Is this a 'who look the bigger bunch of utter quinces?' competition?

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Following your suggestions, instead of using the 500 Abarth, that will be added in a future demo car list, a guest-star car will be included in this Tech Preview.

haha, they should make it a 2008 Scirocco.


You snooze, you lose.

All melted here. The 'snow armageddon' predicted by all the papers lasted all of about half an hour.

Surely the closing Facebook thing is to make extra-special-doubly-sure that you don't accidentally type the URL to your favourite left-handed website in the Update Status bar and hit enter.

Doesn't that mean you get to read about three new posts a week?

Holy crap! This is even better! http://en.spaceengine.org/

It requires a download (I found the second direct link to be the fastest) but imagine the application in my OP, but you can zoom right down to planet-surface level. Anywhere where the detail is unknown, it's created with plausible procedural generation. And all rendered in breathtaking 3D.

http://youtu.be/v6sq1O4KF-A

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Had light snow for the past 5 hours, the past half hour it's got quite heavy.

It's starting to settle on cars and grass, but it's still melting as it lands on the road.

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

Zoom right out to the whole galaxy or right in to individual stars.

Ah, that might be why it wasn't available when I tried to put it on by tablet.

Seems to work fine on my phone, no crashes. The only niggle I have is that you can resize the digital steering controls but not the analogue one.

GTA3 and GTA: Vice City are on iOS and Android now.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

That's an ugly looking desktop

The screenshot doesn't do it justice. It looks a lot nicer on a 4 inch screen than on a monitor. After I posted I thought 'ugh, that looks like shit..'

Yes, it's a little cluttered, but it has the stuff I use every day on the front page without me having to piss about finding them, and a big clock so I can just pull it out of my pocket and put it back to check the time without having to hold it closer to my face.

Samsung Galaxy S2. I honestly have no idea how I ever used to survive without it.










And my desktop, below. I've done a fair bit of customisation, my favourite is the HTC-style clock widget.
I've also added a 64GB memory card so I can carry all my music with me, very useful since I lost my beloved, ageing 1G iPod Touch.

Last edited by Crashgate3, Tue, 8 Jan 2013 12:24.

If I had one of these I'd invite the whole neighbourhood around to look at my Bollocks.

http://bollocktops.com/About.aspx

Quote from Fastwalker :

I tried this, never landed on a dam, lots of bridges though.
Trying a bit further i discovered that Google tries to put you on important landmarks in this order:

1. Town squares
2. Churches
3. Closest place to water (bridge, DAM lol)
4. Highways
5. Normal roads

haha, I just tried this. It really likes churches, bridges and town-squares doesn't it?

Download WinUAE. http://www.winuae.net/

It's an Amiga emulator which can emulate pretty much any Amiga that was produced.

You'll need the Amiga Kickstart ROM image and the Frontier Disk image. These can be got by googling 'Amiga ROM download' and 'Amiga Kickstart ROM'. They're pretty easy to find. You might need to use a torrent search to get the Kickstarts.

I'll not post direct links as they're technically copyrighted I might get in trouble with the mods, although I suppose they're now considered Abandonware.



Once you've got them, it's just a case of setting the correct paths to the ROMs in WinUAE, setting the frontier Disk image as drive DF0 and pressing start.

#ImOnFire

Oh wow.

Spurred by this, and with some help from WinUAE, I've spent the past 3 days playing nothing but Frontier Elite II.

I've started in the Lave system - something I never did on the Amiga since the pirates there made it so difficult - and I'm enjoying it again like it was the first time I ever played it. I think a lot of the charm of having the old polygonal graphics is that it means your imagination fills in the gaps with a greater richness than could ever be achieved with the latest shaders and graphics hardware (not that I'm not a fan of modern awesome graphics)

I'm currently trying to find a shipyard that will sell me a Radar Mapper so I can start collecting some bounties, but when you start in Lave you have outstanding 70,000 credit fines to pay with both the Federation and Empire so I can't go to the usual systems to find the good shipyards. Can anyone remember the best Independent shipyards in that area of space? I can't really find any so I think my best bet is to fill up with fuel and do a big string of jumps over to Sirius and that part of Independent systems.

Kickstarter campaign has finished, they got over £1.5 million in the end

The stretch goals for a Mac version (which I imagine will make a lot of people very, very happy) and to add 10 extra ships have also been hit.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barret ... /ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Another amazon product which has become the victim of troll reviews.

haha... "Go web!"

SPLAT