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Making a Batteries-Only Device Use an AC Adaptor

Posted on 2014-08-03, 03:15

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Just a quick question for those of you with hardware modding experience: I bought something online recently (still being shipped) that functions only on C-cell batteries, but I'd much rather run it from a wall outlet. How easy would it be to mod something designed to only run off of batteries to …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-08-02, 03:36

Ancient DOS Games Episode 144 - Hocus Pocus is online! This is a HUGELY nostalgic game for me, so it's kinda surprising that it took me this long to get around to it. Then again, there's so many great DOS games out there I guess it's not THAT surprising. :P Curiously too, this made for an average …

Re: Abandoning Skype

Posted on 2014-07-30, 23:20

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Stull wrote: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Uncheck "Allow Microsoft targeted ads..." Tools -> Options -> Notifications -> Alters & messages -> Uncheck "Promotions" Already had those off. Does nothing. :P

Abandoning Skype

Posted on 2014-07-30, 00:34

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So I'd been using Skype for years now when I attempted to log in today and found an error message saying I've been logged out due to using an outdated version. >_>; So I updated and started getting fed ads which would pop in and out, confusing me as to which chat windows had actual new messages …

Re: Would anyone even care about oversampling?

Posted on 2014-07-27, 07:34

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When you say you oversample for your show, do refer to your DOSBox footage? And if so, how? When dealing with 320x200 footage, DOSBox records it at that resolution, so what I do is load up the footage in VirtualDub and apply two resizing filters. The first resizes by exactly 200% with nearest …

Re: Would anyone even care about oversampling?

Posted on 2014-07-27, 04:16

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DOSBox and MAME both support oversampling. :B In DOSBox, simply make sure you set your output mode to ddraw or opengl and set the scaler to normal2x for high-resolution stuff, or normal3x for low-resolution stuff. If it doesn't work, add "forced" to the scaler selection, like: "normal3x forced" In …

Re: GOG.com now supports linux!

Posted on 2014-07-25, 04:44

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Anything DOS based in their catalogue would still technically work on Linux, except not the installer, so you'd have to install to a Windows machine first to be able to pull the files, then transfer the files over to a Linux rig and configure DOSBox appropriately. :B In any case, not surprised to …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-22, 18:41

Found the problem with my next batch of video conversions for YouTube. Traced it down to the video, not the audio, being out of sync, then traced it back to the multi-threading capabilities of the codec decoders I'm using, since multi-threading is fine for general playback, but what ends up …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-20, 03:19

I knew it was going to be Full Throttle, but I didn't bother sending in a guess because I knew a million other people would get it right too. Looking forward to watching this one. The finally tally was either 19 or 20 guesses, all correct. :B I haven't checked through the guesses sent in so far for …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-19, 03:42

*shrugs* Well, I'm still gonna wait to see what Blip says all the same. ;) In any case, Ancient DOS Games Episode 143 - Full Throttle is online! :) Really not much to say about this game beyond what I've said in the video proper. :B 7 more episodes until 150 and the final regular episode of Season …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-18, 13:12

TBH: I really don't like the YouTube system, but I know lots of people prefer it, plus because of Blip policies it's more suitable for me to upload my future archived livestreams to YouTube instead of to Blip, but those should be the only videos that end up exclusively on YouTube. Sounds odd... …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-17, 19:31

I'm mostly going by YouTube thumbs ups vs. thumbs downs. I didn't know your videos were also at Youtube. But I only see until ~80, have I looked at the wrong channel? I'm still catching up on YouTube. I was all set to get back to it earlier this week and then annoyingness happened and now I have to …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-15, 17:12

OK... this is annoying. I just tried resuming uploads to YouTube only to find my video and audio desynced by a full second. x_x; I thought maybe YouTube screwed something up but I just discovered the video data itself that I'm trying to upload is bugged up. I don't understand why as the process I …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-14, 13:00

Wow some serious $$$$ to be made. Living the dream, living from what you love to do. I always thought it was peanuts but what do you know... A few thousand peanuts grouped together makes for a lot of food. :3 ...damnit, now I'm hungry. XD What matters the most to me though is that people enjoy the …

Re: RSD Game-Maker source code

Posted on 2014-07-14, 07:49

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since when you're good at designing it becomes hard to be genuinely bad, gemini should know what I mean. Yeah... except I wasn't that great a designer half of my life ago when I was using Game-Maker since my experience by that point was only 5 years and mostly with BASIC. ;D Sometimes it's fun to …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-14, 07:36

How much money are you making thru patreon? Enough to quit your job and retire to the Bahamas? You can actually check the number directly on my Patreon account: http://www.patreon.com/kasick Granted, even if I was getting extremely huge amounts of money (go check out Clint's Patreon account for LGR …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-13, 16:40

Jokes aside, I can see why you wouldn't like the Twinsen games. Good thing you said "wouldn't" instead of "don't", since I never actually said I didn't like them, just that I don't understand who those games were made for. I don't have a ton of experience with them, even though I own them both, ( …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-13, 11:43

I've not played BioForge, but the controls, as described, remind me of Twinsen's Odyssey. Between the controls and my compatibility issues, I don't know how I finished that game. (I still kind of liked that one, though.) Oh geeze... rest assured, the Twinsen games will get their time on the show at …

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