![]() Any SNES game will be able to be adapted though ROM patches to use widescreen on the future once the project is stabilized. Once Super Mario World and Super Metroid widescreen patches are done, we will likely have a solid standard which future ROM modders will be able to apply to any SNES game. ![]() Right now, you have to download bsnes_hd and a specific ROM patch which adjusts the game engine to run natively with the larger screen, but it’s a project that will be integrated into bsnes and with very good chances of eventually appearing on other SNES platforms. It’s a pretty ambitious project that will likely give SNES games a new look, specially for users that plays on 16:9 screens and would like to experience a game with a larger horizontal screen without stretching. We have spent several hours brainstorming how a SNES with native widescreen would output and now we are starting to create a game specific patches which aims to make the game work with the larger internal screen size (352×224 instead of 256×224). Widescreen is the new project being developed lead specially by DerKoun (author of bsnes-hd), Near (author of bsnes and ares) and ocesse (currently writing a widescreen patch for Super Metroid). It’s a fork of bsnes which aims into improving the user experience though features that normally you can’t do normally on the regular SNES, such as the Mode 7 HD which some people already know about it. The patch is aimed specifically for an emulator called bsnes_hd.
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Microsoft access, lotus approach, and corel paradox are common spreadsheet programs. true12/28/2022 ![]() as an intermediate and indeed can be programmed like this even in the absence of any third-party Python installation the same goes for the Rexx-programmable terminal emulator Passport. One notable exception is Paint Shop Pro, which can be automated in Python by means of a macro interpreter within the PSP programme itself rather than using the PythonScript WSH engine or an external Python implementation such as Python interpreters supplied with Unix emulation and integration software suites or other standalone Python implementations et al. PerlScript, ooRexxScript, PHPScript, RubyScript, LuaScript, XLNT and so on. Python in the form of ActiveState PythonScript can be used to automate and query the data in SecureCRT, as with other languages with installed engines, e.g. So in addition to ASP, IIS, Internet Explorer, CScript and WScript, the WSH can be used to automate and communicate with any Windows application with COM and other exposed objects, such as using PerlScript to query Microsoft Access by various means including various ODBC engines and SQL, ooRexxScript to create what are in effect Rexx macros in Microsoft Excel, Quattro Pro, Microsoft Word, Lotus Notes and any of the like, the XLNT script to get environment variables and print them in a new TextPad document, The VBA functionality of Microsoft Office, Open Office(as well as Python and other installable macro languages) and Corel WordPerfect Office is separate from WSH engines although Outlook 97 uses VBScript rather than VBA as its macro language. WSH implements an object model which exposes a set of Component Object Model (COM) interfaces. The WSH, the engines, and related functionality are also listed as objects which can be accessed and scripted and queried by means of the VBA and Visual Studio object explorers and those for similar tools like the various script debuggers, e.g. ![]() Windows Management Instrumentation is also scriptable by this means. These scripts may be run in GUI mode ( WScript.exe) or command line mode ( CScript.exe), or from a COM object ( wshom.ocx), offering flexibility to the user for interactive or non-interactive scripts. WSH provides an environment for scripts to run – it invokes the appropriate script engine and provides a set of services and objects for the script to work with. Microsoft describes it as an administration tool. Windows Script Host may be used for a variety of purposes, including logon scripts, administration and general automation. Beginning with Windows 2000, the Windows Script Host became available for use with user login scripts. It is also installed if Internet Explorer 5 (or a later version) is installed. Windows Script Host is distributed and installed by default on Windows 98 and later versions of Windows. WSH engines include various implementations for the Rexx, BASIC, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, PHP, JavaScript, Delphi, Python, XSLT, and other languages. The advantage of the Windows Script File (.WSF) is that it allows multiple scripts ("jobs") as well as a combination of scripting languages within a single file. The language independent filename extension WSF can also be used. ![]() Users can install different scripting engines to enable them to script in other languages, for instance PerlScript. By default, it interprets and runs plain-text JScript (.JS and. It is language-independent in that it can make use of different Active Scripting language engines. The WSH is also an optional install provided with a VBScript and JScript engine for Windows CE 3.0 and following and some third-party engines including Rexx and other forms of Basic are also available. The WSH is also a means of automation for Internet Explorer via the installed WSH engines from IE Version 3.0 onwards at this time VBScript became means of automation for Microsoft Outlook 97. This tool was first provided on Windows 95 after