Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
March 27, 2016
There were a couple of games I’d seen before; a teacher booting up a 5 1/4 inch disk of Elite being the most memorable [this is how long ago it was, none decimal measurements in fractions], on a BBC Micro However the first game I had the privilege of playing, and becoming a trial, was Thrust Thrust is a 1986 computer game released on most home computers. The perspective is…
July 11, 2015
This title reminds me Rez, and in turn Child of Eden; although rather than relying on the Kinect this plays on the efficiency of the left and right side of ones brain. This is a game I will keep installed to fill those brief moments when a casual game is needed. what a choice PlayStation Plus title
November 27, 2014
I don’t really play games on my phone, guess not having Google Play limits those titles that are available. However earlier in the week I came across Shattered Pixel Dungeon on F-Droid It’s described as: Traditional rogue like game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface. Hard to believe that in all my years of gaming I’ve never played a ‘rogue like game’… but I’m very impressed with this perma-death Android…
November 2, 2014
The Internet Archive Now Lets You Play 900+ Classic Arcade Games In Your Browser Retro fans need this link: Internet Arcade A great source of all the classics, and so much easier than downloading each MAME ROM 🙂 The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games…
October 13, 2014
I only got into 0AD a couple of months back, and here’s a serious free update 🙂 Full details here: webupd8 Notable changes in 0 A.D. Alpha 17 “Quercus”: Major Core Combat Rebalance: if you send only one unit type to battle, it fares poorly against regiments of the same size that mix more than one type, e.g. melee and ranged units; technologies as a whole have been made more…
June 21, 2014
As a break for my aged fingers from Street Fighter, today I installed 0 AD, described as A free, open-source game of ancient warfare, on Ubuntu. I’ve been a fan of Civilization, in each incarnation, so I’m quite excited to try this high quality open-source title. Feature of the 0 AD, from the site: 0 A.D. (pronounced “zero ey-dee”) is a free real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. Lead…
October 10, 2013
I wanted to love AndrOpen, and I do! But it’s not as usable and slick as Kingsoft Office I’m not going to be doing anything too complicated on the N7 phablet, but it’s nice to have the full Open Office option there if I need to. Kingsoft also responded better to voice input, where AndrOpen got more words incorrect and duplicated some. Another bonus of Kingsoft Office is that it…