3/22/2023 0 Comments Add logic plugins to liveprofessorOnly thing rme could do, and why would they, is something you are already using, like patchwork or PM-chainer only integrated. Only if an rme interface would have an x86 CPU onboard could it ever run vst`s. With this subject, it is pretty factual, not possible. For once I'd like to read "thanks that's a great idea, we'll think about implementing that".Īnyway I've been running Patchwork in standalone hosting Sonarworks for a year now and it has in no way hurt stability so I recommend this alternative for routing VSTs outside the DAW as "RME certainly has no increased interest in this". The babyface worked wonders when I was touring so I'm not even thinking about changing now. That said, I've super happy with my Fireface UFX for close to 8 years now. Not referring to this particular topic but let's just say I've stopped asking or hoping for innovative ideas as they are always met with close minded somewhat elitist attitude.īottom line, I have come to the conclusion that innovative ideas is not what RME is about and that's the kind of attitude that will have me look elsewhere next time I'm shopping for an audio interface. I've often read "this will never be possible" or "this is not what RME is about", "this idea will never fly" by narrow minded moderators even with a hint of arrogance. As much as I love my RME products, I've often found this forum awfully closed to new ideas. It's sole purpose is to have an instance of Sonarworks Reference 4. I am currently using Blue Cat's Patchwork in standalone to insert plugins in the audio chain outside of my DAW. Nobody would have an understanding that such a VST interface simply means, to execute foreign code in your program, which of course can impact the stability (and security) of your own software. This has a big potential to make customers dissatisfied, because they have surely high expectation, that such a VST interface should work. In addition, RME would then somehow always have to prove to the user that it is VST and not TotalMix FX in the case of an issue. Something like this would only lead to a lot of development and support work. RME certainly has no increased interest in this. This would cause a lot of efforts (time, money). Then RME would have to buy all possible VSTs to test it if in doubt. It's already a known thing that 3rd Party VSTs are one of the main causes of instability in DAW's.ĭo you want this now also in TotalMix FX ?!Īnother thing is that RME always would have to find out first if a problem or crash was caused by TotalMix FX or a 3rd party VST. RME always answers that they don't want to endanger the stability of TotalMix FX by loading 3rd party VSTs.įrankly, nobody is really interested into such a feature, all RME users are happy that TotalMix FX is so stable. Several times the wish has been expressed to make VSTs loadable in TotalMix FX.
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3/22/2023 0 Comments Unity 3.5 angry botsInput: Fixed PrintScreen key reported as pressed when pressing Insert/Home/Del/etc with NumLock being off with Input System package on Windows (also modified UWP and GDK). Input: Fixed mouse coordinates being incorrect until first move on Windows Standalone, Linux, macOS with input system package. Input: Fixed keys being stuck pressed when application regains focus on Windows Standalone, macOS with input system package. Input: Fixed InputSystem.QueueStateEvent throwing exceptions when called from non-main thread. Input: Fixed Alt-Tabbing out of build leaves the Alt key pressed on return. IL2CPP: Corrected the module initializer function call signature to avoid calling the wrong method on WebGL. IL2CPP: Corrected the behavior of named pipes on Windows platforms. Graphics: Shadow casters with different UnityPerMaterial aren't properly SRP Batched. Graphics: Fixed reinitializing of a compressed, non-crunched texture. Graphics: Fixed realoading of VFX Assets while inspecting a Cube Render Texture. Graphics: Fixed potential stall on buffer uploads in OpenGL GfxDevice. Graphics: Fixed occasional crash when compressing to ETC2 with Texture2D.Compress. In addition, fixed bad performance when Game View was displayed in a different window at the same time as the Scene View. Also fixed issue which caused the Game View FPS to drop when the editor was moved to a different display. Graphics: Fixed consistent Gfx.WaitForPresentOnGfxThread editor spikes when using Metal. Graphics: Fixed a crash happening when an invalid Skinned Mesh Renderer is used with Ray Tracing effects. Graphics: Disabled dynamic lightmapping shader variants that have DOTS_INSTANCING_ON enabled. Graphics: Allowed a native Texture3D to be bigger than 2GB. A warning is introduced as the lack of deduplication could cause flickering objects. This fix eliminates an attempt to deduplicate light probes with respect to positions. GI: The editor could crash in case of overlapping light probes when additively loaded scenes. Serialization: Changed alignment in Resource Image transfer function from 4 to 16 bytes to improve patching results on some platforms.