August 10, 2010
BleepCast, Seph Carissa / texx sound, films, games, retro
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The BleepCast inspects covers, remixes and de-makes of our favorite tunes in the last 30 years in this level and asks how everything started, how it evolved and where it all went. This is a broad topic and so there’s no screwing around: This BleepCast hits you massively with 50 minutes of pure nerdsound, spoken and played alike. And the best of all: You’ll love it! I’m happy, Bob!
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The BleepCast inspects covers, remixes and de-makes of our favorite tunes in the last 30 years in this level and asks how everything started, how it evolved and where it all went. This is a broad topic and so there's no screwing around: This BleepCast hits you massively with 50 minutes of pure nerdsound, spoken and played alike. And the best of all: You'll love it! I'm happy, Bob!
February 20, 2010
Reports, games, retro
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Max, a former fellow student, asked me a few weeks ago whether I was interested in buying some old gaming consoles with a bunch of games from him. Since I started collecting and maintaining old computers and gaming consoles a couple of years ago, starting with the few I had since I was a kid, I was interested in Max’ offer, expecting not more than a few dusty plastic boxes with missing cables and scratched game discs with broken jewel cases to add to my museum. Man, was I wrong!
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Max, a former fellow student, asked me a few weeks ago whether I was interested in buying some old gaming consoles with a bunch of games from him. Since I started collecting and maintaining old computers and gaming consoles a couple of years ago, starting with the few I had since I was a kid, I was interested in Max' offer, expecting not more than a few dusty plastic boxes with missing cables and scratched game discs with broken jewel cases to add to my museum. Man, was I wrong!
So yesterday I finally had the cash together and some time to pick up the heavy packing case with tons of 1990's state of the art consoles. There was a a black Game Boy pocket, a painted PlayStation ("it glows under a UV-lamp"), a SNES with 50/60 Hz switch ("So you could play Japanese titles as well"), Nintendo 64 with memory extension, a Sega Dreamcast with modem and keyboard and a Sega Genesis with 32x extension and SEGA-CD drive, something so bulky that you just gotta love it. Everything in good to very good condition, compl
July 8, 2007
Random Thoughts, Reports, games, retro, review
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My favorite PC gaming magazine, GameStar decided not to print cheats, tricks and hints for games anymore:
The internet has established itself as source for cheats and hints; you will find more up to date and more accurate walk-throughs at www.gamestar.de and on many other sites than possible in the magazine.
That is another way of telling that printed media are sooner or later becoming extinct. That’s why I decided to take a look back into the wild and crazy 1990s and my personal experiences with PC-Gaming magazines.
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My favorite PC gaming magazine, GameStar decided not to print cheats, tricks and hints for games anymore:
The internet has established itself as source for cheats and hints; you will find more up to date and more accurate walk-throughs at www.gamestar.de and on many other sites than possible in the magazine. [1. Original: Das Internet hat sich als Quelle für Cheats und Tipps etabliert, auf www.gamestar.de und vielen anderen Seiten finden Sie aktuellere und ausführlichere Lösungen, als sie in einem Heft möglich sind.]
That is another way of telling that printed media are sooner or later becoming extinct. That's why I decided to take a look back into the wild and crazy 1990s and my personal experiences with PC-Gaming magazines.
PC Spiel mit CD-ROM
This mag also featured the very funny Space Rat comics series (above) as well as some funnies about the editorial staff (below)
Funny, because 2000 MHz seemed impossible back in the good old days of 33 or even 66 Mhz. Cooling fans usually did