Mega-ZBlog

I have found that the latest movie has more than a passing resemblance to a classic PC game which unfortunately is a bit hard to get working on modern PCs. Somehow it magically started working again on my PC (not sure what I did) so I’ve been playing through it again.
While talking on IRC [...]

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I found this neat game called Guardian of Paradise. It’s obviously Zelda-influenced, although it has some very nice new ideas mixed into it. There is no main overworld though, and the idea of dungeons is a bit blurred; basically, every place you go is a new level.

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Some updates to previous posts, and some new stuff.

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I will have my Wii on Friday, when I go home for spring break!
However my TV tuner is not working satisfactory on Vista.  I will have to boot into XP and Ubuntu to see if it’s limited to there… I should probably just get a new one or some sort of Composite->VGA adapter [...]

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I just stuck ZZT and Super ZZT onto my flash drive… can’t believe I’d forgotten about them. They’re old DOS games that run fine under XP… and are still fun to edit with even today. I should also stick the latest MegaZeux 2.8x branch on there too, later, although MZX games actually have [...]

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Yesterday I was playing the Suicide Barrels gamemode for Garry’s Mod 10… most fun I’ve had online in a long time! I highly recommend jumping into a server with it. Note: You don’t need to download SB from that link unless you want to run a server… if you’re a client just join [...]

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So I went Wii hunting today… came back with a Wiimote and a nunchuck, but no Wii. Word has it GameStop and Toys-R-Us are getting some Sunday… I’m gonna camp out at GameStop for an hour and hopefully get one.
[15:08:49] <.Caitlyn> So.. you’re gonna wait it out next Wii-kend?
[15:08:55] [.MZZT] precisewii!

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Where is my Wii?  I’ve been trying to get one since November.  I have Zelda already… but I can’t find a Wii!  Argh!

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