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Feature: 'Arcade Perfect' Be Damned: R-Type DX Is Still Portable Perfection
Bydo To The Future
by Kerry Brunskill Sun 26th Dec 2021
R-Type may be 34 years old but the beyond-enthusiastic reception for R-Type Final 2's Kickstarter proved Irem's long-running series is much more than a nostalgic memory held close by a few greying fans, or vintage shmup still hazily respected from a great distance. R-Type can still generate hype and open up wallets; the thought of more was enough to see the game's Kickstarter campaign raise double (and then some) its initial funding goal. The series is an evergreen classic and rightfully so, and one that has at times made a happy home for itself on Nintendo hardware, with the arguable highlight landing on an unexpected format: the humble Game Boy Color.
1999's R-Type DX was an ambitious project from the start, cramming the two original Game Boy ports into one cartridge and not only colourising but also enhancing both (make sure you take a minute to enjoy the new and more arcade-accurate intro used in the colour version of R-Type II), and then combining these new portable takes on two arcade legends into one epic shmup package. DX never aimed to be anything less than the most definitive handheld experience you could possibly have with these titans of the genre; a small squarish black cartridge that left you wanting nothing else other than an infinite supply of AA batteries and a long sunny day.
You'd probably expect a project of this quality to come from a fiercely dedicated team of Game Boy enthusiasts at Irem determined to release this unrealistic passion project no matter the cost, but in reality a small group of supremely talented people working for UK developer Bits Studio (the same developer responsible for the original "impossible" R-Type ports created for the old monochrome Game Boy) were solely responsible for this portable wonder.
So what? you might ask. We all know what R-Type looks like in colour — it looks like every other version of R-Type ever made! — so why would a portable version be anything special?
Context is key here. Back in 1999 the Game Boy Color wasn't just a colour Game Boy; it was the most powerful handheld Nintendo had ever released and the only handheld worth owning. It was far from the bleeding edge of console technology, but its vast library and brand power made it the must-own portable machine, despite a couple of valiant efforts from other companies. Truly arcade-accurate R-Type was something you'd find only in an arcade, not emulated on your PC, or downloaded onto your phone (if you even had one), or anywhere else outside of the uncommon PlayStation retro package, R-Types. That's what made this GBC package so astonishing.
The graphical upgrade in R-Type DX adds not only colour but also contrast and readability. Enemies and your own bullets are no longer different shapes moving in opposite directions but blues and oranges against blacks and greys. The iconic orange Dobkeratops and its tangle of wires waiting at the end of the first game's first stage stand out against the deep black background and the claustrophobic stage walls. Colour breathes an uncomfortable sort of life into the bio-mechanical horror festering within R-Type's dark heart, subtly emphasising the wrongness of shooting your way through alien graveyards and forbidden landscapes; the blood red organic structures of one stage feeling very different to the greens and blues of metal and technology found in another; lush green trees making the rusted metal you flew through earlier seem like forever ago — and this all playing out right in the palm of your hand, wherever you happen to be.
And this is where we find another of R-Type DX's quiet triumphs: an acute awareness of its new portable home. The traditional tap-to-shoot / hold-to-power-up a Bydo-beating blast firing method is included if you want to use it, but there are also two different types of thumb-saving autofire to choose from, too — very much appreciated on a format where excessive tapping inevitably wobbles the screen. Per-game difficulty settings are available as well, allowing you to tailor every version of every game to your liking.
On top of that DX also silently tracks of your progress and keeps it safe on its battery-backed cartridge, enabling you to restart a colourised title from the last stage you reached or simply practise a tricky level in preparation for that perfect no-death run you're sure you can do… one day. It's an R-Type that knows you may have to put it down at any moment even if you don't want to; an R-Type that gives you the ability to get back into the action as quickly as possible without any of the games ever losing their unforgiving edge or strict checkpoint-based restarts.
It's also an R-Type that gives you a rare taste of the hardest challenge of all — creating something of your own. The "De Souza" editor, only available to those who've shown a thorough mastery of everything R-Type DX's has to offer, allows you to feebly attempt to construct something of your own from the game's selection of pre-existing graphical tiles before giving up and going back to any of the other modes. This is intended to be a welcome little bit of extra fun rather than Irem-themed Dezaemon (although we'd love to see that too), and a chance to see for yourself just how much of a headache it can be to design anything, never mind a recognisable recreation of two arcade classics, within such stringent hardware limitations.
In the 22 years since DX dropped our general expectations of retro re-releases have inflated to the point where "arcade perfect" is now considered the very least a port could be, and this is why arcade R-Type is now something of a quaint bonus in its own remake, R-Type Dimensions EX. These new higher standards make it easy to pick fault with this Game Boy offering (there are entire levels missing in this handheld port, after all) but — and this is the most important part — the feel of the games in this collection really can't be faulted. DX is R-Type distilled rather than damaged, a fully-featured and incredibly playable demake that holds up beautifully, even when viewed in the harsh light of modern day (which is exactly what you'll need to see the game if you're trying to use an unmodded Game Boy Color in 2021).
Forsaking the fruitless pursuit of superficial similarity, Bits Studio captured something far more precious: R-Type's spirit.
Further reading: Feature: How R-Type Was De-Made For The Game Boy, Before Demakes Were A Thing
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StuartGipp
Sun 2nd May 2021
Great write-up of a brilliant cartridge. This inspired me to re-buy it.
Good stuff! Let's get some R-Type III love soon!
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brandonbwii
@Slowdive Same here. While I never grew to actually enjoy the shump genre as a whole, R-type still has a special place in my heart.
HIGHscores85
The original black and white R-Type for gameboy was one of my first games for the system. I must have been 5 or 6 but I can remember asking to get it at Target. Pretty sure we had R-Type on Commodore64 and I had played it there or maybe even looked up to it at an arcade. Either way I knew what it was. Shmups didn't become my go to genre until Dreamcast but the seeds had been planted.
Sabrewing
It was definitely impressive for the comparatively humble Game Boy Color. I would also throw some love towards the Deja Vu I & II combo cartridge, both for being solid adaptations of the MacVenture classics (even if syringes were still censored into "capsules"; practice safe drug use, kids) and also bringing Deja Vu II to Nintendo players for the first time.
BongoBongo123
Damn, this article bring back nostalgia for the game boy colour. Sunny summers in Spain with Pokemon and Super Mario Land. Perfecting your team and raising a dragonite. The amount of work that took.
Although I never owned the classic that this article talks about.
The-Nate
Fun fact: Manfred Trenz (creator of Giana Sisters and Turrican) did the official C64 port of R-Type after his R-Type clone, Katakis, was released
JayJ