Īndroid: Fixed potential crash during shutdown when using Vulkan.Īnimation: Fixed InvalidOperationException when undoing in Animator Window with empty AnimatorController.Īsset Import: Fixed an issue that importing Models and their Materials using MaterialDescription will correctly use the glossiness value from the Material Fbx properties and applies it to the Standard Shader in HDRP and URP.Īsset Import: Fixed an issue where the Model Importer remaps materials even when MaterialImportMode is None.Īsset Import: Fixed internal MaterialDescription AssetPostprocessor priorities to -1000 so they don't conflict with users default implementations.Īsset Import: Scripted importers that use Allocator.Temp allocated memory no longer leak memory on the asset import worker.Įditor: Fixed default vertex colors for the billboard LOD vertex data for SpeedTree v8 imports.Įditor: Fixed ReorderableList first element height when the element uses PropertyDrawer.Įditor: Fixed spurious assembly file locking which could prevent rebuild after using the right clic "Open source code" on a test in the Test Runner window. Graphics: Reduced RenderGraph CPU overhead.ĢD: Com.unity.2d.animation - Removed the 'Open' button from Sprite Library Asset and Sprite Library Source Asset inspectors. Graphics: Reduced command buffer CPU overhead. Text: ShortcutManager ignores Shift modifierĢD: Com.unity.2d.animation - Updated Visibility Tab documentation page.Īsset Import: Importing Models and their Materials using MaterialDescription will correctly use the glossiness value from the Material Fbx properties and applies it to the Standard Shader. Physics: Crash on internalABP::ABP_PairManager::addPair when switching to ArticulationJointType.SphericalJoint during runtime Package: Empty "StreamingAssets" folder gets created after building an empty project Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project Metal: Consistent EditorLoop 5-10ms spikes when using Metal API Linux: Editor crashes at "GfxDeviceGLES::DrawBuffersBatchMode" when entering Play Mode in the LEGO tutorial HD RP: Flashing at first frame blow up the automatic progressive exposure and create an overexposed converged frame when using recorder with accumulation HD RP: RT Shadows ghosts on one view when we have two cameras at the same time HD RP: RT Shadow for Area lights do not render correctly AI Navigation: NavMesh::Raycast freezes the whole editor in an infinite loop on Application.UpdateSceneĪsset - Database: Texture size increased on first build when 'Compress Textures/Assets on Import' is enabledĬustomer QA Onboarding: Crash on System.Object:_icall_wrapper_ves_icall_array_new_specific when launching a project 3/22/2023 0 Comments Sphere gridsmakeSpherical ( center, vx, vz, tr, crit ) grid2. saveVtk ( "makeSphericalUni.vtk" ) # Custom Spherical Grid- tr = # a list of radiuses (one radius for each layer) grid2 = doc. makeSphericalUni ( center, vx, vz, rayon, nbLayers, crit ) grid1. addVector ( 0, 1, 1 ) rayon = 1 grid1 = doc. saveVtk ( "makeSphericalTop.vtk" ) # Uniform Spherical Grid - center = doc. makeSphericalTop ( nbLayers, crit ) grid0. addDocument ( "Spherical Grid Test" ) # Simple Spherical Grid - nbLayers = 3 crit = 0 grid0 = doc. # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # See or email : # Concentric (Spherical) Grid Test # import hexablock doc = hexablock. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Copyright (C) 2009-2016 CEA/DEN, EDF R&D # This library is free software you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. makeRind ( center, vx, vz, trad, tang, tphi ) rind2. append ( - 90 + nro * dphi ) rind2 = doc. append ( nro * dtheta ) for nro in range ( nh + 1 ): tphi. append ( rint + nro * dr ) for nro in range ( na + 1 ): tang. append ( rtrou ) for nro in range ( nr + 1 ): trad. saveVtk ( "makeRindUni.vtk" ) # Custom Rind - dr = ( rext - rtrou ) / nr dtheta = angle / na dphi = 180.0 / nh trad = tang = tphi = trad. makeRindUni ( center, vx, vz, rtrou, rint, rext, angle, vplan, nr, na, nh ) rind1. addVector ( 0, 0, 1 ) rtrou = 1 rint = 8 rext = 10 angle = 180 rind1 = doc. saveVtk ( "makeRindTop.vtk" ) # Uniform Rind - center = doc. addDocument ( "Rind Grid Test" ) # Simple Rind - nr = 4 na = 8 nh = 12 rind0 = doc. # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # See or email : # Rind Grid Test # import hexablock doc = hexablock. makeSphere ( center, vx, vz, trad, tang, tphi ) sphere2. append ( - 90 + nro * dphi ) sphere2 = doc. append ( rtrou + nro * dr ) for nro in range ( na + 1 ): tang. saveVtk ( "makeSphereUni.vtk" ) # Custom Sphere - dr = ( rext - rtrou ) / nr dtheta = angle / na dphi = 180.0 / nh trad = tang = tphi = for nro in range ( nr + 1 ): trad. makeSphereUni ( center, vx, vz, rtrou, rext, angle, vplan, nr, na, nh ) sphere1. addVector ( 0, 0, 1 ) rtrou = 1 rext = 10 angle = 180 sphere1 = doc. saveVtk ( "makeSphereTop.vtk" ) # Uniform Sphere - center = doc. addDocument ( "Sphere Grid Test" ) # Simple Sphere - nr = 4 na = 8 nh = 12 sphere0 = doc. # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # See or email : # Sphere Grid Test # import hexablock doc = hexablock. 