As my many loyal fans will know, I’m not really a fan of the PSP. I’m not that gay for Sony in general, actually, for reasons I can’t really be bothered to go into here. Again. So it may come as a surprise to some that yesterday I bought a shiny new PSP. A white Slim and Lite PSP, to be specific. Technically, I didn’t actually pay for it as I traded my (now, annoyingly, fully working) Premium Xbox 360 …
Today is my last day before I become amazingly famous. OK, so I’ve been on TV and radio before, but this afternoon I have a photo shoot for a major advertising campaign. No, really. I probably can’t say what the adverts will be for yet, and there’s a chance that my pictures won’t actually be used in the campaign, but if everything goes well I may, quite literally, look like the back end of a bus.
I’m not happy. You know I rang Microsoft to ask if I bought an Elite 360, and transferred all my stuff over from my Premium, whether they’d be able to fix the DRM to allow me to play XBLA games even when offline? And they said yes, it was possible? Well, having transferred the data over today, I rang them. And they can’t do it. So I now have ¬¨¬£400-worth of content I can’t play, on a ¬¨¬£260 console I …
I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before, but the best game in the world, ever, is Run Baby Run for the Spectrum. For no other reason than to celebrate today’s release of a new version of Fuse for OS X, here it is. Isn’t it lovely?¬¨‚Ć Of course it is.
On Thursday, as Microsoft had given me confirmation that they could sort the DRM issues out, I went and bought a 360 Elite from Zavvi. It was supposed to be 270 quid with three games, but somehow I managed to get it for 260. Anyway, someone on rllmuk sent me the hard drive transfer cable which arrived a few minutes ago, and now I’m transferring everything from one drive to the other. It’s going to take over an hour! Good …
I’ve decided that my solution to the issues I’ve been having with my 360 are to be resolved thusly: Buy a new 360 Elite Transfer data from my current Premium to the Elite Get Microsoft to do the seemingly impossible and “flick the switch” to make my downloaded content and XBLA games playable on my Elite playable when I’m not online The sticking point is with 3. Almost everyone who has transferred their stuff from one machine to another (whether …
I was in Asda yesterday, and was horrified to see the sort of things they’re selling now. I’m all for “world foods” and new flavours and stuff, but this is… a little too far.
I gave up on playing computer games a long time ago. Games, yes – I play them (I expect you’ve noticed), but computer games? Don’t touch them. With my recent Mac conversion, the chances of playing computer games is now even lower. Except for just one thing. I was looking for some game demos to test the 3D graphics capability of my new iMac. Someone suggested Civilization IV, which actually turned out to be quite old and not really as …
In my previous post, you’ll see a screengrab of a PC88 emulator running on my Mac. hat you don’t see, is the 50 pixels or so of drop-shadow and transparency that Apple decided Leopard should add to window grabs not only as a default, but with no option to turn them off. Exactly why they thought everyone would need drop-shadows on every window they take a snapshot of, I don’t really know. The type of grab I’m talking about is …
I just got an email from some loyalty card points company telling me some offers they have and how many points I currently have. “Your balance is 3128 points” it said. The first thing I thought was, that’s odd – 3128 is the default port number for the squid proxy server.
It would appear so. Questionaut is a charming, brilliantly thought out game for Key Stage 2 kids. That’s 11 to 14 year olds, or thereabouts. There are eight stages, each consisting of a point and click puzzle section, followed by multiple choice educational questions on subjects like maths, chemistry and English. Yes, it’s for kids to use to revise and stuff, but I felt compelled to play it to completion anyway. Hurrah for the BBC! Questionaut
