In Quick Menu -> Options, enable Advance GPU UNAI/PCSX4All Settings.Threaded Rendering option was only added in the past few weeks. In Quick Menu -> Options, set Threaded Rendering to Async.You will need to restart Retroarch to realize this setting change. In Quick Menu -> Options, set CD Access Method to Async.You will not notice a negative difference in 3D games. Disable Video Synchronization (unless you are playing a 2D game).Threaded audio was only added in the past few months and provides a meaningful performance boost. Compress your game to either CHD or PBP.Then you will need to enable the following settings. To get started, you will need to download a recent nightly of the PCSX Rearmed Retroarch core. The latest nightlies now run most PSX games at full speed, including demanding titles like Metal Gear Solid! Incredibly, there has been very little attention despite the huge improvements. Over the past six months, the situation has improved dramatically. 2D games generally performed better but overall playability varied significantly from title to title. Unfortunately, as anyone who tried it out could attest, the performance was still extremely spotty. There was a lot of attention in 2019 when the UNAI renderer was added to PCSX Rearmed, as it meaningfully improved the ability of 3DS owners to play PSX classics. Thanks to /u/MachMatic for creating the subreddit banner! Everything you do is your own responsibility, neither the subreddit mods/IRC ops, nor the guide makers nor any person helping out on the sub/IRC is responsible for your bricked system.įull boot9strap CFW Guide – everything you need to know to get a CFW installed on any version It will help us immensely dealing with them.ĭisclaimer: There is always the potential for an UNRECOVERABLE brick. Please report posts that you think break rules.Don't try to sell or self-promote illicit content or services.No sexual content involving minors, including animated/simulated content.Follow the Reddit Content Policy and reddiquette, which state:.or its subsidiaries and associates in any way. The N3DS XL is an absolute marvel and seems to be perfect for playing retro JRPGs.This is an unofficial community and not associated with Nintendo Co. While on the Device type setting press right on your D-Pad twice until it says dualshock.Īfter applying these tweaks, Chrono Cross runs beautifully and is a joy to play.While in game open the menu and go to "Controls".Mįor good measure you may want to Restart Retroarch after making the last changes."ĬONTROLS (thanks to user Butch on this video: ) This option will only show up once you show Advanced GPU UNAI/PCSX4All Settings and then close and reopen the Quick Menu. In Quick Menu -> Options, Enable High-Res Downscaling. "you will need to enable the following settings. Is there another version available that works better for PSX games? Are there certain settings I should consider? Are the nightly builds worth trying?īTW: Great job on this, it's awesome so far.ĮDIT: Solved. I just downloaded what I think is the most stable recent build from here: Most of the time it hits 60fps, except for during battles and in the menus for some reason. The sound and music is slightly chipped when there are slowdowns. I have just tried my first hand at running PSX games, using Chrono Cross as my main subject.Ĭhrono Cross: So far fine, but not fluent enough for continuous play. Hacked it yesterday, have been experimenting with virtual console, 3ds roms. I just bought a new 3dsxl yesterday and have been going wild with it.
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It has acquired something of the smothering ubiquity of Big Brother himself: 1984 is watching you. The novel has inspired movies, television shows, plays, a ballet, an opera, a David Bowie album, imitations, parodies, sequels, rebuttals, Lee Harvey Oswald, the Black Panther Party, and the John Birch Society. Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory. It depends on you.” But every work of art escapes the artist’s control-the more popular and complex, the greater the misunderstandings. Orwell, fading fast, waded in with a statement explaining that the novel was not an attack on any particular government but a satire of the totalitarian tendencies in Western society and intellectuals: “The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one: Don’t let it happen. Conservative American reviewers concluded that Orwell’s main target wasn’t just the Soviet Union but the left generally. The struggle to claim 1984 began immediately upon publication, with a battle over its political meaning. The most interesting pages in The Ministry of Truth are Lynskey’s account of the novel’s afterlife. Wells, which Orwell read as a boy-and their dystopian successors in the 20th, including the Russian Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1924) and Huxley’s Brave New World(1932). Lynskey traces the literary genesis of 1984 to the utopian fictions of the optimistic 19th century-Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888) the sci-fi novels of H. According to Lynskey, “Nothing in Orwell’s life and work supports a diagnosis of despair.” The novel has acquired something of the smothering ubiquity of Big Brother himself. 