Build 950a on the installation discs as an optional installation configurable and installable by means of the Control Panel, and then a standard component of Windows 98 (Build 1111) and subsequent and Windows NT 4.0 Build 1381 and by means of Service Pack 4. The Microsoft Windows Script Host ( WSH) (formerly named Windows Scripting Host) is an automation technology for Microsoft Windows operating systems that provides scripting abilities comparable to batch files, but with a wider range of supported features. Tokens are harder to get and can mainly only be won in a game called Gacha (which you pay for with Gummies). Since the in game currency, Ameba Coins, can only be bought it’s important to stock up on the free currency called Tokens. Use our Ameba Pico tips to start your game today! Ameba Pico Tips Take the Ameba Pico Tutorial This truly is a global game you can talk and play with Picos from around the globe. Because the game is using this site, you can come in contact with English, Japanese, and French players. The game is global and the Facebook version is linked to the site itself using Facebook Connect. The last, and best, part that stands out about Ameba Pico is the stand-alone site connected to the game. This seems to be a fairly convoluted way to earn extra cash in a social game, but it does keep things fresh. You can play the game for 300 Gummies and you will be awarded with a random prize. You can win more Tokens in the virtual game called Gacha. When you go through the tutorial at the beginning of the game, you are given 5 Tokens. Token, this third currency, are used to buy anything within the game. This may seem harsh, but to even out the balance between Gummies and Ameba Coins, there is a third currency. Purchases can only be done with the virtual currency that you can buy, called Ameba Coins. The earnable in-game currency is called Gummies the unique thing about Gummies is that it is not used for purchases. The only part of Ameba Pico that may be confusing is the currency situation. This alone gives players a chance to truly immerse themselves in the game as a Pico, since it feels like they are traveling around a REAL city. This includes decorations for your room and also different clothes and accessories for your Pico. ![]() The stores in each area have items that are specific to that area. They are not simply visual changes to where your Pico is hanging out, but they also host different stores that you can shop at. What is nice about traveling around the Pico virtual world is that you can interact differently in each area. Your Pico avatar can visit an area in downtown NYC, the island around the Statue of Liberty, different parts of Central Park, the New York Academy, and more. Each area has a different theme to it, but all of the themes are parts of New York City. ![]() These areas are basically chat rooms that have limits on how many users can be in them. He world that your Pico will live in is divided into different areas that you can travel to. All of the options are aesthetically pleasing and bright. You can customize the hair (both front and back), the face, the makeup, the outfits and the room for your Pico. This isn’t a bad thing though, it’s a vast improvement over YoVille. The customization is very advanced, even though the animations are strictly 2D and cartoonish. Each gamer creates a completely customizable avatar in which they use to interact with other Picos from around the world in a virtual city. Other virtual world games, like YoVille by Zynga, have the same goal as Ameba Pico. The game, by the internet company CyberAgent America, Inc., called Ameba Pico. Ameba Pigg, a popular Japanese social networking game, is finally coming to the U.S. ![]() If you’re looking for an alternative, or for new backup software my current recommendation is Macrium Reflect.Īs long time readers know, I frequently mention backing up as one of the biggest and most important missed opportunities that too many people are overlooking to protect themselves. While I might recommend confirming that you can access the contents of your backed up files, that’s a recommendation I make for all backup software. Most issues appear to be installation and customer support related. If you’re using Acronis you don’t need to switch. Based on reader feedback and on what I’m seeing in the Acronis support forums I’m reluctant to recommend recent versions to the average consumer. This isn’t a disrecommendation, per se, but rather a reflection of my discomfort continuing to recommend it at this time. ![]() The responsibility for your data is ultimately in your hands.I’ve temporarily suspended my recommendation of Acronis TrueImage Home. In today's world, you can get slammed with something nasty in a heartbeat.īackup, people! Backup, backup, backup! If you don't, I may commiserate with you about your data loss, but I may also shake my head because there are so many alternatives out there to backing up data and preventing data loss. Even if you have a ton of security applications, they're only as good as your last, clean backup image. About once a monthly, the latest image is stored to a large USB drive, which cost about $150.00.Ī total of $300.00 is pretty cheap insurance for “irreplaceable” data. I bought 1.5 TB secondary drives for two computers – the third computer doesn't have room, so its images go to a USB drive, which is much slower.