Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

It’s my birthday! I have a big favor to ask 🙏🏼

This year has been especially financially challenging. Long story short, if everyone who downloaded @elementary OS this year paid just $1, I’d be up some $30,000 but alas I’m down about $11,000 and I’m really concerned about making ends meet until the release of OS 9.

If you feel inclined to help me out, I’d really appreciate it if you’d buy a copy of my AI-free Open Source OS or otherwise help with funding via this page: https://elementary.io/get-involved#funding

Bring me the head of the 5.25" floppy disk!

https://archive.org/details/compatibles-pc-magazine-2-mai-1987/mode/1up
#retrocomputing #wtf #guillotine

Someone said something about ingesting libc and this is what popped into my head

Some people have seemed confused about what my Low Quality Facts account is, so I made this graph to help you all understand it.

rare lore: back in 2018 I came across a 500-page technical deep dive guidebook on SimCity 2000. In a process that took several years because they had so much backlog of manuals, magazines, etc, I sent it to Gaming Alexandria and they made a proper professional scan of it and uploaded it to archive.org. You can read it right now!

When I say technical... I mean there's a section on how to hex edit your save files.

https://archive.org/details/sim-city-2000-power-politics-and-planning-revised-edition-strategy-guide/

#gaming #retrogaming #simcity

Hey everyone, I've been informed that cyber.ms will be shutting down in a couple of months. This means I need to find another instance.

If you know of another good bot-friendly instance for my 3x/day postings, let me know. Otherwise, postcardbot will go away when cyber.ms does.

Also: my last migration (from botsinspace) failed utterly, so keep your eyes peeled for an announcement of a new host and maybe be prepared to manually switch over when it's announced.

computer graphics (1996) https://archive.org/details/cdromuser199601/page/n59/mode/2up

It's 2026 -- DOES YOUR HARDWARE ACCELERATED WINDOW MANAGER CAST SHADOWS ACCURATELY?? 1996 for comparison.

#psion #wayland #linux #retrocomputing

⭐ Jurassic Park Computers in Excruciating Detail https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html

This is what personal blogs were made for. Be weird and obsessive then write about it.

∞ https://rknight.me/links/jurassic-park-computers-in-excruciating-detail-/

A new engine landed in ScummVM!

Introducing: The Fool's Errand, a critically-acclaimed narrative puzzle game written by Cliff Johnson in 1987 and based on characters and arcana from the tarot.

The engine, implemented by own @moralrecordings, adds support for all known Macintosh releases of the game.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #linuxgaming

New on Patreon ($1/month or more): It's Soldier of Fortune Inc. and the episode "Alpha Dogs."

A run-of-the-mill 90s action show where one episode has a computer nerd recreating military combat scenarios in Quake, and gets more what he bargained for.

https://www.patreon.com/youfoundasecretarea/posts/looking-at-of-s-163802634

most emulators: hey we finally figured out how to emulate this super obscure n64 game! and also, we've added some better support for running romhacks! isn't that great?

scummvm, for some reason: dude you can now run mcdonalds circus of edutainment for the mac+ on your fucking psp. duuuuude

“Fuck this, I quit.”
“Wait Stan, you can’t just-“
“Later, losers!”

lemmings & oh no! more lemmings, disc, playstation (1998) https://www.mobygames.com/game/12725/lemmings-oh-no-more-lemmings/cover/group-62016/cover-167543/