Gamemoose

One of my co-workers thought of me when the church/school he helps at was clearing out storage and found old Mac stuff. I came home with a Macintosh 512 (with case, keyboard that only need 1 key to be cleaned to fully work, mouse, manuals and software) along with a couple Powerbooks-a 145 and a 180. The 512 works great but the Powerbooks need help. The 180 attempts to boot (chimes and I get a pointer and disk image) but the hard drive clicks and it can't find an OS. As this is the better of the two, I want to get it going. I've been doing research on modern drive replacements and found a couple options. There's SCSI2SD and ZuluSCSI with the latter having a "laptop/powerboom" option. Good instructions on how to set this up for my Powerbook are a little scarce. Has anyone here set up a Powerbook with one of the above options (or something similar)? If so, any pointers for a pre OS X newbie? I just wanna load up the drive with stuff so I don't have to take it apart again.

I just got through the Water Temple this weekend. Since I've been gallavanting around Hyrule and in the sky, I picked up some Zonai hydrants which made the boss battle a lot easier IMO. I've now completed the Zora armor set. I ran into a glitch with a dog and Mizo's (?) Treasure Hunt. When you feed dogs to befriend them, they will follow you and sniff out treasure and such. The dognear this treasure cave would just turn around and walk back to camp as soon as you two approached the opening. I found the chest anyway.

I played the first when it came out originally but it didn't grab my attention. I bypassed the other three. My three youngest (11, 8 and 7) are all playing the Pikmin 4 demo so that's been the topic of conversation. My 7 year old showed my Mom the Gamecenter (Wal-Mart) magazine that has a big spread about it. In said showing he slipped in a mention of "Christmas" then talked about "crystals" (I guess those are in the game?). My Mom asked him about the Christmas mention.... "No Gramma, I didn't say 'Christmas', I said 'CRYSTALS'." Sly dog. I'll probably get roped in on it for multi player so my views could change.

There's froggy armor? Dang. I haven't expanded Link's wardrobe much and don't have anything complete. Furry pants here, the wing-shirt there, rubber shirt for raves, the miner's shirt to be a poor man's Iron Man, Fierce Diety boots for stompin' and the Hylian shirt Zelda tucked away for me. I found one stinkin' fairy and she wants musicians. I found a horn blower that I freed from a pit but haven't tripped on anyone else in the troupe.

Thanks for sharing that info, DavidD! I was a bit fuzzy on how to go about that myself. I've just been hopping from tower to tower, opening the map and finding glyphs and any easy-to-get-to shrines. I'm making my east now and just liberated a village from "pirates" (tough moblins and what not). My weapons are not powerful but I felt compelled to try. After a few attempts of tryin' and dyin' I got a good rhythm of killing with my bow while using the huge amount of chill berries I acquired. I grabbed some big baddie's horn which looked like a battle axe. This is when it dawns on me-I can slap these suckers on my melee weapons! I've gotten into a habit of attaching horns and such to my arrows that it never occurred to attempt to use them with anything else! Ugh, I felt so dense. I was able to mop up the pirates and then helped an architect rebuild the major buildings of the village. There are times I question why I'm playing this game as it feels too much like BOTW at times. But the puzzles, new ways to get past adversaries and the endearing characters keep me coming back.

It's ok. You can have 4 players rather than 2 and it plays like an advanced "Gauntlet Legends". You get feats (like in D&D 3.x TTRPG at the time) and abilities you can select on the fly (which switches the game to "slow-mo" so you don't get pounded easily while you flick through the options). The ex and I played through it after playing both "Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance" games. It was all right but didn't have the same thrill for us as Snowblind's games. A few months ago I had my D&D loving kids try it and while they had fun, they haven't asked to play it again.

There's an independent department store in a small city nearby where the owner has warehouses full of new old stock. Want classic shampoo or glass cleaner from the 80's or 90's? They got some. Old style waffle maker? Yep. Sonic the Hedgehog Mead folders from 1991? They had them..... Not everything there is old stock. However if there's something you want that companies don't make that a small department store might carry, they may have it. My wife calls it a "museum".

Well I'll be. That never crossed my mind regarding the analog-style sticks and a game being designed to work with it like that. I didn't play many retail games growing up so I cursed those controllers playing "Downland". I think I had a deluxe stick when I got my own CoCo 3 but I was more a console gamer by then.

The developer is showing it at Midwest Gaming Classic this weekend. I played a bit of it today and I really dug the play. Reminded me a little of Platoon with, as mentioned earlier, Metal Gear. I didn't ask of he had any for sale. I already dropped a bunch of cash for Dungeons and Doomknights and Vector Run

Oooo, thanks for that! I have an Xbox One controller with a bad stick. I got it in a controller lot, so I'd still be coming out ahead with this fix.

And tickets purchased! Got my daughter and son (for his first time at the event) for Saturday and then on Sunday my daughter and three of my step kids are coming. Yeah there's a lot of stuff this year. I guess The New 8-Bit Heroes/NESMAKER folks are going to be holding their "Byte Off III" competition results at the show. They had a big presence last year (where I picked up "Mystic Origins" and a NESMAKER cartridge burner...that I REALLY have to get the gumption to try and use the software. I pack too much stuff on myself with my limited free time) with their own stuff along with a few up and coming NES developers (folks behind "Doodle World", "Dungeons and Doomknights" and more). I'm really excited for this!

My daughter and I are going on Saturday and possibly Sunday. I typically take her for her birthday (which is in April) but the show falls a day after my son's so i may have to take the birthday boy for his first experience.

No one online fixes them? I don't know how deep such places go with repairs as replacing the sticks on any Xbox controller (that I'm aware of) requires soldering skills. Have you checked out UBreakIFix or Cell Phone Repair online? One of my clients used the former when they had a local store and they did a good job on a MacBook Pro.

That's what I kinda thought, given the age of the system and the typical quality of 3rd party stuff.

I picked up a set (third party) and had the cable break part when disconnecting it from the controller. I got the cable exchanged but the battery pack discharges in minutes. Any recommended brands in the year of ‘23?