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  1. Comment on CGA-2025-09 🕹️🚂 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 The Last Express in ~games

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    I have started getting setup for a run through this. For portability reasons I wanted to get it running on my MacBook. I can't believe no one has mentioned the latest dailies of SCUMMVM can now...

    I have started getting setup for a run through this. For portability reasons I wanted to get it running on my MacBook. I can't believe no one has mentioned the latest dailies of SCUMMVM can now run this game - see this post for how to get those setup:

    https://www.scummvm.org/news/20250617/

    I had to source the original 3CD release of the game and extract the files from the three ISOs (which also included the making of video mentioned in the post). I am not 100% sure but I think all you need are the three 'HPF' files. Got picked up in SCUMMVM no problem and seems to work flawlessly on my Mac (or at least the first few hours seem fine).

    Hopefully this will help some of you who want to play along

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  2. Comment on Anyone interested in trying out Kagi? (trial giveaway: round #2) in ~tech

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    I'd love to try this out if I'm not too late.. Keep seeing people talk about it here and on hackernews and with Google just getting worse it would be great to see if this is a viable alternative.

    I'd love to try this out if I'm not too late.. Keep seeing people talk about it here and on hackernews and with Google just getting worse it would be great to see if this is a viable alternative.

  3. Comment on US Department of Justice could seek break up of Live Nation-Ticketmaster, Bloomberg News reports in ~music

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    Given how concentrated everything is currently, I think the answer to your question is 'yes'.. as anything will be better than what we have today.

    Given how concentrated everything is currently, I think the answer to your question is 'yes'.. as anything will be better than what we have today.

    16 votes

  4. Comment on Have you or anyone in your family ever won anything? in ~talk

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    I worked in the City of London a loooong time ago back when everyone commuted in by train. We were out drinking with work at a big rowdy pub - it was a huge gallery style pub with about 3 levels...

    I worked in the City of London a loooong time ago back when everyone commuted in by train. We were out drinking with work at a big rowdy pub - it was a huge gallery style pub with about 3 levels all overlooking the bar like a cheesy Kung Fu movie but with besuited bankers. They had a business card prize draw where you could win a Guinness fridge. I joked with my mates saying 'That's such a stupid prize - someone will have to take that thing aaaall the way home on the train! What a joke!' I threw my card in the bowl anyway and we got to drinking..

    Fast forward several hours and they're doing the draw. The whole pub rallies around the gallery while the landlord drew the names. 'Scott!!'... Silence.. He'd left for the day. Then he drew a second card. 'Billy!' Welp - that was me.

    I had to get the thing back on the train. It was exactly as little fun as I suspected - heavy, bulky and stupid. But I used it for about 5 years before I had to get rid of it. Fun times.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s new trailer looks incredible in ~movies

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    Wow - didn't think I'd like it but I do. Love the animation style and the story idea looks awesome. Consider me hyped!

    Wow - didn't think I'd like it but I do. Love the animation style and the story idea looks awesome. Consider me hyped!