Funny I never really played shoot-em-ups on the Game Boy, I guess it just always seemed like it wouldn't work that well. Gotta remember how it was buying games back then as well, we didn't have websites with articles like this, everything you got was either out of word of mouth or something you saw in a gaming magazine. Once in a while I would discover something interesting at my local Funcoland that they had playing in a demo console, but it was tough to have a good concept of everything that was out there back then.
nkarafo
My first experience with R-type was on Amstrad cpc 6128 and I was amazed at it. Unfortunately it was very hard on later stages and I could never finished it. It had great visuals for its era and it was too much mature because it had graphics like the Aliens movies.
sketchturner
This is the only R Type game I ever bought and it was excellent. I'm not normally into shmups but Nintendo Power had a big feature on this game (complete with detailed, full level maps) and I just had to have it.
@brandonbwii why's that
algernonramone
Love this, had a copy since not long after it was released. Truly one of the GBC's hidden gems. A little surprised it never hit 3DS VC.
TheWingedAvenger
R-Type fans should check out the Neo Geo game "Pulstar" and the arcade game "X Multiply", both of which are awesome R-Type clones. They've luckily been re-released on the Nintendo Switch! There aren't enough R-Type games, so you really need to get the clones.
CactusMan
We realy need a sequal to Lylat Wars.
@Sabrewing
Deja Vu I & II on the Game Boy Color is excellent. It's the only console port of the sequel. I agree, that and R-Type DX are must-haves for the GBC.
doctorhino
@StuartGipp average cart prices loose are about 160, you seriously just spent that much on a gbc game?
@doctorhino It's £15 at CEX?
RudyC3
Still have my CiB copy of this from back in the day (I think it was a birthday present from my godmother in either 1999 or 2000 or something). I loved this game so much, I already loved Super R-Type on my SNES and this was the closest thing to it I could get for my GBC.
@StuartGipp people are ebay are dumb than, my bad
Kyloctopus
Mon 3rd May 2021
I bought R-Type DX at a convention a few years ago and is one of the few GBC games I own. Spent some time with it, but didn't go far enough to really recognize what makes it great. I'll definitely take another look.
I especially agree with the bottom paragraph about how "Arcade Perfect" doesn't have to be the direction for a console port and a fun experience.
Deliesh
This game was my childhood! I'll have to track it down and replay it. I've been bummed to see that none of the recent ones have been great.
ChromaticDracula
I was actually just playing my cart the other night! It's pretty tough. It took me a good few tries to get past level 1. Shmups with environmental collision are tough for me.
But once I got past level 1, I think I got to 3 or 4. What a fun game!
But yeah as I was playing it I was reminded how well they were able to shrink down R-Type and port it over to Gameboy and have it run so well. Really holds up still too, save for some moments of understandable slow-down.
CANOEberry
@ChromaticDracula I must compliment you on this journey of éliteness you are undertaking.
BionicDodo
This was an incredibly impressive port. I would say that R-Type was actually one of the arcade games that received the most astonishing ports in general - what was managed on the Master System and PC Engine was quite breathtaking.
R-Type DX was the first time I played any games in the series, and it was fantastic back then. I replayed this DX version recently, and it still holds up as a fun little port. A little slower than the arcade versions, but the mash-up of two games together still makes for a great longplay.
Never had a GBC, but clocked the orig R-Type on the GB.
Off to read the linked article on that now! Thanks for (re)posting this!
SpringDivorce
Spectrum port was amazing in the day. Better than this, I thought.
@SpringDivorce
I loved loved loved the Spectrum version.
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We could lose the Panda Cam in a gov't shutdown
September 30, 2013 1:53 PM ET
The PANDA CAM, people.
The Republicans are big mean terrorists, and Obama is awesome. With these self-evident truths in mind, NBC Washington gives us a harrowing glimpse at the looming apocalypse those evil, hostage-taking tea-hadists are threatening: "10 Ways a Government Shutdown Might Affect You – Even If You're Not a Federal Worker."
Here's #4:
All Smithsonian Museums and the Smithsonian's National Zoo would close to the public, and about 90 percent of the Smithsonian's 6,400 employees would be furloughed, said spokesperson Linda St. Thomas.
Museum doors would remain closed on Tuesday morning, ruining vacation plans for thousands of tourists expecting to see the National Air and Space Museum or view art at one of the museum's galleries.
In addition, the zoo's wildly popular Panda Cam, which stars the zoo's five-week-old cub and her mother, would go offline, as would all other animal cams. The cams require government resources which are not deemed essential, a zoo spokesperson confirmed to NBC Washington Monday morning.
Essential personnel will still take care of the animals, of course.
"Take care of"? As in… [mimes a pistol being fired] No? Oh well.
Just look at what could be taken from us, America:
It sat up! And we were there to witness it. Why do the Rethuglicans want to keep us from pursuing our happiness? Why do they hate America?
I'm not for the government shutdown if they're just going to start it up again.
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Join Fanbase Press & Southern California's Indie Creators for LA Comic Con 2018 - Plus, Panels Announced!
The Fanbase Press staff is very excited to be exhibiting at Los Angeles Comic Con once again this year, alongside a host of talented independent creators! Taking place from October 26-28, 2018, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles Comic Con is LA's largest pop culture convention.
Fans in attendance will have a chance to stop by the Fanbase Press table (Artist Alley Table I-34) to pick up titles including the Eisner Award-nominated Quince, the soon-to-be released A Geek's Guide to Cross-Stitch: Journeys in Space, The Margins, Hero Hotel, The Gamma Gals, Penguins vs. Possums, The Arcs, Something Animal, Identity Thief, and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Fearworms: Selected Poems! Plus, purchase your very own limited edition Quince enamel pin and the official Fanbase Press t-shirt!
Fanbase Press' creators and hosts from the Fanbase Press Podcast Network will also be signing and hosting meet-and-greets throughout the weekend!
SIGNING SCHEDULE
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Teresa Jusino (host, Finding Felicity Podcast)
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Clarissa Thorne (creator, A Geek's Guide to Cross-Stitch: Journeys in Space)
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Stefano Terry (creator/writer/artist, The Gamma Gals)
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Sebastian Kadlecik (creator, Quince, creator/co-writer/co-illustrator, Penguins vs. Possums)
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Erik Amaya and Justin Robinson (co-hosts, Tread Perilously Podcast)
Plus, you will not want to miss all of the panels featuring Fanbase Press' staff, which will include the following:
11:00 a.m.: Fanbase Press Presents: A 20th Anniversary Retrospective on Blade - Join the hosts of Fanbase Press' flagship podcast, The Fanbase Weekly, for one of their trademark "Fanbase Feature" panel discussions - this time focusing on the 20-year anniversary of director Stephen Norrington's Blade starring Wesley Snipes. Along with their special guests Hannibal Tabu (Comic Book Resources, Irrational Numbers), Gavin Hignight (Avengers Assemble, Star Wars: Resistance), and Robert J. Peterson (California Coldblood Books, CC2K), the podcast co-hosts (Bryant Dillon, Clarissa Thorne, and Drew Siragusa) will examine the plot, characters, and themes in this precursor to the comic book movie boom and the Marvel Cinematic Universe! (Room 406)
1:00 p.m.: Finding Your Genre moderated by Michael Tanner and featuring Chris Ryall, Lion Forge's Amanda Meadows, Henry Barajas, Quince creator Sebastian Kadlecik, and The Comic Bug's Mike Wellman. (Room 308)