3/22/2023 0 Comments Pulpmotion reviewsPros: VectorDesigner is really intuitive. The problem is they were so difficult to use, I have no IDEA what they had. At least I THINK there were more bells and whistles. The majority of what came up in m y searches were programs that had way too many bells and whistles and were very difficult to use. I was looking for, and tried, about a dozen programs to use for drawing a bathroom vanity design. VectorDesigner solves the problem automatically softproofing the document and displaying on screen a very close representation of what you will get on paper.īy Anonymous reviewed on February 27, 2012 Printers are using a different technology to create colors (CMYK) so they are not able to reproduce all the colors that you can see on screen. The integrated flickr browser lets you search texture and images by tag or by color and download it directly inside the document.Īll the filters and composition available on Mac OS X can be applied in a non destructive way to shapes and images. Text can be constrained within a shape or along a path preserving all the text editing capability of Mac OS X. It features a wide range of tools: smart shapes such as rectangles, ovals, rounded rectangles, polygons, stars, bezier creation and editing and even conversion from raster to bezier.īoolean tools let you can combine shapes using unite, subtract, intersect and xor. It has everything you need to create fancy vector graphics such as posters, brochures, stickers, logos, web design, t-shirt and more. VectorDesigner is a new vector drawing application designed to be simple, intuitive and powerful to use. 3/22/2023 0 Comments Quod fieri necesse est in englishNot only does the failure to observe time lead to falsehood, but also the composers of some hymns, either from the compunction of their own soul thinking foreign thoughts or from the zeal of improvident piety desiring to extol saints, so exceed the mode in some things that against our conscience we proffer some that are distant from the truth. Yet it is not so much negligence that prevents this observation from so many, as it is some necessity or dispensation for to a great extent in parishes or minor churches because of the occupations of the people it is necessary that it be done daily in which all are carried out almost continuously in the day. So also morning hymns or the rest profess the arrangement of the proper time in which they are to be said, by grace of the word when it is said: “Behold already the shade of night is thinning,” and again: “Behold the golden light rises,” or: “Dawn already spreads at the pole,” or “The dawn of light glows red,” and elsewhere: “The winged messenger of day foretells the coming light,” or: “The risen Lucifer shines,” and if they are of such a kind, the hymns instruct us at what time they are to be sung, so if we do not observe their times with them, we are found to be lying in bringing them forth. For when it says “Rising at night we all keep the vigil,” and again: “We break the night with singing”: or “we rise to confess and break the delays of the night,” and elsewhere: “Black night covers the colors of all things of the earth,” or: “For we rise from bed in the quiet time of night,” and again: “That whoever now break the hours of nights singing,” and similarly, those hymns that are nocturnal offer witness to it. Of which the first, which are called matins, about which the Prophet wrote: “”In the mornings, Lord, I meditated on you” ,” in that instantly the beginning of the day, with the dawn or Lucifer beginning to shine, is to be said first that is also distinguished in many hymns. It is established indeed according to prophetic authority and ecclesiastical institution that the night not be devoid of the praise of God as it is written: “”I was mindful at night of your name, Lord” ” and again: “in the middle of the night I rose to confess to you” ,” that is to praise you nor the seven remaining praises about which that same Prophet remembered: “”Seven times a day I gave praise to you”, unless they are to be discharged in the day. Preface By some chance or dispensation, in that way quite often the hindered faithful either precede the established times of the hours or are preceded by them, so they are compelled at least to lie about the time, while they sing nocturnal hymns in the day or diurnal hymns at night. 