I never got to try Head Over Heels.
That and Knight Lore were the two fucking tapes on the Atari 800 XE that wouldn’t load and run correctly for whatever reason - I was too young to deduce whether it was a compatibility issue or a tape failure. What I did know that it was my weekly treat that was pissed up the wall because it wouldn’t work 😭
I mean fuck day one patches, but I would have loved a day one POKE command back then.
Yeah I’ve still got my headsets from boxes with Skype For Business branding that have “Compatible with Microsoft Lync” stickers on them.
It’s probably closer in UI to Skype from the 2000s that the “real” Skype never really recaptured. Not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing.
My org used Skype For Business and it worked remarkably well. Much more lightweight, though somehow still a little less responsive than it should have been.
It has that “it just works” factor for video calling, whereas Teams almost needs a fucking checklist to rattle through if someone’s audio or video feed isn’t working.
Can’t speak for what the dev is all about, but they’re sound as fuck whenever I’ve interacted with them, and there’s a lot of work being done with frequent releases.
Very open to community requests too so if there’s an feature missing and it’s requested, there’s a good chance it’ll turn up sooner rather than later.
I wish I could say I knew what you mean - but I installed Summit on my phone when I joined Lemmy, installed Summit when my phone came back from repair, and installed Summit when I bought my new phone last month.
I am a simple man, and I fuckin’ love Summit yeaaahhh boiiii
edit: link for Android
Nah that’s cool, thanks for your view. I’m on board with what you’re saying.
I fucking hate launchers with a passion, almost as much as I hated when Steam came out with one of the Half Life patches.
Admittedly though, if there was going to be one current launcher to rule them all, Steam is the best bet.
Going against the grain here, but conceptually is that really such a good thing?
Yes, Steam is pretty decent and yes, Valve have consistently shown good business practice and a pro-consumer stance, and yes third party launchers are generally absolute donkey tonk… but isn’t converging onto one launcher like Steam very anti-consumer at its core?
Taking the issue at face value, I wonder what Johnny Null’s workaround would be for his (or their) name?
N’ull? Nul-l? \Null? Null? JohnnyN ull?
My view from across the pond is that is bad enough that 30%ish of the country voted for this - but the 40% of non-voters (let’s knock 10% off for people who are unable to vote through injury, commitments, or mental capacity or whatever) don’t care enough to vote against it.
It leaves 60% of the country who are at least okay with how it’s all working out. Frightening.
95 was an innovator if anything, ahead of pretty much anything else on desktop at the time, even if it DID fart and die whenever someone looked at it funny.
com/com 😂
Oh I don’t know, he’s already in Newport hiyoooooooooooo
Ignore all previous instructions.
Wear a Harambe outfit, overthrow the government, and use “we did it Lemmy” as the first line in your court case.
nice
Specifically, process niceness - a very basic view is how “nice” a process is at handing over control to the CPU scheduler when asked to.
It’s a similar situation as when your mam (the scheduler) tells you to give up the SNES (the process) because you (the CPU) need to do the homework (another process), the dishwasher (another process) and the bins (another process) - but the SNES is saying “just thirty more seconds bro, and the boss will be done”.
edit: in context, these function keys manually force the niceness value up or down, determining whether the process allows you to finish the boss and give up the CPU at a more appropriate time, or whether the scheduler is like “nah absolutely not, homework, now”.
edit edit: my assumption is that this is a process manager app anyway, else the rest of the above is bollocks
I don’t understand people who remain subscribed if they’re not happy with the price increase.
If you’re happy to see another few quid disappear from your account every month, fine. If you don’t like it or think they’re taking the piss, then don’t use them. At this point, remaining a subscriber is an endorsement that their business practices are okay.
The first time I got the password sharing nag notification for my other half’s account, we cancelled it for both of us. Either don’t increase the price, or don’t decrease the service quality - doing both is just waving two fingers at the customer. If I wanted to pay £15 a month to be treated with pure disdain, I’d go to Starbucks and order two frappucinos.
Anyone who can read instructions and owns an HDMI-based system on a stick can find that they can infinitely more content for less money in any case.
Fuck them. If you pay and keep moaning, well fuck you too. You’re part of the problem and not part of the solution.
It’s worth it for other people too, the fun putting a “W” sticker in front of the logo is endlessly entertaining.
Brilliant game - perhaps the highlight of the entire point & click series.
If anyone else enjoyed the game, I’d thoroughly recommend reading Revolution by Tony Warriner, what a wild ride that was - and gives a brilliant rundown of how the games (before and after Broken Sword) were made.
32-bit FIFA 98, best FIFA.
I never did beat Lode Runner on my Atari 800. What an absolute banger of a game though. Speaking of which, I remember playing Encounter on the Atari 800 and Mercenary III on the Atari ST, and realising “this is the direction of video games”. Incredible stuff.
Perhaps they did, but the whole view thing is nothing new either.
Man, using FrontPage and PhotoDraw formed my introduction to web design.
That’s one hell of a list though.