12:00 p.m.: Fanbase Press Presents: Creating Culturally Relevant Stories and Characters - When creating engaging characters and storylines, how do comic book writers, artists, and publishers lead the way in providing new voices, characters, perspectives, and stories that better reflect our society as a whole? Led by Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief Barbra Dillon, this panel - including Sebastian Kadlecik (Quince), Kristen Parraz (Comadres y Comics), Stefano Terry (The Gamma Gals), and the Yuan Twins (Inspector Oh) will discuss the avenues taken by comic book industry professionals to create culturally relevant characters and stories that better reflect and represent their readership. (Room 404)
2:00 p.m.: Fanbase Press Presents: Swords, Sandals, Sorcery, and Other Worlds - Ancient Greek and Roman mythologies inspired many narratives throughout history. Known as peplums or "sword and sandal" in the 1950s-60s, the genre has been reinvigorated by the presence of sorcery and story settings in other worlds. Often challenging to define, our panelists - including Tiffany Carmel Lake (Stelletwal Series), Nicholas Diak (The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s), D.J. Kirkbride (The Once and Future Queen), and Josh Henaman (Bigfoot: Sword of the Earthman) - will historicize the genre and explore stories that entertain comic book readers today in a discussion led by Fanbase Press Editorials Manager Michele Brittany. (Room 409)
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I want to thank all of you who've taken up writing to me. I love to hear from you and I get a real charge out of the tips, questions and other fun stuff you send. Even though I cannot respond personally, believe me when I tell you that nothing goes unread.
In an effort to respond to so many of you who've written asking for alternatives to high-priced protein bars and infant formula, I've come up with some cheaper alternatives for your frugal consideration.
First the infant formula. Without a doubt you will never find a more nutritional or economical formula for a newborn than mother's milk. When that is not an option, commercial formulas should be your second choice, because they are highly regulated as to nutritional value for a baby's developmental needs. Having said that, here is a recipe that goes back many years that may be appropriate as a replacement for commercial formula once Junior graduates to solid food.
Car Mats, Wastebaskets, Baseball Caps: Yes … Gold-Trimmed Glassware: No!
Dear Mary: Twenty years ago I was lucky enough to receive a five-piece, service for 12, Spode Christmas Tree China (green band) from my mother. Since then I have filled out the set with many accessory pieces. When washing the china in the dishwasher I have been very careful to use the gentle/china cycle and cool dry. There has been no fading of the green band around the plates, cups, bake ware, etc., but the gold band around some of the glasses I bought only six years ago has washed away. A friend said it wasn't the cycle, but I needed to use a gentle dishwasher soap. However, no one knew or could agree on what was a gentle detergent. I'm hoping you can give me some help. Thank you. Susan.
Dear Susan: First, let me say that I am so jealous. That is an amazing set—a wonderful treasure. The problem for any china, glassware or crystal that has gold, silver or platinum trim is the hot water. It will actually flake that fine metal trim away. And once it is gone, there's nothing you can do to bring it back. That's why I want to strongly suggest that from now on you hand wash these beautiful items in mild soap and warm water. And I'm not alone in this. Spode recommends that any of its ware (china, imperialware, vitreous) not marked as dishwasher safe, be hand washed only. It's an investment of your time that will come back to bless you with many years of enjoyment.
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They don't call me the Queen of Costco for nothing. Truth be told, I love the place. And I buy large quantities of many items, but only because I'm also quite sneaky. I bring stuff home but then hide all but the minimal amount we need to get through the week, to create an atmosphere of scarcity.
Human nature is such that in the face of an abundance of anything, we use it up quickly and with abandon.
Do you know that feeling of dread when you're halfway through the laundry and discover you have about 3 ounces of detergent left? You kinda' go easy, right? Same goes for anything that appears to be getting down to the end.
If you itemize your tax return, you probably know that you are allowed to deduct the fair market value of items you donate to charity. But what's the fair market value of say a pair of shoes or a lamp? More than you might think.
The law does not allow the charity to determine the value of an item you donate. The charitable organization gives you a receipt saying that you made the donation. You, the donor, must determine its value. And that's the problem.
If you overstate the value you risk an audit, penalties and interest. If you underestimate you'll pay more taxes than you should.
In the process of paring down and purging in anticipation of our big move to Colorado in the spring, my husband and I donated an antique pump organ to a church where it will be used in services and enjoyed by many.
The organ is more than a hundred years old so looking up the new price and depreciating it appropriately was not possible. Our accountant suggested we locate similar antiques that have sold in say the past year and then adjust accordingly for our specific situation. Right. Like there's a brisk market for antique reed organs down at the mall.
A University of Southern California study found that greater wealth didn't translate into greater happiness for many of the 1,500 people surveyed annually over three decades. USC economist Richard Easterlin said, "Many people are under the illusion that the more money we make, the happier we'll be," but, according to the study, that isn't true.
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What is your greatest financial temptation? That's one of the question I asked in a poll at DPL Central. Answer choices: accepting more credit, vacation, clothes, new car, stuff for house, eating out or none-of-the-above.
Whether eating out is your top temptation or it comes in second or third, you can deal with it more effectively if you make eating at home more convenient and more delicious than going out.
It costs hardly anything ($2 a gallon on sale), it's available in every grocery store in the universe and so useful around your home you are going to have a hard time believing it. That's the power of vinegar. Yep, plain, cheap, 5 percent acidity, white vinegar.
1. Instead of fabric softener or dry sheets, add 1/2 to 1 cup vinegar to last rinse in your washing machine (as you would liquid softener). Your clothes will come out soft because the vinegar helps to remove every trace of laundry detergent, which cause fabrics to stiffen.
2. Add 1/4 cup white vinegar to a quart of very warm water to make a good window cleaner. Wipe with crumpled newspaper or a coffee filter and your windows will sparkle.
3. Vinegar will dissolve hard-water marks like those on shower doors, faucets and in vases. If the vinegar is hot (heat in the microwave) it works even faster.
Have I got a story for you about the Hubs and me. I don't like to think that we cave easily to peer pressure, but apparently that is the case.
We have these friends who are way into healthy lifestyle—clean eating and extreme exercise. I call anything with the words running, jogging and cycling in it, extreme. They're so into these things, they don't even think about taking a short hiatus when we visit. Oh, no. We're talking green smoothies all around, every morning. No question, no excuse.
Let me just say right here that my husband has never met a vegetable he enjoys. He's just not into them. Never has been. But he's kinder than he is finicky, and so in the interest of friendship, he (OK, me too) would put on a happy face and down the green whenever we visited our friends Carol and Steve. And Harold would kind of shudder in a way that only I was aware—the way kids do when they have to eat something they think is really gross. This always made me laugh but I tried really hard not to show it.
I cannot fully explain this, but after several of these occasions, something went off inside of both of us suggesting that perhaps, just maybe we might think about doing this ourselves. At home.


