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edenwaith

@edenwaith@mastodon.gamedev.place

Software + Bread Artisan. Sierra On-Line + Playdate games. Renewable energy. Sarcasm + cynicism.

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vga256, to random
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my gods wtf is this abomination 🤣

until today i never knew i wanted a MacBlook

edenwaith,
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@vga256 That is…certainly something. Looks like a couple of different computers stitched together. Perhaps the screen bezel of a MBA, the top case to an early MacBook or possibly iBook, and the innards of a PC laptop.

ramon_wilhelm, to random German
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It's time to make the Steam Deck ready for the Twilight Oracle by @cosmicvoid beta test! 😎

edenwaith,
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@ramon_wilhelm @cosmicvoid I feel we should put together a press kit where Guybrush asks Cobb about Twilight Oracle. 😄

boredzo, to random
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Interesting. I bought a certain CD-ROM at Goodwill.

macOS only shows the HFS partition, on an Apple Partition Map; there's no ISO 9660 partition. There are Mac applications on that HFS volume.

But when I boot the Windows VM and connect the DVD drive to it, it sees a “CDFS” partition, with Windows .exe files but nothing for the Mac.

edenwaith,
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@boredzo A place I worked many years ago mastered CDs so Windows saw certain files and the Mac saw others. I think we used Toast Titanium for that process.

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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The perfect setup doesn't exis…

edenwaith,
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@BasicAppleGuy I can’t see the label on the printer, but I think that might be an Epson 740 (can someone confirm?)

edenwaith, to random
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Trying to load up a MIDI file in Lua and play it on the Playdate, but I kept getting crashes. After taking a break, I finally realized the error — I was using the dot notation instead of the colon notation for a sequence instance. The foibles of being new to Lua (and the compiler not warning me otherwise of my mistake).

polpo, to random
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Alright, who’s gonna dare me to install Windows 95 from 22 floppies?

edenwaith,
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@polpo What are the odds that there won’t be any bad sectors across 22 floppy disks?

Gwendolyn, to random
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Red Delicious? More like red, thick skinned, mealy, blandness.

edenwaith,
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@Gwendolyn If you are referring to one of the most boring of apples, I propose we replace them all with truly delicious Honeycrisp apples, instead.

edenwaith, to random
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While playing around with some mid-80s Sierra like graphics, possibly the greatest limitation of those graphics wasn't number of available colors, but the double-width pixels (hence why the resolution was 160x200, but stretched out to 320x200). But Sierra's artists did quite an amazing job with the technology of the era.

MichaelKlamerus, to random
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This is not something most people want but it is unfair that I do not get CBC despite living 30 minutes from Canada just because my tv antenna isn't good enough

edenwaith,
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@MichaelKlamerus interesting, I once lived three hours south of the Canadian border and remember getting a TV channel out of Alberta (possibly a cable channel, but still interesting to consider).

edenwaith, to random
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I've noticed an issue that older versions of iOS Simulators won't work with the Mac's clipboard, which makes it a pain if one is trying to paste a lengthy e-mail address into a text field in the iOS Simulator. The most "recent" version of the iOS Simulator will work with the clipboard, just anything older doesn't for some odd reason. So I wrote a small AppleScript to work around this issue for older simulators:

https://gist.github.com/edenwaith/66181c1343f714cf87ee14026c42dc78

mac84tv, to random
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These floppies need archiving, so let's do the thing!

https://youtube.com/live/Rv-sXWz1Dvc

💾❤️💾❤️💾❤️💾

edenwaith,
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@mac84tv I archived ~200 floppy disks several years ago. The most cumbersome process was backing up some 800K Mac disks which I had to use my Mac SE to read, then use a Floppy Emu to get those files off the computer and onto more modern systems. An interesting process for it all.

virtualmoose.org, to retrogaming

Happy new year! Even with the holidays and everything lately, a lot of great stuff came out this week. If you recently released something that you want included, always feel free to send me an email or message me on social media (see About page) to let me know it’s out.

gif of vanish 5 of blocks being moved around to clear the screenfake installer screen for DOStop down screen of train tracks being builta giant stair case with ice on itfirst person view of a dungeonan island made in ZZTa river rendered in voxelsgif of an asteroids game for DOSlow poly car in a cityDOS Games Jam
The most recent DOS Games Jam just concluded and a lot of great games have been made for it. I enjoy doing these since they’re so casual and there’s no ranking involved. I was especially excited to see that a holiday version of Stair Quest was made.

retro looking top down view of a house by the waterHexany’s Roguelike Tiles
Hexany’s Roguelike Tiles is a really nice looking batch of tiles released under a Creative Commons license for anyone to use. I just thought they looked nice and thought it should be included.

a metal sphere navigating a mazeSpheroid
Spheroid is a puzzle game for the Commodore Amiga where you move a metal sphere around a maze and get to the exit. The Amiga was my first computer so it makes me happy that Itch has an active Amiga game dev scene on there.

a glowing yellow pepper outside in a park?Dead Drop
Dead Drop is the 19th game in the Carol Reed series, a series of first person point-and-click mystery games. I haven’t played any of these (I will fix that this year!) but I heard they’re solid games. I just enjoy that the games are exclusively available for sale from the developer’s site and nowhere else. It reminds me of the 90s/early 00s era of buying indie games.

