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User Name CharcoalDesign
Member Since 2004-03-29
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Oolite 1.30 (Mac OS X)
Funny, seems to work now. I see that the option to change screen resolution is also available on the same options screen. Is it only possible to do this in a real space station, and not in a rock hermit station? In any case, I think that not being able to change graphics settings except when docked is a very bizarre restriction. Great game though. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, September 21 2004 @ 11:02 AM PDT
Oolite 1.30 (Mac OS X)
Great game - seems stable and plays well once you get the hang of all the controls - but I can't seem to save. I've tried pressing 2/F2 when docked at a space station, but nothing happens. I'm running the game under 10.3.5, any ideas? Also, would be nice if full-screen mode let you choose resolution. 640 by 480 is pretty crappy on a modern monitor, and it seems silly that in windowed mode you can make it use the whole resolution, but not in full-screen mode. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, September 21 2004 @ 10:32 AM PDT
Space Strike 1.0 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Nice little game (much better than Arcade Inavaders... sorry but eughh). Reminicent of Project Magellan. Needs a bit more work on graphics and sound though. Graphics are generally very nice, but the first level is woefully short on enemy variety, and the background is boring. By comparison, the hive level is beautiful and seems full of interesting and bizarre creatures. I'm not sure the powerup grpahics from Arcade Invaders were so good they needed to be re-used. And the music, whilst not awful does seem to consist entirely of Garage Band loops. Price is a bit high for what it is. Still, like I said, not a bad effort. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 20 2004 @ 02:54 AM PDT
Arcade Invaders 1.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
What's good about this? I mean ok it's free which is great, but it seems to me that all of the "gameplay improvements" it has over the original are changes for the worse. There's no mother ship, the shields don't fall apart as they get shot, rapid fire makes the pace too fast. Then there's the flickery animation, and the low-res background graphics. With a bit more effort this could be quite fun, but right now it's tedious and displeasing to the eye. [alert admin]
Monday, September 20 2004 @ 02:37 AM PDT
PicTiles 1.0.6r1 (Mac OS X)
The blocks definitely do not move two squares at a time, however the key repeat rate is quite high, I will consider adjusting it in a future versions as others have also struggled with this. As for the blocks falling through, I am afraid you have not understood the game mechanics. Blocks do not land on the silhouette, they land on the ground. if you wish to build on parts of the picture which overhang, you must balance your block on a neighbouring shape and build across-ways. [alert admin]
Tuesday, June 01 2004 @ 10:12 AM PDT
LaunchBar 4.0.beta4 (Mac OS X)
The application is brilliant as ever, but the beta period is starting to annoy me intensely. I don't necessarily care that I don't have the latest beta, I would rather it be left up to me to decide when I download the next one. On the rare occasions when I crash the last thing I need when the machine recovers is to find out that I can't get back to work because Launchbar has expired and instead of being two keys away from going back to productivity I have a choice between going to version tracker and downloading Launchbar then messing about with the plist to make it invisible again (like I like it), or going on a hunt through my applications folder to find whatever obscure utlilty it was I wanted to launch because I never bothered to put it in my dock after I discovered Launchbar. Either way it's five minutes of my life wasted. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 01 2004 @ 09:15 AM PDT
Subscriber 1.0.1r2 (Mac OS X)
Useful even if you use Mozilla
Using Mozilla probably won't help most users who want to subscribe to web pages. The most important feature of Subscriber is its ability to report changes in only part of a page. Many web pages have changing features, such as today's date, or advertisements, which you're not interested in and which give you an annoying stream of false positives if you subscribe to the page. Subscriber lets you home in on precisely the changes that will interest you. For instance, you could tell it to check for a new heading in your favourite blog. Or a new mention of a given keyword on VersionTracker. Mozilla can't do this. Nor, as far as I know, can any of the other browsers that offer a subscription feature. I wrote this little app precisely because I found the Subscription feature built into some browsers (including Mozilla) so inadequate as to be unusable in practice (and anyway I prefer to use Safari). And there's the useful bonus that if I change my mind about what my default browser should be, Subscriber will still know about all my subscriptions. -- David Deutsch Developer of Subscriber CharcoalDesign.co.uk [alert admin]
Monday, March 29 2004 @ 03:18 PM PST
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