Archos 70 Mini Review - Turns Out Not To Be A Small iPad

From the official Archos site:

Slim and light Android™ internet tablet

At home and on the go. The slim and light design of the ARCHOS 70 internet tablet makes it both portable and generous for sharing your best moments with your family and friends. All the functions of a computer: your apps, the Internet, your photos, music and videos, eBooks and 3D games.

Background.

There are wheens of these things about. Go Google for Android Tablet and see whatr happens. There is the Android Vega (whichy I initially considered), Creative Zii0, Samsung Galaxy Tabs and more coming to an Internet near you by Christmas time. I have played with an iPad for a few days and can safely say the Archos 70 is not really better in any way. Except two.

Sega Saturn Emulation on Windows 7 with SSF

I thought I would try some old skool gaming (as the kids today call it) on my fairly up to date Windows 7 machine. What should I play I thought?

Panzer Dragoon Saga!

This would be tricky as the last time I ran SSF was on Windows XP and quite some time. Though from what I remembered last time it was quite easy. I hoped this time would be the same.



d3dx9_43.dll is missing from your computer. Blast I thought. After just trying to drop the file in the same folder as SSF I got a little farther but then again disaster struck.

Metacreator and Savage Worlds

I purchased Savage Worlds recently and quite like the look of it. More information can be found here.

The Savage Worlds Game System

Essentially it a a universal rules system for RPGs. Looks pretty good and I intend to test it with a bunch of total newbies in a week or two.

The problem is that I have been out of the way of running RPGs for almost fifteen odd years. I am pretty rusty and the Savage Worlds system while fairly simple is new to me.

I have a few plot ideas but thought it would be handy if I could find something to make my life a bit easier, especially with making up some pre-generated  characters. Using the power of Google™ I discovered Metacreator.

Metacreator

Put the spark of life into your characters with Metacreator, the customizable application for creating roleplaying game characters. The website was pretty stark and not very welcoming but as I had seen the software recommended in a forum somewhere and had some credit in my Paypal account I thought I would try it. The download link came through in seconds and the software seems to be working fine on my Windows 7 box. Running under Wine on Linux did not seem to be so successful. Also seems to work well on my Windows XP netbook.

Here is my brief introduction to Metacreator. Which will also serve as my learning experience for using Windows Live Writer.

How to Burn Retro Game Images With All Free Software [via Racketboy]

came across this here: How to Burn Retro Game Images With All Free Software.

The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to burn game images to CD/DVD. This tutorial will break it down to image format rather than console specific. Why? Because burning a BIN/CUE (for example) is exactly the same whether it be for a Saturn, Sega CD, or NeoGeo CD game.

Not had time for a proper check but I may have a look and see what can be turned into Linux instructions.

The Dangers of Dalmatians

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This is a really good movie. One I have enjoyed thoroughly. More information can be found about it here:

One Hundred and One Dalmatians(1961)

The problem is dalmatians and children, in this case, do not mix very well.

The Adventures of Mr Pig

A series of images transferred from my He Is Risen blog. I am hoping by putting them here I might get round to finishing what I was doing. Then I could do the Monk Joke (tm) as a comic.

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