![]() We recommend to leave framerate at 72 / 80hz for a smooth experience. We do not recommend those at this point.Ī lot of maps run stable at 90hz, some don't. There are other HD mods (AI upscale, Reloaded), but they bring down performance quite a bit. ![]() All was carefully selected for best performance on Quest 2. We have a set of HD mods and other add-ons in the companion app for download. But cross-play between PC vs Quest vs Android is also possible in LAN (Local Area Network) or online. All our "VR-only" servers are listed there. Yes, we have set up our own Q3Q master server that will show up in-game as default. Will I be able to play against other vr players? But we highly recommend to buy and install the full game. No, we have included the official id software demo that comes with a small set of multiplayer maps and the first tier of single player. Whilst it runs on Quest 1, we experienced rendering issues. Start that from Unknown Sources and there is the ability to change the Player Name.Ĭurrently we only recommend Quest 2. When you installed Quake3Quest, it will have also installed the Quake3Quest Companion App. Note: We strongly recommend using 72hz when using this DLC You should now have an extra option in the main menu of the game. Use Sidequest or windows file explorer to do this.
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I want it to remain in my mind the worn arcade that time forgot, the sort of gritty Chinatown establishment where shady characters from a William Gibson novel might hang out on a cold winter night. Honestly, I don’t want to know too much about Chinatown Fair. ![]() The NY Times did a story on Chinatown Fair a couple of years ago, but found the owner unwilling to talk. It’s been in business since at least the 1950’s, when it was located across the street at 7-9 Mott Street and featured rides, a lunch counter with ice cream sodas and yes, dancing chickens (picture from Manhattan’s Chinatown): It’s hard to find any history on Chinatown Fair. ![]() Pictures were later sent of Lily the chicken in her new home to Mr. Then he turned to me and said: “Take the chicken!” I hugged him I was so grateful. I begged and begged, “I have to take her today.” He said he needed a moment to pray for the decision he should make–we were both still. Samuel to give up the game once and for all. Later, the chicken was placed in a tic-tac-toe machine of similar design, in which jolts caused the chicken to correctly select boxes on a tic-tac-toe board.Ĭhinatown Fair went through dozens of chickens over the decades until 1998, when a sympathetic poultry lover convinced owner Mr. Rather, it was hopping to avoid the electric jolts that were sent into the grate it stood on. Since the 1950’s, you could watch a chicken dance at Chinatown Fair for a few coins. That used to read “World Famous Dancing & Tic-Tac-Toe Playing Chicken.” See the “World Famous Dancing & Tic-Tac-Toe” line? What the heck is this doing in an old arcade? The answer is on the sign. …And check out the strange picture collage of…farm animals. ![]() Isn’t this the very nature of arcades?įor a truly unique bit of Chinatown Fare history, however, go to the manager’s booth, a treehouse-like mishmash of plywood and metal that somehow manages to stay up… I love the NO LOITERING sign hand painted on the half brick, half cement wall. Here you’ll find more modern fare like Dance Dance Revolution and others. Like a storybook magic store that’s larger inside than appears possible from the street, the arcade seems to stretch farther back than it should – and then takes a left hand turn to go even deeper into the bowels of Chinatown. What really amazes me though is the size of the place. …and you can find a fair number of classics represented in the front. The place was packed with a mix of young teens, 20-something hipsters, and Chinese locals pumping quarters for a few minutes of video gaming.įor the most part, the games are a quarter or two… I only learned of Chinatown Fair Arcade recently, when a friend showed me it after a delicious Peking duck dinner one Saturday night. Same goes for the vertical Video Game Land sign, though I wish to God this would get fixed – nothing would be cooler than turning onto Mott Street and finding a rainbow of flashing lights advertising one of the last old school arcades in the city. The letters on the store’s sign are missing not for aesthetic value but because they fell down with age or were stolen, and haven’t been replaced because the owner doesn’t feel it’s worth the trouble. Not a Hollywood set, or a nostalgia-fueled attempt at creating a Tron-like arcade. …and you’ll find yourself in something out of a movie, a brick-walled tunnel of a space lined on both sides with dozens of quarter-fed video games: the last arcade in Chinatown. Head through the fingerprint streaked glass doors… It’s at #8 Mott, though you’ll know you’re there simply because it’s the only storefront around with its rollgate up, a strange purplish light spilling out onto the street. …and turn right onto the dimly lit, deserted Mott Street. It’s in Chinatown, and it’s best to visit late on a Friday or Saturday night.