QTL are loci which individually have a small but measurable influence on a continuous phenotype such as body weight rather than giving rise to discrete disease present or absent phenotypes. The principal advantage of this methodology is that interactions between loci each having only a small phenotypic effect may be investigated, particularly where the sum of more than one such effect is large.
The principle of attempting to define QTL as a tool for gene mapping relies on the fact that rodents may be selectively inbred to produce strains that differ widely in body weight and fat deposition under the influence of polygenic loci. Breeds with opposite poles of a phenotypic extreme may then be crossbred to produce F1 progeny whose phenotype will depend on the exact genotype inherited from each parental strain (Brockmann and Bevova, 2002).
The resultant F1 generation may then be back-crossed to a parent or permitted to bred with siblings to generate a back-cross or sib-mated F2 population containing a number of allele combinations (and phenotypes) not encountered in either of the parental or F1 strains. Provided the two breeds differ in one or more molecular markers associated with each locus (e.g. restriction fragment length polymorphisms, microsatellites or single nucleotide polymorphisms), the F2 generation may be genotyped and phenotyped to associate genetic markers (and thus specific allele combinations) with the resulting phenotype.
Over 165 QTL spanning the entire genome (except the Y chromosome) have been mapped in animals (mainly mice) to date (Rankinen et al., 2002). Many appear to exert rather modest effects on phenotype (as may be expected in a complex polygenic disorder) although some do appear to have more major effects. Following identification of QTL in mice, loci of interest may be mapped to the homologous (syntenic) region in man and the region further tested for association with obesity in a human population.
Thus, the many benefits of performing genetic studies in mice may be reaped whilst maintaining relevance to human populations. These advantages include stable environmental conditions, pure breeding strains, the ability to perform sibling and back-cross mating, rapid breeding (generation) times and the ability to obtain accurate phenotypical data. At present, the use of this method has identified QTL having effects on intermediary phenotypes such as thermogenesis, serum leptin levels and insulin resistance, gene–environment interactions such as susceptibility to diet-induced obesity and with time of obesity onset and gender-specific susceptibility to obesity (Brockmann and Bevova, 2002).
Because this technique examines the effects of many combinations of more than one allele, the opportunity to examine gene–gene interactions is presented.
For example, the mouse strains M. Spretus and C57BL/6 are relatively lean as are the F1 progeny resulting from crossing these parental strains. However, back-crossed progeny (with allelic combinations not found in the parental or F1 strains) vary in percentage body fat content from about 1 to 60 per cent. Significant association (LOD score >3.3) was found in the back-crossed F2 progeny between a number of intermediary phenotypes and four genomic regions (designated as mob1–4 on chromosomes 7, 6, 12 and 15, respectively). A further association with percentage body fat, accounting for some 7 per cent of the observed variance of this trait, was considered 'suggestive' rather than statistically significant (Warden et al., 1995; Warden and Fisler, 1998). These loci include a number of plausible candidate genes including IGFR-1 (mob1), ob (mob2) and GH receptor (mob4). It is of interest that M. Spretus-derived alleles appear to promote obesity at chromosomes 6, 7 and 12, whereas C57BL/6- derived alleles promote obesity only when present on chromosome 15 and then only when the loci at 6, 7, and 12 are heterozygous, providing a clear demonstration of the complexities of epistasis in the aetiology of complex polygenic disorders such as obesity.


