I saw a documentary of how they constructed the Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família,
and the photo here reminded me of their stain-glass windows!
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and the photo here reminded me of their stain-glass windows!
sorry I had to type Windows.....
I can see that, LOL.
That is a background consisting of two images, both half the width of the actual size. I duplicated both and flipped the one on the right side so the matched evenly in the middle.
First image…
Second image (inverted and with a Photoshop blend mode)…
Together…
And with the mask applied that shows the background area for all six (primary) monitors.
You add all the other stuff (many more layers to this PSB document) in on top and it merges pretty well. The background just enhances things (like it should), rather than showing all the imperfections.
And to make this relevant…all work was done on a 2009 MacPro using Photoshop 2025 and earlier. The complete file is over 6GB.
My stand for the 24" Dell finally showed up today.
Now…no more on the floor monitors
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Now…no more on the floor monitors
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Old reliable (2009 iMac) works like a charm, still! Even better that i've hooked a jamster bass amp to it. Sound quality rocks!!!
Also got a PS Move and PS Eye for my PS3 slim lolol
Also got a PS Move and PS Eye for my PS3 slim lolol
First is my 2008 24” iMac I bought on eBay for under $100 five years ago: Totally stock except for a 500Gb ssd I added. 4 Gb ram and the stock GPU.
We use it in the basement for Zoom exercise classes. So much better than the phone or a laptop with the large screen. I have never had an issue with Ram even having only 4Gb. I am still using Safari with Mojave on it for our classes. Works fine every day.
The only other upgrade is the Bluetooth JBL speaker you see in the picture. The iMac speakers have deteriorated and the JBL produces much better and bigger sound for exercising. At first the mac wouldn’t recognize it so it took a while but I got it to work with the 2.1 bluetooth in the old iMac.
Since 2009 I developed and run the website for my retired teachers union, the BTAR. I wrote the website using iWeb and although I have attempted to upgrade, I have realized that I like iWeb better than any other program for website development and management. Go Daddy continues to support it and I have had no difficulty publishing for all these years.
I use the Macbook Air in the picture for the website. It is a 2017 totally stock with the 2.2GHz I7. I guess I used my old iBook to actually write the website in 2009.
Safari has proved inadequate for the web support computer so I have used Firefox, Edge and I am currently using Chrome. When they all fail, I’ll use one of the independents from this site.
Two other BTAR board members also have old repurposed macs I have set up for helping with web updating and archiving documents for the organization. One is a 2008 Macbook I bought on ebay, also for under $100, 8Gb ram and a 128Gb ssd. The other is a 2011 Macbook Pro that was owned and retired by one of the board members. They all have either High Sierra or Mojave on them. At first I tried Mojave on all of them (with the help of Dosdude’s amazing programs),but I have realized that for our purpose High Sierra is better because it is native and easier to fix if there is a problem. We also use them for Zoom board meetings as our board members live in NY, Maryland, and North Carolina.
It's amazing that these old Macs continue to function perfectly in their current roles.
Pete
How are you connecting the Jamster to your mac? Bluetooth? Also, 'Im trying to place that high mass bridge - what bass is that?
Thanks
1. wired it with an aux cable! Bluetooth doesn't work unless i connect it through mono audio output which sucksHow are you connecting the Jamster to your mac? Bluetooth? Also, 'Im trying to place that high mass bridge - what bass is that?
Thanks
2. I have NO idea. gift from my uncle from 13 years ago. Started actually using it recently.
Interesting. I watched a few reviews of that little amp and no one noted that the output via BT was mono LOL and I think that is an important note.
What does the bass head stock say? Id imagine it has a maker on it.
I'm not home atm, but it has this strange 'T' logo on it, no full brandname or anything to be found there.
Opening things up a bit again. Eventually I'll get what I want.
My special beloved early 2008 MacBook Pro running on Snow Leopard. My favorite designed MacBook ever. Just love the all silver look, keyboard, and it actually has usb ports, Ethernet port, and a super-drive!!!
Also have a late 2011 MacBook Pro on Lion, mid 2012 MacBook Pro on Mountain Lion, 2009 Mac Pro quad booting on Leopard Server, Snow Leopard, Lion & Mountain Lion, and a 2010 Mac Pro.
Also have a late 2011 MacBook Pro on Lion, mid 2012 MacBook Pro on Mountain Lion, 2009 Mac Pro quad booting on Leopard Server, Snow Leopard, Lion & Mountain Lion, and a 2010 Mac Pro.
I think I am finally nailing this down…we'll see.
