Do any normal* people use these abbreviations to describe display resolutions? I just assumed SXGA was some rare video card that only a handful of PS/2 systems in the late 1980s had. Turns out it's probably meant to be 1280x1024, which happens to be the native resolution of the display I'm using right now.

It doesn't matter, it's still not my preferred Super version. That would probably be superluminal.

* By "normal" I mean "not in marketing".

Fuck You, You're Going To Buy Our Games Anyway

Yeah, probably,

A long time ago I had a precursor technology to "Winmodems", a modem that had most of the hardware except for the error correction and compression parts. Those were handled by a separate (Windows 3.1) driver.

Was it a Rockwell RPI modem? I was never able to get the Windows driver to work with mine, just the DOS terminal program that came with it (COMIT, I think). This was fine for BBSes, not so much for Internet.

A dwarf console is still a console!

They're based upon Quake 3, but might not be identical to it. Compare to Heretic and Hexen, both of which were based upon Doom but added things like an inventory and flight abilities. (Both of those games were also from Raven.)

And then Jesus showed up and endorsed binary counting:

"All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."
-- Matthew 5:37

I think their top sellers list only covers the last week or so, because most or all of the games on it were on sale last weekend.

There's lists of games that use DOSBox here and here. They're a year or two out of date but probably not far off, since most of the recent additions to GOG.com are Windows games from the late 1990s or 2000s or modern indie games.

There's patches out there for DOSBox's dynamic recompiler, but they're for ARMv4 and I'm not sure how effective they are on the Pi's processor. My unscientific measurements put it somewhere around a low-end 386: Doom runs but isn't playable, while EGA sidescrollers are almost perfect with the occasional stutter. I haven't tried Wolf3D yet, though.

(I should point out this is in X on SlackwareARM which is probably one of the worst environments one could use for this sort of thing.)

Given that the unix port of Nethack is far superior to the msdos or winnt ports, I can't imagine why anyone would use anything other than Linux for gaming.

A 486SX 25? Are you made of money!? My Tandy 1000SX is just fine for playing Police Quest 2!

I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television. In fact, I don't even own one.

I'm not an elitist. It's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen. If I need a fix of passive audio-visual stimulation, I'll go to catch a Bergman or Truffaut film down at the university. I certainly wouldn't waste my time watching the so-called Learning Channel or, God forbid, any of the mind sewage the major networks pump out.

People don't realize just how much time their TV-watching habit -- or, shall I say, addiction -- eats up. Four hours of television a day, over the course of a month, adds up to 120 hours. That's five entire days! Why not spend that time living your own life, instead of watching fictional people live theirs? I can't begin to tell you how happy I am not to own a television.

vi/vim will expand their minds as they learn to think.

And more importantly, it will allow them to learn the movement commands in Nethack.

It's hard to tell from the options (although this is helpful in deciphering them), but my other favourite resolution, 1440x900 isn't there either. I guess no one is buying 16:10 monitors anymore...

Last post!

The trick is to use OpenBSD's manpages. They actually get updated when the code changes, for the most part are relevant to other systems, and don't scold you for not using the texinfo manual.