Skip to main content

Games!

Have you ever wanted to own a good-quality computer game?

Give Paul a call on 0408133915 to ask him about his huge collection.

He’s closing up his shop (CannonFire) in Rosebery & moving up near Burnie to get married. As well as more than a cubic metre of games, he’s got a few computers & monitors for sale as well.

The games, he can mail out — or probably drop off anywhere between Rosebery & Burnie. They’re a huge collection, more titles than I can possibly remember, genuine originals complete with packaging & holograms etc. He tells me that they start from $5 apiece, but they range on up to top-level stuff, too.

Oh, yes, Paul started life as a sandgroper, and so did the engineer (of the stick-welder type) who dropped in while I was chatting with Paul in his shop in Rosebery. The shop & quite a nice house are for sale as well.

If you prefer digital comms, try Paul’s business name @ WestNet.com.au as he is taking his ADSL from Rosebery up to Burnie-ish as he moves.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

new life for an old (FTX) PSU, improved life for one human

the LEDs on this 5m strip happen to emit light centred on a red that does unexpectedly helpful things to (and surprisingly deeply within) a human routinely exposed to it. it has been soldered to a Molex connector, plugged into a TFX power supply from a (retired: the MoBo is cactus) Small Form Factor PC, the assorted PSU connectors (and loose end from the strip) have been taped over. the LED strip cost $10.24 including postage, the rest cost $0, the PSU is running at 12½% of capacity, consumes less power than a laptop plug-pack despite running a fan. trial runs begin today.
Post a Comment
Read more

every-application-is-part-of-a-toolkit at work

I have a LibreOffice Impress slideshow that I wish to turn into a narrated video. 1. export the slideshow as PNG images (if that is partially broken — as at now — at higher resolutions, Export Directly as PDF then use ‘pdftoppm’ (from the poppler-utils package) to do the same). 2. write a small C program (63 lines including comments) to display those images one at a time, writing a config file entry for Imagination (default transition: ‘cross fade’) based on when the image-viewer application (‘display,’ from the GraphicsMagick suite) is closed on each one; run that, read each image aloud, then close each image in turn. 3. run ‘Imagination’ over the config file to produce a silent MP4 video with the correct timings. 4. run ‘Audacity’ to record speech while using ‘SMPlayer’ to display the silent video, then export that recording as a WAV file. 4a. optionally, use ‘TiMIDIty’ to convert a non-copyright-encumbered MIDI tune to WAV, then import that and blend it with the speech (as a quiet b...
1 comment
Read more

boundaries

pushing the actual boundaries of the physical (not extremes, the boundaries themselves) can often remove barriers not otherwise perceived. one can then often resolve an issue itself, rather than merely stonewalling at the physical consequences of the issue.
Post a Comment
Read more