maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

oh nevermind!

went to check on a dumped BBC copy of the game (it has a fancy title screen, perhaps usborne published it as a disk at some point, or a superfan made a very fancy version?) and the behaviour i thought was a parser bug is there just as on my conversion

well, time to test play it through then :)

fwiw the parser on this is equal parts extremely clever and extremely jank - only the first 3 letters of a command are parsed

yes part of the typos keeping it from working were here 😅

i think it's mostly working... but i think something on the parser is still wrong

on top of some typos i made, i've had to make quite a few modifications as the book doesn't recognize IBM/GW-BASIC as one of the languages the game is ported to

well... i'm done typing!

only one more page to go!

i'm half way through 🙂

the software i'm using by the way is PC-BASIC which i found out about yesterday

it's a modern recreation of GW-BASIC, BASICA et al, simulating many video modes including Hercules and even Tandy 3-channel sound

https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/

the book targets C64, TRS-80, Spectrum and Apple, so we'll find out what bugs arise and need to be fixed only once i'm done typing and try to run it

the book tells you when to take a break from typing. it's cute

oh, well, duh! there's my problem

aha! looks like they WERE in fact 3D rendered! even to the point of using a human figure as an origin point for the camera to make it look like you were actually looking at a desk top

source: https://blog.cocoia.com/2008/the-origin-of-the-inimitable-icons/

how would you make something like these old aqua wallpapers? 3d rendering? vector and gradients? i'm curious what the most "period correct" way would be. for that matter, what about the icons? the tutorials on how to make "aqua-like" pill buttons always felt wrong because the shading never quite followed the contour of the shape. how were they done back then, is it all hand-painted or is there a rendering technique i don't know about?

they should bring back this physical glass instead

The Real Frank Zappa Book, p. 162

https://beyondloom.com/blog/dither.html

RIP Bill Atkinson 1951-2025

thanks, Bill.

this is just really really funny to me it's either intentional or incredibly self-unaware

i need money. you need a #pixelart avatar #commission

https://maple.pet/commissions

riddle me this: what's stopping AI scrapers from changing their user agent if they already don't respect robots.txt

stupid-ass arms race

after downloading and deleting all 97 tracks from my main #soundcloud account (and solving 2 captchas about it), i have been blocked from accessing my 2 other secondary accounts

#doom running on pax s920 card reader machine