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Yet another “everything” wiki, starting from fork of Wikipedia (MediaWiki)

Just as creationwiki exists for their biblical worldview, Infogalactic exists to separate itself from Wikipedia‘s// increasingly-disturbing ideologies and general untrustworthiness.

  • 2017-01-21 — Since President of the United States was not updated, this project is being abandoned.

    • It’s obvious this is an under-loved project, and I’m not willing to take it on to keep it updated.



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I wanted to play Okami – (2006 game) on my PlayStation 2 again. My old monitor had an S-Video input, but newer ones do not.

There are little adapters and adapter-cables, but those will not work on most monitors. They are a sort of “straight through” adapter which rely on the monitor understanding the signal a certain way. I bought a “HDV-G3000 PS2 to HDMI Video Audio Converter Adapter 1080P” which did not work.

Solution: Most people have RCA connectors, but what you really want is to have the highest-quality output from the PS2 and convert it using a device. So you take the high-quality cable for a PS2, which gives you S-Video output, and plug that into a converter box. The plus side is you can do upscaling and probably video switchboxing.

I ended up getting:

An two-source audio mixer, so I can use one set of speakers for my computer and the PS2 is another project I only briefly looked at and haven’t started yet.

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No Man’s Sky – (2016 game) >

NMS requires a “new SSE”. Their listed “i3” requirement doesn’t make any sense for non-intel users and the concept of older CPUs being not just slow but entirely unsupported is new to almost everyone.

CPU-Z does mention instruction sets, and does mention SSE, but it might not be specific enough.

These instructions are basically “just for fun” and are not actually needed. As of 2016-08-14, Hello Games are working on this issue and Steam users are testing alphas.

I didn’t get very far, and I hear that this doesn’t work on Windows 10.

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