craiggrannell

Green_Footballs, 1 month ago to random

This interview is seriously whacked out, both the questions and Dorsey’s bizarre answers.

He has “a strategy for ending censorship forever!” lol

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to retrogaming

The (really great) iOS ZX81 emulator has been updated and now loads external files as well as coming with a bunch of bundled legal apps and games. Like Delta, this is how you do emulation. None of that skeevy garbage with tracking and dodgy preloaded disk images.

Also: you kids think Doom was scary? Pfft! 3D Monster Maze was once where it was at. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/zx81/id1180117434

#retrogaming

Hat tip: @stoneymonster

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

Spotify can go fuck itself for this. And if I were a competing platform, I’d be taking advantage. Spin up something about making sure every artist, no matter how small, can still earn on their platform.

From: @jeremiah
https://tldr.nettime.org/@jeremiah/112248395978970674

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

Sigh.

craiggrannell, 2 months ago to random

From my experience and my talking to devs, I disagree with John and agree with The Ringer. Things really are bleak in mobile gaming. In fact, it’s a worse picture than the piece paints: it’s not only paid-up-front games that are suffering but also quality freemium indies. Sales have tanked in recent years. Discovery is getting worse. (Apple, for its part, has sunk or removed the ‘new’ lists in the App Store.) Not sure what’s next.

From: @johnvoorhees
https://mastodon.macstories.net/@johnvoorhees/112213771006104502

craiggrannell, 2 months ago to retrogaming

Column: The Atari 400 Mini is now my favourite mini-console for scratching my retro-gaming itch • https://www.stuff.tv/features/back-in-beige-the-atari-400-mini-is-now-my-favourite-mini-console-for-scratching-a-retro-gaming-itch/

A pinch of nostalgia. But mostly an appreciation of a company miniaturising something different from the usual suspects.

#retrogaming

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

Good to see iMore’s coverage of emulation on iPhone/iPad repeatedly making the point that emulation is LEGAL, and that there are plenty of homebrew/indie ROMs available to use in emulators.

https://www.imore.com/iphone/exclusive-iphone-emulator-provenance-following-delta-onto-the-app-store-with-sega-and-playstation-support-in-tow

(I’m still getting pushback all over the place when writing about this subject, with people insisting emulation is illegal, mostly citing Nintendo throwing lawyers around. Although not here on Mastodon, because you’re all lovely, smart, wonderful folks, obvs.)

#retrogaming

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to retrogaming

Want something legal to run on Delta for testing? Alter Ego is excellent and available for free (although you can donate):

https://www.retrosouls.net/?page_id=614

#retrogaming

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

Ooh. The CPC got promoted to THE BIG SLOT.

Can’t be too often that happens these days to Alan Sugar technology. :D

https://www.stuff.tv/features/the-amstrad-cpc-at-40-and-six-of-the-best-amstrad-cpc-games/

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

I was waiting for this one. Netflix kills the legacy Basic plan and gives you to pick between a shitty ‘with ads’ plan (crowing that you’ll save 35%) or nudging you towards the more expensive Standard.

Fortunately, the child (our only Netflix viewer) has just started watching a lot of iPlayer and for the first time doesn’t care about the propect of losing Netflix. So we will be switching to the ‘no plan’.

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

My column this week is about backups – and how they’ve been increasingly complicated by the move to online services: Apple, Google and others don’t care about your data and photos – but you should • https://www.stuff.tv/features/back-up-everything-because-apple-yahoo-pocket-and-others-dont-care-about-your-data-and-photos-but-you-should/

craiggrannell, 29 days ago to random

Weeknote: 11 May 2024 – now even iPad Proier!

🏡🔨 No more Home button on iPad
💻 No, iPad Pro doesn’t need to run macOS
🍎 Apple’s Let Loose event
🤖 Some thoughts about THAT ad
🎨 Is iPad Pro pro enough?
🗺️ Map apps don’t like public transport
👾 The best video game mags ever

https://reverttosaved.com/2024/05/11/weeknote-11-may-2024-now-even-ipad-proier/

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

Weeknote – with-ad plans are bad plans!

📺 I don’t want Netflix’s with-ads plan
👾 Why preserving forgotten arcade gems matters
🧱 Best Star Wars Lego
🌸 Allergy tracking apps
📱 Pros and cons of an iPhone capture button
🎶 Classic app: Cs Music Pro
⏱️ The ongoing failures of Screen Time
🎧 Collecting vinyl and not playing it is OK!
🏴‍☠️ Internet Archive’s dangerous blunder

https://reverttosaved.com/2024/05/04/weeknote-4-may-2024-with-ad-plans-are-bad-plans/

craiggrannell, 2 months ago to random

Well, poop. I wanted to fire up the new Jeff Minter collection on the child’s Switch. But we’re out of space on the SD card. Bah. I also looked at Nintendo’s advice, which can be summed up as: “Ha! Sucks to be you, Mac users.” Now hoping the online guides I found actually work.

Anyone with a Mac done this successfully without losing anything? (Obviously, I will retain the old card as-is, just in case.)

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

It almost feels like Apple is trolling Riley at this point. I was unaware things were quite this bad. None of this is OK. But I can’t imagine Apple will make things right.

From: @rileytestut
https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/112268412745806214

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

Anyone created (or know of) a really good new Apple TV app this year? I’m on the hunt for round-up additions beyond streaming services.

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

If you haven’t bought the ridiculously cheap single lifetime IAP in the superb Reteospecs, maybe do that this weekend?

From: @retrospecs
https://mastodon.social/@retrospecs/112248476234865846

craiggrannell, 30 days ago to random

Lots of arguments still raging about that Apple ad. Some claiming things have changed. Apple is too big now. It would have got away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky kids*.

But now imagine Apple swapped out its cool (for the day) iPod ads for one in which an amazing record and CD collection, along with vintage players, are destroyed by a soulless crusher, before an iPod is revealed. I don’t imagine people would have been cheering about that either.

• creatives

craiggrannell, 2 months ago to random

Column! Google Podcasts is dead – as is my trust in the survival of any Google service • https://www.stuff.tv/features/google-podcasts-is-dead-as-is-my-trust-in-the-survival-of-any-google-service/

I mean, it’s not like I still really had any trust in Google services to survive, but…

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to retrogaming

This is the sort of thing more people should be writing re emulation. Point people at legit legal games. Show use cases beyond piracy. Bravo. #retrogaming

From: @darylbaxter
https://mastodon.social/@darylbaxter/112316392175459273

craiggrannell, 2 months ago to iPhone

The latest entry in my classic #iPhone #app series is Ferrite, a superb and ambitious podcast creation suite. Have a read to find out from its creator how and why the app was made: https://www.tapsmart.com/features/classics-ferrite/

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

Feeling a bit frog/lilypad with spring right now. Every time I open my weather app, reasonable temperatures always seem just out of reach. Would be quite nice if that high pressure system that’s been gleefully hurling Arctic air across the UK for ages now would quietly naff off.

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

iPad now under the DMA, then: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-29/apple-s-ipad-hit-by-eu-s-digital-dominance-crackdown

Cue: lots of screaming from the usual suspects.

craiggrannell, 2 months ago to random

I am weak.

(But soon: dedicated Pico-8 machine with a possible side order of Game Boy.)

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

Needed to turn off Screen Time temporarily. Apple: “bollocks to you, then”. Infers the set-up is wiped and has me start from scratch. I go through the set-up, and it merges the new one with what was already there. But the block set-ups have been randomly wiped.

Stellar UX, there, Apple. Parents rejoicing. Etc.