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Feb 14, 2016 There are great variations: pick two, leave one, mirror images, same object different sizes, color vs black & white and match the halves. The items to be found are often unusual, some are antiques, even arcane but they image quality is very good. On Mac, you'll need to install Android File Transfer to successfully transfer files between your Oculus Quest and computer. On Chromebook/Chrome OS, you'll need to use the Files app to access your Oculus Quest headset. Click and drag files from your Oculus Quest headset on your computer. Unplug your Oculus Quest. Plug in your Oculus Quest 2. Mac OS X & macOS names. As you can see from the list above, with the exception of the first OS X beta, all versions of the Mac operating system from 2001 to 2012 were all named after big cats. Make some space: If you want to carve your Mac up so that you can run two versions of the OS you will need space. So before you start get deleting. So before you start get deleting. I've noticed this in a lot of applications under Mac OS X Lion lately. For example: Pressing return is equivalent to pressing the button with the blue background, not the highlight.
One of the problems retro Mac enthousiasts face nowadays is figuring out how to mount old/random disk images in order to access the game or app in it. First of all, you have to know that there were at least a dozen disk image formats back then (altough only a handful of them were widely used) and fortunately for you, there is a very nice disk image mounting tool for classic Mac called Virtual DVD-ROM/CD Utility that mounts just about all of them (tough, NOT ALL of them). Around the mid 90's, Toast came into play with CD imaging. So if your image is big (e.g. 100MB or more) or ends with .iso, .cdr or if it did not come stuffed (.sit) or encoded (.hqx) then it most probably will mount using Toast. As a matter of fact, if you're unsure and your disk image is bigger than 800KB, Toast will 99% of the time successfully mount it. Try this software if you're stuck with a blank icon that doesn't open with any other application. First, install Toast 5 Titanium if you have Mac OS 8.6 to Mac OS 9.2.2. For Mac OS 8.5 and below (down to Mac OS 7.5.1), install Toast 4. DiskCopy, bundled with late classic Mac OS versions, opens Apple's own distribution disk images such as file names that end with '.img'. It's worth noting that just because you could once mount a .img file with DiskCopy does not mean that you can mount all of them with it nor with the same version of DiskCopy. Two very important notes about DiskCopy: First, altough DiskCopy will successfully mount 400KB (MFS formated) single sided floppy disk images under Mac OS 7 and older, it will NOT mount them under Mac OS 8.1 to 9.2.2, so if you've got a very old 400KB disk image, the only option is to mount it under Mac OS 7 or older. Second, disk image files created with DiskCopy *CANNOT* be copied/transfered to a non-Macintosh partition. They will get damaged and lose their resource fork, rendering them useless. So, do not unzip or expand DiskCopy images on Windows or Linux. Expand them under Mac OS to be safe. With all of that said, the rule of thumb is: DiskCopy is good to mount small (e.g. floppy or zip) disk images (often ending with .dsk or .img) that you found stuffed (.sit) or encoded (.hqx) on the internet and it's good also for all Apple disk images such as software updates and installers. DiskCopy is also responsible for file names ending with '.smi' (self mounting image) altough they're actually a standalone application and so, they will auto-mount their contents by themselves. Tough, if you run across a .img file that DiskCopy does not recognize, then it's probably a ShrinkWrap or DiskDup disk image. ShrinkWrap was Aladdin's (the author of Stuffit) proprietary format that DiskCopy could not mount, so make sure you keep a copy of ShrinkWrap handy to mount some of the 90's floppy disk images. DiskCopy and ShrinkWrap were pretty much the standard in disk imaging from mid 80's to mid 90's, except for some fancy users who made disk images using DiskDoubler so if you have a 90's disk image about the size of a floppy or less and it doesn't mount with aforementioned tools, then try DiskDoubler. The image mounting quest!STEP ZERO: Begin by trying to mount your disk image file with Virtual DVD-ROM/CD Utility and if this fails, then proceed with these.. 1) Make sure you installed Toast, ShrinkWrap and DiskCopy. Then launch Toast and choose 'Disc Image' in the 'Other' menu. 2) Drag and drop your disk image file onto Toast's window. 3) It's very well possible that Toast does not recognize the file type, in which case it will show a warning message like the following. It's totally fine and 99% of the time it will mount the disk image perfectly fine, so make sure you click 'Continue' on this warning. Next, if you saw the warning message, it will then ask you to define the pregap and postgap. Don't touch any of those numbers and simply click 'OK'. 