1984 is crushingly grim, but its clarity and rigor are stimulants to consciousness and resistance. In fact, terminal illness roused in Orwell a rage to live-he got remarried on his deathbed-just as the novel’s pessimism is relieved, until its last pages, by Winston Smith’s attachment to nature, antique objects, the smell of coffee, the sound of a proletarian woman singing, and above all his lover, Julia. One of Lynskey’s contributions is to destroy the notion that its terrifying vision can be attributed to, and in some way disregarded as, the death wish of a tuberculosis patient. The biographical story of 1984-the dying man’s race against time to finish his novel in a remote cottage on the Isle of Jura, off Scotland-will be familiar to many Orwell readers. “History stopped,” Lynskey writes, “and Nineteen Eighty-Four began.” After Spain, just about everything he wrote and read led to the creation of his final masterpiece. “History stopped in 1936,” he later told his friend Arthur Koestler, who knew exactly what Orwell meant. It threatened his sense of what makes us sane, and life worth living. He was stoical about the boredom and discomforts of trench warfare-he was shot in the neck and barely escaped Spain with his life-but he took the erasure of truth hard. Orwell didn’t, exposing the lie with eyewitness testimony in journalism that preceded his classic book Homage to Catalonia-and that made him a heretic on the left. Left-wing journalists readily accepted the fabrication, useful as it was to the cause of communism. And in the Trump era, it’s a best seller. It is both a profound political essay and a shocking, heartbreaking work of art. You have to clear away what you think you know, all the terminology and iconography and cultural spin-offs, to grasp the original genius and lasting greatness of 1984. So when I recently read the novel again, I wasn’t prepared for its power. Since high school, I’d lived through another decade of the 20th century, including the calendar year of the title, and I assumed I already “knew” the book. In my 20s, I discovered Orwell’s essays and nonfiction books and reread them so many times that my copies started to disintegrate, but I didn’t go back to 1984. Neither the book nor its author stuck with me. I was too young and historically ignorant to understand where 1984 came from and exactly what it was warning against. Orwell’s novel was paired with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, whose hedonistic and pharmaceutical dystopia seemed more relevant to a California teenager in the 1970s than did the bleak sadism of Oceania. I first encountered 1984 in 10th-grade English class. It was also assigned reading for several generations of American high-school students. Rinoa is shocked when Krile can speak to animals and has many questions. Ashe is satisfied with the seriousness of her resolve, and Edgar is sure she will succeed after learning from past mistakes. When Ashe asks why Rinoa became a rebel and is still fighting, she explains her motives changed from fighting for the independence of one small town, to trying to protect the future alongside her friends. She asks Firion about his motives for joining the Returners and praises him for doing his all even in a different world. Rinoa and Tidus commiserate over having started their journeys as naive and immature. Although Rinoa doesn't reveal that she, too, has been feared for inheriting sorceress powers, she takes heart that others who share her problem have found happiness and can accept their powers because of their friends. Prishe finds it natural that her powers made her hated, and Terra relates how her friends helped her when she lost control of her Esper abilities. When she compliments Layle's Crystal power, it sparks a conversation about how different people's unique abilities have caused them to be feared or to fear themselves. Rinoa thanks him for his concern, but would much rather be with him, and assures she will be fine as long as they're together. Squall worries for her and is disappointed she's been involved in this new battle. When Squall spots her, she eagerly runs to join him. Although it is shocking, Rinoa resolves to do her best and fight alongside them. Rinoa is introduced to the others, Irvine among them, for a full explanation of her new circumstances. After defeating the monsters, she defuses Onion Knight's scolding through her cheerful thanks for watching her