Įven though the 1.5 TB secondary drives can store a lot of images (I won't have to delete old images as often when those drives eventually fill up), I still don't trust our backup images to secondary drives alone. You can also protect your data by saving it to DVDs or purchasing secondary drives. Justin James said that when he bought a MB from Newegg, they bundled Acronis Home for $4.99. How much will Acronis set you back? My total cost for three PCs was roughly $150.00, but you might be able to find lower prices. Simply modify the Registry on all effected computers, and you're back in business. I still recommend that they use Acronis, because I can restore everything faster than they can load an operating system.Īcronis has one bug that affects the network, but I found the solution on Brickblog. I have some friends who live with basic operating systems and little data. Overall, it took 15-20 minutes to restore 75GB. I saved a few recent documents and downloads to my secondary drive, inserted Acronis' boot disc, located my backup image, and timed how long it took to restore my computer back to a clean operation system with all 149 of my programs and data intact. Fortunately, it happened the day after I made a backup. You can cruise through the backup images from the Acronis browser, just like Windows Explorer, and cherry-pick and restore files to any directory.Ībout a month ago, I got slammed by malware. Another plus is that Acronis is easy to use. Ideally, I like to see full images weekly, and Acronis allows us to do that. The latter method is painstaking – yank the drive out, slave it to the computer with Ghost, create the image, and replace the drive – and images aren't made as often as I'd like. Three main computers are on a small home network, and the other three are protected by Ghost images made to external USB drives. ![]() To be honest, I’ve only glanced at those discussions, because I purchased what I think is an excellent tool - Acronis True Image Home 2010 PC Backup and Recovery. I guess some people swear by it, and that's fine if it works for you. I’ve seen a lot of recent discussion and articles about Clonezilla, which is a free backup tool. Quite often, we provide partial solutions to recovery, with the occasional good idea of setting a drive as a secondary drive to snag data that way – but even more frequently, we send people on their merry way without providing solid backup solutions. How many times have we heard folks say that they've lost “irreplaceable” data due to hard drive failure, malware, accidental deletion, reformatting, or other mishaps? If you've been a techie for years, you may have heard it hundreds of times. This post was written by TechRepublic member Ron K. He started producing his music on his laptop using FL Studio. ![]() He was inspired by EDM producers K-391 and Ahrix, and by film composers like Hans Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky. In 2012, Walker was listening to a song by Italian DJ David Whistle (also known as DJ Ness) and reached out to him to find out how he produced his music. Career 2012–2016: Career beginnings and breakthrough He initially had no musical background, but was able to teach himself by watching YouTube tutorials based on musical production. Walker later found interest in computers, a hobby which has driven him deeper to computing graphical design, and musical programming. At the age of two, along with his family, he moved to Bergen, Norway. He grew up with two siblings, an elder sister named Camilla, who was also born in England and a younger brother named Andreas, who was born in Norway. As a result, by his international parental inheritance, he was granted dual citizenship from both the United Kingdom and Norway.
![]() Funny how we prioritize our prayerful moments.įunny, too I think, about how I learned two different versions of the Lord’s Prayer: one – the Protestant litany – spoke to “forgiving our debts as we forgive our debtors” the other – maybe a more traditional Catholic influenced version – substituted “forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” The differences never much bothered me as I prayed less and sinned more into my teenage years, but later I got to thinking about it as I entered the bond market and began to contemplate the odds of paying and being paid, or trespassing and being trespassed against with other people’s money. Brenda was the neighbor’s bulldog but warranted a mention ahead of our own Stinky because – well – she didn’t smell. I recited the Lord’s Prayer, then followed it up with the standard “God Blesses” – in my case “God Bless Mommie, Daddie, Chip, Lyn, Mamie, Budgie, Brenda, Stinky and everyone in the whole world.” Stinky was my brother’s cat, so named because she used the house as her personal litter box in the days before my parents could buy one at the local “five and dime”. ![]() I do remember praying nightly as a child though, which might indicate that my mom and dad were better parents than I have given them credit for. It’s not that I’m a non-believer in prayer’s ultimate destination, but more of a cynical take on why the Lord would hand out party favors to everyone that asked, or to those that asked most intently. ![]() Even at 30,000 feet, when the air gets rough, I never invoke the “God” word, settling instead for promising myself that if I ever get back to terra firma, I will never fly again, which I promptly forget days or even hours later. I’m not what you would call a “prayerful” type of guy. ![]() The franchise is also known for its fandom that produces unofficial media, such as fan art and fangames. Although later games, notably the 2006 