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   Idunnobutiwastold
   Gaming Acolyte

   Lapse - Android Game - Posted 23 February 2020

   Game: Lapse.
   Platform: Android.
   Size: 15 MB.
   Released: 2018.
   Type: Donationware.
   Genre: Card based.
   Download: http://www.cornagostefano.it/
   Description: In Lapse, you are the leader of a nation and you make sequential decisions to further the welfare of your people.
   Opinion: The mechanics of the game is a bit like The Lords Of Midnight and similar text based adventures.
   You need to keep an eye on finances and other resources. To make a decision, you swipe left/right for (Y)es or (N)o .
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   Posted 4 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Thanks for posting. I've got several games lined up to post, but I'm so busy at the moment I've not had time to prepare the threads for posting. A couple of the games were previously posted freeware games that have been massively updated over the years and are far better than when we first posted them, one in particular is over 10 GB in size due to the high definition images used.

   Nice to see you are still around. :)

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   Idunnobutiwastold
   Gaming Acolyte

   Hi.
   Wow, 10 GB is huge for a game update. My compact laptop doesn't have enough space on the default drive to update MS Windows.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   Wow, 10 GB is huge for a game update.

   They've found AI is good at upscaling what appears onscreen. That's useful for streaming games, e.g. Stadia, which may be the driving force behind developing the tools for upscaling games, but I've read that game studios are also looking at it as a way to reduce their games' disk footprint -- smaller files save them money. In the mean time, USB 3 or faster with an SSD in an external housing can give better bandwidth than many internal conventional hard disks. The only thing to note is that I'd expect prices &/or availability might become more of a problem in the near future -- more people are at home gaming, so more demand, while China has shut down manufacturing.

   My compact laptop doesn't have enough space on the default drive to update MS Windows.

   The minimum for Win10 used to be 16 GB, which was REALLY pushing it, but it can work pretty well at 32 GB *IF* added software is on another drive, e.g. external or SD card. Using the Compact OS option does help, a Lot, and monthly updates tend to use less drive space on my tablets which use it. Afterward I always use Disk Cleanup to get rid of as much garbage as possible. Moving things like User folders to that 2nd drive helps too. On new devices Microsoft has started reserving the disk space needed for updates, while for both old & new if there isn't enough space for a version or build update, the update process will use any added storage available, e.g. a USB stick or again an SD card or external drive.

   A more extreme route might be to run 32-bit Windows -- the 32-bit version of Win10 is Much smaller than the 64-bit version on the other tablet. The catch is if 32-bit drivers are available.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   Idunnobutiwastold
   Gaming Acolyte

   Hi Mike,
   The problem with updating my 64-bit Windows, is that the software insisted on downloading the files to C:, even when I tried to download the installable ISO image. I'll give it a shot again.
   Either way, The OS is running fine without the updates. I've rediscovered it's possible to live without relying on Windows entirely. Android is good enough for getting stuff done in a rush. My laptop has good storage space on an external hard drive. I use an external DVD-recorder to install boxed software I still own. After going through many PCs since Windows 98/XP, I realized the motherboards/processors supported 64-bit software all along, albeit in a latent form.
   Some heavy-weight media production software are available (were available?) exclusively in 64-bit editions.
   Thanks for the advice.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   In case it helps at all...

   I've found that updating Win10 versions via Windows Update uses less disk space, & will use external storage, though once or twice, depending on the version, that didn't work so well when setup stored the files on the SD card rather than a USB stick, as the tablet didn't see the SD card on restart to finish installation. I've also mounted the ISO, then copied the files to a USB stick, or a temp folder on the hard disk, and run setup from there. To make sure there's not a driver problem -- Microsoft has those pretty much under control by now *I think* -- I've also attached a powered USB hub & a Windows To Go drive to the tablets & such, which worked well enough.

   For a fresh install I've used DISM to get the basic Win10 files on a drive [VHD or internal or external], restored a backup of that partition on something like one of my tablets, set up the boot files, and 1st boot it adds the needed drivers. I've also just restored a backup of a working copy of Win10 on another device, & Win10 *Usually* adds the drivers it need & runs well. A couple of times I played with keeping a VM updated & added software etc., then restored a backup to a physical drive partition & ran hardware that way. Win10 really is pretty resilient.

   If you avoid Windows Update pushing a new version on you, there's probably little wrong with sticking with older versions. I look at the upgrade as something on my to-do list, and just want to get it over with, not because I'm eager or see some huge benefits. I've already got the base copy of Win10 on this PC -- the minimal baseline copy I use instead of booting to a USB stick -- updated to 2004 to get it out of the way. I tried on the regular copy but the install failed twice, possibly due to a bug fixed last Tuesday, or I'd have all of our devices moved to 2004 already.

   Posted 4 years ago #

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