jake4480

jake4480, 1 year ago to random

Dungeon Crawl is an excellent Rogue clone. You can be all kinds of regular human and also monster classes-- minotaurs, centaurs, kobolds, it's rad.

I play it in-browser here via DOSBox (and it's also downloadable here too): https://dosgames.com/game/dungeon-crawl

Dungeon Crawl's official site is here, where you can also download it and read more about it: http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/

#roguelike #roguelikes #rogue #DungeonCrawl #90s #90sGames #DOSGames #DOSGaming #DOSBox #TrueRoguelike #TrueRoguelikes #monsters #dungeon #dungeons #games #gaming #RetroGames

jake4480, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to tech

Wow, (over) 30 years of the PDF. I use them daily. From the linked article:

"The concept of PDF - Portable Document Format - actually began with the Camelot Project in 1990. And Camelot itself would be nothing without the very backbone of the idea, PostScript, which started all the way back in 1985, and kickstarted the desktop publishing software revolution.

Back in those days, cross-platform compatibility was a nightmare, which led Dr. John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe, to initiate that project. Its goal was simple in its concept but ambitious in its execution: create a format that would enable anyone to send any document electronically to anyone else, and that person would be able to read and even print it with its formatting perfectly preserved.

...to us jaded computer users nearly at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, this may sound like nothing to be excited about, but back in the 80s and 90s, which was the personal computer’s infancy, this was a big deal.

...back then, you couldn’t be sure which software someone would be using. You wouldn’t even know which fonts were installed on their machine. If you used one that wasn’t in that other computer’s repertoire, it could at best mess up your document’s formatting. To make matters worse, there was the Mac/Windows divide which was often viewed as a deal-breaker. Many remained convinced a file created on one type of computer could not be opened on another."

https://www.techradar.com/features/30-years-of-pdf-the-file-that-changed-the-world

#PDF #PDFs #TechHistory #1980s #1990s #Adobe #fonts #DesktopPublishing #Apple #Windows #tech #history #publishing

jake4480, 1 year ago to gaming

My kid and I made some custom Miis on the Wii after finding a site (https://MiiCharacters.com) that has a database of custom ones and step by step instructions on how to make them. I found (and my kid made) the David Letterman one, because I thought that would be amazing, to be able to race karts and motorcycles as David Letterman. 🤣

In Mario Kart, there's a thing where you can race as the same character. My son and I noticed that when you both race as Daisy with bikes and you both place, it randomly assigns a head to one of your characters so they won't both be the same.

So that's how Dave in Daisy's lovely yellow dress happened. A hilarious result. 😂🤣

#MarioKart #Letterman #DavidLetterman #Mii #Miis #Nintendo #Wii #NintendoWii #CustomMii #CustomMiis #games #gaming #retrogaming #DaveLetterman #MiiCharacters

jake4480, 1 year ago to gaming

Have I done #TenGamesToKnowMe here yet? I forget.

If I have, this is an updated version for 2023. Here's mine, in no particular order.

• Centipede (my favorite game ever. Arcade version! Lemme shoot those bugs!)

• Black Widow (also the arcade version - I'm totally hooked on this one too, and it was a more recent discovery. When I go to an arcade with retro machines, I basically just want to play this and Centipede the whole time.)

• Wolfenstein 3D (a classic, still playable. Who doesn't love killing digital Nazis?)

• Diablo (1, 2, 3, 4, Immortal, any. Just choose one and I love it. What a series. Hooked.)

• Gun Nac (my favorite technical [ship based] shootemup-- if you don't count Centipede as a shootemup. A rare one for the NES. If you like shooters and get the chance to play this, even emulated, don't miss it.)

• Wizodd (I love roguelikes and indie games, and this one is both. Just a cool, simple game that's definitely beatable and replayable. But you won't beat it every time!)

• Mario Kart (another that it doesn't really matter the series, although the Wii one might be my favorite, closely followed by the SNES one. I definitely play the Wii one the most.)

• Doom (1 or 2, preferably. I feel like those are most classic, and those are the ones that got me hooked. More recent ones I'm not as much about, but those first two.. wow.)

• Beam Rider (I'm throwing this in because it's an amazing game for the Atari 2600. Maybe one of the best ones. I feel like it gets overlooked with all the other great ones on the system, River Raid, etc.)

• Beekyr Reloaded (okay, this is a weird one. I was tempted to put Neko Navy or Q-Yo Blaster or another modern indie shootemup that I love in here somewhere instead, but Beekyr is too rad. I love bees and I love shooters, so this one was definitely for me, despite its creator not really being happy with its port.)

Those are my ten, and I'm sticking with them. (At least for today 😂). There are SO MANY other games I love, but these ten are huge.