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Q: RegEnumValue crashes application I am currently learning how to work with the registry using c++. I have made an application that is supposed to see if a certain value in a certain key exists. However, the application crashes as soon as it reaches RegEnumValue(). Any ideas to what the problem might be?
Code:
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <Psapi.h>

using namespace std;

bool registerKeyExists(char* key, char* subkey);

int main()
{
    while(true){
        if(registerKeyExists("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run", "SynTPEnh")){
            return 0;
        }
    }

    return 0;
}

bool registerKeyExists(char* key, char* subkey){
    HKEY keyEnum;
    if(RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, key, 0, KEY_READ, &keyEnum) == ERROR_SUCCESS){
        char* valueName;
        DWORD valueSize = 100;
        DWORD cbName;
        FILETIME lastFiletime;
        DWORD i = 0;
        DWORD returnCode = ERROR_SUCCESS;
        while(returnCode == ERROR_SUCCESS){
            cout << "This show!" << endl;
            returnCode = RegEnumValue(keyEnum, i, valueName, &valueSize, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
            cout << "This doesn't show!" << endl;
            if(valueName == subkey)
                return true;
            i++;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

A: You have not provided any space for the name of the value. You are passing an uninitialised pointer valueName to RegEnumValue(), which it rejects (apparently, by way of crashing your app). Try the following instead:
char valueName[100];
DWORD valueSize = sizeof(valueName);

This reserves 100 characters for the returned value name.
You will also want to use strcmp() instead of == for testing string values:
if (strcmp(valueName, subkey) == 0) ...

