I played a little bit of this last week, but have managed a few more hours on it over the last few days. And I’m enjoying it less and less. A couple of days ago, I had to catch a fish. Which was fine, except it then took almost an hour figuring out that I wasn’t supposed to pick the fish up, but turn into the wolf and sniff it. Obviously. Then yesterday there was an awful snowboarding section. Yes, …
Hello! No, I’m not dead. I’ve just had no time to game, no unpacked consoles to game on, and no internet access to update my diary even if I did have both of those. For reasons I don’t really understand, I started playing this yesterday. On an actual Game Boy Colour as well! How exciting! I’d never played it before, but have played, and completed, the second and fourth games in the series and enjoyed them. This is more like …
Just to finish everything off, here’s my other remake of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator – for the Game Boy Advance. I wrote it in 2004, and it was actually a lot easier than writing the Game Boy version. I even added a “SNES Mode 7” style rotate to the title screen, and included music (from the film The Lawnmower Man). Sadly, the only onlineable emulator I could find (Boycott Advance Online) runs too fast and without sound. Ah well.
In 1999, I entered the Bung (remember them?) Game Boy homebrew coding competition with a version of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator. It was the first, and only, Game Boy game I’d ever written, and required me to pretty much learn C just to be able to code it. The other day, I found a Java based Game Boy emulator (JavaBoy), and so, combined with my GB version of ALS, I present to you an online playable version! Woo! Oh, and in …
“The highly classified bio-augmentation procedure is a Spartan candidate’s final and most difficult ordeal before joining the ranks of the legendary soldiers. The dramatic interpretation of Carter’s rebirth as a Spartan embodies the themes of courage, sacrifice and honor in “Halo: Reach” and gives viewers a unique look into the origins of a central character in the upcoming blockbuster game. ”
Since I’m working on a version of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator for the Amstrad NC100 Notepad Computer (see this post), I thought “Lets Play! Friday” this week should be the original. If you’ve never played it before, prepare to be blown away.
I am programming a version of Duncan MacDonald’s seminal Spectrum classic Advanced Lawnmower Simulator for the Amstrad NC100 “Notepad Computer”. Yeah, and NC100. Who needs an iPad, eh? (Answer: Me). Here’s the “game” in its current state!
A few weeks ago, I had to ditch Virgin (I didn’t want to – I just couldn’t get their service any more) so was on the look out for an alternative. For cost and features, the best all-in-one TV/phone/broadband package seemed to be Sky. BT Vision looked pretty good, but none of it is HD, and it relies on broadband of “an acceptable speed” – something I couldn’t find out until after it was all installed. So I duly went …
I’m thinking of making Friday “Lets Play! Friday”. What do you think? One of the most visually impressive Speccy games, with huge sprites and colour-clash-be-damned graphics, Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper was rated highly but then mostly forgotten. With just 90 seconds before the bombs in his body explode (they don’t make ’em like this any more!), Trantor must find the items to slow the detonation.
Can’t upgrade the Active Directory Schema until I make the server a domain controller. Can’t make the server a domain controller until I upgrade the schema. What.
I gone done made a persona (that’s a skin theme thing) for Firefox today. Featuring the squad from Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! for the Nintendo DS. Yes, the persona is a bit pants. No, you don’t have to like it. Yes, it did only take five minutes. You can click here to get it. If you want.
You know the advert I found the other day with Crazy Caverns on it? Well, I used the advert as my computer’s lock-screen wallpaper. On the advert, along with Crazy Caverns and the acemazing Best Game Evar Run Baby Run, was Booty! So, Lets Play it, yes? The emulator used is Qaop.
Today, the Digital Economy Bill was passed in parliament. I’d not read into it much, but lots of people seemed to be getting very angry about it. As far as I was aware this morning, it was a new law made to kick people off the internet if they use it to illegally download stuff. So on Twitter, I said this: Am I missing something regarding the #debill, or are people complaining that they might get punished for breaking the …