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The penguin is because Tux the penguin is Linux's mascot.
Penguins.... Hmmmm....
I was working on District 15 of the Guild City Community Project before I finally had to admit that waiting 30-45 minutes for gradient fills and save operations to complete just wasn't on, and I'd hit a brick wall with Win 10.
As part of the Guild City project we've been hiding Chashio's little dragon, Waldo, in our maps for a bit of fun.
A dragon AND penguins?
I'll have to think about that
Last edited by Mouse; 12-16-2017 at 01:29 PM.
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The penguin is because Tux the penguin is Linux's mascot.
Haha, well, maybe a few penguin feathers sticking out of Waldo's mouth?!
I hope Mint works better for you than Win10. There are other distros that are more light-weight than Mint, and so will use even less system resources, though they aren't quite as pretty. But... baby steps!
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
So I gathered. Cheerful little chappy isn't he
You know how getting bogged down in something like this is kind of depressing, and you don't feel at all hungry?
Well, now that its all working and I can carry on mapping...
I'm STARVING HUNGRY!
I just have to go and get some dinner! LOL!
EDIT: ninjad by ChickPea! Now, that feathers in the mouth idea is just BRILLIANT
And I'm glad I started with one of the easier distros! Jus tin case you are wondering it is at least 4 x as fast. Working on the very same City file just now it only took a couple of minutes to complete each Gradient fill as I adjusted the colours of the background, and only a couple of minutes to save the file.
I absolutely have to go and get some dinner now before I start chewing on my keyboard!
Last edited by Mouse; 12-16-2017 at 01:34 PM.
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No one is ever a failure until they give up trying
There used to be one that ran from a floppy disk. If it still exists it's probably not all that useful other than novelty value or running some diagnostics or similar these days.
Oh don't! I don't want to admit that I'm old enough to know what a floppy is!
But I have to confess to missing the large collection I had in all kinds of rainbow colours for my Atari 520ST
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What a heartwarming thread.Yes, I'm old enough to remember the ST (although I was an Amiga bloke). I'm also old enough to remember the ZX-81... am I the only person who used to play Mazogs for hours on end?
I became a Linux Mint convert a few years ago: when I bought a new laptop. It was pre-infected with Windows 8, and this was the original base-model Windows 8 before they patched it to semi-slightly-work. Well, Windows 8 lasted just under 3 minutes of actual use, and then it stayed on my machine about another 4 hours while I googled and browsed about working out how to install Linux. Then it went and I haven't run Windows since. (I do use Windows programs under a Windows emulator for Linux called Wine. Unfortunately I can't seem to make it run Wilbur.)
Reading your most recent post got me thinking ahead to when it's time for you to replace your machine.
About two months ago I bought a new desktop. I designed it from scratch as a specialist machine for a Linux-Mint-addicted RPG/worldbuilding nerd, and I got a firm in Cheshire called computerplanet.co.uk to make it and ship it to me. The box cost me just under £800, delivered to my door (and that price included both the monitors, so the box itself was what we Londoners call "well cheap") -- all I had to do was install the operating system and a couple of proprietary drivers. I can heartily recommend going about it that way rather than toddling along to Curry's and buying whatever rubbish they have on sale: it's not just that you get enormously more bang for your buck (although you do), it's also that you get components you know are going to play nicely with your operating system.
We ought to have a thread where we show our setups. Map-caves?
That sounds like a fun idea - making a map of your work cave and adding a short description of the tools in use (not too long). It might prove to be quite helpful for some of the newbies to know how specialised (or patched up and held together with string in my case) a lot of our systems really are
I found a new use for an odd sock the other day. Reception is pretty bad in this village, so I stuffed the dongle thing (its a wireless mobile gadget) in a pop sock (knee high stocking), made a small hole for the charger cable, and tied the sock around the curtain rail. Works really well
Last edited by Mouse; 12-17-2017 at 10:28 AM.
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No one is ever a failure until they give up trying
Just make sure you take your foot out of it first though
That's because WINE Is Not an Emulator. (Note that it's a self-referential acronym, just like Linux -- Linux Is Not UniX.)Originally Posted by Non Serviam
Rather Wine effectively provides a set of Windows system runtime calls which are translated into equivalent Linux system calls. Unfortunately, it seems that Wilbur uses system calls that WINE doesn't provide. In principle Wine could be enhanced to support Wilber, but someone would have to determine what's missing and implement it.
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