A short history of my former and current PC hardware. Most of the information below was retrieved from an entry I made on March 8th, 2009. I have revised its contents and attached a few photographs. Yes, the new title is a reference to a Kraftwerk song.
#1. IBM (486/66MHz)
August, 1994
My first PC was a beast. 66MHz of raw computing power, 8 megabytes of memory enhancing RAM, 16-bits of surreal audio processing (Sound Blaster 16) and 2 megabytes of mind blowing onboard video memory. It could run Doom II: Hell on Earth at maximum settings. This PC was originally packaged with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1. Later, I upgraded to Windows 95. "Where do you want to go today?"
IBM in 1995
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Dot-com Babble
Due to financial realities, SpaceRuckus.com is no longer host to Space Ruckus: The Official Site and Forum. I, for one, am a proponent of preservation. Beginning a year ago this month, the robots.txt was disabled to allow Archive.org a full snapshot of the site contents. It can be found in the attachment below.
SpaceRuckus.com, itself, will redirect here (TheGrigPost.Blogspot.com) until further notice. If such a time comes as another project is in development, it may redirect elsewhere. Thank you to those who remained loyal over the years. It was a road filled with personal and professional turmoil. A less heart driven individual may have just scrapped everything a long time ago... in a galaxy far, far away. Live long and prosper, everyone!
Space Ruckus: The Official Site (Archive.org)
Space Ruckus on the World Wide Web:
Blogspot • Facebook • GoDaddy Photo Album • Internet Archive • YouTube
SpaceRuckus.com, itself, will redirect here (TheGrigPost.Blogspot.com) until further notice. If such a time comes as another project is in development, it may redirect elsewhere. Thank you to those who remained loyal over the years. It was a road filled with personal and professional turmoil. A less heart driven individual may have just scrapped everything a long time ago... in a galaxy far, far away. Live long and prosper, everyone!
Space Ruckus: The Official Site (Archive.org)
Space Ruckus on the World Wide Web:
Blogspot • Facebook • GoDaddy Photo Album • Internet Archive • YouTube
Monday, February 8, 2016
Life is Strange Review
Life is strange.
One moment, we are in the age of innocence, caught up in high school drama. The next, we are on our own, bearing witness to the harsh realities of life. Death is an ever more frequent occurrence. Most of us would give anything to just go back to a simpler time. Would we make the same choices or risk changing everything? What tragedies could have been prevented, what friendships saved. Not every choice is black and white, however. Many of them are morally debatable.
Life is Strange is filled with such choices. Choices that will test your sense of judgement. It seems easy enough in Episode 1 when everything is just high school drama, but just wait until the later episodes. Life is Strange will grab you by the "lady balls" and not let go. In the end, you will be faced with one of the toughest choices in video game history. Neither choice results in a perfect outcome. One look at the community page reveals a very divided fan base. Everyone is quick to defend their choices.
As I was saying before, not every choice is black and white. If life's choices were so easily spelled out, we might never learn anything. Everything is, ultimately, open to perspective. Speaking for myself, I always learned more from personal experience than I did from instruction.
Max riding the bus, more than likely pondering her next decision.
One moment, we are in the age of innocence, caught up in high school drama. The next, we are on our own, bearing witness to the harsh realities of life. Death is an ever more frequent occurrence. Most of us would give anything to just go back to a simpler time. Would we make the same choices or risk changing everything? What tragedies could have been prevented, what friendships saved. Not every choice is black and white, however. Many of them are morally debatable.
Life is Strange is filled with such choices. Choices that will test your sense of judgement. It seems easy enough in Episode 1 when everything is just high school drama, but just wait until the later episodes. Life is Strange will grab you by the "lady balls" and not let go. In the end, you will be faced with one of the toughest choices in video game history. Neither choice results in a perfect outcome. One look at the community page reveals a very divided fan base. Everyone is quick to defend their choices.
As I was saying before, not every choice is black and white. If life's choices were so easily spelled out, we might never learn anything. Everything is, ultimately, open to perspective. Speaking for myself, I always learned more from personal experience than I did from instruction.
Max riding the bus, more than likely pondering her next decision.
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