Wednesday, September 08, 2004
The past few days have been spend trying not to move around too much.I guess I'll be a little more specific about this pain I mentioned recently. I've found a lump, in about the last place a guy wants to find a lump, so yeah... I'm rather worried. I have an appointment to see the doctor tomorrow, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that its something minor. There's a dozen things it could be... and hopefully it'll be something they don't have to open me up to cut out *shudders*.
So I've been spending my time messing with a whole bundle of emulators, just for something to do.
I installed a Spectrum emulator just to play Jetpack, 3D Ant Attack and 3D Death Chase, coz apart from 3D monster Maze on the ZX81 (Timex 1000) those are the 3 games that really got me into home computers back in the early 80s. Curiously, I never actually had a Spectrum back in the day, my family was poor, so I had to make do with an Atari 2600, but all of my friends had them, so I got to play a lot of the games. I have 2 in the loft now though... the infamous rubber keyboard 48k version, and a later 128 +2.
Also newly installed is a Gameboy/Gameboy Colour/Gameboy Advance emulator. Now I've never really rated gameboys... like okay, they have good battery life and let you play stuff wherever, but to me, the technology has always been so far behind current consoles that the portability never really made up for the dated feel of the games. Anyway... I just wanted to see how good (or otherwise) Gameboy Advance games are, and nope... I wouldn't buy one.
The final Emulator I installed is a bit of a curiosity called VibaNono. It emulates the Namco System 22 board, though is only compatible with Ridge Racer, Ridge Racer 2, and Rage Racer. Still, it's quite impressive, and even on my lowly 1 ghz laptop with weedy onboard 16 meg gfx, Ridge Racer 2 far surpasses the PS1 version of the game. That'll deffinitely be one to load onto my new pc when I finally get round to buying the thing.
Steve 8:47 AM [+]
Comments:
Post a Comment
The Benway Empire |
 |