Phrase that fits current world situation precisely!
I just wanted to carve a little Z letter on your forehead! I KNOW THAT THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO DON’T SUPPORT “SPECIAL OPERATIONS”. WISHING THEM LUCK IN THESE COMPLICATED TIMES!
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As you may already noticed i like to give a reference to Microprose games. Previous posts covered masterpieces like [UFO: X-Com]
and [Civilization II]
.
And i’m doing that on purpose. Games of the past primarily relied on solid and very high-quality storylines. Back in the day processing power of computer was quite limited and developers can’t offer breath-taking graphics. So they have to use head to output quality entertainment product.
Some nostalgy rant about convinience of older websites and absense of uneeded crap. Don’t you remember?
Here is some fine examples of modern sites, which try to match older web in terms of ergonomics and overall perception.
[HACKER NEWS]
[COMMAND LINE RADIO]
[PLAIN TEXT SPORTS]
[RANDOM TEXT WEBSITES]
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Version 27.2.4 is the very last to work on Windows 7. 28.x builds require sytem dlls which can’t be found in Windows 7. [How to run version 29.x on Windows 7]
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OBS is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Just want to let you know that latest version [27.2.4] runs on Windows 7. Works without any hickups. Using it on daily basis to capture the desktop screen with audio.
I suppose that many of you will be interested in looking at the most important operating systems of the past. Today it is possible even withour virtual machine. You can observe vintage operating systems right in your browser. [ATARI ST]
[MACOS 7]
||| [ver II]
[MACOS 8]
[AMIGA OS]
[WINDOWS 98]
BONUS PART
[CHIPTUNE.COM]
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Sky Force is a neat vertical shmup on Android to kill your time on boring job. Excellent graphics and solid demoscene soundtrack of Reloaded remaster a bit spoiled by developer’s greed, coz game balance is tuned for purchasing stuff via real money. But if you are ok to play without microtransactions and slow progress is acceptable for you, then game is highly recommended. Of cource it can’t be compared with [Jets’n’Guns]
or classical [Tyrain]
, but anyways it is worth of mentioning here and can be counted as decent time killer.
POST IS NOT OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE VIEW!
Doin’ professional imagery retouching for more than 10 years in a row. Just quick before-after comparison. Hardware: [Nokia PureView 808]
Software: [Affinity Photo v1.10]
BEFORE █ AFTER
Please [support my activies]
to keep me afloat.
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If for some reason you are unable to find wanted music and you already looked it in oldschool [Emule]
and didn’t get satisfactory results i suggest to try out Soulseek P2P network. Pretty big chance that you’ll find what you are looking for.
[DOWNLOAD SOULSEEK]
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Locate your style.css
NAME-OF-THE-PROJECT\themes\NAME-OF-THEME\assets\css\style.css Add following code to apply 30px indentation.
p {
text-indent: 30px;
} For no indentation:
p {
text-indent: 0px;
} or just remove the whole block of p code.
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The most coolest benchmarks from Finish masters.
Gradually Futuremark [which consumed Mad Onion] works had lost glitter of demoscene awesomeness and became just dry showcase room of current GPU technologies. And yeah, soundtrack of modern benchmarks represent boredom at it’s best.
3DMARK 1999 MAX [DOWNLOAD]
XL-R8R [PRE 3DMARK 2000] [DOWNLOAD]
3DMARK 2000 [DOWNLOAD]
3DMARK 2001 SE [DOWNLOAD]
3DMARK 2003 OUTRO Simply put the best part of 3DMark 2003.
3DMARK 2005 OUTRO POETS OF THE FALL - LIFT ME UP Simply put the best part of 3DMark 2005.
Seen marvellous [UFO X-Com]
? So, here is another masterpiece by Microprose then.
In my childhood i was obsessed by [Civilization I]
, which can be played in plain DOS only. Game graphics was very pixel sketchy and forced the brain to complete imaginary world by myself. Many sand was spilled across the sand-glass. There are VI parts of the game to date!
[Second part]
of the game was released back in 1996.
Back in a day when torrents were in a non-existing state there was amazing p2p software called Emule. Some vintage computer geeks prefer Emule over torrents even today. Most of users are located in European countries like France, Italy, Spain.
Rather unusual software for 2022, but i concur that application can be helpful in retrievement of rare and obsure stuff, which can’t be found anywhere else.