įrom Canal Street, head south on Bowery past Chatham Square… Note: Chinatown Fair closed for good about two weeks after I posted this article. ![]() However plans for higher UDMA modes are in the works. Currently only PIO modes up to 4 are supported. In this way the behavior of ATA commands is entirely defined by a user space daemon running on the Pi in Linux user space. The Pi may then read the IDE register file, update the IDE register file, fill the incoming data FIFO with data, or read data from the outgoing data FIFO – all over SPI. When the IDE command register is written, the busy bit is automatically set and an interrupt is thrown to the Pi. The fundamental architecture consists of few simple components: ![]() ![]() The most revolutionary thing about it is the $5 price tag! However the ever-growing eco-system of hardware and software contributors now set it apart from the competition as much as the price point. The Raspberry Pi Zero was specifically chosen for it’s price point. However the primary goal of projects like this is to facilitate usability of the machines, conserve them for future generations, and augment older failing technology. Some consider coupling a modern co-processor with orders of magnitude more capability than the vintage machine itself while providing menial functionality ‘perverse’. The second direction B focuses on the ‘easy’ road – throw endless MHz, GHz, MIPS, and massive memory and storage at the problem. The wireless module may unavoidably have a higher level processor as long as it presents a basic external interface and it’s capabilities are not evident or generally exploitable. This would essentially involve a CPLD or FPGA providing a rudimentary bridge over an interface like SPI or SDIO to a commodity wireless module. no high level microprocessor or micro-controller running at clock rates that could eclipse (literally) millions of times the processing capability of the PC Jr itself. While this seems like an oxymoron with wireless networking functionality, it generally means design hardware at a schematic and register transfer level only eg. Direction A, or a minimalist approach, suggested we built a module with as close to period hardware as possible. Two directions emerge based on philosophical fundamentals. The NetPi-IDE project started out as a discussion about how to best add wireless support to an IBM PC Jr running an existing Jr-IDE expansion interface on Mike’s PC-Jr forums. This means others may use, modify, or even derive works from this project as long as the GPLv2 license is carried forward, all resulting material carries forth this license, and attribution is properly assigned. The project is 100% open source and tentatively released under the GPLv2 license for all software and hardware components. The development effort at this point should be considered very alpha and several months away before a group buy/build, crowd funding production run, or general availability to the vintage/retro computing community. It also provides additional features through IDE/ATA vendor commands that open up additional functionality such as network connectivity and bridging to a variety of other peripherals connected to the Raspberry Pi over USB ports. It is designed to emulate an IDE master, IDE slave, or a combination of both using raw image files stored on the Pi’s main micro-SD card. The NetPi-IDE project is essentially an IDE disk emulator based on a Raspberry Pi Zero module with a custom bridge board – allowing it to meet timing and performance targets defined in the ATA/ATAPI T13 specification which governs how IDE drives operate. ![]() You buy the equipment once, with no monthly reoccurring charge.Connections are maintained and “handed off” when the cell phone switches from receiving signal through the signal booster to receiving signal from the cell tower, and vice versa.Signal boosters operate independently from your Internet connection.Cell phone booster systems can be used to boost the signal in weak signal areas and inside buildings where cellular signals can’t penetrate.įor a deeper explanation you can check out this How Boosters Work page. ![]() These systems are bi-directional, meaning that it will also help your cell phone communicate with the cell tower using the same process in reverse order. Femtocells use your internet connection’s bandwidth to operate, and so could possibly slow other Internet traffic.Ī cell signal booster works by detecting the cell signal outside a building, bringing it inside and amplifying it, and then rebroadcasting the amplified signal to the interior space so your phone can use it. ![]()
