ThreeOhFour

vga256, 2 months ago to random

@ThreeOhFour Deep Fighter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Fighter

#dreamcast

A screenshot from the sega dreamcast game Deep Fighter, showing a submarine exiting a loading bay.
A screenshot from the sega dreamcast game Deep Fighter, showing a submarine exploring a sea bed.

ThreeOhFour, 2 months ago to random

@vga256 Wonderful to receive a letter from you today. I am very behind in writing letters to my friends, but the first quarter of this year was a complete write-off in terms of being busy. I will fill you in more when I write back!

vga256, 2 months ago to random

@ThreeOhFour this has your ah, flavour profile

from post by @jesse https://frostillic.us/blog/posts/2024/3/31/realmz

vga256, 2 months ago to random

last year @ThreeOhFour told me that buying a kilo of old used stamps was a bad idea

this is what being wrong looks like my friend 😂

vga256, 3 months ago to Alberta

i am seriously in love with this #alberta education teacher's manual circa 1989

if they only had explained social studies was about satellites, toriis, porsches and apple //e duodisks, i would have paid WAY more attention

#1980s #1990s #yeg

vga256, 3 months ago to random

do you also like your hot wheels racetrack with broccoli and kraft singles

damianogerli, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Despite often ending up as forgotten, Nox (2000) was a solid entry into the "Diablo" clones, less repetitive and actually more engaging than its forefather. Its tongue-in-cheek humour was also very welcome, writing definitely on-par with other Westwood games.
Still thinking about that alternate reality where we got Nox 2 and 3...

vga256, 3 months ago to random

my game hoarding dreams are getting desperate. usually i find myself in a pc game store digging through bargain bins for big box games and carrying as many as i can handle to the checkout

last night was a new low: i designed a time machine so that i could travel to an exact moment 5 years after the best big box games had been released, so they were discounted to 90% off on the shelves. i bought them all and time travelled back to the present. temporal prime directive be damned

vga256, 3 months ago to retrogaming

just remember @ThreeOhFour

whenever you come out of that sand pit you've been hiding in, Gooch Grundy's X-Decathlon will be waiting for you

https://www.mobygames.com/game/31066/gooch-grundys-x-decathlon/screenshots/

#retroGaming #windows95

Screenshot: A uh... beefcake dude walks a doomlike 3D maze.
Screenshot: Four figure skaters fight for supremacy on the ice!

vga256, 3 months ago to animals

when it is -20C with a windchill of -30, these two know exactly what to do 😅

#CatsOfMastodon

konstantinosd, 3 months ago to gamedev

Dungeon Crawlers (.org) is quite the unexpected rabbit hole. https://dungeoncrawlers.org/

#gamedev #dungeoncrawler

ThreeOhFour, 3 months ago to random

If a piece of media is presented as being 'Kafkaesque' then this is what I'm expecting and demanding.

ThreeOhFour, 4 months ago to random

I can just stare at PC-98 interfaces and think how much fun those would be to draw.

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vga256, 4 months ago to VintageOSes

ms-dos story time

so way back in 1990, my family still hadn't made the jump to a PC yet. all we had was a TRS-80 Color Computer, and a Mattel Intellivision.

but we had just moved to an acreage in another province, and i found out that one of the neighbours' dads had a computer: a Zenith AT/XT

my friend's dad would come home with random diskettes, probably copied from someone at his chemical engineering job. we'd pop them in and usually find something decent to play.

we played a lot of cga two-player SOPWITH.COM and a moon patrol clone that was honestly pretty good, even in eyeball-piercing magenta.

but one day he came home with a disk that just said 'JOLT' on it. we ran the exe, and i was instantly blown away. it was a jolt can, perfectly digitized in VGA, spinning around in circles faster and faster, until it was barely recognizable. i watched the animation a dozen times before my friends got bored and wanted to play something else.

the next day, i told my best friends at school about the animation. no one believed me, and the diskette "mysteriously" disappeared the next time i visited my buddy's house.

i was haunted by the jolt cola can animation for decades. that is, until a while ago i ended up finding it buried in an ms-dos demoscene site.

here it is, over 30 years later, with an original file date of February 22, 1990. ❤️

#msdos #demoscene #bbs

An animation of a Jolt cola can, spinning around faster and faster, in MS-DOS and VGA graphics.

vga256, 4 months ago to minidisc

GASP

it took 20 years, but i finally got my dream minidisc player: a Sony MZ-S1 Sports NetMD. 🤯

a neighbour down the street listed it for sale "untested" which usually means 'i tested it and it's broken'.

i gambled and bought it on sight. i practically ran home like a 9 year old just to put it through its paces, and it is perfect. 😆

the build quality is rugged and beautiful throughout. many of the surfaces are rubberized with a polymer that is still soft (and hasn't broken down). the curvilinear surfaces feel so good in the hand, makes you want to hold it. the pearlescent white finish hasn't even yellowed yet (!)

instead of a jog dial, you get a mini thumbstick which rests surprisingly well under the thumb. the deep orange display of the Sports S2 line has always been a favourite of mine - something no other company did.

i can't wait to load up SonicStage on my iMac and start transferring music :D
failing that, i'll be using WebMiniDisc to transfer music in-browser

https://webminidisc.com

#miniDisc

The top of a Sony NetMD showing a white thumbstick which controls volume and tracks.
The side of the Sony NetMD, showing a "miffy" branded minidisc ejected from the side.

vga256, 4 months ago to art

this leather artist's workshop at the base of the mountains west of tokyo is stunning, and her work equally so 😻

15 minute mini-doc on her atelier (japanese+english with english subs):
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2093054/

photos of takezawa mutsumi's artwork here:
https://www.instagram.com/takezawa_mutsumi/

#art #artist #nhk #japan