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Just a little post saying my hosting has been renewed for another 2 years. Which, as of today, makes us 4 years old! Huzzah!

Also I’m still working on Tormi. Just having a couple of holidays is all. I’ll be fully back in action in a few weeks.

Purchase

Tormishire: Chapter 1 OST just released! 27 full-length tracks from me and MrPineapple that span the whole first Tormishire chapter. Enjoy!

Sample tracks (mono, shortened)

Intro
Bugboss
Thermal
Astral
Lostvillage

Track listing-
Menu
Intro
Title
Welcome
Lost Children
Queen Bug
Factory Village
We Need Help
The Miners
Level One
Mincing Around the Castle
We Begin Here
Level Two
The Millenium Remnant
The Thermal Reactor
Tsol’s Domain
Tsol Theme
Princess Theme
From the Surface
Watter Village
Jacenite Hawk
Level Three
Silence
Astral Gallery
Old Village theme
Princess Theme 2
The Lost Village

Well I haven’t been posting much. I’ve been working a little on Tormishire - still can’t do any real work on it till my cubital tunnel is 100% gone. It started to fade but after a session on the multigym I had thrown it back in time a few weeks! Still it’s healing much faster now and should be back to full steam ahead in a couple of weeks.

Did another photoshoot the other day. Some hair stylists needed portfolio shots so I spent the day taking a whole world of pics. Fantastic people too! Even had my own picture taken!

Ta daaaa

So what else… I found a Midi keyboard (Evolution MK-149) in the salon. They said the last people who owned the place had left it and never came back for it. It’s missing a power adapter but the thing looks to be in working condition. If a little dusty! It’s much smaller than my Roland which is a bonus.

And still mega addicted to Mario Kart Wii. I never knew a console game could be this fun and addictive, even beats Melee for me! We get Brawl in just over 2 weeks. Good gravy I’m going to be on that 24/7.

I accidentally went and updated my routers firmware and now iChat and MSN can’t connect to whatever it is they connect to. Opened all the right ports too. So I’m still around :p almost have my cubital tunnel fully healed too.

Also need a new HDD. My iTunes library is 250gb (25 music, 150 TV, 75 film) and almost filled up my little 300gb external! 750’s next. Ooooh yesh. So I’ll have a 300 for video and scratch, 60 for Steam games and 750 for iTunes. My internal drive is only 160gb! Bless! Also: numbers are boring.

Volume 1

Volume 2

Amiga music is pretty much the video game king, and they’re nice legal torrents so there are no guilty feelings.

Found an old CD today (March 2000!) which contains all my old games in lovely open sourceness. Now I’ve got a lot of these games already in the Game section but they were saved as executables in TGF and can be a bit buggy. When I get round to it I’ll make MMF2 executables, rapture!

So very very old.

Oh yea and I am working on Tormi still, but that’s all secret like.

Finally beat the single player game so I’m all over multiplayer! My friend code is 4253-3807-7863. Leave your code in the comments or email if you want to keep it privates liek.

2ghz C2D iMac renders an 1800kbps H.264 DVD at 30fps

1.5ghz G4 PowerBook renders an 1800kbps H.264 DVD at 8fps (or 3 in low power mode)

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Thus ends an exhaustive benchmark for people looking to upgrade to last years iMac from a Rev D 12″ PowerBook. Been punishing my PowerBook by rendering series 1 of the Office, 75% done and its only been 24 hours. 

It’s a couple of weeks off still but I’ve been sorting out my PSP for my hospital visit. Apparently it can take up to 5 hours to see the consultant! I can get my PSP battery to last about 6 hours so it should last the wait.

Extra points for those who’ve seen that background before!

Basically he’s trying to find out more about my cubital tunnel. It’s fading slowly now but I’m to have some nerve conduction test, which sounds lovely. They insert some kind of electric bit into muscles and such and send currents down. It’s ruddy silly how (with the NHS) your GP will send you to hospital but by the time you get an appointment everything is okay! Bupa is now on my Christmas list.

Shock shock horror.

After a few weeks off I’ve got back to work on Tormi. Not completely cured of my RSI but it’s well enough to get stuck back into work. At the mo I’m just removing a few bugs and replacing some old areas (did Tsol’s Temple run well for any of you testers?). Sorry for the dark lighting in that shot, it was still fading in.

And Mario Kart Wii is awesome. Good god I’m addicted to the online multiplayer.

Also I kinda hid away the Sam OST for reasons unknown. But it’s back. (zipped) I really enjoyed making Sam… Signed a release form for some French magazine publisher who want to put it in a couple of upcoming mags too, haven’t had to do this for a few months!