![]() Note that text can also be added to axes using text, and annotate. Legends can be much more complicated see Legend guide for more details. These methods are relatively straight-forward, though there are a number of Text properties and layout that can be set on the text objects, like fontsize, fontname, horizontalalignment. plot ( t, y, label = 'Random walk y' ) ax. plot ( t, x, label = 'Random walk x' ) linesy = ax. subplots ( figsize = ( 5, 3 ), layout = 'constrained' ) np. See the API documentation for a full curated list, and Most of the high-level plotting methods are accessed from the axes.AxesĬlass. See Arranging multiple Axes in a Figure for more detail on how to arrange grids of Axes on a Is an Axes that spans both columns on the bottom. For fig, axs = plt.subplot_mosaic(, ]),Īxs is an Axes in the top row on the left, and axs Pyplot.subplot_mosaic and Figure.subplot_mosaic: add a grid of namedĪxes and return a dictionary of axes. Note that fig, ax = plt.subplots() adds a single Axes to a Figure. The pyplot version returns both the Figure object and an array ofĪxes. Pyplot.subplots and Figure.subplots: add a grid of Axes as in the exampleĪbove. fig.add_axes() makes an Axes that fills the whole figure. There are a number of other methods for adding Axes to a Figure:įigure.add_axes: manually position an Axes. In the example above subplots put a grid of subplots on the figure, and axs is a (2, 2) array of Axes, each of which can have data added to them. However, for instance add_axes will manually position an Axes on the page. These methods are discussed in more detail in Creating Figures and Arranging multiple Axes in a Figure. suptitle ( 'plt.subplots()' )Īxes are added using methods on Figure objects, or via the pyplot interface. transAxes, ha = 'center', va = 'center', fontsize = 18, color = 'darkgrey' ) fig. annotate ( f 'axs', ( 0.5, 0.5 ), transform = axs. for row in range ( 2 ): for col in range ( 2 ): axs. subplots ( ncols = 2, nrows = 2, figsize = ( 3.5, 2.5 ), layout = "constrained" ) # for each Axes, add an artist, in this case a nice label in the middle. Import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np fig, axs = plt. Material here is duplicate of that in Quick start guide. Note that Axes are so fundamental to the operation of Matplotlib that a lot of Gateway to much of Matplotlib's functionality. Part of the Axes is the Figure itself, so the axes.Axes class is really the Indeed, in the figure above, the only Artist that is not If we want to change the label on the x-axis, weĬall ax.set_xlabel('New Label'), if we want to plot some data we callĪx.plot(x, y). In the picture above, the Axes object was created with ax = fig.subplots().Įverything else on the figure was created with methods on this ax object, An Axes typically has a pair of AxisĪrtists that define the data coordinate system, and include methods to addĪnnotations like x- and y-labels, titles, and legends. Once an Axes is placed on a figure there are many methods that can be used toĪdd data to the Axes. Matplotlib Axes are the gateway to creating your data visualizations. Text rendering with XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX via the pgf backend.Customizing Matplotlib with style sheets and rcParams.Understanding the extent keyword argument of imshow.Tight layout guide (mildly discouraged).Writing a backend - the pyplot interface.Interactive figures and asynchronous programming.Matplotlib Application Interfaces (APIs).Gs = gridspec.GridSpecFromSubplotSpec(1, 3, subplot_spec=grid)įig. # create subgrid for two subplots without space between them Subfig.suptitle(f'Subfigure title \n', fontweight='semibold', size=14) Subfigs = fig.subfigures(nrows=3, ncols=1) Either Figure.subfigures (most straightforward)Ĭreate 3x1 fig.subfigures where each subfig gets its own 1x3 subfig.subplots and subfig.suptitle: fig = plt.figure(constrained_layout=True).See how to plot subfigures for further details. The new subfigure feature allows creating virtual figures within figures with localized artists (e.g., colorbars and suptitles) that only pertain to each subfigure. Row titles can now be implemented as subfigure suptitles: ![]() ![]() You can add about 30 more minutes to the cook time, but it usually cooks just as well in the allotted time. I am terrible about remembering to take the chicken out of the freezer, so I place it right into the Crock Pot and cook it. Can You Put Frozen Chicken In A Slow Cooker?Ībsolutely. These were so big that they ended up feeding all four of us, including two teenage boys, and we had leftovers. I had three large chicken breasts for this recipe, but you can use four smaller ones, as well. Next, add a stick of butter to the cooker.Īdd the chicken breasts to the slow cooker. How To Make Slow Cooker Chicken and Spanish Riceįirst, grease the Crock Pot before adding anything, that way you won’t have to use much elbow grease when it’s clean-up time. Slow cooker, or Crock Pot recipes, are some of my all-time favorites because the meat always turns out so tender and you can be so versatile with the meal. What Ingredients Are In The Slow Cooker Chicken Recipe?įull printable recipe with measurements and instructions listed below in the recipe card. One of my kids is usually pretty picky and came up to me after the meal and said he really liked it, so this dish is picky-kid approved. What’s more, you can have the budget-friendly main dish prepped and in the Crock Pot cooking in less than five minutes, so when you get home you won’t have to do much at all.Īnd, I love those meals that don’t require a lot of work, especially on busy nights. There’s no guessing involved because you can simply use a bag of Spanish rice, some butter, dry ranch seasoning, chicken stock, and chicken breasts and you’ve got a delicious meal for the evening. Slow cooker chicken and Spanish rice is one of the easiest meals to make and has a kick of flavor that everyone will love. 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