Word Thirds
Word Thirds is a new game by John Passfield, of Halloween Harry and Flight of the Amazon Queen fame. It’s a puzzle game on the iOS app store and Itch where you make as many six letter words with letter tiles as you can within sixty seconds. I’m awful at word games but it’s a fun game.

No Escape Essay Pack
This is a bundle of writing about games that includes three issues of the No Escape magazine as well as some essays. It’s a great way to support one of the best sites out there, No Escape.

glowing white butterflies over the waterBlueSuburbia
BlueSuburbia is now on Steam. I’ve mentioned the game before but previously it was only on Itch. This demo is a first person interactive fiction where you explore poems through immersive environments. I believe it was built in the Unreal Engine but it does some really cool stuff like having playable Bitsy games inside the game.

https://virtualmoose.org/2024/01/05/indie-game-roundup-jan-05-2024/

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edenwaith,
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@virtualmoose.org@virtualmoose.org Just saw the winter 2023 version of Stair Quest being played on Twitch last night by DecafJedi. There will be a Mac version of this game. (I particularly love the level with the cats on the stairs, often reminds me of my home situation.)

kelbot, to Playdate
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I beat Fall of Elena Temple on my and I want to start a new game. I'm being indecisive though and just end up playing a ton of SHIFT everytime I grab it X-).

edenwaith,
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@kelbot I fall in that same camp when it comes to Shift -- easily my most played Playdate game. Perhaps the most perfect little game for this curious little yellow device.

edenwaith, to Playdate
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Trying to figure out how to create the A glyph with a circle around it for the . It seems like this should be relatively easy or far more difficult than it should be. Fortunately, it is the latter. The answer is in the "Designing for Playdate" docs: https://sdk.play.date/2.1.1/Designing%20for%20Playdate.html#_buttons

Answer: Just use the glyphs Ⓐ or Ⓑ and just draw them like standard text. An easy solution, it was the digging around for the answer which was trickier.

ScenicRouteSoftware, to Playdate

Perhaps I could interest you in a game play sneak peek of Shift II.

video/mp4

edenwaith,
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@ScenicRouteSoftware A sequel to my most played Playdate game? Of course!

edenwaith, (edited ) to random
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New processor installed! Upgraded from an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 to a Ryzen 5 5600X. After I first put in the new CPU, I turned on the computer, the heat sink’s fan spun up, and….nothing. Nada on the screen. Then the computer restarted itself. I reset the CMOS by removing the motherboard’s battery (conveniently hiding underneath the graphics card), then reseated the new processor again. Success! Probably the toughest part was trying to get the heat sink screwed back on.

MichaelKlamerus, to indiegames
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Wrote about all the indie games I'm looking forward to in 2024

https://virtualmoose.org/2024/01/01/games-im-looking-forward-to-in-2024/

edenwaith,
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@MichaelKlamerus I think you mentioned every game I'm looking forward to this year (primarily adventure games), plus many others to check out.

edenwaith, to random
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In preparing to install a new CPU into a PC, I’ve finally tackled something new by upgrading the BIOS. In this particular case, the BIOS version was likely original, so I ended up having to make 4 upgrades to get the BIOS to the intended version for the new processor.

edenwaith, to Playdate
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edenwaith,
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@Gamrok @ramon_wilhelm Just wait until you need to slowly crank out the phrase “administer field sobriety test” for the Playdate version of Police Quest! (I’m kidding, of course.)

gingerbeardman, to random
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OMG! 🤯 for @playdate is a GOTY! 🥹

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/ars-technicas-best-video-games-of-2023/7

Against the Storm
Alan Wake 2
Baldur's Gate 3
Brotato
Chants of Sennaar
Cocoon
Darkest Dungeon 2
Dave the Diver
Diablo IV
Humanity
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Pikmin 4
Puzzmo
Spider-Man 2
Starfield
Street Fighter 6
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Venba
Viewfinder
YOYOZO ✨

edenwaith,
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@gingerbeardman @playdate Amazing, congrats. And the small file size means I won’t need to clear out my other Playdate games. Now for those newer games and their 100GB+ installs…we need to have a word about learning to optimize.

robotspacer, to random
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I haven’t seen this mentioned in many places: the @playdate Mirror app has been updated, including support for Apple Silicon. Hoping this solves the freezing issues I had last time I streamed with it. (It only happened on my M1 Mac, no issues on Intel.) https://play.date/mirror/changelog/

edenwaith,
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@robotspacer @playdate
I'm surprised if Mirror didn't already have Apple Silicon support already (technical issues?), but I don't recall encountering any issues with it on my MBP. Let us know if this seems to fix any issues you've had when running this while streaming.

ScenicRouteSoftware, to Playdate

What a remarkable year its been. Thousands of you have played my goofy games, and for that I am forever grateful.

I do hope they brought you some joy, and here's to more fun projects in 2024! 🥂

Happy holidays, community!

edenwaith,
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@ScenicRouteSoftware Thanks all of your great games!

fahrni, to random
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Heh, I have a bunch of stuff to wrap. I do this every year and I’m up wayyyyy too late every Christmas Eve. 🤣

edenwaith,
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@fahrni Huzzah for us procrastinators!

GammaGames, to Playdate

Animators in the sdk make movement so easy! A bit more progress on my lighthouse game

A ship zooming into port in 1-bit dithered goodness

edenwaith,
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@GammaGames The 1-bit dithered goodness is spectacular!

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