3/22/2023 0 Comments Borderlands 2 season pass pcCant get enough Borderlands The Borderlands 2 Season Pass is packed full of adventure, featuring new. Take on a gargantuan raid boss, solve an interplanetary murder mystery, gear up with three Vault Cards, and delve into behind-the-scenes content. Buy Borderlands 2: Season Pass on Steam at Noctre. Get loot or die trying in Arms Race mode and wield the power of an additional skill tree for each Vault Hunter, complete with fresh Action Skills and potent passive abilities. Its a digital key that allows you to download Borderlands 2 season pass directly to PC from the official Platforms. Torgue’s epic arena, and track down new monsters in Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt. Fight pirates and discover new treasure alongside Captain Scarlett, become champion in Mr. Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic FustercluckĮxplore the chaotic mind of the heroic psycho Krieg, helping both sides of his dual psyche by blasting his inner demons to bits and braving his imagination's twisted mindscapes. The Borderlands 2 Season Pass is packed full of adventure, featuring new campaigns, new locations, new enemies and a level cap increase. Furthermore, you can find the Troubleshooting Login Issues section which can answer your unresolved problems and equip. LoginAsk is here to help you access Borderlands 3 Season Pass 1 quickly and handle each specific case you encounter. Visit the brutal frontier planet of Gehenna to collect a bounty on The Devil Riders, a violent gang of beast-riding mercenaries, in this gritty tale told by an unseen narrator. Borderlands 3 Season Pass 1 will sometimes glitch and take you a long time to try different solutions. Borderlands 2 Season Pass is a package that will give you access to all fut. Torgue’s battle arena, track down new monsters in Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, and join Tiny Tina in an epic. Buy Borderlands 2 Season Pass (PC) CD key for 1.32 (cheapest price ). Fight pirates and discover new treasure alongside Captain Scarlett, become champion in Mr. Updated link: Borderlands 2 Season Pass offers four brand new add-on content campaigns following the release of Borderlands 2. Guns, Love, and Tentacles: The Marriage of Wainwright & Hammerlockįight back against forces of otherworldly evil on the ice planet of Xylourgos alongside former-Vault-Hunter-turned-wedding-planner Gaige and her robot BFF Deathtrap. The Borderlands 2 Season Pass is packed full of adventure, featuring new campaigns, new locations, new enemies, and a level cap increase. Join Moxxi's crew of ragtag "experts" and battle your way through Hyperion security forces and crazed casino-goers to claim The Handsome Jackpot's vault of loot for yourself. Get two seasons' worth of Borderlands 3's premium add-on content in one glorious package with the Season Pass Bundle! Make more mayhem with additional story campaigns, a challenging raid boss, an extra skill tree for each Vault Hunter, kickin' cosmetic items, and more!Ĭontains all content from Borderlands 3's Season Pass and Season Pass 2, including: 3/22/2023 0 Comments Tvtropes zombie night terrorFive of them are accessed by collecting a ? square in a level, while the last one requires all ten victims to be saved in Level 12. Theyre weak against popsicles and fire extinguishers. Black Blood: The red blood that oozes down the screen when your game is over by losing all your lives and by letting all neighbors die is recolored purple in the Super Nintendo release.Big Creepy-Crawlies: The big ants from Them!, as well as Giant Spiders of varying degrees of giganticism, all appear as enemies.Tongue is responsible for the whole madness. He appears to be a normal human except for his super-durability, and tendency to show up alongside numerous clones of himself, but both of these things can be explained as existing for the sake of gameplay. The chainsaw-wielding enemy might count as this.Badass Normal: You know any other teenagers that can save 680 people, across the world, across time, destroy two globe-destroying monsters and their thousands of minions with nothing but squirt guns and whatever was in the kitchen?.They also animate in Mode 7 and look pretty cool when you destroy them. thing, to a giant, flying samurai, knight and pirate. Each and every boss of Ghoul Patrol counts, from a monster RoboCop.Tongue's giant spider form, and giant ant enemies. There are also giant snake bosses, Dr.It becomes a normal (and rescuable) baby