FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

TIL that microprose did an in-house port of Railroad Tycoon to the Macintosh Plus/SE in the early 90s.

it is *adorable*. they went through an incredible amount of effort to mac-ify the interface, and repainted all of the art in high-res black & white. and the mouse is fully functional, unlike the ms-dos version

best compliment i can give to its porting team: it feels like a genuine maxis game.

#macintosh #retrogaming_history #vintageApple

Accurate.

What. The. Fuck? @CursedFootprint

HP once made printers that didn't just last years, but lasted for huge chunks of an entire century.

My office's HP LaserJet 1100 printed its first page in 1998, printed at least two pages every day, and finally printed its last page this morning before breaking. It printed for 26 years straight.

Twenty six years.

gf is showing me log horizon. DATABASE, DATABASE

It's kinda depressing how tumblr is imploding now and I'm seeing half my follow list go "man, after seeing both twitter and tumblr do this, it's really showing how it's a bad idea for a social media network to be run by a company who can make arbitrary changes without user consent.

anyway, here's my bsky: ..."

Which one are you?

some people don't like it when i say win32 is the stable linux abi. okay. there is actually an alternative: android,

@ErikUden i had to do it

why are all the cool intervals secretly inversions of the normal intervals…

Yes.

(directed at people who do not have empathy in their thinking)

#disability #disabled #health #illness #empathy

Life shouldn't be about accumulating more money and objects it should be about enjoying real luxury when you can.

[asking a french cat to identify a brazilian coin] chat is this real