Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Dragons on a Chip
(source: https://archive.org/details/agm_Temple_of_Apshai_Trilogy/page/n79/mode/2up )

Was digging around the Wayback Machine to try to find some old Tseng Labs drivers.

Behold their website from 1997. Best web site ever.

#retrocomputing

I announced a few days ago the long-lost Adventure 751 from CompuServe finally being playable. Here's my first post on my series on the game, where I give a deep dive into the history as well:

https://bluerenga.blog/2026/01/01/adventure-751-1980/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #retrocomputing #history #trs80

This is incredible. An MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade along with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps.

https://wantmymtv.vercel.app/

pointless fact: the famicom disk system internally stores a year in the imperial era system. disk writer kiosks continued to use the showa era even after it ended; we are now past showa 100, so disk writer kiosks would no longer be correct, if there were any left https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/FDS_disk_format#Date_format

Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? yyzkevin's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/

Both the Sound Blaster and CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS originally came from this ambitious project so it's awesome seeing it get close to done!

polling dual-pane file manager usage/awareness on fedi:

Past couple of days i've been enjoying a few PC ports of N64 games:
- Perfect Dark: https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark
- Majora's Mask: https://github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp
- Super Mario 64 (now with coop!): https://sm64coopdx.com
What these all have in common is that they're reverse engineered "place your ROM in a subdir and we'll handle the rest" ports with great modern PC game options/menus and other such amenities. Super nice! The way it should be done.

Tiny channel with just a handful of videos at the moment, but the way she explains grammar points is so well done that I want to share it with others who are interested in learning Japanese.

A lot of the time you’re just given a couple of examples and told “have at them” without having a deeper understanding of how the nuances actually work.

Learning the actual reasons behind the various usages instead of getting a basic translation which doesn’t even work in many cases is so much more helpful.

https://youtu.be/RbWlRAUogkA

45×45 Connections: an appropriately deranged game to end 2025 https://thomaswc.com/2025.html

speaking of which:

I had some mastodon bots on the now-dead botsin.space. Can anyone suggest anywhere else I could put some daily-to-hourly mastodon bots, either plain text or with (small) images?