Posts by ted209

California high school hackers expelled for grade tampering, test thievery

Anyone remember Todd Landers doing this in Neighbours with a Commodore 64 and a "modm"?

Asus unveils dirt-cheap Chromebox desktops with Haswell chips

Looks interesting. If it's fanless and can run debian then colour me interested! If not, I'll stick with my Shuttle XS35GT.

Sega’s Out Run: Even better than the wheel thing

Surprised no-one's mentioned the reconstructed Cannonball Outrun or the accompanying LayOut track designer:

https://github.com/djyt/cannonball/wiki

clearly a labour of love!

Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray disc set

Not the original trilogy...

Doesn't it at least deserve a mention that these are not the original theatrical versions?

Paper Camera

Want to see a decent sketch effect?

Sketch effects can be done well, check this one out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxrKvRRa-O8

Top Ten Arcade Classics

The graphics weren't basic

"It didn’t matter that the graphics were basic - these games were addictive because of the simplicity."

This was not my experience at the time - the graphics were amazing, I remember seeing games like outrun and streetfighter and being blown away at how great the graphics were.

The point of reference for most people was their C64/Spectrum at home, and the arcade graphics were far superior.