suprjami

@suprjami@fosstodon.org

C, Linux, networking, MS-DOS, old stuff. he/him

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suprjami, to golang

Please enjoy this meme I made as a goof.

vga256, to random
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open question for folks:

has there ever been an adventure game with flight simulator gameplay, or a flight simulator with point'n'click adventuring?

suprjami,

@vga256 A320 for the Amstrad CPC? https://www.mobygames.com/game/37587/a-320/

suprjami,

@vga256 It really is hey. Things like this are why I love games from this era. It wasn't all clones of Doom and C&C, people made weird experimental things and sometimes they even work really well, which is delightfully surprising.

If an experiment didn't work, the time and cost of making a then-AAA game was not so high that the entire studio would fail because of one dud release.

That said, I'm not sure dropping the player from an adventure game into a commercial jet flightsim is so great 😅

suprjami,

@vga256 I looked into this a little more. The game was made by a single developer for the CPC, that person was also an active pilot in the German air force! He wanted to make a simulator which was not only accurate to fight but also to the non-flight parts of being a pilot from driving your car to the airport to the office work of your flight plan, radio frequencies, etc. I'm sufficiently fascinated enough to watch a longplay. https://youtu.be/OoBVOth3yZs

rasterweb, to random
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What even is this thing? Quarter inch stereo adapter to steak?

suprjami,

@rasterweb Temperature probe for oven which can cook until a specific inner food temperature. Stick it in a roast and set your desired temperature. I have exactly the same part but mine is black not red. Oven purchased new 6 months ago.

suprjami,

@rasterweb Thanks, I got a good chuckle out of that :)

dosnostalgic, to random
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Could use a bit of distraction. Link me with a recent videogame-themed video essay you've enjoyed.

suprjami,

@dosnostalgic https://soulsphere.org/apocrypha/e1m1/

miona, to retrogaming

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    suprjami,

    @miona Retro-bit are known for fairly poor quality. I wouldn't buy it. As others have said, 8BitDo are a better option. You could also consider an official Saturn controller with a USB adaptor though that's not wireless.

    uastronomer, to retrogaming

    XCOM: Terror from the Deep is basically the same game as XCOM: Enemy Unknown, only much harder and with different graphics and assets. They clearly didn't want to mess with a winning formula when they made the sequel. But, like, it's really hard. I very seldom survive past my first few missions before giving in up frustration.

    And yet... I prefer it. It's better, somehow. The underwater aspect, starting with those retro diving suits that your aquanauts wear into battle, the coral reefs and cthulu-esque monsters... I guess I've always liked the aesthetic of nautical horror, with the ships and the mysterious depths and all that.

    suprjami,

    @uastronomer I love how the original X-Com had the bug where it reverted to Easy after the first Battlescape, so everyone thought it was "too easy" not realising they were playing on lowest difficulty. For TFTD they ramped up the difficulty, and golly was it harder lol

    omgubuntu, to random
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    Oh jeez.

    So after a decade of being über hands-off in the omg comments section — for "reasons" which those of you know me will understand – I recently began doing some light moderating per the Code of Conduct (rules haven't changed since 2010; basically: "be nice or I'll mod you").

    This has resulted in a flash-flood of outrage from some long-term "problem" commenters who find the mere idea of being asked to reply to people who like different apps/DEs to them as fellow humans as unconscionable.

    suprjami,

    @omgubuntu Good on you. By excluding toxic people your community will become more enjoyable and stronger. 💪

    Moderation is a thankless draining job. Don't let it wear you down too much.

    Maybe even consider giving some trusted willing members rights to hide bad comments? Share the undesirable workload.

    suprjami, to retrocomputing

    The aesthetic piracy ad.

    suprjami, to retrogaming

    Blown away by "Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021" - a DOS 4X game with text-based GUI which pre-dates Master of Orion by 6 years!

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    suprjami,

    @dosnostalgic I'd love to see the earlier versions. I wonder if the author still has them? I'll ask him

    suprjami, to retrogaming

    TIL @shadsy has a podcast about video game history with over a hundred episodes. This will keep me occupied for a while!

    https://gamehistory.org/the-video-game-history-hour/

    suprjami, to VintageOSes

    hackers, any idea the expected CPU power to run MBF at high resolution? Doombench suggests this little netbook can run DOSBox at 486 DX 100 (1574 realtics) which I feel is probably not fast enough. @fraggle ?

    dosnostalgic, to random
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    Why does Quake 2 on Steam list November 11th of 1997 as the release date? The files on the original CD are from November 30th, and the "canonical" US release date has been December 9th (although I'm not sure how, seeing how it's only a week away from master)

    suprjami,

    @dosnostalgic If you mean WASD altogther, Dark Castle on the Mac used it in 1986! I discovered this recently: https://www.instagram.com/p/CwimGbpB0_E/

    suprjami,

    @dosnostalgic No worries! I hadn't seen such discussion before, I just thought it was a neat fact. I've been exploring Classic Mac lately and it's interesting, very different to DOS though has many satisfying system hacks to learn, just like we became masters of CONFIG.SYS, TSRs, etc. I can see why people who got into the Mac early really loved it. PC still had way better games tho :P

    suprjami, to retrocomputing

    So has anybody ever tried this "internet" thing? #RetroComputing #MSDOS #Windows95 #VintageComputing #internet

    suprjami, to retrocomputing

    Just purchased an empty Mac 512K housing to build a newer computer in. Have found a bunch of LCDs on Aliexpress which should fit. I've wanted to do this for years!

    suprjami, to VintageOSes

    Today I have discovered , an ISA soundcard for DOS PCs powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico. The amount of hardware hacking going on these days is incredible. Microcontrollers were a great idea. https://github.com/polpo/picogus

    dosnostalgic, to random
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    I see very often when people discuss their issues with map design of DOOM II they tend to bring up Sandy Petersen a lot. Just saw it now again. "I feel like DOOM II has way more problems with level design than any other DOOM game. All those Sandy Petersen maps lmao." It's really strange to me considering Petersen actually made more maps for the first DOOM game than the second. 19 out of 27. 🤷

    suprjami,

    @dosnostalgic I love Sandy maps, they are some of my favourite levels in Doom 1. The guy says some strange things but his maps are wonderful.

    suprjami, to random

    A Perlin noise terrain generator in C and Curses. This has been fun.

    suprjami, to random

    I spent some time tidying the code of Scrap . Apart from a few "const char", extra semicolons, and indents/brackets, G++ doesn't complain even at -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic on the latest C++ standard. That's an impressive effort for a rushed project from 20 years ago!

    popey, to random

    Now we're 10 episodes into @linuxmatters I thought I'd talk about the origin and format in a short blog post titled "Only good vibes"
    https://popey.com/blog/2023/08/only-good-vibes/

    suprjami,

    @popey @linuxmatters It works well. I agree a no-news no-bitching podcast is a great format. I avoid most other Linux podcasts for that exact reason. In my own social posts I find I get much better response from positive posts so I almost never do negative ones.

    suprjami, to random

    Got this old called Scrap from 2005 compiled in DOS. You're a robot and go around robbing parts from other robots, like an early version of . Pretty cool.

    https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Scrap

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