back. Despite their warnings, Rinoa orders them back to protect them. Before they can explain the situation, they are attacked by monsters. Rinoa chances upon Onion Knight and several others as they search for Laguna. She melts in Squall's presence and is a source of concern from his point of view. Ever the rebel, she charges headlong into a fight. Rinoa shows her playful personality and frequently makes jokes, being friendly with the other warriors. She wears a white dress, shoes, evening gloves hemmed with pink lace and a heart-shaped hairpin with white wings. Her second alternate costume is based on Valentine Rinoa ( ) from Pictlogica Final Fantasy. She wears an off-white halter dress with her signature necklace, along with matching heeled dancing shoes, and a bracelet on her right wrist. Her first alternate costume is the Party Dress, which is what she wears in cutscenes during the SeeD inauguration ball. Her dog, Angelo, is a black-tricolor Australian Shepherd who is her companion in battle. She gains a pair of wings in Angel Wing form and can hover over the ground. Rinoa wears a blue knit duster sweater over a black tank top and a denim button-up skirt, with black knee-high boots. 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Corporation A will be treated as 3 separate taxpayers, each requiring a separate Business Account Number and return.īusiness Account 1: 6 residential units in Building B īusiness Account 2: 5 residential units in Building C andīusiness Account 3: Commercial unit in Building C and the widget sales combined. a lessor of 5 residential units and 1 commercial unit in Building C andĪll activities listed above are in San Francisco.a lessor of 6 residential units in Building B.Lessors of residential real estate that earn gross receipts from business activities other than leasing residential real estate need to follow the general rules for those business activities. Lessors of residential real estate must make quarterly installment payments with respect to their rents from residential real estate for each individual building in which they lease 4 or more residential units, regardless of their annual San Francisco gross receipts. The GRT is based on a taxpayer's gross receipts attributable to business activities in San Francisco. The new GRT is imposed for the privilege of "engaging in business" in San Francisco, with certain exceptions. The measure phases in a Gross Receipts Tax (GRT) over a five-year period beginning January 1, 2014, and phases out the current 1.5% tax on business payrolls over the same period. San Francisco voters approved Proposition E in the Novemelection, an ordinance amending the San Francisco Business and Tax Regulations Code to enact a new Gross Receipts Tax Ordinance. Article: Gross Receipts Tax for Rental Property Owners with 4 rentals in a single building You can which browsers and operating systems to test on. Browserstackīrowserstack Screenshots is a useful tool I use when testing websites cross-browser. This is a wider tool suite than the desktop version, which I like. When you are done, tap the green tick, then the Save link. Or tap the button and choose from an existing screenshot, which you can then annotate. Input the URL of the page in the box and click Go. You can choose to capture a full page or part of a page, then annotate it. To take a screenshot, tap the Screenshot button in the icon row. Scroll across the second row of icons starting with Add Bookmark and tap More.To activate the Safari extension, you need to do the following: There are two ways to use it – through the app natively, or through the Safari extension. You can then annotate it using the inbuilt tools and save it. Open Dolphin browser and navigate to the page you want to capture.Īwesome Screenshot for Safari is a free iPhone and iPad app which lets you to take a screenshot of a full web page.Using both, you can capture all or part of a page. You can capture whole web pages using the Dolphin Browser for Android with the Dolphin Screen Cut add-on, both available free from the Play Store. Annotate your screenshot if you wish using the Marker tool.If you have selected an area, click the Take Screenshot button. Select if you want to capture the whole page, the visible part or a selection.I’ve tested it in both and it works really well. Desktop browser extensions for taking full page screenshots Awesome Screenshot: Screen capture, AnnotateĪwesome Screenshot is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. I have now discovered some new tools which make the process much easier.
