Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20180910172558

Wow, what a first day at work - the madness started before I could even say "good morning". This week is the third exam session - for students that were so smart that they failed during the previous two. Some of our students are so advanced that most years we hold a fourth session as well. So anyway, students need those little "exam slips", which is yet another lovely layer of paperwork and bureaucracy. We had a long line waiting in front of our office throughout most of the day. Some girl jokingly commented that it reminded her of the lines waiting for bread back in the day... I almost asked her if she was actually old enough to remember those :D

Nice new page, though I suspect I saw a little mistake in the walkthrough - you mention that the start room is filled with 25 Healths, while they are actually 100 Healths. Unless I'm missing something...

Oh, always glad to learn more about QTEST - as the oldest playable version of Quake, it is both interesting and mysterious. I'll check out that Xenomorph, since I've also wondered a lot about that Q2 screenshot.

Interesting - in theory, virtual machines should not be able to emulate Direct3D due to the host OS having absolute and undisputed control over the GPU. Unless it's such an old version of it that it doesn't matter? Oooooh, corrupted Windows 95, it's been a loooong time since I last heard someone complain about this. There is probably a way to fix it, though I don't remember what it was (it must involve the installation CD, I suppose). You'd better do some digging online. Win 95 is still a bit rough and unfriendly when it comes to maintenance, things started to improve a bit in Windows 98 (it began to introduce some basic safeguards against system files corruption) and beyond (Win XP had much more robust safeguards, not that it was a 100% guarantee that nothing would go wrong). But yeah, you have to be more gentle with those older OS, they were quite notorious for becoming unstable when you least expected them to.

Tried to engage in soem kitten rescuing today. As I've mentioned before, there are lots of stray cats in this neighborhood and sometimes this leads to orphaned kittens. Found one and it looked really frail, malnourished and barely clinging on to life. Consulted online sources, they suggested warming it up, which actually brought it out of its stupor (I thought it was dead at first). I took it to a place where many other cats gather often, and one of them seemed to start caring about it... maybe she's the mother? Will check up on them tomorrow. (Yes, I actually worry about such things.)