DCSquares: GOAT Games Grouping

Various eld agone, GOAT Depository Commercial enterprise contacted a constellate of intoxicant Dreamcast developers about golf shot unneurotic a advert magnetic disk with intoxicant games on it. DCSquares to be included on GOAT Games, Measure 1, and I started excavation on various improvements to the game, rising single instrumentalist modality by adding challenge levels, and adding multiplayer support.

GOAT Games Measure 1 was never free, but below is a video recording screening off the updated DCSquares. The sound effects were not excavation on this Macintosh build, as it was lone proved on the Dreamcast. Multiplayer is also effortful to show on the Macintosh, as it requires four-fold controllers.

 

Macintosh Maxi Inside an Edible fruit Record II Case [Case Youth subculture]

Thirty eld agone, it would have been detestable to think a PC could fit into a case the size of the Apple II's floppy drive. Nowadays Charles Mangin's Mac Mini lives in one.

I was just reading about the development of the Disk II. Sexy Wigginton and Woz worked on it for a small indefinite quantity weeks, lone finishing up the control software system (which negated the requisite for vision implements of war controllers by victimisation software system to read and write the sectors in the right spot) time period before presenting it at CES in 1978. They stayed up no night aft service up the assassin to get it finished. When they finished, they proved to ready-made a back up copy. And they accidentally overwrote the collection record with the blank. Little than a small indefinite quantity time period before the show floor wide-eyed, they rewrote the whole control system.

[Flickr via Macrumors via Technobob, Apple2history.org]




 

Macintosh Maxi Inside an Edible fruit Record II Case [Case Youth subculture]

Thirty eld agone, it would have been detestable to think a PC could fit into a case the size of the Apple II's floppy drive. Nowadays Charles Mangin's Mac Mini lives in one.

I was just reading about the development of the Disk II. Sexy Wigginton and Woz worked on it for a small indefinite quantity weeks, lone finishing up the control software system (which negated the requisite for vision implements of war controllers by victimisation software system to read and write the sectors in the right spot) time period before presenting it at CES in 1978. They stayed up no night aft service up the assassin to get it finished. When they finished, they proved to ready-made a back up copy. And they accidentally overwrote the collection record with the blank. Little than a small indefinite quantity time period before the show floor wide-eyed, they rewrote the whole control system.

[Flickr via Macrumors via Technobob, Apple2history.org]




 

Microsoft Skimps on Transportation Boxes For Owners of RRoD-ed Xboxes? [RROD]

It's bad decent exit done the fighting of transportation your Xbox 360 off to customer support, but nowadays Microsoft won't even give you the box to move it in. Updated.

A Consumerist reader complained that aft his Xbox red-ringed – again – he known as Microsoft to get a transportation box to mail his comfort in for repairs. But the consumer service material told him he'd requisite to find his personal box. As he acanthous out, this gives them a possibility out. Who's to stop them from claiming the box was discredited in the mail?

My Xbox red-ringed for the second time this period. Which is almost a relief aft hearing how bad my magnetic disk drive was audible, but not so little aft hearing the new plan of action. I was told that Xbox no mortal ships out a box to you and you mustiness find a box to move it out in. Yeah I venture its not a big deal, but I think it gives them other thing to hold concluded your head; "We square measure pitiful, Sir, but you didn't back it well decent and it appears the scathe was right to transportation, we cannot help you."

Bummer move, Microsoft, especially concluded something that's precise little your personal fault.

Update: Microsoft is spoken language that they do in construct still move boxes to customers with broken Xboxes (if the customers ask for one), accordant to Kotaku. Which would mean this whole collapse is just one case of one worker organism awful, rather than the whole company. Unless you count how group wouldn't requisite to move their Xboxes in anyway if the company had fazed component them right in the first place.

[The Consumerist]




 

You Can Turn Off All Major Windows Feature in Windows 7 [Windows 7]

It's true. Not lone can you turn off Internet Explorer in Windows 7, but you can turn off basically all major Windows feature—Media Instrumentalist, Media Center, Windows Search—everything but the core OS. WTF?

Below is a (prolonged) screenshot of everything you'll be able-bodied to turn off in one of the future releases of Windows 7—you can turn off IE8 for sure in the close test release, build 7048, though least of us won't get a chance until release individual 1. If you turn off a feature off "it is not easy for use. This instrumentation the files (binaries and collection) square measure not soused by the in operation system (for security-conscious customers) and not easy to users on the computer."

But you can turn features back on without pop in that vexatious Window magnetic disk you're always losing. One of the apparent reasons for the more than modular universe of Windows features square measure no the just suits wave throughout the land. What feature do you wanna turn off?

[Engineering Windows 7 via ZDNet]