Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-1496755-20180410120317

Indeed, old games can be touchy in this regard. Depending on the situation, they could fall back to anotehr setting, fail to start at all... or give you some psychedelic effects. This is probably the rarest case scenario.

This is quite convenient because (literally) the only thing I know about this Sailor Moon person is that she wears some sort of white dress.

Mixing universes requires quite some skill. Even bridging Quake and Quake 2 can be challenging, considering the latter is a sequel in name only. And then Quake 3 goes completely haywire in terms of story and lore...

Argh, unless we can verify this, it's problematic. I'll see if ol' Google can turn up anything.

I used the weekend to solve, or at least try to solve, something that has been bugging me for years - my primary backup thumb drive has the nasty habit of occasionally disappearing files due to lost chains (that's a file system error). And this is exactly what a backup must never do - how can I trust it with my files, if I know they could disappear randomly? It happened rarely, as a whole, but the constant fear of it happening was bad enough. As an added insult, my older (and cheaper) thumb drives never had this problem, even though they are allegedly the inferior ones. So I did some research and found out that using the NTFS file system could solve my problems, since it's better and (by design) considerably more resilient to data loss/corruption. So I offloaded my entire backup to the hard drive, then formatted the stick into NTFS and copied them over again. I hope these sudden cases of file loss will stop. I learned quite a few useful things while dabbling in PCEm, and in a way I was pointed towards this solution while experimenting with different file systems in these virtual machines. That's how I found out that NTFS is considerably more robust than FAT. I hope I'll never have to deal with "lost chains" again.