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Dreamcast: The Introduction

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I bought a Dreamcast at a garage sale yesterday for $10. I also bought Space Channel 5 and Skies of Arcadia for $1 each.

A couple of factors went into this purchase. First of all, it was freaking cheap. A system and two games for $12 bucks? Secondly, I’ve been wanting to go back and do some “retro” gaming, and what better system to get started with other than the one that, to this day, has quite the following on the Internetz. I also would like to think that since September 9th has passed recently, there were a lot of links on the Internet commemorating the 10th anniversary of the launch date of the Dreamcast (9.9.99), and that probably made me think about all the great content I missed out on.

I guess there’s a fairly vibrant pirating community out there also, seeing as how ridiculously easy it was to perform those shenanigans on the Dreamcast. This wasn’t really one of the reasons that motivated me into purchasing it, but I’m sure I’ll tinker with it at a certain point. I’m actually thinking about buying a couple of more games as a collectible more than anything. Ikaruga comes to my mind…

Here’s a great episode of Icons on the Dreamcast, back when G4TV was actually not all that bad.

The DVD. PS2 could play it, Dreamcast could not. We say that software moves hardware, but I never thought about DVDs actually being a part of the software. The funny thing is that Blu-Ray, even after it won the high definition optical media fight versus HD-DVD, didn’t push PS3 to dizzying heights. I have my thoughts on this, but let’s wait until… I buy a PS3. Ahem.

I went ahead and bought a Dreamcast VGA Cable over at racketboy.com. Funny thing is that… it actually cost me more to get this than the system itself. I do have a random LCD screen lying around, and so I’m going to make a nice corner of my desk for the Dreamcast funs.

When the heck am I going to have time for this? I have no clue. But I’m very happy with owning this piece of gaming history.

Prism vs Fluid: Local Web Application Management on Mac OS X

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Basically it boils down to: Don’t use Prism. Yet. It crashes quite often, and not in the way you’d probably want it to crash: It just eats away at your processor until you realize that while you were listening to music on your headphones that the fans were going insane and the processor was running at 81 degrees. Celsius.

The OMFG screenshot came into being while I was testing out some Fluid Applications (The last three applications were Fluid Applications). It’s been a while since I used it, but it looks like it’s getting better and better. A lot of great things in the horizon… but it’s too bad it isn’t open sourced (See Post Here). I’d love to start messing around with the guts…

More about Fluid

But anyway, it looks great, and feels even better. I love being able to command+tab into a web application. Not only that, I can even see some statuses on the desktop icon itself.

Fluidapp Desktop Icon Notifcation

But of course, the nerdy neat freak in me decided to figure things out over lunch and see if there was a way to change the icons to look a bit better. I don’t really thing a 16×16 pixel icon would do in an Apple environment… After poking at flickr a bit, I found these two lovely icons.

Gmail Icon

Gmail Icon at Flickr: Direct Link

Facebook Icon

Facebook Icon at Flickr: Direct Link

These are actual .icns files, rather than just images. Thanks to autodafe0728, I was able to make two of my most accessed Fluid app’s icon amazing.

How do you actually use these .icns files? Well, you have to pick an icon when you create your Fluid app, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to change it after you’ve created it. So if you already have one, delete it, and just remake this new one after setting the “Icon: ” field to the .icns file rather than the default “Use Website Favicon”.

Enjoy. More on this web application vs. desktop application business later.