Yeah this game was great… I must have played it after other Sonic games had come out. I never knew this was his first appearance. Such a cool piece of history!
Did the car have windshield wipers that you had to turn on when you got mud on the windshield or am I mixing this up with a different game?
The Intercept has a long, detailed piece on NYT’s coverage claiming systemic sexual violence on 10/7:
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/
I knew the Times leaned pro-Israel, but this report was pretty surprising in terms of failing to meet basic journalistic standards.
You’re right, but you could say the same about the National Park GIS lookup.
Maybe the thing to do here, when web sites start enforcing this, is to swamp them with support requests. Don’t write a screed or manifesto with ethical or technical reasons why this is wrong. Pretend to be a non-technically-inclined user and tell them you’ve spent hours trying to get it to work and your browser keeps throwing up errors you don’t understand. They will ignore the principles, but if they think the technology is “too hard” for their “dumb users,” that might carry more weight.
I had the Apple IIGS port of Rastan. I thought it looked amazing at the time. I am guessing it was about on par with the MS-DOS port, but maybe with more vivid colors.
The “to dispense” instructions are interesting. Put a tube 3/4 of the way into the water, pinch it, and then “pull downward 12 to 18 inches”… good way to create a vacuum and start the siphon action without putting your mouth on the tube.