#Centipede #BlackWidow #arcade #ArcadeGames #Atari #Wolfenstein #Wolfenstein3D #Diablo #Diablo1 #DiabloI #Diablo2 #DiabloII #GunNac #NES #RetroGaming #shmups #shootemups #shooters #Wizodd #MarioKart #Wii #Nintendo #NintendoWii #Wizodd #roguelike #roguelikes #Doom #Beamrider #Atari2600 #BeekyrReloaded #bees #Doom1 #Doom2 #fps #arpg #arpgs #games #gaming

jake4480, 11 months ago to gaming

Nintendo's claim that emulation 'stifles innovation' isn't just absurd—it's hypocritical https://www.pcgamer.com/nintendos-claim-that-emulation-stifles-innovation-isnt-just-absurdits-hypocritical

#emulation #gaming #RetroGaming #Nintendo

jake4480, 1 month ago to random

I feel like Microsoft doesn't fully appreciate how little I care about using LinkedIn

jake4480, 12 days ago to random

🔗 Surfing the (human-made) Internet https://mikegrindle.com/posts/surf

jake4480, 13 days ago to random

Whoever or whatever is DDoSing archive.org, cut that shit out

jake4480, 16 days ago to internet

End of an era- ICQ will stop working on June 26. 😢

https://icq.com/desktop

#ICQ #internet #history

jake4480, 6 days ago to history

World's oldest skin fossil found so far -- a sample from 286-289 million years ago, before the earliest dinosaurs by at least 40 million years but incredibly similar to modern crocodiles https://newatlas.com/biology/worlds-oldest-skin-reptile-dinosaur

#history #fossils #science #paleontology #biology #evolution

jake4480, 10 days ago to random

Google's doing it to themselves. I predict that eventually (or even fairly soon) YouTube searches will be full of only AI-generated news and other things and will be completely unusable. Just tried looking up something and got only weird videos with AI characters badly speaking news. This is gonna be a mess

jake4480, 10 days ago to 80s

This week's #ThursdayFiveList is #TheHands

I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Smithereens
https://youtu.be/ecAME8lB6iM

Clap Hands - Beck
https://youtu.be/w-svtUyhkAY

The Hand That Feeds - nine inch nails
https://youtu.be/xwhBRJStz7w

Severed Goddess Hand - Meat Puppets
https://youtu.be/B7v2jROHMkI

Out of Touch - Hall & Oates
https://youtu.be/DCkJ5lGPqFs

@neurothing #TheSmithereens #Beck #NineInchNails #MeatPuppets #HallAndOates #80s #90s #80sMusic #90sMusic #90sRock #BeatlesCovers

jake4480, 9 days ago to random

Britney with a Sony Aibo in 2000. This is PEAK 2000.

jake4480, 15 days ago to random

Cubone on his mom on #Caturday

jake4480, 14 days ago to art

Golden Axe by Boris Vallejo

#GoldenAxe #BorisVallejo #SEGA #art #SwordAndSorcery #RetroGaming

jake4480, 10 days ago to random

jake4480, 24 days ago to art

Unveiling epic art of the one true King

🎥 via Apogee #art #King #DukeNukem

Old rich white guys unveiling a painting with the true King on it, DUKE NUKEM

jake4480, 12 days ago to punk

Like scuzzy, fast lo-fi punk? Do I have an EP for YOU.

'Pop Off', the new 4-song EP by the Gobs came out on Saturday and it riiiips.

Some of the songs aren't even a minute long! My kind of jams! Seriously, you can listen to this whole EP in just around 5 minutes. 😂

https://thegobs.bandcamp.com/album/pop-off

#punk #PunkRock #TheGobs #IndieMusic #IndiePunk #WashingtonBands

jake4480, 20 days ago to random

Time for a new week.

jake4480, 1 month ago to DaftPunk

An interesting one for #MusicWomenWednesday - sometimes as I'm watching TV, I use Shazam to take note of a song so I can find it later.

Isobel Waller-Bridge is a modern classical composer for TV and movies, and her cool song "Bloom" was in whatever I was watching. That led me to her whole 2015 EP, 'Music for Strings'.

I'm not a fan of your older regular classical type stuff. But THIS? THIS is damn good.

https://isobelwaller-bridge.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-strings

#IsobellWallerBridge #instrumental #TVMusic #FilmMusic #electronic #classical #ModernClassical

jake4480, 19 days ago to random

New Nada Surf is 🔥 (because of course it is)

https://youtu.be/f5aToiQ3co4

#NadaSurf #InFrontOfMeNow

jake4480, 1 month ago to random

jake4480, 1 month ago to random

Sometimes you run across something by accident on Bandcamp that's weird and wonderful. I'm fairly sure I was looking for another artist a couple days ago when this popped up, but I wishlisted it then because why not, and I just now had a full listen.

This is the 3 song EP 'Treasure Trove' by Baltimore's YOUR MOM from 2015. It only lasts a few minutes, but those few minutes are strange and beautiful, and now I'm curious to check out the rest of their back catalog.

For fans of The Avalanches, etc.

https://yourmombeats.bandcamp.com/album/treasure-trove

#experimental #instrumental #beats #IndieMusic #YourMom

HailsandAles, 24 days ago to random

Majorly disappointed in Nuclear Blast signing Marilyn Manson. Do better guys.