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taestell, 10 months ago to random

Same

mogwai_poet, 10 months ago to random

Techtonica, the game I've been working on at Fire Hose, is out in Early Access today. I like it a lot and I think we did a great job! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1457320/Techtonica/

stepleton, 10 months ago to random

Hey hey, who's got a mostly-working #Tektronix 4006-1 vector graphics terminal?

(It's so cute!)

obsoletemediauk, 10 months ago to random

An obscure floppy disk format from the mid-1980s, the Casio Disk Sheet SD-1. It was used in the CasioWord HW-120 word-processor via a built-in drive, plus some other models via an external drive, the MD-10.

It's one of a handful of disks that shared a 2.6-inch form factor.

https://obsoletemedia.org/2-6-inch-micro-disk/

Triumph-Adler TA Micro-Disk 2.6″ (single-sided) with a Casio Disk Sheet SD-1 (double-sided)

raphnet, 10 months ago to retrogaming

I submitted my entry for the DOS Games June 2023 Jam! A simple CGA game coded in x86 assembly.

https://itch.io/jam/dos-games-june-2023-jam/entries
#retrogaming #dos #msdos #cga

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rose, 10 months ago to random

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shadsy, 10 months ago to random

We just dropped a big new study that proves that almost 9 out of 10 classic games are out of print, and it's not gonna get better.

Libraries/archives need more exemptions to close the game preservation gap! https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

silvereagle, 10 months ago to random

A new study shows a whopping 87% of games released prior to 2010 are no longer available for sale or download by any means other than the second-hand market and archival/"piracy": http://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Proof if you ever needed it that the community is doing the work that corporate interests won't do to preserve gaming history and the slice of culture it represents.

We are living in an age when it is so astonishingly cheap to keep copies of things around and yet the perverse incentives exist for companies to memory-hole anything that doesn't perform well or that might compete with newer offerings.

IMO, in the big picture this is what legislation is for, correcting a horrible tendency that the market will have if left to its own devices, and there should absolutely be legislation protecting archivists of content that's no longer available for sale, or even requiring that content creation companies keep content available in SOME form. Until then, we depend on each other to do this.

martian, 10 months ago to DOOM

🎉🔥 It's out! 🌟🎉

The latest version of my retro texture pack is now available. That's 300 high-quality, low-resolution textures, for just $5! They take heavy inspiration from #retrofps games like #doom and #quake #pixelart #gamedev

https://little-martian.itch.io/retro-texture-pack

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eniko, 10 months ago to gamedev

The first episode of Coding History: 3D from Mode7 to DOOM is live now! It explains how to rotate points in 2D space and why the rotation formula so often used in game development is the way it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC5IMfK7Yfw

Please go check it out and boost this post if you want to support an educational video series about old school 80s and 90s 3D 🙏

#GameDev #RetroGaming #math #CodingHistory

scummvm, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Imagine having the complete scripts (game code) of all Sierra On-Line games that use the SCI engine published between 1988 and 1996 fully decompiled, human-readable and annotated.

Yes. 100% of the scripts. 100% of the games.

SCI mastermind sluicebox did it again!

If you want to learn about the full story, ranging from a deep-dive into the code and tales about the history of Sierra's script language and previous reverse engineering efforts, check out

https://www.benshoof.org/blog/sci-scripts

gamesbymanuel, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"

This is increasingly how it feels, when things you "own" digitally become inaccessible, and when shows which are locked in streaming services can get delisted on a whim, disappearing forever.

Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.

[Edit: In case this wasn't clear, this is about entertainment and digital ownership, not physical goods]

DotMaetrix, 10 months ago to random

Was talking to a friend about how some of the music in The Room sounds a wee bit like the music in 3D Movie Maker and got to thinking, what if they used "Flowers Good.mid" instead of "Flowers Evil.mid" for the flower shop scene?

It's the flower shop scene from The Room, but the music is in G Major instead of G Minor and the sound effects are all default 3DMM sounds

nicole, 10 months ago to random

Did a small blog post on replacing the BIOS in the Book 8088 https://nicole.express/2023/book-it.html

mangled_pixel, 10 months ago to queer

After making the trans pride Klingon emblem for my profile pic, I thought I'd go ahead and do some others. Feel free to use as you wish. More to follow. #klingon #pride #startrek #lgbtqia

A version of the Klingon emblem in the colours of the trans pride flag, in front of a rainbow in space.
A version of the Klingon emblem in the colours of the bisexual pride flag, in front of a rainbow in space.
A version of the Klingon emblem in the colours of the pansexual pride flag, in front of a rainbow in space.

jpistole, 10 months ago to twitter

If the server costs are too much, have they considered #Twitter by mail? One of these bad boys can fit 1440000 / 280 = 5142 tweets! Just mail one out once a week! That’s 734 tweets a day! Problem solved!

mydadisdracula, 10 months ago to random

n4, 10 months ago to random

The events that have happened here today marks a new era for the internet. Websites that derive their value from user-submitted content are continuing their move towards sealing off that content and information from the world. Their libraries were created by everyone, but will soon be available to only those who pay.

texelsaur, 10 months ago to random

Seriously cool Lego recreation of Myst Island here at #mysterium

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lritter, 10 months ago to random

me: sorry but i can't sign this NDA

them: why not?

me: i signed an NDA that prevents me from signing NDAs.

them: wow. with who?

me: i'm not allowed to say

ve7fim, 10 months ago to random

TFW a file format is so old that it includes an "insert paper tape this way" arrow as part of the header: Looks like this traces back to the PDP-11.

danielalbu, 11 months ago to random

📅 25 years ago today, Windows '98 was released!

💾 Windows '98 was released on June 25th, 1998!

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bitcrush_io, 11 months ago to random

My Dad ran his own sign printing company back in the 80s, and we were looking at his portfolio today when I came across these notes from his business plan.

The GSP "Super Sprint" was a vinyl cutting plotter with its own monochrome terminal, which apparently cost $15,246 in 1988 (now $40k). The GDS II was Apple IIe based CAD system. @foone might be intrigued by that custom Super Sprint keyboard!

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deater78, 11 months ago to random

testing my EPROM burner in what I assume is the @foone approved method

atari vcs playing "floppy rescue"
atari vcs with surprise result

rmd1023, 11 months ago to random

Happy birthday to the 19" equipment rack, which turns 100 next month. From the July, 1923, Bell Systems Technical Journal: "All panels are to be of a uniform length, designed to mount on vertical supports spaced 19>< inches between centers. The height of the different panels will vary, according to the amount of apparatus in each unit, but this vertical dimension is in all cases to be a whole multiple of 1-3/4 inches."(p139 at https://archive.org/details/bstj2-3-112/page/n27/mode/2up )