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vga256

@vga256@dialup.cafe

indigenous canadian, recovering academic → game dev & interactive media artist with a penchant for dial-up modems, the 4o3 bbs scene, 1-bit art, trackers/mods, classic macs, and 80s and 90s gaming. curator of internet, canadian & gaming obscura.

game development: tomodashi studio
https://tomodashi.com

current major project: tomo, a decentralized discussion group network that's better than reddit https://tomo.city

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(profile pic: a 1988 red fox 6¢ canada stamp)

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vga256, to InitialD
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ah i can finally play ataru and taitoo classics like abscondee and aim cruise

A mini arcade machine with a dizzying number of ripoff games that bear titles similar to, but not quite close enough, to what they were trying to ape.

vga256, to edmonton
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irene parlby park is in full bloom 😻

People talk excitedly as they take photos of one another under the cherry blossom trees.
A closeup of cherry blossoms wide open. They are grapefruit pink.

vga256, to edmonton
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today is volunteer appreciation day bbq for Santa’s Anonymous. this is the first time i’ve got to sit in the outfield of telus/remax field/john ducey park 😻

#yeg #yegdt #baseball

A wide panorama of a baseball field from behind second base. The skies are blue interspersed with clouds.

driph, to random
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  1. Why do I still know that.
vga256,
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@driph 😆

NunavutBirder, to random
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So a favourite story about the crack in Victor Bay pictured with the ATV. A few years back no crack formed there, it happens some times. We went out to Qikiqtalik Nuvua on the Canada long weekend to camp, and to hunt on Admiralty Inlet.

We returned and there was still no crack. We had been using my BIL’s snowmobile and left it on the ice by the beach.

About a week later the ice came free of the shore prior to break up. I went down to get the snowmobile.

1/

vga256,
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@NunavutBirder 😬these are the stories i was told as a kid that have a different ending on great slave lake

vga256,
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@NunavutBirder yikes

vga256, to Bloomscrolling
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our first tulip of the season just opened 😻

vga256, to random
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to the russian shithead who stole my #328747 account 20 years ago: icq is shutting down in one month

https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows

😆

vga256,
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@freehours9 i did not no

vga256,
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@ramon_wilhelm there was a massive account hack/breach in the early 2000s

billgoats, to random
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Welp. My luggage didn’t make it to Kirkwall International Airport, but at least the IIgs did. :apple_inc:

vga256,
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@billgoats eager to hear which ROM revision you ended up with

vga256,
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@billgoats i really love regional airports. i grew up beside one and nothing was better than taking trips to watch planes take off and land as a kid

vga256,
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@billgoats yes! :D

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Mac users: if you're a fan of The Unarchiver but you're annoyed by the analytics and stuff the new owners have been putting in, give Keka a try. It's free (or $7 on the app store), and so far it seems to support pretty much anything The Unarchiver does.

https://www.keka.io/en/

vga256,
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@misty love keka. it’s been my go-to for the past 10 years

vga256, to animals
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what do canadian men do during playoff hockey intermissions?

argue referee calls? trash each others teams?

let out-catting each other be the gold standard for masculinity in 2024 😂

Text message one: orange tabby beaming as his chin is scratched. Text reply: a grey-brown tabby smiling as his neck is preened.

vga256,
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@philipdrobar and two gourmands for kitties 😅

ThreeOhFour, to random
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I am happy that the Wizardry remake is good (I tried it just a little this morning) and has been well received. I had a good time with the Bard's Tale remake of a few years ago. I'd love to see other classics like Might & Magic 1 and Pool of Radiance get some love, too!

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@ThreeOhFour i’m very encouraged by the extra UX work put into deep zooms and object focus mechanics. while they don’t really make a game fun, they’re the kinds of attention to detail that give me confidence in the team building it

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@ThreeOhFour that’s so funny to hear, when i consider riven to be one of the most difficult exploration based puzzle games i’ve ever played. 😅i only managed to finish myst once for the same reasons - 15 years ago, on a 24 hour train ride

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@ThreeOhFour totally. it’s my level of difficulty 😅

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@ThreeOhFour lol i have zero chance vs those!

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@ThreeOhFour 😂 if they’ve exhausted YOUR patience for shitty puzzles they are truly lost

vga256, (edited ) to retrogaming
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this illustration was commissioned for a type-in program called Islands for the commodore 64, in the august 1988 issue of RUN magazine.

i am in love with the line-art/woodcut style, painstakingly inked and coloured. it was a different age in which a work of art could be commissioned for a BASIC game that a handful of people in the world would bother to hand-code and play.

this is better art than 90% of the physical big box games i own

update: as it turns out, there is not merely emulating etching/woodcut with inked lines, it IS an etching by artist doug smith who was famous for this style.

more of his work here: https://richardsolomon.com/artists/douglas-smith/

#retrogaming #art

vga256,
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@angiebaby yep https://awscommunity.social/@ThomDenholm/112492315858200818

vga256,
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@christianmlong 😆 people love to wax nostalgic about type-in mags, but doing the dirty work was absolutely awful

vga256, (edited ) to Fonts
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oh hell yes. i think i just found the original typeface used: it was LTC Spire by the Lanston Type Company

edit: it led to a fascinating web preservation backstory about the origins of the font itself:
https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/112460660100094359

vga256,
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@alexhammy there has never been anything quite like it since

vga256,
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@negativeprimes :D

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