Paperclips and Auto-Maps

Tried the A500 again and noticed that the floppy cable connection to motherboard was backward; whoever was in there before me was not careful, but I'd already kinda figured that from the assortment of random screws and what appears to be Rust-Oleum on the shielding... Anyway, the drive still couldn't read disks, so GoTek it is; fun experiment nonetheless!

Grabbed a few things in the last Steam Sale:

• Caravan SandWitch
• Shades of Beyond Good & Evil, ReCore, and Psychonauts - albeit without any combat. Loved it.
• Choo-Choo Charles
• Better than it looks, and it looks good! I recommend reading-up on its development story, too.
• Mirror's Edge Catalyst
• Might as well.
• The Mummy Demastered
• Metroidal Slugvania? Seriously, a WayForward Metroidvania that's styled akin to Metal Slug - I like it, so far.
• No Man's Sky
• Dangerous... I do not have time for this. Spent way too long messing around before I even left the second planet. Yet to try it in VR.
• Pacific Drive
• Good deal, wanted to support them, haven't installed it yet.
• Super Grave Snatchers
• Reminds me of Brutal Legend, but on a CGA 286. Really good.
• Super Woden GP
• Honestly, looked better in the trailers.

DOOM 64 Unseen Evil was a nice surprise.

SEGA AGES: Phantasy Star and Virtua Racing went on-sale and they're both stellar.

Played through the free trial of Diablo IV - hit level 25 as I completed The Magpie and the Knight. It's good; lots of systems I'll never touch, but more Diablo is always nice. Will buy it eventually.

Performed a clean installation of Android 15 on my Pixel 7, and it's slick; too many prompts, but nothing like Windows 11 24H2.

Grabbed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League for under $5 and it's almost good? Traversal's clever but feels janky; combos don't feel particularly satisfying to me; story feels like a bit of a retread after the 2016 and 2021 games in addition to Injustice 2. I dunno... It's fine, but I think I'm just gonna burn through the campaign solo like I did with Anthem and Redfall.

Finally 100%'d Alan Wake II and all of its DLC - The Final Draft, all of the achievements, etc... It's really good and I'm ready for more... Still don't like the combat :)

A round of applause for this inanimate paperclip!

DOOM CD32X Fusion is incredible; really curious what else could be achieved with those five processors and that kind of storage.

Finished Alan Wake II and it is singularly good. I still don't like the combat; but "The Final Draft" is a clever and worthwhile 'new game +', the DLC is fantastic, and now I'm really excited for more Control... If anything, The Lake House just reminded me how much more I enjoyed Control over all three Alan Wake games.

Re: My Amiga - This Bootstrapping an Amiga without a bootable Amiga floppy trick actually worked! ...I ended-up installing Windows on an old Athlon 64 with a serial port to pull it off, but it worked! I wasn't, unfortunately, able to write anything to an actual floppy; but that might've been my (or the disks') fault so I'll try one more time before giving-up and going with a GoTek.