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@craiggrannell@mastodon.social Should've done a Tic-Tac-Toe of faces and called it Ex-CEO'sies

@devlin Merry Cakemas! May all the keys be present on your cake.

@WiteWulf Would it not be easier (and future proofing, somewhat) to just buy a CF dongle?

@kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place Though I don't need them myself, I've found that a collection of playing card and board game sounds that I recorded in 2019 have been super handy, these past years. Card flips, lifting cards from table, dealing to table, general "swipes" of cards, shuffling decks. Player token "taps" on the board. Plastic, metallic, Dice rolls, dice shaking. Things like that. (Would donate, but they're 22050 mono 16bit, so not exactly high quality ;) )

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social Aaah, gotcha.. "Everyone including the jackasses"

@lukhash@mastodon.social made me think of Metropolis Street Racer, for some reason. Crackin' track!

@AngharadHafod@toot.wales i was SOOOOO disappointed that this is just an A4 sheet of paper. I really desperately need some kind of photo ID card!!!

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social ... in Pixelmator? What's it doing?

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social eeeuw! I've been using the desktop version for a good year or so. I hope they don't do that, there, too.

@psychicparrot42 That sounds awesome! My experience with Godot back in 2021 was a little rougher round the edges. Glad it's come along as nicely as it has.

@devlin Good thing I wasn't doing AGameAWeek back then. It'd be super-knackered!!!

@devlin I remember Chinnyvision saying they "pop" quite often. I can't imagine there's many left! Would a Plus not suffice? .. though, I've no idea if they're any more readily available.

@devlin I've never bothered looking into them, if I'm honest. I was always content with my 6128. Memories of French Class.. I don't know why, but our French teacher ripped pages out of a French shopping catalogue and posted them around the room. The poster by my seat was the computer page, and on it was a 6128+!!

@devlin If I could hazard a guess, sounds like power's going to the expansions more than the Disk drive. It "runs" without the "male pin that goes into the monitor" connector plugged in, just without the disk drive. If the disk drive isn't working, then I'd guess the 12v isn't reaching it, so is being used for the expansions. So, maybe a capacitor/resistor issue? Do old CPCs need a "recap" like old Amigas do? Also, give it an emotional stroke from me.

@devlin .. and for the purposes of eliminating the 12v .. If you unplug the 12v, do the expansions all still function correctly? (Apologies if you've already done these sorts of things)

@devlin That sounds more like it's needing an extra oomph or something.. Maybe it's not the drive, then.. Maybe it's the CPU..? Like the drive's going "click click click" as normal, but with all the expansion work to do, the CPU can't keep up, so it tries to draw a little more power, but the expansion packs are draining all the extra power..? ... Does that make sense? Might not even be power, might just be CPU cycles..

@devlin ... Is it always about 90k.. 'cos that's about half the disk, isn't it..? It does say "Double Density" on the disk, doesn't it.. .. Do the drives do "something extra" when they reach the midway point?

@devlin How very strange.. I presume this is writing? Can it read the entire disk ok?

@devlin .. Kinda like a town builder, but together? MMO Animal Crossing?! Mmmm.. ...

@devlin I'm trying to decide if I could do something like that, but .. You need a starting point, don't you. Where do you begin? Start with a random landscape, add objects you can gain craft supplies from, but then you need to have a list of things you can make, and ... Then you need to code and design 100,000 craftable objects! Aargh!

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social .. I don't think I've installed anything new, this year, that I've then continued to use. Odd things to try out, here and there, but mostly deleted soon after. Maybe I'm getting set in my ways. I need a toolkit refresh. Try something new. Can't argue with a comfortable setup, though.

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social I tried Pixelmator on iPad yesterday, and ... eeeuuuw....

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social . I've written blogs like that. ... Now how do I get paid?

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social Do Apple do their own VM? That would be nice.. They'd probably overcharge by an insane amount, though. Have you SEEN the price of their Remote Desktop!?!

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social o_O!?

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social ... haven't Pixar movies .. um... ... always appealed to everyone?

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social except I can't read the article without a subscription, so if all I ever see is the rewritten headline... ..... ....? "The website you click is the website you get." ...?

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social Surely the whole point of the GBA's clamshell was to protect the screen. Here, you're faffing about.. But the screen's still unprotected!!

@voxel@merveilles.town My Mum is now sitting going "Dismayed.." over and over.. I think you broke her!

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca It seems much more manageable, nowadays. Either that or I just didn't have a clue what I was doing with it, the last time I tried. ... .... .. probably the latter, if I'm honest!