So good…
This is probably my high for the day - discovering two Universal Binary Mac software called GrimX and ScummVM. GrimX allows you to take your Windows disks of the most wonderful PC games known as "Grim Fandango" and run it on your PowerPC- or Intel-based Mac natively! Basically, it's an OpenSource version of LucasArts' LUA engine. Isn't that just amazing? The second one, ScummVM, which I discovered shortly after finding GrimX does this for like a ton of other most brilliantly contrived games such as Curse of Monkey Island and Full Throttle! It's basically an OpenSource version of the SCUMM engine. Isn't that even more awesomely amazing?! Now, I understand that my extreme excitement here is probably just falling on 99% deaf ears but this just gives me the inner geeky joy that can only be topped by, perhaps, something that'll let me play Age of Empires II natively on Mac OS X at full resolution. OpenSource is beautiful… sigh.
Unfortunately, having not known about these two pieces of software last month, I actually played Grim Fandango and Curse of Monkey Island (those two very games!) last month after a long, long time by rebooting into Windows using Boot Camp and experiencing tons of crashes because these games were designed to run on Windows 95. It makes me so damn angry because I could have avoided all that pain if I had simply known about the existence of ScummVM and GrimX! Maybe I'll play them again sometime… who knows.
On a second, less geeky note, I found out today about FON and ordered a $5 Wireless Router for myself. Now, I don't want to be one of those irritating people who give you a link and expect you to follow it to find out what all the hullabaloo is about. So, let me tell you what I know about FON. FON's motto is "WiFi everywhere". They have financial backing from major corps. like Google and Skype and what they've basically done is subsidized routers to $5 a pop and they sell these on fon.com (+$8 shipping which makes it $13). They sell them to you for $5 instead of $50 because the deal is that you're supposed to hook these up to your internet connection and share it over Wireless for free. In doing so, you get a dirt-cheap router which you can obviously also use for your personal stuff. I ordered mine today… I think it's a brilliant deal. Only catch is that they're presently selling these only in US and Europe.
On a third, even less geeky note, I ordered a brand new set of speakers for my computer. I knew I would eventually get tired of the not-so-loudness of the iMac. These are the Logitech Z-2300 speakers and they damn well be good because I paid a hefty sum for them and CNet gave them a rare 9.0 rating.
This is probably my high for the day - discovering two Universal Binary Mac software called GrimX and ScummVM. GrimX allows you to take your Windows disks of the most wonderful PC games known as "Grim Fandango" and run it on your PowerPC- or Intel-based Mac natively! Basically, it's an OpenSource version of LucasArts' LUA engine. Isn't that just amazing? The second one, ScummVM, which I discovered shortly after finding GrimX does this for like a ton of other most brilliantly contrived games such as Curse of Monkey Island and Full Throttle! It's basically an OpenSource version of the SCUMM engine. Isn't that even more awesomely amazing?! Now, I understand that my extreme excitement here is probably just falling on 99% deaf ears but this just gives me the inner geeky joy that can only be topped by, perhaps, something that'll let me play Age of Empires II natively on Mac OS X at full resolution. OpenSource is beautiful… sigh.
Unfortunately, having not known about these two pieces of software last month, I actually played Grim Fandango and Curse of Monkey Island (those two very games!) last month after a long, long time by rebooting into Windows using Boot Camp and experiencing tons of crashes because these games were designed to run on Windows 95. It makes me so damn angry because I could have avoided all that pain if I had simply known about the existence of ScummVM and GrimX! Maybe I'll play them again sometime… who knows.
On a second, less geeky note, I found out today about FON and ordered a $5 Wireless Router for myself. Now, I don't want to be one of those irritating people who give you a link and expect you to follow it to find out what all the hullabaloo is about. So, let me tell you what I know about FON. FON's motto is "WiFi everywhere". They have financial backing from major corps. like Google and Skype and what they've basically done is subsidized routers to $5 a pop and they sell these on fon.com (+$8 shipping which makes it $13). They sell them to you for $5 instead of $50 because the deal is that you're supposed to hook these up to your internet connection and share it over Wireless for free. In doing so, you get a dirt-cheap router which you can obviously also use for your personal stuff. I ordered mine today… I think it's a brilliant deal. Only catch is that they're presently selling these only in US and Europe.
On a third, even less geeky note, I ordered a brand new set of speakers for my computer. I knew I would eventually get tired of the not-so-loudness of the iMac. These are the Logitech Z-2300 speakers and they damn well be good because I paid a hefty sum for them and CNet gave them a rare 9.0 rating.
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