Today I woke
and I'm thinking that I want to rearrange my furniture. So I've been
recataloging my games which is going very slowly and I'm starting to
wish I had used a database at least now so that I don't have to go
through this again. And meanwhile I'm selling some stuff I don't want,
making space in my master bedroom closet because I want to move all my
stuff out of the game room and the various closets throughout the house
in preparation for Christopher moving in.
This means that the game room is a mess and in general is in a mess. So
I want to clean up a bit. But if I'm going to go to the trouble of
cleaning up I might as well start moving things into my master bedroom.
Now that I'm starting to think about it, it's going to get mighty
crowded in this room. I'm going to move my bed to the middle of the
room to free up wall space for the bookcases.
I'll probably move a couple of bookcases into the bathroom. There is
more moisture in the bathroom but I have a relatively open bathroom
with a big doorway into the bedroom. So as long as I don't take long
hot showers, which I usually don't, it should be ok. Also need to move
stuff into my closet which has some extra space but not that much. I
need to clean up and throw away some old clothes.
I also need to assemble the tv cabinet that Steph gave me. Not as
efficient as a bookcase but it will be more shelves to put stuff on.
And I have to vacuum up around here too because the dust is getting a
bit thick. This is all going to take me a long time...
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I noticed
that OIDS.X is now $15. It's a classic game that I played in college on
my friend's Amiga 500. There was also a Macintosh version. Kirk Baker,
one of the original Macintosh porters, aquired the rights to the
Macintosh code and updated it to Mac OS X. Initially it was $25 which
is too expensive for me.
But in September of last year he lowered the price to $15 and I
happened to visit his site today (because it was mentioned on the
Gamesome Mac last week) and saw the new price. $15 is my pricepoint so
I registered the game. The registration is a bit weird in that the game
gives you a codeword which you then use to register the game to get
another codeword to fully enable the game. The only reservation I have
is that I don't know how the inital codeword was generated, so if I
wipe out my computer and reinstall the game, maybe I won't be able to
register it. It would be very annoying.
Anyways, I played it a bit and completed the beginner galaxy. It runs a
bit slow, in full screen mode though you can pause the game and switch
to other applications. Sound is good, game play is good though I had
forgotten how small everything is. You can upload your score to the
Xavagus Prime Software server which keeps track of the top ten high
scores per standard galaxy.
There is a level editor and Kirk has taken the best user-submitted
levels and packaged them as a free download. There is also a Mac OS
Classic version for older computers. OIDS is a nice little entertaining
arcade game.
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