Chris
@droppedpacket.bsky.social
Cloud Infrastructure and Platforms, CCIE
What I find fascinating about this is that the AI is saying things like it panicked. Of course it didn’t, it’s an LLM, it’s a word prediction engine. It can’t panic. It can do things that are seemingly random, but then it is only responding how we would expect it to respond when asked why.
July 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
What I find fascinating about this is that the AI is saying things like it panicked. Of course it didn’t, it’s an LLM, it’s a word prediction engine. It can’t panic. It can do things that are seemingly random, but then it is only responding how we would expect it to respond when asked why.
On the switch now there’s a system option to permanently switch them to match Xbox :)
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
On the switch now there’s a system option to permanently switch them to match Xbox :)
Oh I miss PC Zone and wonderful reviews like this!
February 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Oh I miss PC Zone and wonderful reviews like this!
The original external one was parallel port, not sure USB even existed when it came out! I remember being impressed how much quicker it was than a floppy disk, to the point where you could run programs directly off it (slowly!)
The internal drive also came later.
The internal drive also came later.
February 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The original external one was parallel port, not sure USB even existed when it came out! I remember being impressed how much quicker it was than a floppy disk, to the point where you could run programs directly off it (slowly!)
The internal drive also came later.
The internal drive also came later.
Weren’t they 100MB? I remember getting a parallel port external Zip drive and each disk was the same size as my HD!
February 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Weren’t they 100MB? I remember getting a parallel port external Zip drive and each disk was the same size as my HD!
And we're in! Am liking that now it shows me the number of turns when I go somewhere, but strange I can't move units with the cursors anymore...
February 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
And we're in! Am liking that now it shows me the number of turns when I go somewhere, but strange I can't move units with the cursors anymore...
Ooh I forgot how fancy the palace is now though. I have a chair!
February 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ooh I forgot how fancy the palace is now though. I have a chair!
What I realise about Civ II that I'd forgotten is it's largely a windows version of Civ I with fancier graphics. In a lot of ways I think I may prefer the original!
Nice to get health bars on units though!
Nice to get health bars on units though!
February 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
What I realise about Civ II that I'd forgotten is it's largely a windows version of Civ I with fancier graphics. In a lot of ways I think I may prefer the original!
Nice to get health bars on units though!
Nice to get health bars on units though!
Looking good so far! Not yey met any other Civs, but it would still put you in order, so I'm the biggest :)
February 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Looking good so far! Not yey met any other Civs, but it would still put you in order, so I'm the biggest :)
This is one of my favourite features that I really miss from modern CIV games, building your palace. (it looks a bit rubbish currently, but it gets much better!)
February 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is one of my favourite features that I really miss from modern CIV games, building your palace. (it looks a bit rubbish currently, but it gets much better!)
Wow, I forgot about the copy protection mechanism! This ensured you'd really bought the game and not copied it by making you occasionally look things up in the manual (which was a small book 100s of pages long). Archive.org to the rescue! archive.org/details/civi...
February 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Wow, I forgot about the copy protection mechanism! This ensured you'd really bought the game and not copied it by making you occasionally look things up in the manual (which was a small book 100s of pages long). Archive.org to the rescue! archive.org/details/civi...
I decided to relive the original experience as much as possible, so I used the original version as I had it back in the 90s which came on 3.5" floppy disks. Turns out swapping floppies in DosBox isn't actually possible, but DosBox Staging did the trick! github.com/dosbox-stagi...
GitHub - dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging: DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.
DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices. - dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging
github.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I decided to relive the original experience as much as possible, so I used the original version as I had it back in the 90s which came on 3.5" floppy disks. Turns out swapping floppies in DosBox isn't actually possible, but DosBox Staging did the trick! github.com/dosbox-stagi...