series reboot, have been criticized for a perceived decline in quality, Sonic is influential in the video game industry and is frequently referenced in popular culture. The Genesis Sonic games have been described as representative of the culture of the 1990s and listed among the greatest of all time. Series sales and free-to-play mobile game downloads totaled 1.14 billion units as of 2020. Sonic the Hedgehog is Sega's flagship franchise and one of the bestselling video game franchises, selling over 140 million units by 2016 and grossing over $6 billion as of 2020. The franchise has crossed over with other video game franchises in games such as Mario & Sonic, Sega All-Stars, and Super Smash Bros. While Sonic and Eggman were the only characters introduced in the first game, the series would go on to have a large cast of characters some, such as Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, and Shadow the Hedgehog, have starred in spin-offs. Games typically feature Sonic setting out to stop Eggman's schemes for world domination, and the player navigates levels that include springs, slopes, bottomless pits, and vertical loops. ![]() While Sonic games often have unique game mechanics and stories, they feature recurring elements such as the ring-based health system, level locales, and fast-paced gameplay. Sega exited the console market and shifted to third-party development in 2001, continuing the series on Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation systems. After a hiatus during the unsuccessful Saturn era, the first major 3D Sonic game, Sonic Adventure, was released in 1998 for the Dreamcast. Sega Technical Institute developed the next three Sonic games, plus the spin-off Sonic Spinball (1993). ![]() Its success helped Sega become one of the leading video game companies during the fourth generation of video game consoles in the early 1990s. Sega developed the first Sonic game, released in 1991 for the Sega Genesis, to compete with Nintendo's mascot Mario. The franchise also incorporates printed media, animations, feature films, and merchandise. The main Sonic the Hedgehog games are platformers mostly developed by Sonic Team other games, developed by various studios, include spin-offs in the racing, fighting, party and sports genres. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. Sonic the Hedgehog is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created and owned by Sega. Lee Alderson, a senior issues adviser for the Ministry of Transportation, said the province is taking “bold action” to deal with the backlog that built up due to closures and restrictions brought on by the pandemic. a town with like just one bus that goes from here to the other small towns or Toronto, well it's pretty tough,” he said, adding that he would often spend $40 a day in taxi trips getting to and from work. He's now waiting to take it again this month, but is relying on his wife to drive him around in the meantime. Sebastian Arenas, a mining engineer who moved from Montreal to Kirkland Lake, Ont., for work this year, has been similarly frustrated and said the testing backlog has had a real impact on his daily life.Īrenas said it took him months to secure a G2 road test this fall, but he failed. “There should be some way to stop such things.” “Some people contacted me saying, 'Hey, I can book your date. ![]() She said she's eager to get her G licence and is frustrated at the trouble she's having securing a test.Īdding to her annoyance is the fact that some third-party sellers have contacted her with the offer of earlier road test appointments, at a price. Thakur said her G2 licence technically expired in May. 31, 2022, until the end of next year to pass tests needed to maintain or upgrade their licences. In acknowledging the backlog, the province has given novice drivers with licences expiring between March 1, 2020, and Dec. The Ministry of Transportation said that roughly 421,827 road tests have been cancelled due to the pandemic since March 2020. And you know, I'm trying, trying and I just can't book it.” “I find it very hard, because I want to be able to pass it. “It's a real struggle,” Thakur said during a phone interview. Now, Thakur says she can't find a single road test appointment on the province's online portal all the way through to the end of next year. And she failed a test she managed to secure in September, leaving her hunting once more for an available exam. A test she later booked for January this year was scrapped because of a provincewide lockdown. ![]() The Brampton, Ont., resident had a test scheduled to obtain her G licence in the spring of 2020, but that was cancelled when the pandemic hit. Anumeha Thakur has spent a large chunk of time during the COVID-19 pandemic trying to complete what used to be a relatively simple task - booking a driving test. Other genres that caught the community's attention include R&B (stars like The Weeknd, Jhené Aiko, and risers like Vedo and Tai Verdes), Electronic (Dillon Francis, Alan Walker, and Diplo show the playful sides of their personalities on their TikTok pages), and the broad indie-alternative coalition (ranging from Wallows to MGMT to Molchat Doma).Īmong the biggest growing genres is Latin music, whose trending songs ranged from trap/reggaeton bangers like Ozuna's "Caramelo" to traditionalist tracks like "Espejeando" by Los Tucanes De Tijuana. Coming in second was pop music, bolstered by big names like BTS, Justin Bieber, and Dua Lipa.
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