You're probably thinking I have heard of an xylophone, what is special about this one? Well, this one features stunning hand-painted flowers on top, and underneath it has resonance chambers made from naturally carved gourds. The traditional Ruan has an ivory fretboard, but this has been swapped for steel in more modern models. This instrument was initially made with 13 frets and silk strings, but the modern Ruan is made with steel strings and 24 frets with 12 semitones per string. The Ruan is a type of lute with a fretted neck, a circular body and four strings. This instrument has been around in Chinese culture for over 9,000 years and remains a popular, lightweight instrument for the Chinese population to learn to this day. This flute is often carved from white or coloured bamboo and has a tissue-thin membrane made from reed. The Dizi is a traditional Chinese flute that has been played in the Chinese orchestra for centuries. Our honky horn is the best and we always test it before sending it out. With customers complaining that it doesn’t make a noise. The source of where you get your honky horn is very important, as there is a cheaper copy of this item online that is defective. You could use this instrument as a sound effect in your music. Making a loud noise with these is simple, just squeeze the balloon shaped rubber handle. The classic horn is cheap to buy and is a replica of an old classic. The horn from India features a rubber handle and solid metal frame. It would suit a festival scene or school music class. It may feature a unique look in your music video or perhaps the sound will take you to the circus. This retro Indian brass bulb horn is somewhat a classic, it has a vintage look and when squeezed sounds like one of those horns that come from a clowns car, or nose. As a result, this produces a much more high pitched sound to the traditional Taiko. The drum heads are taught thanks to the construction process where they are stretched over iron hoops, then the body, then bound to each other. The Shine Daiko is a small drum with broad drum heads. The sound is darker and more penetrative, this is one of the smallest Tarka flutes but they do come in many sizes. In fact, it is more of a recorder, although it is much shorter than the regular type which means that it will require more breath to play. This is a word used to describe the traditional way of making the instrument. The word ‘Tarka’ is of Hungarian origin and translates in English to ‘accurate’. The flute is easy to play but difficult to play well. Each flute is colourful and has a different carving. The hand carved Peruvian Tarka flute is an unusual woodwind instrument that is made by the tribes people of Peru. It features a drum resonator on the bottom of the instrument, usually made from a snakeskin membrane, and it can be played as a solo instrument or used as part of a small or large orchestra. The Erhu is a type of violin but looks very different from a conventional model. A gobijeu is made from thick bamboo, wood, rope and recycled plastic. Kids and beginner instrumentalists will love experimenting with it and will enjoy exploring its capabilities. Stand away from the competition and do something different! Not just for professionals, these are a great instrument for general fun. This multicoloured Indian instrument is fantastic for sound designers that work in TV and film, but also for music producers who are looking for something unusual for their next hit single. We have assorted gobijeus in a variety of colours, each one is finished in a hand painted dot design. Whilst plucking the string you can create some natural phasing sounds that is amplified by the bottom chamber to create resonance. As the pitch can be adjusted by the wooden dowel, this allows for some intense creativity. This one is similar to the guitar but features only 1 string that can be adjusted whilst playing to create something out of this world. GobijeuĪn extremely unique stringed musical instrument from India. Below you will be able to discover the most unusual music instruments that are found throughout different cultures and whilst all of our products are unique, these ones that I have selected are by far the most different. We aim to show you the finest selection of instruments and explain just what they offer. So with that in mind, we take a look at the lesser-known instruments from around the world. However, within mainstream music, it is rare that these instruments ever get the attention they deserve, and m any of them look like alterations of flutes or combinations of other instruments found in the western world. In fact, the world is full of unusual musical instruments that have been crafted and perfected over centuries and are instantly recognisable in their respective regions. When you think of musical instruments you likely imagine a guitar or piano, but those are just the basics. You did mention, “I’ve just recently bought her a Chromebook, which she uses to check email and surf the web.” So if she is not surfing or checking emails with the Windows & she should be OK. You do not have to update