upon defeat. One of the bosses, Titanic Toddler, is, well, a gigantic baby, who can stomp you flat or shoot milk out of its bottle at you. Apathetic Citizens: All of the survivors you come across either don't seem to realize, or care, that creatures from all kinds of horror imaginable are coming to devour them alive.Ancient Tomb: A few levels are massive Egyptian pyramids full of mummies and traps.American Kirby Is Hardcore: The American cover features realistic zombies as opposed to cartoonish drawings of the games' sprites on the European cover.Ambidextrous Sprite: When Zeke is facing left or right, the blue lens of his 3D glasses is always the one closer to the camera.However, you can gain Bonus Neighbors once your score is high enough. All Deaths Final: Once neighbors die, they don't come back.All four of these threats fall pretty much instantly to the weedwhacker weapon. The flowers can also spawn spikey red bulb plants instead of the mushrooms that are functionally the same but don't spawn Mushroom Men. The fungus can also spawn mushroom men who are actually ambulatory and will chase the player. Alien Kudzu: A reddish/purplish fungus similar to the stuff from War of the Worlds is a type of hazard it's spread by large purple flowers who are stationary but shoot purple goop at the player.Aliens Are Bastards: The Martians are out to kill Zeke and Julie and abduct humans for reasons unknown.One gun from Ghoul Patrol gives you homing energy bullets.Where else can you kill a giant worm with kitchen plates, or destroy a UFO with soda cans?.It, alongside Ghoul Patrol, comes bundled for the Nintendo Switch as Lucasfilm Classic Games: Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol. A movie based loosely on the game was announced but it seems to have fallen into Development Hell. 3/22/2023 0 Comments Macos high sierra patcher 23.02.39However, whenever an Intel IGP is present, the frameworks will only direct requests to Intel IGP. Macs with the Intel Kaby Lake processor offer hardware support for Main 10 profile 10-bit hardware decoding, those with the Intel Skylake processor support Main profile 8-bit hardware decoding, and those with AMD Radeon 400 series graphics also support full HEVC decoding. MacOS High Sierra adds support for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), with hardware acceleration where available, as well as support for High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF). The system's windowing system, Quartz Compositor, supports Metal 2. It includes virtual-reality and machine-learning features, as well as support for external GPUs. Metal, Apple's low-level graphics API, has been updated to Metal 2. It also has built‑in encryption, crash‑safe protections, and simplified data backup on the go. It supports 64‑bit inode numbers, is designed for flash memory, and is designed to speed up common tasks like duplicating a file and finding the size of a folder's contents. Changes System Apple File System Īpple File System (APFS) replaces HFS Plus as the default file system in macOS for the first time with High Sierra. This requires using a patch to modify the install image. It is possible to install High Sierra on many older Macintosh computers that are not officially supported by Apple. MacOS High Sierra requires at least 2GB of RAM and 20.12GB of available disk space. MacOS High Sierra is supported on all Macintosh products that can run macOS Sierra: 5 Timeline of Macintosh operating systems.2.2.8 Other applications found on macOS 10.13 High Sierra. 3/21/2023 0 Comments Windows mobile memory cleanerThe app also has an Adviser feature that suggests the files that you can remove to free up some space on your device. The app, much like its Windows and macOS counterparts, allows users to remove junk files, monitor their system usage and comes with a speed booster which is capable of speeding up your smartphone quite significantly. The app is quite easy to use and it categorizes junk files quite well, making it easy for you to delete files in bulk without worrying about losing any important files.ĬCleaner, one of the most popular PC and Mac cleaning software, is also available on Android. Predominantly a file explorer, Files by Google also includes a nifty file transfer feature and it also allows users to backup their files to the cloud, which can really come in handy when you’re looking to free up some space but don’t want to lose any files permanently. Well, quite expectedly, there is a pro version, which removes ads, and brings features like an automatic cleaner, auto adjust battery usage, adjust photos to save space and themes.Īnother thing to note is that AVG is an Avast acquired company, so the Avast Cleaner app is also available as AVG Cleaner along with a lite version of the app available as AVG Cleaner Lite.