infrequent delusions of grandeur
Archive for August, 2008
Trivia
Aug 18th
The Shakespeare has ribs again!
Well it has been over a year since I was there last. I checked. So naturally the menu has been updated.
Also, the trivia kicked it old-style! This guy is the best host going. Although the questions were a bit of a case of deja vu, I did not mind since I got a second crack at the Robert Goulet music question. Yes!!
We were in second place at the half-way mark. I bailed before the results so I don’t know if we clawed back the 4 point difference.
Custom Layout
Aug 15th
Still incredibly busy with work and it looks like my CPU will be pegged well into September. *sigh*
However, I have still managed some non-work related activities. Aside from going to see the Incredible Hulk, the Dark Knight and the new X-Files movie, and as well as catching up completely on Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica and Lost, I produced a custom layout for the old MAME cab project (shown left).
I suppose I should mention that I changed tack with this project recently. I was always under the impression that operating under DOS would produce better performance with this thing. So I had a copy of DOS MAME and loaded everything with ArcadeOS as a menu. I had old DOS compatible graphics and sound cards and it worked ok even if only in certain resolutions, but I wasn’t 100% happy.
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