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Sugar-Free Vegan Apple Cobbler

2016-09-16

apples, baking, cinnamon, dead, recipes, sugar-free recipes, vegan recipes, vegetarian recipes

Baking > Apples >

Sugar-free.

This is a kind of “open pie”.

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Connecting a PlayStation 2 to a contemporary monitor

2016-09-15

dead, gaming, HOWTO, projects

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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Fixing missing icons

2016-09-11

dead, HOWTO, Linux, projects

Install lxappearance
lxappearance
Icon Theme > Adwaita
- (or whatever)

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Symphony

2016-08-24

abandoned, dead, entertainment, games, Linux software, loved, macOS games, macOS software, offline games, payware, proprietary software, reviews, shooter games, software, Windows 10 software, Windows games, Windows software

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
was symphonygame.com

A top-down shooter game which uses music to generate levels.

Absolutely fantastic! HOWEVER progress is not auto-saved! Who the fuck makes a game where you can abandon everything you’ve played just by pressing a button too many times?!

Abandoned; the website is gone.

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Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)

I’m not sure how to describe this game. It’s an oldschool oldschool point-and-click game.

I think I would have liked this back in the day, but these days I find a bunch of the mechanics and gameplay too frustrating to deal with.

Properly titled Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
https://www.gog.com/game/leisure_suit_larry
archive.org free online version (1987)

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Display Driver Uninstaller

2016-08-20

dead, disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, proprietary software, software, utilities, Windows 10 software, Windows software

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-
https://www.wagnardsoft.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=5

A utility to completely remove one’s display drivers. Useful for being as thorough as possible, for the various cases where leftovers are making proper troubleshooting or reinstallation difficult.

I couldn’t get it to work.

aka DDU

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No Man’s Sky SSE testing

2016-08-16

dead, HOWTO, projects

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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