I think so. The other option is a UTV, or basically one of those side by sides with a truck bed. A few people use Kei trucks for the same purpose.
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Kei trucks are very cool, though horrible in an accident and ergonomics are generally⊠not great. Also I think some states have cracked down on them and made them impossible to register?
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Oh and âkeiâ isnât a specific brand or model, itâs a tax classification. Small dimensions, small displacement engines. Every Japanese manufacturer has several models of truck, van, and so on.
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anyone have 0-y-axis fps games on steam/gog to recommend? i.e games where you donât have to look up and down so plays decently on a keyboard
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âŠwhat? >_>
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ASIDE FROM THE OBVIOUS
I donât know if this version is 0 y-axis. The video seems to be played by someone using a mouse. But it was originally playable via keyboard like Doom.
does anyone know anything about wandering wonder studio, the developers of harpoon shooter nozomi?
I got an iPad Air to read comics and manga on. What other fun and cool things can you do on an iPad? My mental model for iPad use is pretty limited; I could go boomer mode and sit on a couch in a bathrobe playing with my iPad for an hour before announcing to all within earshot that my investments are up 3 percentage points and I just flipped a house, or I could go zoomer mode and watch âPregnant Elsa Dies at Dentistâ videos for hours at a time. But what is there to do for a millennial such as me?
I never thought Iâd be an iPad ownerâŠ
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I used my iPad mini for
- figure drawing
- Painting
- Note taking
- Sidecar for my MacBook
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I use my iPad almost explicitly to eliminate as much printing/paper waste as possible at work
also the aspect ratio of iPads make them really good emulation machines for 4:3 games
yeah, somehow Iâm telling you to play video games on your tablet that arenât phone games. wild shit, huh
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Ooh! what controllers are food for ipads? I kinda crave using a fight stick to make music.
Apple has native Xbox (Bluetooth, not wifi direct models)/Dualshock4 and Dualssense/Joycon (split and together) across the entire xOS stack and 8bitdo ships pads with specific iOS wireless modes. past that, youâll have to do some digging to see what works because I have no idea
I would assume something doing xinput or dinput over BT would work, but, well, Apple
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The iPad ports of Cave shmups are really good. With direct touch control, you can inch between bullets really finely, then suddenly swoop to the other side of the screen. It feels like they were somehow meant for this input scheme all along.
For other âmillennialâ videogames, I use my iPad as a Steam Remote Play and Sunshine client (including for emulation â I just kick off Retroarch on my PC and stream it over). For these, youâre likely going to want to buy some kind of stand to prop up your iPad while youâre holding the gamepad. I have one that holds it above my chest while Iâm lying on my back for maximum lazy mode.
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Those Cave ports were so fucking bad ass
Minterâs iOS games were fun too
I love Goat Up
i donât know if thatâs still available
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are primordial terminal games like hammurabi and star trek protected by copyright?
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Timing wise definitely yes unless their authors gave them up to the public domain.
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Their source code likely isnât because the common practice in those days was to publish in magazines without using a © mark, as part of the unique sharing-oriented culture of programmers at the time. Prior to 1978, you had to explicitly declare copyright to get protection. (As you likely know, under current law every work gets automatically protected, and the © mark is a vestigial habit.)
Of course Star Trek involves some trouble around trademarks/derivative work law of Gene Roddenberryâs IP. And specific compiled executables of them published after 1978 are probably under copyright â after it became necessary to publish a document to assign things to the public domain, the free software community started to use âcopyleftâ licenses instead.
EDIT: Although, the more I look into this, the more messy it looks actually. The magazine itself as a whole probably had a copyright notice, and many of the games were also published in books which were almost certainly copyrighted. Itâs maybe a legal gray area!
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OK conclusive answer: it turns out for those two specifically, the creator removed all ambiguity by assigning them explicitly to the public domain in 2022.
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ah, nice