By and large, the English language doesn't use diacritical marks. Even our loanwords are stripped of them; we drink in a cafe rather than the more pretentious café. This has a consequence for HTML and, by extension, eBooks. As a quick primer, modern computing gives us two main ways of displaying a letter with an […]
@Edent The second dimension to this is to find a font for your ebook that supports these natively. My reader does show the correct glyph but if it isn’t present in the actual font it uses some kind of default and that is jarring.
this is a World War II simulator series, originally released in the 90s, each which is a tactical RTS
price: individually, each game is C$7.79, but there’s currently a -15% discount at C$6.62. You can also buy all games as part of a bundle, which has a regular price of C$38.95, but there’s currrently a -43% discount, available right now at C$22.20
I’m also grouping the following games together since they’re part of the same series:
a fantasy turn-based strategy series where empires struggle for supreme power
price: individually, each game is C$7.79, but there’s currently a -15% discount at C$6.62. You can also buy all games as part of a bundle, which has a regular price of C$15.58, but there’s currrently a -32% discount, available right now at C$10.60
a first person interactive thriller about a sea explorer and the mystery of her father’s disappearance, featuring low poly cell-shaded graphics with attractive dithering
gamepad supporded
price: C$6.49, but currently discounted -15% and selling for C$5.51
@atomicpoet Ah. Warlords. So many memories. It was nicely balanced. There has been a very good iPad version for a few years so it is great to see it spread its wings!
There's a moment when all old things
Become new again
But that moment might have been here and gone
All I have and all I know
Is this dream of you
Which keeps me living on
@andycarolan yes. The DS and 3DS were terrific consoles with massive range of games. Logged so many hours on mine. It still works and the battery isn’t completely shot either which is amazing.
@andycarolan very nice. My children still have a DS Lite each but I went all in on the XL for my old eyes. Have a GameBoy Micro if I really want to strain them though.
@andycarolan heh. Children are all grown up and left home. Raphael did power up his recently to play Advance Wars 2. But mostly migrated to Switches now. Or mega PC for Helldivers 2…
@andycarolan Helldivers 2 is absolutely not my kind of game, I have terrible reflexes. But my son hangs out with a regular crew for co-operative chaos and comedy, having a great time. It does seem like an excellent platform for emergent gameplay.
I see with RetroArch on iOS, the “#emulation is illegal” rubbish has clawed its way back into the daylight. Emulators are legal. Yes, many files people load into them may not be legit but that doesn’t make the tech itself illegal any more than it makes e-readers, music players and video players illegal.
Maybe people should concentrate more on encouraging publishers to provide legal routes to play (and buy) old games than spreading rubbish about emulators.
@craiggrannell it’s so tedious. Keen to try the PSP emulator even though my PSP still works and I have the original UMD discs. Having no easy way to get the stuff off them though I may find the roms elsewhere. Mäster criminal, me.
@chrisphin@craiggrannell the whole LP, cassette, CD migration showed that people will buy things again in new wrapping. I certainly did. I would buy a digital version of some of these games in a flash if they wrapped it with a few extras, such as being able to trade between games. That might be too hard but the emulators are working on it.
@chrisphin@craiggrannell I do understand however that the legal issues in republishing these kinds of games is absolutely fraught. Getting the rights to the music the art and other elements alongside the game can be next to impossible.
Ferdinand Ulrich (@ferdinandulrich or @ferdinandulrich)'s journey to finding the history of digital type pre-postscript started when we spent time with 92 year old Jack Stauffacher at his Greenwood Press in San Francisco.