Day of success

Today has been a good day.

Can you tell which is the broken one?

A while back I broke one of my Apple Newton eMate devices just by opening it and closing it. A hinge fitting broke in a way that caused it to pierce the ribbon cable that links the display to the main board. I’d give you more details, but I don’t want to talk about it at the moment.

Anyhoo, I ordered a replacement cable and last week it arrived in a huge box. At first I was sure the box was empty, but eventually I found the cable nestling in the middle of a big wad of padding. After spending a chunk of yesterday totally failing to fit the darned thing I thought I’d have another go this morning. It’s a bit fiddly. You have to wrap the cable around one of the hinges in exactly the right way, otherwise I’d have been ordering another replacement. Once I’d got the cable in place the rest of the device went together without incident and I now have 3 fully working Newton eMate devices. The next thing to do is complete upgrading the rechargeable batteries with ones that, er, recharge,

And then, just to build on my success I finally got Forza Horizon 6 working on my PC. I’m not sure what I did. Actually I am sure what I did. What I’m not sure of is why it worked. I plugged the PC into a different monitor. Forza sprang into life on the alternative screen and looked super. So I plugged the original monitor back in and it kept working. And off I went.

The game is fantastic. It follows the previous game pattern pretty closely, but you can now crash through scenery in a much more impressive way. I can’t find a Nissan Cube but they do have this really cute little van.