Gordon Turner » Links http://blog.gordonturner.ca A waste of bandwidth Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:53:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Remember Legend of Zelda? Super Mario Brothers? http://blog.gordonturner.ca/2007/12/31/remember-legend-of-zelda-super-mario-brothers/ http://blog.gordonturner.ca/2007/12/31/remember-legend-of-zelda-super-mario-brothers/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:50:01 +0000 Gordo http://blog.gordonturner.ca/2007/12/31/remember-legend-of-zelda-super-mario-brothers/ SMB3 screenshot

Remember Legend of Zelda? Super Mario Brothers?

No? Then you can stop reading.

Yes? Then you probably had a Nintendo Entertainment System, aka a NES, like me.

Did you know you can play those old games on your computer?

Check out Nestopia, it is an emulator that lets you play the NES games. You can even plugin a joystick or gamepad (I recommend the wired Xbox 360 controller).

How do you get the games? Google is your friend, use one of the sites here. You will download a zip file that will contain the contents of the cartridge. Then when you run Nestopia, open one of the zip files.

You can even freeze a game anywhere you want. Keep dying in one world in SMB3? Freeze it. Want to take a break, but aren’t near a save point? Freeze it.

I think I might be able to finish SMB3 now…

Previously.

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http://www.digg.com/

http://reddit.com/

http://www.boingboing.net/

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And they would be right.

So I present to you Engrish.com, a collection of “humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design”.

]]> http://blog.gordonturner.ca/2007/05/11/friday-engrishcom/feed/ 0 Links: Toronto http://blog.gordonturner.ca/2007/01/31/links-toronto/ http://blog.gordonturner.ca/2007/01/31/links-toronto/#comments Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:08:54 +0000 Gordo http://blog.gordonturner.ca/wordpress/2007/01/31/links-toronto/ Live Journal Toronto community: community.livejournal.com/toronto

Community blog: www.torontoist.com

Daily pictures from a photographer in Toronto: wvs.topleftpixel.com

Real time emergency response info: Toronto Fire Services

Edit: More links

Another City blog: www.blogto.com

TTC and Google maps: Transit mashup

TTC Subway Rider Efficiency Guide: ttcrider.ca

Wikipedia list of Toronto Neighbourhoods: List of neighbourhoods in Toronto

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