the OS if you do not want to. One of the vectors into a PC is a 3rd party program like, Java, A Flash, A reader that is not updated. If Flash is needed for it to play on your Windows 7 you SHOULD get the latest version of Flash. This was mentioned by Alex, “Your mom can play the game online using Chrombook (the game requires Flash)”. Pkorvn, PKC has some good ideas, you should examine them, as does GTP. Simply drag-&-drop the game’s SWF onto the Projector’s open window to load the game. Last but not least, it is of course possible to use Adobe Flash Player Projector to play Flash games whlist disconnected from the internet, as long as one has the full SWF file (& not a small launcher-type SWF). Screenshots of the Bookworm “Classic” online Flash game as loaded in Adobe Flash Player Projector in Win 7. Wait for the game’s screen to load (this may take a couple of seconds).If prompted by the firewall, allow flashplayer_XX_sa.exe to access the internet.Menu: File > Open (or: just press CTRL-O).To play the online Bookworm “Classic” Flash game using Adobe Flash Player Projector: from flashplayer_32_sa.exe to flashplayer_33_sa.exe), delete the older version to prevent file clutter. Remember to check the Adobe page periodically for updates. To minimize internet-exposure time for Mom’s old laptop, you can download the Projector using another PC, & transfer it to Mom’s old laptop using a USB thumbdrive - eg. Nevertheless, if one wishes to play the online “ Classic” version (& expose a vulnerable PC to the internet during possibly hours-long gameplay), instead of using a web browser (many of which will stop supporting Flash in the near future), one can instead download the standalone, no-install Adobe Flash Player Projector. Internet connection is not necessary for gameplay. To play the full Deluxe version, use a working EXE or ISO installer to install the game on the PC - as indicated in my previous comments here. This is how the menu of the full Bookworm Deluxe looks like. Note: So far, all the online Flash versions that I’d seen labelled as “ Bookworm Deluxe” on their respective host webpages are apparently the “ Classic” version. Its SWF Flash binary is identical to the copy hosted at site:ĩ19.96 KB, MD5: 1B2549DB4DF48DA454F58BD8C8A41333 Your mom can play the game online using Chrombook (the game requires Flash) Īn alternative HTTPS site that also hosts Bookworm: I know that come January there will be no more patching, hence the Chromebook for her email and surfing, etc. Would it be “safe” for me to not update her Toshiba anymore, and for her to still play her beloved game? I’m not very computer savvy, and worry that her laptop being connected to the internet for a few hours each day while she plays may open her up to bad things if it’s not patched every month. I’ve been continuing to do them because in order to play Bookworm it apparently needs to be connected to the internet, even though it’s been loaded onto the laptop via the installation disc. My question – I’d like to stop with the monthly MS updates on the Toshiba. The only thing she uses the Toshiba laptop for is to play the Bookworm game since it can’t be loaded onto the Chromebook. She has an old Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 and I’ve just recently bought her a Chromebook, which she uses to check email and surf the web. We have the disc to install it from and over the years, have re-installed it a few times when it mysteriously disappears. My Mom, in her late 80’s, is a devoted fan of the old “Bookworm Deluxe” game by Pop Cap. Instead, score is based off of how many bubbles pop at a time.Īnother thing of note is that in this game there is a counter at the bottom of the screen. Unlike the first game the bubbles will not fall into a numbered grid. It contains a colored bubble that when fired into two or more of the same color bubble touching one another, will pop and form a combo. Unlike the ordinal, there is no aiming line in this one, meaning players will have to aim using their own wits.īubbles are fired from the launcher at the bottom of the screen. Like the original Bubble Shooter, Bubble Shooter Extreme is about launching bubbles, popping bubbles, and keeping the bubble cluster from touching the ground which will mean a game over. Let's take a look at what makes Extreme Bubble Shooter special. Unlike the original, this version requires even more carful planning, and has less of a luck element involved in boosting up the score while avoiding a game over. Here you will see the bubbles and the shooter.