Bank holiday in Bath

[squirmelia]

Saw a lion made of plants; drank moonshine at a rock pub; walked up hills to get good views of Bath; saw a sham castle; snuck in to the computer science department and read old issues of Wired and drank coffee; saw a sign that said "SLEEP" and had an arrow; saw Scott Pilgrim vs The World at the cinema; wondered how to be more cool; played Scorched Tanks; ate chilli; saw a large mushroom that looked almost rusty; photographed a scarecrow; tried to decipher ghost signs; wandered along the canal; ate blackberry ice-cream; played Carcassonne; saw hot air balloons being launched; wandered briefly into the botanic garden; saw a tree carved to look like a man.

Comments

[vardebedian.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know computers still existed that would run Scorched Tanks (Scorched Earth in my version, probably a ripoff) but I'm glad they do, I wasted a lot of 1998 playing that on what even then was a pretty obsolete PC.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Scorched Tanks was an Amiga game and seems to run fine using UAE on Windows. Had some problems with the sound though when running it using E-UAE on Ubuntu.

Pocket Tanks (http://www.blitwise.com/ptanks.html) is not quite as good as Scorched Tanks, but still fun, and runs okay on Windows, but didn't seem to run under Wine on Ubuntu.

[alandriscoll.livejournal.com]

Also: failed to meet up with me.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Yes. Game of Scorched Tanks?