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We've made it to another weekend, folks — the last one before Christmas, in fact, which feels like something of an achievement this year. 2020 is nearly over! Not that 2021 is immediately going to be magically better or anything, but at least things seem to be moving in the right direction as time goes on. We shall have to wait and see what happens with… everything.
This weekend I'm going to be doing some recording. I had a bunch of stuff all planned out, but I happened to see a tweet announcing that Fractalus, a remake of Atari 8-bit classic Rescue on Fractalus, has finally reached its 1.0 release, so I'm going to squeeze that in for a short;Play video. I freaking love Rescue on Fractalus, and this ambitious remake, which has been ten years in the making, was put together with input from several of the original developers. I had a quick go earlier and was very impressed; it provides an experience remarkably close to what the cover art of the original 8-bit release promised!
There'll be some Dreamcast stuff in the coming weeks, too, now that I'm getting a few games for it. Had a couple of attempts at Sega Rally 2 earlier, but something about the disc keeps causing the console to reset. Perhaps a minor scratch or nick somewhere; I'll give it a (careful) clean and try it again over the weekend. Both Tee Off and Tokyo Highway Challenge seem to work fine, so it appears to be a Sega Rally 2 think, not a Dreamcast thing. Hopefully. That poor old Dreamcast is a temperamental little beast, but I do love it so.
I'm hoping my original Xbox will arrive over the weekend, too, as I'm getting a bit of a hankering to play some of the games I've picked up recently, and to see how they look through RGB SCART and upscaled. I think I've figured out where I can squeeze the damn thing into the increasingly crowded space around my TV, too, so that's something.
The day job is starting to wrap up some projects now, too. I have an irritating bit of Photoshopping to do before I have my Christmas holidays from Thursday next week, but other than that, most things are in hand, and I can enjoy my time off without guilt. And then, not long after that, I get to start my new gig, too. Exciting times.
Anyway, hope you've all had a bearable week. Take care of yourselves and have a pleasant weekend.
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