A: From the SDK documention for RegEnumValue():
LONG WINAPI RegEnumValue(
  __in         HKEY hKey,
  __in         DWORD dwIndex,
  __out        LPTSTR lpValueName,         // <=== here
  __inout      LPDWORD lpcchValueName,
  __reserved   LPDWORD lpReserved,
  __out_opt    LPDWORD lpType,
  __out_opt    LPBYTE lpData,
  __inout_opt  LPDWORD lpcbData
);

Notice the __out SAL annotation on the lpValueName argument.  That means "were are going to write through the pointer you supplied".  And in particular, write the name of the value as documented in the rest of the SDK article.
Problem is, you didn't pass an initialized pointer that points to memory that can be written.  A TCHAR[] array big enough to receive the string, as indicated by the next argument, lpcchValueName.   You left it uninitialized.  And fibbed by saying you allocated 100 characters for the array.
Kaboom.

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gprime.net boards - View Single Post - XBox 360?
apparently the PS3 has 1.8 Teraflops(wtf are those! sum1 please tell me) which means the 360 only has .6 of a teraflop. man im a nerd.
You don't know what a teraflop is?
I'll be honest. None of the new consoles are an amazing piece of hardware.
In actuality, the XBox 360 is a damn powerful piece of work. It's more powerful than 95% of PCs available today. The only problem is that none of the developers are willing to spend the cash to create a game that pushes the limits of the console's ability.
That's where the idiots down at bungie come in. They'll go create a Halo game full of so much razzle-dazzle that it patronizes all other games on the market, and lose millions of dollars in the process.
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How secure is Dynamics 365
As a Dynamics 365 Partner, we get regularly asked by prospects and existing customers about how secure the platform is. To answer that question, we need to look at the underlying infrastructure that underpins this CRM. But to reflect on an overview of the sector, over the last ten years, the IT industry has seen an enormous shift from on-premise to Cloud. Data storage, software, processing, traditionally controlled in local environments such as office networks are now performed in data centres across the world. This shift caused plenty of friction in the upper echelons of businesses, with fears over security and privacy as they hand over sensitive data from a businesses environment to another.
An organisation that wants to succeed in delivering cloud services must consider security at the core of every decision they make or face disastrous consequences.
To get back to Dynamics 365, it sits on top of Microsofts Azure platform, arguably the largest cloud platform in the world. To have been successful, they needed to be at the cutting edge of security. So how does it achieve that?
TLS Encrypted connections
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is one of the most important and widely used security protocols. It protects a significant proportion of the data that gets transmitted online. It's most prominently used to secure the data that travels between a web browser and website via HTTPS, but it can also be used to secure email and a host of other protocols.
Safeguard access with Azure Activity Directory
Microsoft invests over USD 1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.
Microsoft employs more than 3,500 security experts focused on securing your data and privacy.
Azure has more certifications than any other cloud provider. View the comprehensive list.
Azure AD manages more than 1.2 billion identities and processes over 8 billion authentications every day.
Leverages Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center (CDOC)
The security system leverages Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center, which brings together security response experts from across the company to help protect, detect, and respond to threats in real-time. Staffed with dedicated teams 24x7, the Center has direct access to thousands of security professionals, data scientists, and product engineers throughout Microsoft to ensure rapid response and resolution to security threats.
Physical Security - Microsoft Data Centres
Azure safeguards data in facilities that are protected by industry-leading physical security systems and are compliant with a comprehensive portfolio of standards and regulations.
Microsoft has invested significant resources helping partners and businesses maintain GDPR compliance and helping to protect customer data as well as managing communications. They've put together a plethora of resouces to help with this commitment to GDPR.
Data Subject Requests
Role-based security aligned with your organisation
Role-based access control (RBAC) restricts network access based on a person's role within an organisation and has become one of the main methods for advanced access control. The roles in RBAC refer to the levels of access that employees have to the network.
Microsoft Operational Security Assurance
Effective operational security spans many domains—including physical security, staffing controls, asset management, and others—which are documented in numerous standards and frameworks. OSA outlines security engineering practices that organisations should adopt and is a framework used to improve core aspects of operational security of online services.
Dynamics 365 has benefited by leveraging Azure infrastructure, which delivers world-class security for businesses and users across the world. We understand the concerns on-premise organisations have about the Cloud; it's a big jump to migrate data that is physically stored at your organisations' location to letting someone else look after it daily.
However, consider whether your own IT security principles are as robust as the likes of Azure and if not, what is the cost required to match them? We suspect that's a very tall order.
Daniel Norris
Daniel Norris is the communications manager for Serversys. His role is to bring you the latest updates, tips, news and guides on Dynamics 365.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with us at communications@serversys.com


