a2_4am

mcc, 6 months ago to random

Board of OpenAI fires Sam Altman and replaces him with a very small shell script

a2_4am, 6 months ago to animals

Zara loves her new sweater.

#DogsOfMastodon

dosnostalgic, 6 months ago to random

Discovery of arbitrary code execution hacks in vanilla DOOM games lead to the creation of ACE Engine.
You can now expand classic DOS version of DOOM 2 with GZDoom-like levels of additional customization features, that all work just by loading a WAD file like any other.

Check out the completely INSANE demo:
https://youtu.be/h7h7rHDOf7c?si=QsmrP7V4i2J5tO28

a2_4am, 6 months ago to random

Total Replay II: Instant Replay v1.0-alpha.2 is out.

This is volume 2 of Total Replay, with a focus on sports and board games. This release features 47 Apple II games, all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.

https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay2

Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4sports/releases/tag/v1.0-alpha.2

Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @xot, @Roughana, and Frank M. for patches and testing.

a2_4am, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

Total Replay v5.0.1 is out. It features 484 Apple II games (182 new since v4), all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.

https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay

Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade/releases/tag/v5.0.1

Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @helix_nrg, Andrew Roughan, Frank M., Kris Kennaway, @ladyailuros, and everyone else who contributed to this project in the past four years.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

a2_4am, 6 months ago to random

I made the world's worst word search (the word to find is COCOON)

a2_4am, 6 months ago to random

Therapist: anarchist minivan isn't real, it can't hurt you.

Anarchist minivan:

a2_4am, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

I regret to inform you that I am extremely back on my bullshit.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

a2_4am, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

"Wizard Replay" is almost entirely the product of @a2_qkumba's genius. (He would deny this.) Wizardry was, perhaps infamously, written in a very early version of Apple Pascal. Wizard Replay is able to virtually mount and boot these unmodified Pascal disk images under ProDOS, including patching the p-code interpreter to seamlessly "swap" virtual disk images when the game expects you to switch from the program disk to the scenario disk.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

a2_4am, 6 months ago to random

Wizard Replay lets you play "Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord," "Knight of Diamonds," and "Legacy of Llylgamyn," and several unauthorized third-party scenarios, all from the comfort of your ProDOS hard drive. It features integrated WizPlus for character editing, integrated scenario backup & restore, modern bug fixes from <https://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/proving-grounds-v3/>, and of course zero copy protection.

https://archive.org/details/WizardReplay

Thanks to @a2_qkumba for everything.

#AppleII

textfiles, 6 months ago to random

Chef's kiss to the Hacker News poster responding to the link to Cabel's blog entry about DAK Catalog, saying "These should be scanned and put online somewhere."

a2_4am, 6 months ago to animals

Look at these gremlins I mean just look at them.

#DogsOfMastodon

mcc, 6 months ago to random

So this afternoon I sat down to add a "pause" feature to my FPGA game project, and in testing now it's looking good, with the one downside that when I put it into "pause" state, rather rhan stopping it instead moves 360 times faster than normal, which is basically correct, I just need to rotate it 180 degrees in the fourth dimension,

a2_4am, 6 months ago to random

dog stairs

a2_4am, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

Cyborg v1 (cracked by Passport, RWTS accumulates timing bits during boot and checks its value later)

https://archive.org/details/Cyborg_v1_4amCrack

Thanks to danc256 for the disk!

#AppleII #retrocomputing

flux visualization of "Cyborg" disk

a2_4am, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

The Evelyn Wood Dynamic Reader (unpreserved, cracked by Passport, RWTS changes and a nibble check on track 2)

https://archive.org/details/TheEvelynWoodDynamicReader4amCrack

#AppleII #retrocomputing

flux visualization of "The Evelyn Wood Dynamic Reader" disk A

a2_4am, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

Genesis: The Adventure Game Creator (cracked by Passport, Lock-It-Up protection)

https://archive.org/details/GenesisTheAdventureGameCreator4amCrack

Thanks to @A2_Canada for the disk!

#AppleII #retrocomputing

flux visualization of "Genesis: The Adventure Game Creator" disk

a2_4am, 6 months ago to animals

Zara is not posing, but she's not not posing.

#DogsOfMastodon

textfiles, 7 months ago to random

Every preserving action has an equal and opposite whine about how you don't have what that person wanted or expected