On mobile, I'm using the Voyager app, which lemmy.world has installed as an alternative front end. Seems to work great.
On desktop, I'm using the amazing Alexandrite UI (https://alexandrite.app/) which solves all of my interface annoyances with the regular Lemmy UI (infinite scroll, opening posts without losing place in the feed, easily accessible communities list).
I love how flexible Lemmy is proving with its UI options... there really does seem to be something for everyone!
Haven't used Bitwarden, but I've heard good things about it.
Until recently I was using Google Password manager and a half-hearted attempt a "system" for unique passwords. Luckily, I wised up and decided to raise my game... after a bit of research, I went with 1Password, and I've been very happy with it.
The integrations are okay, though not perfect. But the thing that has been most useful for me is the Watchtower stuff that basically gamified my security and forced me to change repeated or insecure passwords. I feel in much better shape now, and feel very confident in 1Password's encryption model. So, for me at least, it has been worth the money.
It's certainly a distinct look, and I say that as a Speccy person from way back.
It's weird, it's so often the case that the Spectrum version is the weakest graphically, but because of a few factors (faster CPU, slightly higher resolution) it had the most faithful feeling ports.
1997, I was 22, it was m68k on an 030 Amiga 1200... for some reason.
I seem to remember I had to buy an FPU to plug into my 030 accelerator, specifically to get this to run. I have no idea what I wanted it for, other than curiosity. I got it working, played around with it for ten minutes, then deleted the partition.
I tried Linux on and off many times after that, but always bounced off it. The last time, 2021, I installed Linux Mint and it has finally stuck.
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I guess that explains why they're going to such great lengths to convince us that talking about Game of Thrones around a water cooler is such a tremendous benefit to humankind...
I had the game back then too, but I don't remember anything about the main game either. I think I was the same as you - saw the racing mode, played the racing mode endlessly. Maybe it shot itself in the foot by having an easily accessible mode that teenage kids would naturally gravitate towards? :)
Thanks! It's a lot of fun to dig up all the old ports and play them.
I'm fascinated by the way the older ones in particular were basically completely different games... it's a far cry from these days where the main versions differ only in whether they're 1080p or 900p or something.
This was especially a problem with for ZX Spectrum owners... they were, shall we say, a little bit reluctant to show Speccy buyers exactly what they were getting.
Way ahead of you... I have about five devices stuffed with just about every game from before 2000 :)
Particular favourite is my MiSTer FPGA device, which does a lower level emulation than software emulation and tends to give extremely accurate results! Finally, I can be the nerdy 80s high school kid hooked on NES and hijincks that I always dreamed of being :)
Not really older games, since I grew up parallel to them, but I'm kind of jealous of the ubiquitous NES culture in the US in the mid-late 80s.
Consoles were a rarity in the UK till the 90s, and the Sega Mastersystem was largely the only game in town where I was before that. I didn't even see a NES in person till the 00s. Seeing ads in comics for NES games, or hints of NES Mario and Zelda in magazines was a rare glimpse into another world.
"Under The Skin" with Scarlet Johansson. It has easily the most low-key terrifying scene I've ever seen in a movie (the beach scene). And the whole film is the very definition of wtf.
I remember seeing Stunt Car Racer and Shadow of the Beast running on an Amiga for the first time, and being absolutely blown away. They were so far above anything my trusty Speccy could do, it was almost funny.
Of course, both these games would eventually come to the Spectrum (with varying degrees of success) but to say that it wasn't really the same would be a grotesque understatement.
On mobile, I'm using the Voyager app, which lemmy.world has installed as an alternative front end. Seems to work great.
On desktop, I'm using the amazing Alexandrite UI (https://alexandrite.app/) which solves all of my interface annoyances with the regular Lemmy UI (infinite scroll, opening posts without losing place in the feed, easily accessible communities list).
I love how flexible Lemmy is proving with its UI options... there really does seem to be something for everyone!