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you can set separate resolutions for your laptop’s built-in screen and your external display, unless you’re just mirroring the display to both.

just never connect your smart tv to the internet

Amazon added epub support to Kindles a while back, and deprecated mobi. It still has some issues with epub formatting though, I’ve had to tweak some files using a Calibre plugin to make them render properly on the kindle.

So, have they actually gone out of business?

I really appreciated having the 4x time compression option in TIE Fighter to hurry things along when you’re just flying from A to B. They then inexplicably removed that capability from X-Wing Alliance.

If you haven’t already, it might be worth checking out TIE Fighter Total Conversion. It’s a fan remake of TIE Fighter built on a massively modded X-Wing Alliance engine that works well on modern computers. It has a pretty faithful recreation of the original TIE Fighter (plus collector’s CD content) campaign, and a reimagined version of it using things that weren’t possible in the original game engine. https://www.moddb.com/mods/tie-fighter-total-conversion-tftc

You’ll need a copy of X-Wing Alliance (available cheap on gog) to run it.

The tip top number 1 for me has always been TIE Fighter Collector’s CD-ROM. Everything about it was awesome. Mindblowing for the time 640x480 graphics, the iMUSE music system that dynamically changes the music to react to what’s happening in game, really fun flight mechanics, a massive amount of missions to complete, and the overall really excellently done Star Wars treatment.

For those who are interested, a free community-made remaster of sorts called TIE Fighter Total Conversion was released a couple of years ago, and has received several updates. It is based on the ancient (although not as ancient as TIE Fighter) X-Wing Alliance engine, and has been hacked and modded so much that it feels like a modern game, and it includes both the original campaign from TIE Fighter and a reimagined version of it that uses things that the newer engine can do that the old one can’t, such as having many more ships present at the same time and the ability to travel from one place to another via hyperspace within a mission, etc.

TIE Fighter works fine in DosBox btw. TFTC works natively in modern Windows. If you’re going to play either game I highly recommend using a joystick. Mouse control does work but it is not that fun. Gamepads will probably work too, but still won’t feel ‘right’. Also you’re going to need to keep your keyboard within reach as there’s a whole bunch of keys you’re going to need.

Don’t forget the USELESS FUCKING ARROWS.