I’m honestly surprised Portable Ops didn’t make the cut for Vol 2.

It’s a little rough around the edges, but it laid the groundwork for the base building and mission selection that Peace Walker and Phantom Pain expanded on.

I’m still salty about The Cutting Room Floor requiring you to log into their Discord to create an account for their website.

Because you have it reversed. This is new tech trying to interface with old tech. For when your Pentium 2 CD-ROM drive dies because a belt went bad. Or the laser is rotten. That kind of situation. Sourcing an IDE drive for old hardware is getting harder every day. (honestly, finding anything beige is getting harder)

https://osgameclones.com/

OpenRCT2 is 100% the definitive way to play Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & 2.

But I would never recommend a new player try OpenRA. The game has stellar multiplayer support but they just can’t figure out the campaign scripting at all. Go with the remaster collection instead.

I was told by a Chinese coworker a few years back that piracy is the biggest factor. There was little enforcement, and everybody runs a cracked version of Windows because it was insanely easy to do.

I’ve always wondered about that, since in theory you can flip the removable bit on some of the USB flash media out there. Is that enough to trick the Windows installer? I don’t know.

wait wait… reading comprehension fail on my part. Both that NBC article and Wikipedia are saying that Kodak went against the grain by selling more expensive printers with cheaper ink.

Eastman Kodak Co. is introducing a line of desktop printers and low cost replacement inks on Tuesday, as the photography company takes on a market dominated by Hewlett-Packard.

That’s wild!

I had my inkjet from around 2011 to 2015. I think it was a C310 but I can’t find any proof of that. I only know it took the 30B/C cartridges.

They were $25-30 for a bundle on a retailer’s shelf while everything else was closer to $50-70 for a bundle on a retailer’s shelf. There was a 20% yield difference between the two, but that’s no 20% markup! I vaguely recall a 30B double pack that was only $15 total, and that’s what I used to buy once or twice a year. None of that hidden “Cyan mixed in the black to make it blacker” crap that HP did either.

How ironic that Kodak rigged the game to make ink expensive, and then others beat them at it.

Yeah, I found quite a few games that I had to go in and specify it re-download and use Proton because the Linux native build was borked.

Funny, I had a Kodak printer for years since they had the cheapest ink by a large margin. HP was always the most expensive.

What year did that flip?

The software seems a bit icky to champion itself as

a video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come.

And then they delete GOG installer assistance from their database if they aren’t being actively sold. Like, that’s the whole point of a GoG installer. Preservation for when it’s taken off a storefront!

Instead the owner recommends you pirate a CD and locked discussion.

I dug out mine out of the closet recently and was so confused when it didn’t power on properly. Turns out, the .3v difference between a Duracell and an Eneloop really matter when you scale it to 6 cells!

gog has a bunch of tweaks for the stuff they host. I’m guessing it’s either a clause in the contract for their storefront, or this is a volunteer for the game preservation program.

Upon second viewing, I highly suspect he glued that cover onto the case… which will warp/peel off SO FAST.

There is a reason cases have a plastic shield and lips on the case to hold the cover in.

Yeah, I share your pain. I think I ended up 3D printing something like this but the game density is very low for shelving. So I ended up putting most things into something more like this and throwing them all into a drawer.

I’m not happy with either solution.

Maybe if this were printed by a professional…

EDIT: Ha, totally missed the sentence where you point directly to a professional who makes custom cases. Derp.

Silica Gel

Yeah, I tried audacious. But I use a lot of plugins to run weird formats, so it doesn’t cover my usage. Neither does VLC. I’m using Wine to listen to music for now… but not nearly as much as I used to on Windows.

I’ve got a bug in Wine that the entire desktop UI locks up on first launch. Not to mention opening a second song opens a second Wine. Not optimal.

I’ve searched through logs and journalctl to see if there is a reason for the lockup, but best I can find is that my Intel A580 GPU isn’t playing nice. I’m using Mint (not Manjaro) and nothing in my logs indicates that Intel is the issue, though.

Switched Jan of 2025. Already used 99% open source stuff on Windows, so the conversion was nearly painless.

I tried Debian at first, which didn’t support my bleeding edge new hardware. So I tried LMDE… which also (unsurprisingly) didn’t support new stuff either. It wasn’t until I landed on regular Linux Mint that things hit a good stride.

I still mourn the loss of Winamp though… :(