the goal of this game is to outdo each other by posting huge pictures of ever greater curbstomps of the previous poster's ship.

things quickly get out of control if left on their own...

if a ship isn't proven destroyed the person owning it can demonstrate it's non destroyed-ness

see: https://sites.google.com/site/obsmemorial/ for the history of the original.

and now to start.

ahem...

I Spooky Zalost Declare war on the universe!

for my first strike I will destroy Poland from the into space thread!





Who shall dare take on the terrible planet destroying ship I have deployed! muahahahaha

So I've been playing CSL for some time now. I got a little tired of the cartoonish look of the default style, so I started using custom ones. The Brooklyn style is, by far, my favorite. I use it heavily for areas that are outside of my CBD/Downtown areas, but still inter-city enough to need an urban look.

Check this page on Steam for what these districts look like. I'd share my own, but they are cranked all the way down on the graphics settings, so the official screenshots are better. 

Anyway, it's all low-density which is the downside. High density won't grow in districts defined as brooklyn styles. But I find that this gives a lot of extra character to more urbanized parts of the city. 

See this collection for adding this one into your own cities. There are plenty of other great ones as well. Let us know what styles you prefer!

With the release of the Polymega I wanted to talk a bit about this concept and how cool it is.



see the polymega is a modular console that emulates other consoles, plug in a module and you can play genesis games, plug in another and you can play SNES games, or Turbographics 16, or whatever.

what's cool is that this isn't the first time this was tried.

I give you the Pioneer Laseractive.



It had a few different modules but how this differs from the polymega is interesting because it doesn't emulate consoles, unlike the polymega which is one device that emulates consoles with modular passthrough modules, the pioneer laseractive is a laserdisc player with an expansion bay that contains compact versions of consoles.

I know it's weird right?

here's the most interesting part though, it's not just console modules, it also has a computer interface module and a karaoke module.

2 different approaches to the same result, a device that can be multiple consoles in one unit.

I've been tinkering with this specific idea for a while but I've not come up with anything to show for it yet...

see what's special about the PAC-S10 (Genesis Module), is that it's actually 2 devices, it's a Sega genesis compressed down, and a secondary sega CD board which actually sends and receives the CD commands from the laseractive main unit, meaning it actually handles the CD commands through an external device.

this is not really possible for the average person but it's sort of like this...

see I'm thinking what would happen if you took a genesis board, and changed the outputs so that the power and RGB connector plug into an interface, the cartridge and two controller ports go to the front, and you re-route the sega CD expansion board so that you have a front loading SeGA cd setup beneath it as one compact device which plugs into the interface.

it'd be similar to how the laseractive works only without the external CD drive module.

at least that's my thinking on it.

here's the original layout diagram of how it's connected.



if you take out the bottom bit it's the same as a Sega genesis + sega CD without the CD drive mechanism.

Theoretically you could take this a bit further though with the DIY concept.

if you were to place a programmable microcontroller between the sega CD bus and a different CD drive (similar to the raspberry pi/Atapi controller project), you could at least in theory translate the control commands from the sega CD into atapi compatible ones allowing you to use a standard IDE drive and send the data from it to the Sega CD's CD input.

this would make it possible to use multiple consoles on one CD/DVD drive like the laseractive.
repeat as necessary.

what you would end up with is something sorta bulky but unique, a multi-console with cartridge ports and controller ports for various consoles, a single CD/DVD drive (slot loading?), and a computer power supply with inverter/controller boards on the interfaces to ensure the right voltage get's to the various consoles.

crazy? yes, impossible? nope.

just one of the ideas I've been thinking about since I first learned about the polymega and later the laseractive.

probably not going to act on it until I'm way more skilled but the idea is there for anyone interested.

as a side note, since SD to CD drive adapters exist, this might be another way to add additional functionality for if you don't have or want an actual disk drive... just tossing that out there.

I keep running across it. It seems like regular hosting, but they give you an admin panel ON TOP of the other administration panel. So it's more or less exactly what it sounds like. You pay for reseller hosting, and you set it up and sell it back to your own customers. 

What exactly is the point of this? I get it, you're creating a hosting company, but personally I would never want to host on something that was reseller hosting based. I'd rather just cut out the middle man and host with the provider directly. And I love Ramnode for that. I get a VPS directly, manage it myself, and there is no middle man at any stage of the process. The downside of course is that we don't get a cPanel and have to do everything from scratch.  

With reseller hosting, what is it generally used for? Is there a use case beyond just getting a quick little hosting company off the ground?

Here's a showdown... Google Docs used to be the de-facto option when it came to almost anything related to online office. Now, Office 365 is used at work, university, and a number of other places. 

Personally, I like it better, but I use Google Docs instead because it's easier to get it on more devices (and it's free). Of course, I have Office 365 for free from university, but that won't last much longer. 

What's your preference?

Makestation has officially hit 20,000 posts!

A big congratulations to the community, we could not have made it this far without you. Thank you all, for those that post a lot, and even for those that do more lurking. Its the combined community involvement that has made the Makestation community a great place to be.

This has been a great year for the forum so far. I look forward to seeing you all around during the next big milestone!

This is a new forum game. We're gonna build a skyscraper. The goal is to get to 100 floors. We count up, but we must state what's on the floor that we are building. Also, we're skipping the number 13 because real skyscrapers skip it too.  

I'll start us off: Floor 1: The lobby.

Hy Admins, after the Shoutbox doesn't quite fit the style, I tried to change that:

Open the theme template "index" and replace:
{$dvz_shoutbox}

with:
<table border="0" cellspacing="{$theme['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="{$theme['tablespace']}" class="tborder">
<tr>
<td class="trow1">{$dvz_shoutbox}</td>
</tr>
</table>
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/52261216

British motor racing legend Sir Stirling Moss has died at the age of 90 following a long illness.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time, even though he did not win the World Championship.

Moss retired from public life in January 2018 because of ongoing health problems.

"It was one lap too many, he just closed his eyes," said his wife Lady Moss.

Moss previously spent 134 days in hospital after suffering a chest infection while on holiday in Singapore in December 2016.

Is that a mistake when quoting the parentheses ?

Greets Tc4me

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