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kde, 9 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to kde

You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

• Krita is your new design/painting app
• Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
• glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
• digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

• Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
• Scribus - layout like a pro
• GIMP - need we say more
• Blender - ditto

@kde

warandpeas, 11 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

2024 is a mega election year and the EU elections are taking place this week. This is the 2nd largest election in the world - around 350 million people are eligible to vote.

Just like the elections in India and the USA this year - this one is very important for coexistence on our planet. Therefore, we want to use our reach and call on all those who are entitled to vote to make their voice heard.

We must not leave the EU to the far-right parties and must defend our democracies. Please vote.

256, 11 days ago to random

swearyanthony, 14 days ago to random

Good god Microsoft Recall is so so much worse than the initial reporting suggested
https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-everything-youve-ever-typed-or-viewed-on-your-own-windows-pc-is-now-possible-da3e12e9465e

mdiluz, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

With all these stupid Google AI screenshots... The problem isn't so much that LLMs aren't really AI, or that they're not accurate. The problem is the tech companies trying to line their pockets by selling you the idea that LLMs are AI and can be accurate and trusted to answer questions.

It's a tool specifically designed to produce output that convinces you it is exactly what it was asked to be. It's fooling tech giants and they're using it to fool you.

Don't fall for it.

xot, 22 days ago to random

Sierra On-Line accidentally included the source code to their AGI adventure game engine on some copies of Space Quest II. Its presence is not obvious but with enough sector sleuthing it is possible to recover about 70% of it. The recovered source code is peppered with illuminating comments regarding its history and authors. It can be examined in a GitHub repo linked in the article.

"The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"
https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html

The C source code shown reconstructed.
In-game scene showing a status line produced by the source code.

gamesthatwerent, 1 month ago to random

Frame City Killer was due to be a launch title for the #Xbox360, though numerous delays and quality issues would eventually result in the game being cancelled by Namco in 2006. Could something be found of this once promising title?

https://gamesthatwerent.com/2024/05/frame-city-killer/

konstantinosd, 1 month ago to random

What a brilliant, brilliant video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69u_Pxb_8zI

konstantinosd, 1 month ago to random

'Why Doesn't Everyone See the Importance of Preserving Our Past?' by Warren Spector https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/game-preservation

freedosproject, 1 month ago to random

Cool history! 50 years of CP/M:

"This may have been one of the most exciting days of my life, … We now have the power of an IBM S/370 [mainframe computer] at our fingertips." This is going to be a "big thing," they told each other.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system/

hogsy, 1 month ago to random

Took a stab at getting the Cyberpunk 2077 prototype from 2013 running. It's uh, not in a good state, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to get the scripts executing successfully at this rate, but at least I can load into some of the levels now.

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textfiles, 2 months ago to random

Jordan Mechner gives an excellent postmortem of Karateka at GDC 2024.

https://gdcvault.com/play/1034209/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Karateka

gamesthatwerent, 2 months ago to bapcsalescanada

Into The Shadows was an impressive looking 3D fantasy fighting game developed for Scavenger back in 1996 for #PC, #PlayStation and #Sega #Saturn. Only a rolling demo currently exists, but something playable is hoped to be found. Can it be saved?

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2024/04/into-the-shadows/

konstantinosd, 2 months ago to fallout

The Fallout development timeline as narrated by Timothy Cain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHIabSKo26U

#Fallout #gamedev #retrogaming

Doomed_Daniel, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Just in time for the Easter weekend, version 1.5.3 of the "dhewm3" Doom3 Sourceport is released!
See https://dhewm3.org/#dhewm3-1.5.3

Biggest changes:

• Gamepad support!
• Taking screenshots in JPG, PNG or BMP instead of just TGA
• MD3 model support that actually works
• Updates of integrated libs
• Improved documentation
• Bugfixes, see the newspost linked above for details

Have fun!

openbioforge, 2 months ago to retrogaming

BioForge turns 29 today! 🥳 Could the upcoming 30th be the start of something new for this classic? 😉 #OpenBioForge #BioForge #retrogames #retrogaming
https://openbioforge.com

hiccupjul, 2 months ago to random

Is there anywhere that has latency tests for portable monitors other than RTINGS? They only have a handful of reviews, and none of those monitors are low latency.

gamesthatwerent, 2 months ago to amiga

Rocket Rescue was a short lived Sci-Fi Choplifter clone which was apparently to promise a lot, but never delivered anything in the end. Due for release on #Amiga, #PC, #MegaDrive and #SNES - how far did the game get and can anything be saved?

https://gamesthatwerent.com/2024/03/rocket-rescue/

faraiwe, 3 months ago to random

hiccupjul, 3 months ago to random

Is there someone who's brain I can pick about relational database management systems? Trying to work out the best way to structure my project.

mac84tv, 3 months ago to random

I just uploaded A LOT of new Apple discs to the Internet Archive and Macintosh Garden.

Including:
Apple Product Training CDs from 1990 & 1991

Apple Service Source CDs from 1992 & 1993

MacWorld Expo Promo CD from 1993

A Motorola StarMax Mac Clone Install CD (System 7.6.1)

...and my grail disc... a Macintosh Fundamentals 2.0 CD that lets me run my Apple Training LaserDisc set! 🎉 💿

#ArchiveEverything

https://archive.org/details/@mac84tv

emily, 4 months ago to random

HTML is when you put pictures and words together, and it is not possible

Rib, 4 months ago to random

Introducing the first beta release of SafeDiscShim, a tool that allows SafeDisc protected games of all versions to run on modern versions of Windows without the driver! See the repository and download the release at github.com/RibShark/SafeDiscShim !

ocornut, 4 months ago to random

The stylish, unknown & extremely rare SEGA AI COMPUTER (1986) promised natural language processing and "artificial intelligence" via its Prolog interpreter.

We're making available today, for the first time ever: system roms, game cards, tapes recordings, scans, photos, MAME driver & more: https://smspower.org/SegaAI

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hogsy, 4 months ago to random

Been reversing things for SWAT Global Strike Team recently, and it's probably got one of the more messy file trees I've seen. A lot of filenames are appended with what I can only guess are commands to their content tools. Oh, and made some progress getting textures loaded; they're just using DXT1 & DXT5 compression.

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