4) Then click the 'Mount' button on the Toast window and your disk image will mount on the desktop next to your main hard disk volume. If it does not, then Toast will output an error message like this. When you see this, it almost always means this is a ShrinkWrap image or a DiskCopy image. Try ShrinkWrap as it does both. 5) Launch ShrinkWrap and pull the top menu named 'Image' and choose 'Mount Image..' then select your disk image file. If a window very briefly appears and disappears but then nothing else happens, it means that ShrinkWrap cannot mount this disk image. Your only hope is then DiskCopy. 6) Launch DiskCopy, then drag and drop your disk image file onto the DiskCopy window. Time bender mac os. 7) Success! |
This week’s installment is brought to you by a combination of exhaustion, boredom and technology-fueled experiences that, for a change, helped lift my spirits. In short, I had a
YOLO
moment, went all out on escapism and got myself an Oculus Quest 2 for my birthday. Nearly a month in advance, too, so I’ve actually been tinkering with it for quite some time now.The VR Spiral
A field of flowers and stars demo mac os. I had tried a couple of VR headsets in the past, but the Quest was the one I had my eye on because it was the first moderately decent standalone device, with the combined genius of John Carmack and Michael Abrash behind it (which immediately put it head and shoulders above the competition in my book).
Add to that an Android-based platform that I could target without any fuss from Unity (or, as of now, Godot), pretty decent WebXR support and arguably the single largest community in the space, and it was pretty much already at the top of my list as a nice gadget to buy by this time last year.
In fact, it has been the kind of device I have had in mind ever since I considered my options for hobbies back in 20181 Ultimate fight manager 2016 mac os. , almost a year before the very first Quest came about.
So I’ve actually been tracking this field for a good while, and when the Quest 2 was announced I was pretty excited, but all the reviews pointed out that it now required a Facebook login.
Which, to be honest, was (and still is) a major put-off.
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Diving In
But being stuck at home since January has taken a toll. The pandemic has a way of changing people’s priorities, and in my case it has exacerbated the need to do something fun every now and then, either as a reaction to the overbearing feeling of impending doom or to hours upon hours of work, stuck at home and without much in terms of (creative) outlets and inspiration.
And for the past few months I have increasingly (and uncharacteristically) told myself “I want to experience this, dammit” every time I glimpsed Beat Saber or Superhot, and after this summer’s gaming escapade and the obvious realization that we were going to be stuck at home for quite a few months yet, I started thinking that, all things considered, this might actually be a good opportunity to dip my toes in VR.
I still have a Facebook account (that I hardly ever use, since I moved away from Facebook login on everything, including Instagram2) so… One evening the week after it launched I took a deep breath, sold some of my
MSFT
stock and ordered one.For science, you know.
The Good Bits
The thing is lighter, sturdier and much less of a hassle than previous headsets I’ve tried before, and a comfortable fit for me. I tried (and failed) to get the Elite Strap with a battery, but (so far at least) I’ve been able to use it for satisfactory lengths of time.
Which isn’t saying much seeing that the longest may have been a whole hour on my actual birthday (and only then because I took the day off), but both comfort and battery life seem adequate so far.
And there have been other niceties:
- I had much less trouble with inter-pupillary distance than I expected (one of the presets worked perfectly for me).
- Wearing glasses (even given my high myopia prescription) wasn’t a problem (for me or my kids), other than my glasses’ lenses fogging in colder evenings, especially when I moved around a lot–and believe me, VR can turn out to mean a lot of exercise you weren’t expecting to have (which, in our present circumstances, turns out to be an interesting side benefit).
- The visual and auditory experience is quite good, considering the kind of hardware involved (especially with the recent upgrade, which bumps the refresh rate to 90Hz). Hardcore gamers are going to rant on about PC VR being far superior, etc., but to be honest I don’t care–in terms of bang for the buck, graphics quality is pretty good, and I think I can safely say that it will only be worth upgrading when we get twice the resolution on a standalone device.
