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!Hamsters Sound Track now Available in HQ MP3..

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:19:25 GMT

And to think there was a time when I played Tracker modules through my A5000's internal speaker for enjoyment. Oh how we were starved of high-quality technology in those days. Then I discovered 3.5 -> RCA adapter and my world became one of Bad Tracker Tunes + stereo!

Anyway, thanks for this, especially now that I know how to download stuff from last.fm...

Posted by Jason Togneri (filecore) in Games
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!Hamsters Sound Track now Available in HQ MP3..

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:36:36 GMT

Hi All,

I've digitally processed my original source modules into MP3s from Tom Cooper's classic. I'm quite surprised how clean the resultant sound is - it reminds me just how -awful- the Arc's audio frequency response was(not to mention noisy!!) These conversions must extend several KHz beyond the original sound reproduction....

http://www.last.fm/music/D.A.Wilson/_/%21Hamsters+-+Game+Sound+Track?autostart

Cheers,

Dan.

Posted by Dan Wilson (BrokenARM) in Games
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Last of the Iyonix

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:03:00 GMT

The Iyonix is over around 6 years old now so comparing to brand new modern PCs isn't fair.

Yeah, but even comparing it to a 2002 PC leaves it somewhat lacking.

Posted by Glenn Burgess (DiscoBurgess) in General
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TIB's NintendoDS Community Meeting Place Thing Doodah

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:45:25 GMT

Oi, - have you sorted out your Animal Crossing on your new DS yet?

I forgot

Last time I tried I couldn't connect to our new router - never really got to the bottom of it.

The DS hasn't had much attention since I got the Wii, and I got a bit fed up with AC because of the weeding and not having enough pocket/floor space for all my stuff. I'm too much of a hoarder!

Posted by Phil Mellor (monkeyson2) in Games
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TIB's NintendoDS Community Meeting Place Thing Doodah

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:49:04 GMT

Oi, - have you sorted out your Animal Crossing on your new DS yet?

Posted by John Hoare (moss) in Games
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TIB's NintendoDS Community Meeting Place Thing Doodah

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:52:20 GMT

Isn't it a way to tackle R4 piracy?

Probably, yeah. The DSWare game download site/system is possibly their first step in phasing out cartridges altogether, and replacing them with encrpyted game files which can only be decrypted by the DS the game was downloaded onto.

If we're (very) lucky they may even be satisfied that the system is secure enough to allow us to officially run homebrew software.

Posted by Jeffrey Lee (Phlamethrower) in Games
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Last of the Iyonix

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:20:23 GMT

The Iyonix is over around 6 years old now so comparing to brand new modern PCs isn't fair. it had a good run and was a decent, capable fast computer and for most uses will remain so probably for some years. As well as that, the desktop market was never the only market for RISC OS for the lifespan of the Iyonix AIUI so the whole thing is more complicated than is often being made out.

Posted by Andrew (andrew) in General
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TIB's NintendoDS Community Meeting Place Thing Doodah

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:52:35 GMT

Isn't it a way to tackle R4 piracy? The DSi will probably have stronger protection - or maybe Nintendo are thinking that if anyone is going to make money selling SD card readers for pirated DS games, it's going to be them.

Posted by Phil Mellor (monkeyson2) in Games
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TIB's NintendoDS Community Meeting Place Thing Doodah

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:19:41 GMT

Apparently the DSi isn't meant to be a replacement for the DS Lite - it's just a way of seperating more chumps from their money while Nintendo's boffins work on squeezing 8 ARM Cortex CPU's into the next DS (or whatever it is they'll cook up)

If they're releasing this now then it must be at least another year before a true successor appears.

Posted by Jeffrey Lee (Phlamethrower) in Games
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I hate Windows safe mode

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:56:45 GMT

Good news/bad news time with my laptop:

* Good news! My laptop powered up after a few days sitting upside down drying off.
* Bad news! The keyboard was still buggered. Not the whole keyboard, just the Enter key. Delete I could have done without, but no, Enter.
* Good news! This is my second Acer tablet PC, after my long-serving previous one got a case of deceleration trauma. So I switched keyboards.
* Bad news! it works perfectly and now I have no excuse not to do any work.

Posted by Richard Goodwin (rich) in The Playpen
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