What was the original tape format? 1"? U-Matic (3/4")? (VHS is 1/2", for those who don't know). Those 1" and U-Matic tapes would be insanely high quality for the time and would really be a visual treat.

Well, it's so popular that the Quake 2 logo in basically embedded in everything nowadays. But for some reason it's rotated 90 degrees. You can even type it if your keyboard is suitably mapped.

FYI - There's actually a 40th Anniversary edition of TFTM being released later in November.

Makes sense, private equity needs to make a ROI, so they're going to divest unused IPs to make back quick money by selling unused assets. Anything EA is sitting on but not making money with will be sold. The only question is what happens with existing licenses - the games GoG sells, the...

Yeah, physical discs these days are really little more than a way to hold a license to a game. It's why the uproar over the Nintendo Switch 2 key cards was quite an unusual thing - because for basically every physical release of a game that's what the physical disc was. You buy an Xbox or...

If you like the Switch, the Switch 2 is better. A lot of the games that ran poorly on the Switch run significantly better on the Switch 2. (The problem was memory bandwidth - the Switch was memory speed limited. Various mods helped alleviate the issue). So far the compatibility of the Switch 2...

Copyright, not trademark. EA owns the trademark and as long as they keep using it, it's theirs. He may get the copyright back, but that means any new game must have a different name. Getting the copyright back would mean he could get back rights to the content.

Time for the CIC to do their own. It's not that hard - the card printers don't cost too much (a few hundred dollars), the cards are trivially cheap from China.

You could always just replace it yourself. Download the GOG version and replace the DOSBox in it. I've done it before on other products. Then again, aren't a couple of WC games part of their "preservation program"? Surely that means they do more...? And they're not able to include the Nuked...

Well, they didn't say they were bringing back Parror and Dr. Sbaitso, they said they were bringing back AI-backed inspirations of them. Though they did mention bringing back the times of the past, so I also wonder if it's just giving you a special build of DOSbox or something (or one of the...

"Tin man" used a lot by criminals.

AI is the great faker. If you understand the technology, you realize it's nothing more than a fancy text prediction algorithm. That is, it sticks words one after another. The word it picks next is based on the context (the words you gave it) as well as the words it gave before. It provides no...

I have to admit after reading this post I bought the movie (on Blu-Ray). Looks interesting even though I probably can't make the movie night.

Well, I guess that answers the question of what item is arriving then. I get notifications (most of the time) when there's a package heading my way and I couldn't figure it out. All I knew from the tracking number is it's coming from the US. Funny, I don't remember seeing a Kickstarter...

Well, some of us knew - retro enthusiasts who loved the games of the 90s knew. As someone growing up in the 90s, you could never afford the high end computer you wanted to play those games, while these days, a low end PC can pretend to be that high end PC. And it's not like PCs today are still...

The teenager selling tickets at the movie theatre making minimum wage really couldn't care less if you are underage or not. It's not worth their time to enforce age restrictions. Dealing with the public is hard enough, having to deny ticket sales to underage patrons is just another annoyance...

Heck, it didn't take long that Microsoft had to release a patch for Windows 98 because PCs had gotten so fast that Windows 98 would shut down before properly flushing the disk caches so you'd risk corrupting your files. But yes, PCs were moving very fast and we had to have tools used to slow...

In the US, there is no law saying a minor couldn't see an R-rated movie. In fact, most would be happy to sell you a ticket if you were accompanied by an adult (the general worry is misbehavior more than OMG you'll be exposed to things you shouldn't see) back then). I admit to not seeing m any...

The problem with Starship Troopers are the fans wanted what the film didn't have - the movie didn't have the budget for the book's well known mech suits. So most adult fans were simply turned away by that. The kids, they didn't know better (and likely haven't read the book) so on its own, it's...

Looks like it from the screenshot on this page - https://winworldpc.com/product/cakewalk/3x The titlebar is hard to make out, but it certainly looks like "Cakewalk Professional - " on it. The player controls look identical. And the "Piano Roll" is unique to that version. The menu bar doesn't...