- The games turned out to be a lot of fun. Besides Beat Saber and Superhot I stumbled upon Mission: ISS (which doesn’t have stellar graphics but is pretty amazing), Echo VR (clearly influenced by Ender’s Game) and Rez Infinite (based on the only game that I would love to go back and play on a PlayStation 2, and the reason I never sold the console), and with those five titles I’m set for months.
- Live streaming to a Chromecast (or a desktop browser, as of this week) works great, albeit at the expense of battery life.
- Although I haven’t written anything of my own yet, there are plenty of WebXR and Godot samples out there, as well as cubic acres of 3D video content for that extra bit of escapism (besides the usual vertigo-inducing silliness, there is a fair amount of sightseeing to be done here).
What Isn’t Quite There Yet
However, it’s still far from perfect, and I’ve already compiled a list of annoyances:
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- VR Video is still unaccountably blurry, even on recent productions (of which there is a steady stream inside the Oculus content browser). At the stated hardware resolution, you’d expect that 5K video playback wasn’t so fuzzy or with so many artifacts, and I don’t know it it is a matter of software tuning or content encoding (it certainly isn’t a bandwidth issue, since you can save and playback videos to the device and I’ve tried some that way). In contrast, playing regular video from Plex via the browser (there’s no app for the Quest, alas) is plenty good enough and somewhat convincing as an extra-large TV screen, so I’m curious as to why VR videos are so crappy.
- There are too many different apps promoting either the dumbest possible thing (watching videos while “sitting” in different settings) or the most overwrought social ones (like shared live events and “experiences”). Both emphasize inviting along your Facebook friends, which I most definitely have no interest in (funnily enough, only one of my friends has a Quest).
- The social features are pretty much useless, and most of the traditional Android sharing functionality was completely kneecapped in favor of half-baked Facebook integration (it’s the only social network you can share snapshots and recordings to).
- The most fundamental social experience (sharing the device with your family) is just not there, because it has no multi-user support whatsoever. And when it does, it’s likely to require a Facebook account, which is not going to happen as far as my kids are concerned. So be prepared to have hassles with game scores, progress, saves, etc. in a family context.
- You get a lot of “junk” notifications, both on the companion app and inside the headset. The usual attempts to upsell apps and content, possible “friends” you may have come across while exploring shared spaces (i.e., “randos” that Facebook thinks you “met”), occasional (actual) friend activity, etc. I’ve been meaning to switch all of those off, but there seem to be some built-in limitations around that.
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And this is, for me, the only real issue with the Quest–its Facebook-centricity.
I would get a lot more mileage from, say, being able to share things directly on Twitter (which I probably can now, indirectly, thanks to the latest browser update this week), or from having better third-party integration.
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I don’t want to share photos or recordings solely on Facebook. And the emphasis on “shared experiences” with Facebook “friends” is a constant put-off, that, to be honest, is crippling the thing’s potential, and a possible harbinger of things to come: I just want (preferably single-player) games, they want me as a content generator for their “shared” experiences.
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You can work around it the hard way and do moderately stupid things like running Slack in the Oculus browser, if you really want to–I did it to check notifications and share a couple of videos, and it seems to work fine, but is completely over the top.
SideQuest
Given my interest in tinkering with the device, of course I went and installed SideQuest as soon as I could (actually, just this week, which was the first time I plugged it in to anything other than the charger), and made a beeline for the (very well done) Quake and Quake 2 ports, which became fully functional after I dug out the original
PAK
files:These work very well indeed, and I have been making my way through the Quake 2 single-player campaign (which I never actually played, given that most of the time I spent playing any sort of
id
game was on online servers) and tinkering with various demos–including the stock Godot sample for the Quest, which I hope to have time (someday) to start hacking into.That demo in particular is quite feature complete and seems to cover everything the headset can do, even to the point of including a minimal Beat Saber clone written in
GDScript
.So, given time, I think I have something to entertain me (and the kids) over the next few months. If peering into these other worlds can help take our minds off the pandemic for a few hours a week, I think it will be enough return on investment.
- Yes, it takes me a long time to follow up on some things. But at the time I started considering my options the only game in town were hideously overpriced PC-tethered headsets. ↩︎
- I don’t even have the Facebook app installed on most of my devices, although I have a reminder to log in every quarter to keep the account alive. ↩︎