DosDude

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[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 16 points 1 month ago

Comfort has nothing to do with it. If you don't show up at your work, you don't have income anymore. There's no fallbacks by design. They keep you in line by forcing you to work. And they made sure the cost of living was high enough that most people have to work a 2nd job, so protests can't even be held after work hours.

You've been set up for this after decades of preparing.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly. No one should have to work more than 200 days a year. Reality is unfortunately different in a lot of places. But working more is usually not good for your health.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 month ago

It looks like a board where they indeed probably put the components on by machine, however without solder paste, since it was going through the wave solder anyway. But you would need to glue the components down then.

That's why there is so much excessive solder. If it was printed with solder paste, it wouldn't have this much solder.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's specific wave solder glue for smd components. Most likely all components were glued down. You can still see the off-white glue on the ICs in between the leads.

The parts that should not be soldered are usually masked off. Either with a mold or kapton tape/flexmask. Never Painters/scotch tape, since it will melt and/or burn.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago

If it still won't work you could try a different pc maybe. Some friend or a laptop or whatever. See if it still won't work.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago

They aren't the best levels, but far from the worst.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Potentially it could be saved in the same folder as the rom.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And can you delete it while playing the game?

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

You can try to manually delete the save game. It's in the ./saves folder of retroarch. Don't delete the files in the ./states folder, as these are your save states.

If that didn't do it, you might need to change permissions for the folder.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 month ago

2.3 Centisaarlands for people in construction

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It does not tick all boxes, but I think smart launcher might tick most boxes. I've used it for almost a decade now. Drawer is organized into categories automatically. Which makes my home screen a single page, and everything is easy to find. The search works great for apss not easily found

 

I never had a computer that could run this, but now, with my old IBM and added Voodoo card, it's great. I used to be so impressed by the reflections!

I remember going to my friends house to play this in his dad's home office. My father's friend actually bought a force feedback wheel just for this game. He had to hold the desk with his other hand because else he would rip the wheel straight off. Great memories.

The game still holds up, if you like arcade racers with dated graphics (but let's be honest, if you're here, you don't care about graphics). It's less weird, and a little more grounded, than Need For Speed 2. And the police mode is fun, although easy once you get the hang of it.

I don't know why arcade racers fell off the radar. And the ones that still are arcadey, never feel fun enough. I think the effect where the fov changes to make it "feel faster" just turns me off. Only thing still somewhat encapsulating the old arcade feel is probably Trackmania. And that's just racing against the clock, even if you're playing on a server. So it's not filling that niche for me.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Play NFS3 if you like old arcade racers! If you can't run it on your oldtimer, try the 2nd one instead, that one is fun too!

 

This community is to find that game you can’t remember. Like it’s on the tip of your tongue.

Do you remember something about a game, but can't find the title? Do you want to finally know what it is? Post here and maybe someone can help.

Come to find your game, or help others find theirs!

!tipofmyjoystick@retrolemmy.com

 

This community is to find that game you can’t remember. Like it’s on the tip of your tongue.

Do you remember something about a game, but can't find the title? Do you want to finally know what it is? Post here and maybe someone can help.

Come to find your game, or help others find theirs!

!tipofmyjoystick@retrolemmy.com

 

This community is to find that game you can’t remember. Like it’s on the tip of your tongue.

Do you remember something about a game, but can't find the title? Do you want to finally know what it is? Post here and maybe someone can help.

Come to find your game, or help others find theirs!

!tipofmyjoystick@retrolemmy.com

 

Hello!

I’ve just updated the retrolemmy sever to 0.19.11

If you have trouble logging in, clear your cookies. If it doesn’t show up, force a refresh (with ctrl+F5 on PC)

The update went on without any problems, and only took a few minutes.

If you have any problems or questions, send me a message or reply to this thread.

 

We all play the same games most of the time. From the classic FPS grandfather's to the Point 'n Click adventures that never really got any traction past the 90s.

What are your favorite hidden gems? Games that few people know, but should know?

I'll start. Ascendency. A strategy space game where you pick an alien race, and try to take over, or befriend, the entire universe. Getting spaceships, going to planets, building bases and diplomacy. The time can be sped up, but do it at your own risk, because the AI does not wait.

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