Here’s mine. Mac mini late 2012, connected to a 20TB HDD, also connected to a usb extender with wireless 2.4ghz keyboard and a usb to IDE adapter, which is then connected to one of the best CD burners ever made, Plextor PX-708A (from early 2004, on a styrofoam pad to ignore any vibration issues). This is mainly for the stack of burnt CD-R games for the launch model Japanese psx from 1994 on the bottom shelf, which requires the best burner/media to operate properly with backups via soft-mod.
Also, yes if you buy 3 $29.99 bookshelfs from Walmart you can make a much better media center then just buying an entertainment center for $200+
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Here's mine. A MINT early 2008 MacBook 4,1. I upgraded it with 4 Gigs of ram, a 500 GB SSD & a brand new battery from OWC. Also notice how there is NO cracking plastic on the palm rest...it's mint. I use a faux leather OWC keyboard protector when I shut the lid to prevent the two screen bump outs from pressing on and cracking the plastic. Anyways it is running great with Snow Leopard. Here I'm listening to world music on Pandora using Hermes and streaming to my Bluetooth JBL Charge 5 speaker for music through my house. Using the InterWeb browser I can do pretty much anything on the internet that I want to; log into iCloud, listen to streaming music, read news on NPR, etc. Anyways, I never had one of these back in the day, I started with a 2009 aluminum MacBook Pro, so after finding this for free in a recycle bin I've been having some retro fun.
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What do you do with all of those? And which edition of D&D do you play?
Love the entertainment set up. It looks great, is modular, portable, affordable and expandable if/when needed. I used a similar wood toned shelf product turned (on its side) to house my Powermac G4 towers. where your shelves are horizontal and sitting side to side, my shelves are turned vertical, one stacked on top of the other allowing me to stick a Powermac in there - or in my case 6 of them
I got mine for free off CL. If I had paid for them, I would have gotten white like your set up.I did run an Intel Mini with a very similar set up to yours as well - sans the massive external drive
. With mine, I used a IOGEAR 2.4Ghz wireless compact keyboard. I especially liked the roller ball mouse built into it. I ran that mini that way for years until my wife wanted it moved into her office when we moved about 8 years ago now.
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Each screen has a different purpose, although they are not all used at once and/or I am not using all the apps at once that would be on a particular screen.
Basically, whatever I want to use them for pretty much. I tend to place app palettes on flanking screens which allows me to have the center screen for documents. If I open multiple documents I also tend to put one per screen.
As to D&D…I'm old school. I grew up in the 80s when D&D first really became popular. I'm familiar with 1st Edition as those were the books a friend of mind had at the time. But I didn't really start DM'ing until around 1990 when 2nd Edition was the current version. The majority of my AD&D books are all 2E rules.
I'm familiar with later versions, but I've only played once in a version that is now a couple versions out of date - 4e I think.
I'm partial however, to Rolemaster if I have the chance. It's what I got into after AD&D and for me it's much more realistic. Again, 2nd Edition.
Other games…MechWarrior 2nd Edition (played from 1986 through about 1995). ShadowRun 2nd Edition is also another favorite.
Last time I played anything though was over seven years ago. I moved to Phoenix, AZ in 2000 and it's just been tough to find a group or person to game with that I mesh with (both personality wise and gaming style).
PS. None of the above should be construed as me being unwilling to play anything other than the games I mentioned. I'm always willing to try new games and new versions of old games. It's all about gaming after all. The fun of sharing an adventure with people for a few hours.
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I just moved away from Phoenix a year and a half ago, my games are 2e and 3e D&D, 3e being my favorite, and I am rather familiar with Rolemaster and have played various other games.
Monte Cook of Rolemaster fame (and later the main Planescape designer for TSR during 2e D&D) lead the design of 3e D&D, in tandem with Skip Williams (the "Sage" from the Sage Advice column of Dragon Magazine, who also put out several 2e products and was in Garys original campaign) and Jonathan Tweet of Ars Magica fame. There is a LOT of Rolemaster in 3e D&D. Basically, they took the 2e rules including the Combat & Tactics book and many of the various splatbooks (complete book of fighers etc) and put it all together in a way that was coherent and streamlined the way Rolemaster is, and with a lot more realism (though not the RM level, it is certainly still D&D).
Having been designed by three TSR vets from the mid-late 90s, I consider it the last of the original D&D DNA and a culmination, consolidation and making sense of 25 years of D&D rules with a lot from Rolemaster, Ars Magica, Shadowrun, Runequest and a few other games thrown in. It brought D&D in line with all of the other RPG innovations that had been brewing between the late 70s and mid 90s, but was still a clear lineage of AD&D (which, as you know, was very stagnant for 25 years as far as rules innovations were concerned). Rolemaster was the biggest comparison that 3e D&D got when it arrived in 2000. You would also recognize a lot of the rules and assumptions from the 2e Combat and Tactics book if you used that, but implemented in a way that doesn't leave you puzzled or feeling "munchkiny". Many of the rules in 3e are basically copy/pasted from 2e core books and Combat & Tactics (but using the unified system of 3e). The later 3e material got out of hand, just as it does towards the end of each edition, my group and I don't most of that material and stick to the material released between 2000 and 2003.
