can go home, I fired up the mighty Animal Crossing after a hiatus of four months. I spent twenty minutes pulling weeds, digging for fossils and planting flowers, before going to visit all of my animals who all seem to be present and correct. I sent letters and gifts to the ones I liked, and a bit of hate mail to Ribbot in which I called him a metal robot frog freak and hoped that he would go rusty in the pond. It's like I've never been away.
I don't know if playing with a personal video recorder counts as a game, but the Mystuff extensions for the Topfield are excellent - a completely configurable new EPG, automatic searches and recordings, buttons to auto skip past advert breaks, automatic organising of archived recordings and more. Worth a look so you can see exactly what this box is capable of.
Jamie's bank holiday treat was Test Drive Unlimited for the PS2. The developers have done a pretty good job of shoe horning the game from its next gen roots on the xbox 360 onto the venerable PS2 platform. The game features an accurately mapped version of the Hawaiian island of Oahu (I looked on Google Earth to confirm it). Some of the buildings are a bit generic, and there's not a huge variety of traffic on the roads, but the super cars all seem to be well modelled and appropriately shiny. The dashboard view is even better, and you can look around to see different interiors for each car. Even though the drivable area runs to a 1000 miles of road way, a nifty sat nav voice feature directs you to your chosen destination or the next available race challenge. There are police to catch you speeding, but they are fairly stupid and you can usually shake them off by cutting off road for a while.
I can exclusively report that barrelling along the coast road in an Aston Martin DB9 listening to 'Ride of the Valkyries' whilst the sun sets over the Pacific is ACEBEST fun.
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Date: 2007-05-08 12:41 pm (UTC)As the Ubuntu guy on my FList was wondering if you'd spotted this little gem yet?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6634195.stm
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Date: 2007-05-10 08:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-10 08:30 am (UTC)Also saw a report of a guy who bought his dell (Dell Germany) and got them to refund the value of Windows and Works as he didn't want them installed and got the money back from Dell (something like 90 Euros IIRC)
Maywell have to think about trying to find a live CD vers of KUbuntu at some point if one exists.
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Date: 2007-05-10 08:43 am (UTC)I can do you a live cd copy of vanilla Ubuntu 7.04 if you like. You can always install KDE over the top, but the default Gnome desktop with the Beryl extensions is pretty cool if you like whizzy graphical effects.
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Date: 2007-05-10 08:56 am (UTC)may well go a aways to replacing Suse on my Server machine
hows the setup routines?
are they as easy as YAST is? OR shock horror even easier?
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Date: 2007-05-10 09:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-10 09:34 am (UTC)may well give Ubuntu a go over ride by SUSE install on my Main machine.
And when I move house see about changing the server onto Ubuntu...oh yeah..how's it for wireless drivers??
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Date: 2007-05-10 09:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-10 10:02 am (UTC)