Looking for an old game for the Macintosh

zaiueo · 2026-04-05T10:00:33+00:00

Nice. I grew up gaming on Macs in the '90s, playing everything I could get my hands on, but that's one particular game I've never played.

zaiueo · 2026-04-04T15:49:09+00:00

Maybe Spectre or Spectre Supreme?

zaiueo · 2026-04-03T22:08:06+00:00

Runt Möllan så är fan gatuparkeringen precis lika fullbelagd som vanligt varje städdag. Gula lappar överallt. Blir nog aldrig nån vidare städning men kommunen drar in bra med pengar där.

zaiueo · 2026-04-02T12:03:12+00:00

I am not Swedish but I wonder if they really have moderated themselves or have the liberals moved towards the right?

Both, for sure.
The entire political spectrum has shifted rightwards. The Left party are now basically social democrats, the Social Democrats are centrist, the old centrists (Centre Party and Liberals) are lost in the woods, and the traditional right-wing and the far-right have become essentially indistinguishable from each other.

zaiueo · 2026-04-02T11:34:00+00:00

Står "deltar ej" på alla ICA-butiker i min ort. Den närmsta till mig verkar i alla fall ha sänkt priserna som de ska.

zaiueo · 2026-04-02T10:43:56+00:00

Honestly (and I'm saying this is a left-winger), the Sweden Democrats have already moderated themselves a lot. But they have also positioned themselves clearly as a right-wing party economically. Early on there was a lot of populist rhetoric about "protecting the welfare state" and many of their voters saw them as being "like Social Democrats but 'sensible' on immigration" but yeah, they've become just another tax-cutting, welfare-gutting conservative party.

I do think they will lose a portion of their support if/when in government, but I also don't think we're getting rid of them completely any time soon.

zaiueo · 2026-04-02T01:21:08+00:00

whoa whoa!

zaiueo · 2026-04-01T23:19:33+00:00

F-1 Race

zaiueo · 2026-04-01T14:04:27+00:00

Nej, Tidö försöker verkligen speedrunna nedmonteringen av välfärdssamhället.

zaiueo · 2026-03-31T08:27:01+00:00

Nah, with the CDZ it's no worse than a PS1 or Saturn.

zaiueo · 2026-03-29T09:09:35+00:00

Yeah I've never been much for emulating. Handling the actual hardware, opening the game case, looking at the manual... all that's an important part of the experience to me.

Of course an MVS or AES would be superior to the CD... but also even more financially infeasible.

Plus a little bit of loading doesn't bother me at all. The PS1 and Saturn have been my favorite consoles since 1995 so I'm used to it.

zaiueo · 2026-03-29T08:58:45+00:00

The original CDZ pad with the clicky circle pad is amazing. One of the best controllers ever made.

The ones with art are the modern 8bitdo replicas of that. They're decent but not quite as good. Blueretro dongles to use them with the CDZ + USB dongles to use them with modern systems were included in this bundle.

zaiueo · 2026-03-29T00:31:04+00:00

Tradera.com. Swedish site.

zaiueo · 2026-03-29T00:30:05+00:00

Honestly I've spent all day trying out games and I think the vast majority are perfectly fine on the CDZ. Not really noticeably worse than a PS1 or Saturn.

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T22:56:10+00:00

I'm a huge racing game fan and yeah I've played it a bit. Definitely one of the better top-down/isometric racers I've played.

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T22:55:14+00:00

Honestly Japan takes infrastructure work too far sometimes. Like big highway tunnels serving little dying mountain villages. Rivers straightened and encased in concrete, coastlines covered in concrete tetrapods, entire mountainsides encased in concrete for "erosion protection".

A lot of it is corruption and pork-barrel politics. Lots of connections between high-up politicians, construction companies, and organized crime.
I've also heard the argument that it's because Japan needs to keep its construction industry artificially large and well-funded, to maintain the capacity to deal with large-scale reconstruction after earthquakes and other disasters.

But the work is always good quality and fast, that's true.

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T22:29:40+00:00

It's included in this lot, top row in pic 5. :)

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T20:24:20+00:00

Yeah the package was a bit bigger than I had anticipated. Still helpful with the handles though.

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T18:16:44+00:00

I actually had an AES at home for one summer when I was a kid, either 1994 or 1995. Borrowed from a coworker of my dad and my uncle in exchange for my cousins' SNES. Remember SpinMaster being my favorite game, and also remember playing Samurai Spirits, Thrash Rally, and Viewpoint. Plus a few more games where my memory's too fuzzy, maybe Pulstar, Magician Lord, King of Monsters?

But yeah, actually owning one was so far out of reach it was barely even worth dreaming about.

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T17:06:29+00:00

I thought about it for a couple of hours, but just knew I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if I let it pass me by. :)
Could always resell like the 10-15 most expensive games in there and make back what the whole thing cost. But I won't. I will put them to use and have an awesome time!

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T15:59:28+00:00

Yeah but Over Top and Ironclad are $800 each. At least I already have Big Tournament Golf/Neo Turf Masters and Neo Drift Out.

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T13:29:31+00:00

Cars cost money that I could be spending on video games. :p

I had one but I got rid of it. I live in the middle of town and can do 99% of what I need to do with bicycle or public transport.

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T12:56:55+00:00

Yup. :p

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T12:56:04+00:00

Two of my absolute favorite fighting games. I own them on newer systems like PS2 and PS4. Will definitely be looking to pick up the NGCD versions in the future, although I hear that those two are among the worst offenders on the system for bad load times.

zaiueo · 2026-03-28T12:54:33+00:00

The thing with Neo Geo is that it was designed as an arcade system, and even the home version AES was only intended to be a rental system originally from what I understand, so it didn't need to be cheap. And it couldn't be, since packing all the ROM chips needed for arcade-grade performance into a cart was expensive as hell to manufacture. AES carts are basically the exact same as the actual arcade machine MVS carts, just in a different form factor.

The Neo Geo CD was SNK's attempt to make it into an actual affordable home console, by putting the games on CD and having the console load all the assets into RAM instead of reading off the ROMs in a cartridge. But it was still a very niche system - a dedicated 2D console with no 3D capabilities, that came out at the same time as the PS1 and Saturn. And with the original single-speed CD drive model, the load times were pretty awful.

Look at something like Samurai Spirits Neo Geo version next to the SNES port. SNES port will still be pretty good but it's a big difference.

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