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Lizzie Falconer
"We were protagonists in our own moving and cinematic film, live and in Technicolor." -Marissa Cortes
Castries, Saint Lucia
The rain in Saint Lucia sounds like static. Like the moment you switch on a TV you aren't familiar with, or swipe the "mode" button when you meant to hit volume. A silence and then the whooshing. Whirring. Static.
It's dry season here, allegedly. But every day it rains. "Climate change." My taxi driver says to me when he picks me up from the airport. "Now we never know what's going to happen." Thaddeus picks me at the southern tip of the island and drives me north. My home for the next two months is Castries, the capital.
I've been living in capital cities for over a year now: La Paz, Bolivia; Quito, Ecuador; Lilongwe, Malawi. Each one of them has a different story to tell about their country. Where it is, where it's come from, where it's hoping to go.
La Paz's teleferico showed the promise that Evo Morales' indigenous government had once given the isolated, land locked country. The economy surged when he became president. But now, the graffiti covered walls and peeling referendum posters show a country tired of his corruption. Evo hasn't solved problems so much as covered them up: with inflated economic numbers and a shiny new skyline.
Quito, a new-age hipster metropolis, with craft beer and hand-roasted five-dollar coffee, underneath the inescapable gaze of the Andes. Quito is modernizing, rapidly, but wrestling with its indigenous identity. How can it move to the future while holding on to its roots? How does it come to terms with the failed Pink Tide of Latin America?
Lilongwe didn't become the capital of Malawi until 1975. It lacks the deep cultural significance of the previous capital Zomba and the British care of Blantyre. It's a planned city but there is no city center. No central square or place to gather. Sometimes driving around it feels like it isn't so much a city as a series of roundabouts. Lilongwe is still trying to figure out its identity.
Castries is something else. It's a port city, and every morning cruise ships glide soundlessly into the bay. After so many months in Africa, they are aliens to me. Giant gleaming white boats that part the water silently like a knife. I find them unsettling. From the hills looking down at the port, the cruise ships look bigger than the mall, than whole city blocks. I guess, I realize as I type this, because they are.
Castries itself is compact and vibrant, with a central cathedral surrounded by tiny blocks that burst with shops, vendors, and people. In the morning thousands of tourists disembark from the monster cruise ships and roll into the city, grabbing taxis to good beaches or buying t-shirts or getting their hair braided. In the afternoon they roll out like the tide and the city closes down. Very few restaurants are even open for dinner.
But the tourists don't seem to distract from the heart of this place. In Castries everyone is always talking to each other. Shop keepers chat with elderly women moving slowly past, drivers hang out of their windows to whistle and yell in Creole. Anyone who makes eye contact with me smiles and asks how I'm doing. St. Lucians are proudly laid back and welcoming. I've been here two weeks and already invited to three dinners, two hikes, and rum tasting. My neighbors are always bringing me food and inviting me over for a chat. This city is a conversation.
I can't end this without mentioning the beauty of the island. It is inescapable. Thaddeus, my taxi driver, told me that St. Lucia is called the "Helen" of the West Indies because the French and British fought fourteen wars over it. Fourteen wars for 238 square miles. But, it has a speechless type of beauty. Mesmerizing. The sand is white. The ocean is turquoise. There are wild purple orchids that grow along the side of the road. I've seen six rainbows in ten days. When I walk to work, I collect bananas, mangoes, limes and coconuts that have fallen into the street. My colleagues think I'm insane, and maybe it's weird, but I feel drunk off the sheer beauty and generosity of this place.
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Mother and I have been busy bees, cranking out four wreaths thus far and one more to go. There have been multiple trips to the craft stores because I can't ever seem to get the ratio of ribbon just right. Too much burlap, not enough deco mesh, etc. You know you're getting older when your shoulder and fingers are sore from crafting.
Here is the wreath we made for our front gate. I'm digging the square shape. The last one I'm planning to make this holiday season is a smaller square one in the same red, white and lime green color scheme for the front door.
This wreath was made for one of mother's oldest and dearest friends. She chose the colors of red, white and silver and we did the rest. All it lacks is the red and white glitter 3-D picks I bought to use as accents.
Last wreath we've completed is the small one we'll place on my granny's grave when we're back on our old stomping ground in a couple weekends to visit a couple of mother's old friends. The sparkly pink poinsettias were our inspiration, so I chose the burlap to try and tone it down a bit so it isn't too Vegas for the cemetery.
A friend asked if wreath making would be my second career. I told her only if I could outsource the actual work to a third world country. I enjoy the beginning when we pick out the design and colors, and then the end when it's finished. All of the cutting and measuring and twisting in between is a pain in the patootie.


Warm the Parma ham in the oven at 180 degrees until crispy. Chop the broccoli and the red onion.
Toast the pumpkin seeds lightly in a frying pan.
Mix yogurt, lemon juice, salt and Perfect Sød and season with salt and pepper.
Add the dressing to the broccoli and onions. Add cranberries, pumpkin seeds and ham in bite size.