If I were still in Phoenix I would extend an offer to play. I have a long-running group that I still play 3e with, although now that I am out of the country we moved to playing online since I am the DM, which is doable but far from what we prefer. I miss using all of my figures, chessex mat, DM screen, terrain etc. and being surrounded by my library of gaming books. And we had a no tech at the table rule while playing in person which was nice.
We took a break from playing for a lot of years, then tried 5th edition for a few years and decided it was not our cup of tea, and went back to 3rd edition when we decided to start playing again recently. 4th edition was something else entirely and we only played a few sessions of that. Because it has been so long we are all very rusty on the rules but we have always been ok playing them lightly, and they are coming back to us easily.
Info about the new campaign can be found here: www.swordsagainstfaerun.wordpress.com
In the past we have played in Greyhawk, the Wilderlands of High Fantasy and Forgotten Realms. The group voted to go back to the Realms when we started playing again. My rules documents are mostly still under construction as I am redoing them from years ago and decided to wipe a lot of them clean for a fresh start.
If I decide to do any random one shots online and you are interested in trying it out let me know. And I may be moving back to Arizona sometime in the next two years. Myself and my group are younger than you, but we range from late 30s-early 40s, so not too young. I discovered D&D before the rest in the late 90s, the others joined me between 2004 and a few years ago.
That was way more than I intended to write and certainly could have been a PM. Oh well.
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No worries about posting in here rather than a DM. I use my Early Intel Macs to support my hobbies so this correlates.
Anyway, over the years I've managed to condense my history and based on some past transactions I feel that it saves time and lets people know where I stand by being honest about a few things. Pushing people to game with me has rarely met with good results.
So…1983, I'm in 7th grade and I develop my own RPG based on a dungeon map. But it's not really a game because as the GM, I'm controlling everyone and there's no real adventure/scenario outside of what I've created.
1984, 14th birthday, a friend gets me the red basic D&D set and we start playing D&D. Only, he's using 1st Gen books and not the red basic set. And I trust him, not knowing the rules. Turns out he was misleading me for a year or so and we were playing some made up thing so that he could have a body count of my characters that he killed off for the stupidest reasons.
Another friend gets me involved in the real thing.
1985 and the whole 'Satanic Panic' thing is in full swing. My dad overreacts and all my D&D books get burned.
1986 I discover Mechwarrior and because it's a Sci-Fi RPG my dad has no reaction to it. I play that until 1989 when my friend gets me back in to D&D via 2e. I'm 19 that year, so my dad can't really say anything.
1990-1994 is gaming (AD&D) with a group of late high-school kids in my own campaign world. By 1994, most of them have graduated and no one wants to play anymore. So, I move on to another group where it's mainly Rolemaster 2e.
So, 1995 to 1999 is that group but by the end of '99 I've largely lost interest and am not gaming with this group much.
In between, I've met a woman, dated and got married. My wife (we are still married) understands that I like a lot of these things and she's never demanded that I stop. But, at some point, I do have to give up a day on the weekend.
2000 and we move here to Phoenix and it's been tough finding people/groups. I've gamed maybe three times in 25 years. Things are much different now, two kids and 28 years after marrying. We're comfortable with each other, so things that used to bother us years ago - don't.
Anyway, I usually GM and that usually means people over at our house. So, the sticking point is that these are people my wife is either going to like or not have any issues with. She's not letting people in her house she doesn't care for. And let's face it - there are some gamers out there who could stand to develop some interpersonal skills, anger management and impulse control.
Since about late 2016 or so, I've just focused on writing about the world(s) I've created and that most of my fantasy RPGs, PCs and NPCs were set in.
I'm going to look in to your link and for the record, I would take you up on your offer to game with your group. I used to always want to be the GM/DM (to be in control), but I've long since learned that being a player is also great fun.
PS. My son is 22 and during his HS years had a few D&D 3e sessions. Unfortunately, his DM was another body count type of person who was there just to be controlling. My daughter is 17 and has zero interest.
Here's one example of what I do with my displays…
First pic is showing Swinsian, my music app. You can see that the HDTV is currently acting as a television (Amazon Firestick) and my browser window on the center display.
Over here is the mini-player for Swinsian on my desktop. In addition to showing me what's playing and album artwork, I can also control playback here.
Just this example alone puts Swinsian out of the way but still visible while I can continue doing what I'm doing on the primary display.