Note that official download page is not updated anymore and latest 2021 version can be acquired from [community forum]
or Githhub page
only.
▒ FPU OPERATIONS COMPARISON Tested with the latest version of AIDA64 v6.60 / Windows 7 x64 ESU.
FPU JULIA FPU SINJULIA FPU MANDEL QUEEN Z-LIB RAY TRACE 32 RAY TRACE 64 AES SHA 3 As you can see blue cpu’s eat dust in terms of FPU performance, but it is worth to note that memory wise we have backwards situation, thanks to shiny new DDR5 memory subsystem, which blue team is already exploiting.
FINAL VOLUME OF NORWAY ADVENTURES.
IF FOR SOME REASON YOU NEED PRO LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER OR HARDWARE ADVISER DO NOT HESITATE TO [CONTACT ME]
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KAKKMADDAFAKKA - SOMEONE NEW [ROOSEVELT REMIX] You can also check [my profile at Behance]
to see more graphical art.
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With declining support of Windows 7 it looks like that game hacking scene is disappearing also. Saying so because of disbandment of famous cracking group CODEX. [SOURCE]
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[Previously]
i already wrote about Chinese audio manufacturers and their quality products. Till today i used quad driver FiiO FA7
earphones powered by my trusty cameraphone [Nokia PureView 808]
.
After some not so long considerations i’ve decided to try out something new with bigger puch and almost randomy selected [Shanling M6]
DAP paired with [FiiO FA9]
6-driver IEMs. I know that using Nokia 808 was quite limiting factor for quad driver earphones like FiiO FA7.
[Russian demoscener]
is well known for quality classic games OST covers.
ROBOCOP III TITLE TERMINATOR II OST ROBOCOP III OST Imagery by spacedrone808 @Adobe Imagery by spacedrone808 @Freepik
Lightning fast text two-panel orthodox file manager with loads of functionality. These blue panels take very special place in my heart. Maybe because i’m using software right from the mid 90s. Still under active development. 64-bit version is preffered.
[DOWNLOAD FAR MANAGER]
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UPDATED ON: 2022-04-03
Modern version of classic Diablo II with fully revamped graphics. [Official system requirements]
doesn’t mention mighty Windows 7. To my surprise I was able to run game on Windows 7 x64 ESU without any problems. If some of you experiencing difficulties in launching game just grab hacked DirectX 12 libs and place them into the root of game folder. [DOWNLOAD DIRECTX 12 FILE PACK]
GAMEPLAY SAMPLE SECRET #1: TO UNDO ANNOYING LOBBY MUSIC JUST DO ONE-TIME CTRL+M HIT
Here is [Phantasmagoria]
outro soundtrack from horrifying quest of my faraway childhood.
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ONE OF THE MOST COOLEST MOMENTS WHEN BEAVIS SNAPS INTO THE TRANCE YOU CAN’T GET BEAVIS HYSTERICS BETTER THAN THIS
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IF FOR SOME REASON YOU NEED PRO LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER OR HARDWARE ADVISER DO NOT HESITATE TO [CONTACT ME]
.
You can also check [my profile at Behance]
to see more graphical art.
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I already wrote about [Neutron player]
.
Provided information will be useful if you are using Neutron with high resolution digital audio player [DAP] and would to like
squeeze a bit more of that quality.
Here is a list of the most important settings to maximaze your audio output to the boundaries of existence.
The whole concept of blog was non-political information and entertainment.
But world is changing pretty fast. Everybody heard about recent activities of Russian “government”.
I put quotation marks because you must understand that people who are in charge in Russia don’t have any relation to Russian nation.
If you are interested in vintage computers like Amiga, Commodore, Atari and would like to learn classic technical English i advice you Dan Wood unambiguously.
WINDOWS XP IN 2021 ▀ 20 YEARS LATER
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Just would like to showcase piece of brilliant mechanical keyboard of the past. Chyrosran22 one of the coolest YT mechanical keyboards reviewers counts it as the [best mechanical keyboard experience ever]
.
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Just a quick note to share high-quality Android audio player with all of you. Software is developed for hi-res hardware digital audio players like FiiO, Shanling, iBasso. The most important feature is bit-perfect OS independent decoding and audio processing.
Speaking about bright sides of application: precise audio reproduction, loads of professional tools.
However, there is one notable downside: user interface and ergonomics are very confusing to say the least.