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Outdoor murals get some TLC
It seems fitting that The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth showcases some of its best art outside – for everyone to enjoy. A hazard for these outdoor exhibits; however, is the harsh Calgary weather which takes a toll on the artworks.
"The murals help to tell a story of events that have happened over the last 100 years, preserving an important part of Stampede history," says Don Wilson, volunteer with the Stampede's Historical committee.
The first two murals on Stampede Park were installed in 1996 on the Stampede Corral and the Big Four Building. Since then, six more murals in various locations on Park have been added to the collection.
Special funding to mark the Stampede Centennial has enabled the Historical committee to embark on a restoration project, contracting the original artists to restore their works.
Once the restoration work has been completed, ongoing responsibility for the murals will be transferred to the Public Art committee who oversee all art on the Park.
The Early Stampede Parade mural
The Early Stampede Parade mural, painted on the lower east and north walls of the Corral, was recently refurbished by Penny Corradine – the original artist.
Penny and her able assistant, husband Bill Faulkner, are excited to be part of this Centennial project, bringing the murals back to life. Of her amazing artwork, Penny modestly says, "I just want it to be pleasing and to tell a story."
She talked about the challenges of designing and painting the mural back in 1996.
The Corral wall is not flat and has garage doors, windows with screens and numerous pipes. Penny had to choose different scenes from the 1912 and 1919 Stampede Parades that captured significant moments, instead of one continuous Parade scene.
Each image is based on archival photographs, from Rose Wentworth driving her bit-broke buffalo team, to the trick riding cowboy sitting on his recumbent horse while holding a badger. Penny spent hours poring over photographs at the Glenbow Museum for inspiration and to find the images that would tell our unique story.
More information about the murals can be found on calgarystampede.com/art and the Public Art committee walking tour brochure.
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As predicted, the delightful low-humidity days have finished after we received 80 ml of rain on Christmas Eve. Steamy days and warm nights for a while now.
The pond in full again and the frogs have abandoned the house in favour of their mating grounds. The pond is a favourite place, plus the swimming pool and any water features around the garden. Their persistent calling at night can be quite bothersome to the uninitiated. To us it is the soothing sounds of the Wet Season.
Birding is still good in Daintree at present. The Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher are at their nesting mounds,and while they are quieter, you can usually find a bird perched high up, not far from the nest. There appears to be at least three pairs along the first section of Stewart Creek Rd.
Papuan Frogmouth chicks seem to have all fledged, making them more difficult to see, but sightings of Little Kingfisher are happening and Black Bittern, Great-billed Heron and most of the other Daintree River specialities have been seen on early morning boat trips.
Latham's Snipe are feeding on the riverbanks and fields, plenty of Little Egret, Royal Spoonbill, ibis, cormorants and Magpie Geese along the banks of the Daintree River.
Double-eyed Fig-Parrots are excavataing nests in the garden at Red Mill House and our favourite pair of Yellow Oriole are feeding just one chick on a nest very close to the front verandah.
A quick camping trip over Christmas to Malanda Falls was a lovely break with visits to favourite places like Mt Hypipamee, Curtain Fig, Lake Barrine. Great highland birds and very good views of Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo near the falls.
Eye level, sitting quietly for ages and in daylight. An absolute treat!


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Q: A button on each row of Kendo ui Grid that expands detail view I am using angular and Kendo ui Grid. I have a custom button on each row which i need it bound to a function that expand the detail view. Below is the grid options.
Please help
   $scope.mainGridOptions = {
        dataSource: financialYearsDataSource(),
        sortable: true,
        selectable: true,
        columnMenu: true,
        columns: [

            { field: "FinYearName", title: "Year Name", width: "150px" },
            {field: "StartDate", title: "*Start Date", type: "date", format: "{0:dd-MM-yyyy}", width: "150px"},
            {field: "EndDate", title: "*End Date", type: "date", format: "{0:dd-MM-yyyy}", width: "150px"},
            {field: "Remarks", title: "*Remarks", editor: descriptionEditor, hidden:true},
            {
                command: [
                    {name: "edit"},
                    {name: "destroy"},
                    {
                        text: " Expand/Collapse",
                        click: $scope.expandToggle,
                        className: "fa fa-map-marker"
                    },
                ], title: " ", width: "300px"
            }],

        editable: {
            mode: "popup"
        },
        pageable: {
            pageable: true,
            refresh: true
        },
        detailExpand: function (e) {
            this.collapseRow(this.tbody.find(' > tr.k-master-row').not(e.masterRow));
        }

    };

Here is the toggle function that needs to do the toggling
$scope.expandToggle = function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        $scope.myGrid.expandRow($(this));
        var dataItem = this.dataItem($(e.currentTarget).closest("tr"));}

Here is a jsfiddle demo:http://jsfiddle.net/akimaina/ay3vv2cm/2/

A: I have updated your fiddle. Please check if this solves.
http://jsfiddle.net/ay3vv2cm/3/
$("#grid").on("click",".clsExpand", function(e){
   $("#grid").data("kendoGrid").expandRow($(e.currentTarget).closest("tr"));
});