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Started watching the Fallout series on Prime the other day to get my Fallout fix in until I’m able to get something working on the computer (been a little bit busy with a slightly different project….:P). It’s really good! They did an incredible job capturing the spirit and atmosphere of the games and is a blast to boot!

Fun fact: under “Related…[Read more]

Got confirmation that the code is actually under the MIT license. He didn’t have any comments regarding the code so we’ll probably just need to figure it out as we go. Just cloned the repository so I’ll start going through it 🙂

Definitely want to look at doing some rearranging of the directory structure. I’m just not a big fan of having a lot of…[Read more]

Yuck. Intel’s driver scanning tools are quite useful. I’ve used them in the past back before Windows was better at detecting all of the needed drivers. 🙁

Looks like there’s another BIOS update available over here. May hold off a bit as we know how that went last time 😛

Fire control is a bit of a contentious issue over here. Over the years, we weren’t managing the forests properly and allowing them to burn so now they’ve got good conditions to burn out of control. It also affected their reproduction and diversity. We’ve been trying to correct things with controlled burns to clear out the fire hazards but that…[Read more]

Thanks, will try those. I’m a little surprised that it can’t be done per application in Radeon Settings. Still better than changing the refresh rate to 60 Hz. 🙂

Failing all this, I could just wait until Microsoft has them release a remastered version in ten or so years. Microsoft likes their remasters. They did two remasters for Age of Mythology! 😛

Will have more to post later but we’re going to want to use this repository: https://github.com/uesp/mwedit

That seems to be the latest official one

Here’s what I’m thinking of in terms of priorities:

1. Get it to build
2. General code updates, such as swapping out the integer headers for the library headers (they weren’t merged into the standard until around 2010 or so). This will fix some bugs and may expose others
3. Look at the bug list and decide if it’s time to tackle them with Raid
4. Larger…

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It is the most excited I’ve been about a project in years. May be worth looking into more 🙂

Found the solution if you want to see what happens. I’d be a little surprised if it builds out of the box, though.

Will look at sending him a note. 🙂

Nope. Should I? May also be the FPS. I’m hitting a steady 100 FPS and Gamebryo has some issues above…[Read more]

Will put those on the list!

Finished up You Only Live Twice yesterday. Imagine my surprise when I saw Roald Dahl as screenwriter. I’m just used to his children books 😛

Wanted to watch Colossus: The Forbin Project but it’s yet another one that’s not available on streaming. 🙁 Going to have to add it to the disc list! Looks like I can get Gattaca on disc or streaming so I’ll add that to the watchlist. Been wanting to catch it for twenty years 🙂

Finished up Goldfinger and Thunderball. Will keep going!

Yeah, there’s nothing on the Fallout page either about it. Weird. It’s clearly heavily inspired by Fallout so I wonder why nobody tends to mention it? Definitely don’t need a Silo video game: we have Fallout 😛

Still need to watch the Fallout TV series. Can’t see Silo as that’s on Apple tv+ over here 🙁

Yep, middle of winter but it’s been a…[Read more]

I know CMake has a VS plugin that integrates it with Visual Studio. Not sure about Meson about I’ll definitely take a look.

The first order of business would be to simply see if it works, making the minimal code changes necessary to do so. After that, things can be freshened up a bit, maybe with a can of Febreze.

Other than the license, what…[Read more]

Quite possibly. I know I had installed some bits of VS over here when I first set things up, will need to look at it to see which parts. Never been good with VS, though. CMake may be a good option. In the last few years, I’ve been wanting to play around with Meson some. It’s a newer build configuration utility that the GNOME project has been…[Read more]

There’s also the getline function: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/getline

Forgot about it but it reads console input into a string until the end of the line instead of skipping the delimiters like the other operator. Similar functions exist for files as well 🙂

Cool! Will need to go through it sometime 🙂

Code doesn’t seem well documented, though. It’s also missing a build recipe so would be a bit difficult to build. Interesting that it uses a lesser known image library. Why not a more common one, I wonder?

Yep, they’ve got a lot of goodies available! Bit surprised they haven’t gotten the license for Das Boot with it being so iconic

But it’s also about hope! Sad but it gives us hope that one day we can fix things. Really needs to be taught in schools. We watched it when it first came out but never discussed it, which was a bit of a missed…[Read more]

The first quarter of book two deals with the back story of the Vaults. Yep, I’m just using Fallout terms for sanity’s sake. Anyways! Back story: still Fallout. 😛

Whelp. The charging port on my ancient phone but the dust this morning. It no longer detects a connected cable. Tried it with two different chargers without success. May be fixable but it’s probably not worth the effort of finding the part from a reputable seller. Guess I’ll prepare for the funeral! Was replacing it with the tablet anyways 🙂

So I started reading the Silo series. No idea how I came across it, honestly. The writing is pretty good but the world building leaves a lot to be desired as it’s pretty much a carbon copy of Fallout’s lore. In the first book, they make a big deal of the mystery surrounding the Vault (the author calls them Silos) but the big reveal falls flat…[Read more]