įiles (formerly Files Go) by Google is also a great system cleaner that you can opt for if you don’t want to bother with cleaning up your device manually and are okay with depending on an app to do it for you. In my time with the app, I found it to work well but the free version has full page ads that can be annoying. That’s not all, the app also shows you different space saving tips and there’s an option to see a nice overview of what’s taking up the most storage, along with an apps overview that shows the apps taking up most storage and draining the battery. Plus, it also lets you boost your memory by putting certain apps into hibernation mode. The app brings numerous features including a “Quick Clean” feature that shows hidden cache files, APKs, empty folders and some app data you can clean with a tap. Well, Avast has a pretty capable cleaner and booster app available on the Play Store called Avast Cleanup. You probably know Avast, the folks behind the very popular antivirus app by the same name. While the app is free to use, some of its features are hidden behind a paywall and you’ll need to purchase SDMaid Pro in order to use them. The app includes a CorpseFinder feature that can be used to detect and delete files left on your device by apps that you’ve already uninstalled, a system cleaner that automatically identifies junk files in your internal storage, an AppCleaner which scans for app files that can be deleted without hampering its performance, and a Duplicates feature that identifies duplicate files taking up space on your smartphone. There’s also a cleanup scan that can highlight large files on your drives, and a process management feature that appears to be a simplified version of the Task Manager for killing off processes eating too much RAM.Next up is SDMaid, a powerful file manager that is capable of helping you clear out some storage space on your smartphone. The storage manager portion includes a tool for managing and removing apps that are rarely used. The PC Manager app just pulls these tools into one convenient location. Moreover, much of the app’s functionality already exists in Windows. Having an option provided by Microsoft may be better for some, at least from the perspective that it will be more trustworthy. It’s worth noting that there are plenty of third-party options that promise similar performance-boosting tools, like CCleaner, but those often have sketchy reputations. The app appears to offer ways to clean up storage and end tasks, as well as control which apps start up with Windows. Microsoft is building a tool to boost computer performance by cleaning out old junk.ĭubbed ‘PC Manager,’ The Vergefound a web page for the app’s public beta in China. 3/21/2023 0 Comments Common roman coins battle sceneIt might be hard for us to imagine doing without the humble desk: military commanders sit behind them, scribes and scholars write at them. It was probably not used as a casual greeting, though: Romans preferred to embrace, or even kiss, when they met, just as people in Mediterranean societies do to this day. It was also, apparently, part of the wedding ritual. The handshake even appears on Roman coins, symbolising trust and mutual concord. Romans shook hands in the same way as we do, although perhaps not as frequently it was a gesture of fellowship, used to agree deals and treaties. The manly clasp of forearms turns up all over the place, but has no basis in historical fact. In fact, the French were still using chained prisoners to row their galleys until the eighteenth century. Galley slaves did exist, but not until centuries later medieval ships of both the Christian and Islamic Mediterranean powers used them extensively. Roman oarsmen were paid professionals, and those in the navy were enlisted in the armed forces. So here are ten things that the Romans (probably) did not have – I say probably, as our ideas about the past are constantly being updated!ĭespite the famous scenes in old films like Ben Hur and Cleopatra, Roman galleys were not rowed by chained slaves. So many notions about ancient or other historical societies are deeply rooted, and hard to dislodge. Historical novelists, of course, generally try to avoid falling into such traps, but it’s surprising how often I’ve had to think twice about some detail or other of the world I’m describing. They rode horses without stirrups, and sweetened their food with honey as they had no sugar.īut there are still a lot of mistaken ideas about things the Romans had or commonly did. Potatoes, for example, or tomatoes, or universal suffrage. There were plenty of things the citizens of the Roman empire did not have that most of us take for granted today. |
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