I remember playing SQ2 on a "laptop" my dad brought home from work. It had 4 shades of dark blue and shimmered like crazy when anything moved. What a cool experience.
I'm not sure how my dad (Mechanical Engineer) would have figured this out, but I think he ran the DOS equivalent of `strings(1)` to dump the list of strings in old Sierra games (I want to say KQIV), to find hints about what might be possible. I wonder if he remembers. It was probably much cheaper than whatever Sierra hint hotline I wanted to call at the time.
I still feel burned about how I put a hard-earned loonie into a Dragon's Lair machine and immediately died. At least at Street Fighter I got a few rounds in.
Dragon's Lair was beautifully animated, innovative, and absolutely not for me. I'm not sure if it's a game, to be honest. :) It's fun to look back at old tech, seeing the ideas that didn't quite land.
Our customer workloads are bursty, so being able to scale down to 0 (or close to it) saves us a lot of CPU and memory that would otherwise do nothing for most of the day.
I try to waste as little as possible. Would have been nice to live in a house with a yard and some chickens. Would give them leftovers. Otherwise just turn it into compost.
Interesting take on a ~50 year cultural phenomenon with millions of fans. Maybe next time you could write "I don't like Star Wars" instead "Star Wars never good." That would be more accurate.
I'd like to give a shout out to SaskPower and SaskEnergy, the crown companies that responsible for electricity and power in Saskatchewan. They're not perfect, and it's easy to gripe about them, but on the whole I'm very happy with the service we receive.
Also see SGI for auto insurance and SaskTel. We pay less for better service than anywhere else in Canada.