Įxtreme Bubble Shooter is a game that has a lot in common with normal Bubble Shooter, however, there are enough differences that may make people want to play this one instead if they want a greater challenge. Click on Play game to start the game, you will go directly to the game itself. In this video you can see the classic gameplay of bubble shooter extreme. The variety of bubbles in bubble shooter extreme Clear the field with as much points as you can possibly score! This is the most exreme bubble shooter version you can think of. Release or click to shoot the bubble where you want it to go. Aim by holding the mouse button or pressing the screen. Shoot the bubbles with your mouse or tap on your screen. Now many years later it is republished as a html5 game that works on any browser and on any device. Historyīubble shooter extreme was first launched as flash game is 2008. Once you are game over you see your score. The game features colorful bubbles, there are no options you can set. Some bubbles are 2 colored, you can pop them with both colors connecting. If you hit the nuclear bubble you will remove all bubbles with that color. If you pop a bomb all connected bubbles will explode. Bubbles extreme is fun and easy to play.You can kill some time right away, just start the game and start popping those extreme bubbles. This is extreme bubble shooter, the most extreme bubble shooter game that exists, fast moving gameplay and extra objects like bombs and other powerups. How do I import all 64 patches at once to my System-8? It seems that I only can import one patch at one time. – If I export a set of patches from the System-8 to the SD card, one file with all the patches is created. – obviously by exporting the sounds, the *.TXT file with the names is not created and so the System-8 does not recognize the *.s8p file. Since I have my System-8 in another rooms, I want to use the SD card to “move” the sounds from the DAW to my System-8. The 64 patches were exported by use the export function of the PlugIn on my DAW. Without success, I tried to load a complete set of patches for the System 100 PlugOut into my System-8. These functions can also be used when naming patches and performances. Switch between upper/lower case and numeric When naming files there are a couple of shortcuts that can be used so that you do not need to keep turning the VALUE knob in order to insert or delete characters. The files themselves are not readable in programs such as Notepad or Wordpad, but each file that is backup or exported is saved with a text file that details what is in the saved file. In PERFORMANCE mode, exported files have a file extension of *.s8f.Multiple patches are exported as a single file. In PATCH mode, exported files have a file extension of *.s8p and are 17KB for each patch exported.The backup files contain all the patches for the System-8, Plug-outs 1, 2 and 3 plus the Performance data. Backup files have a file extension *.bin and are approximately 4.3MB in size.As the files stored on the SD card are quite small, a 32GB card is going to take some time to fill! I’m currently using a Sandisk SDHC 32GB card without any problems. Any generic SD card should work in the System-8. The SD card in the System-8 can be used to backup all patch and performance banks as one file and also export individual patches and performance setups. Press twice to leave the menu and return to PATCH/PERFORMANCE mode.Īny changes made to the SYSTEM settings can be saved by pressing and using the cursor buttons until the display reads SYSTEM. Use the cursor buttons again until the display reads LED Demo and adjust the knob until the display reads OFF. The other Power-on modes, such as used on the System-1, TB-3 and MX-1 for functions like turning off the Screen Saver, are no longer required as they are available via the button, mostly under the SYSTEM menu.įor instance, to turn off the Screen Saver mode on the System-8, press then use the cursor buttons to scroll thru the options until the dislay reads SYSTEM and press. DO NOT copy any files in here other than those supplied by Roland for the System-8! This will open the System-8 drive on the connected PC. Press and hold the KEY TRIG button whilst turning on the System-8. The System-8 only appears to have single power on mode that allows updates to the firmware. The site's leading blogger, the pseudonymous "Ace of Spades," has also appeared as a guest expert on Fox News, although it is quite rare for him to make media appearances. It has been quoted, mentioned, referenced or linked by The Wall Street Journal,Fox News, CNN,National Review, The Weekly Standard, and many notable online magazines/blogs, as well as on the floor of the US House of Representatives. His goal is to serve the Knight by protecting the Eastern Fountain and invading the world with darkness, thus making the Darkners the rulers of it. He is the father of Lancer, and one of the four kings of the Card Kingdom. The company also manufactures wood splitters, firewood elevators and firewood trailers, fencing spades, deer loppers and power floats. 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