Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

I installed Emudeck today. For completely normal reasons.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-08-26.html - This time on Golfshrine: donations, hauntings, and assorted other things.

Good: Links LS runs on my Toshiba Libretto!
Bad: Links LS requires a screen res of 800x600, and the Libretto only does 640x480. So all the UI (swing meter and all) is pushed off screen where I can't see to click on it.

Got this neat guy for 5 USD at a Goodwill - they'd put it out in the Toys section. It's a Phillips Nino 500, running Windows CE 2.11, from 1999. Amazingly it still boots as soon as I've got batteries in it, and even communicates with my other WinCE device, but its lack of Windows Explorer makes installing software very difficult, as it can't show me the contents of internal storage or of the inserted CF card. I need to figure out how to Active Sync it - which means finding a cable that works. 😞

Today's Golfshrine update includes multiple games that borrow the names of other games in Golfshrine, one frustrated rant about the software marketing practices of yesteryear, and the fascinating GameTrak!

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-08-10.html

i installed The Sims on my netbook today. ...do not let me write bios for your sims. =P

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-08-04.html - A bit light of an acquisitions update this time around, but I did also create a new Golfer for the Golfer's Gallery (linked within).

Menu board? Specifically one of these kind, with cling letters. Sure, I'd probably have to buy extra letters, but god, I want this kind of sign to make it say dumb stuff all the time. Pointless statistics. Fees for absurd requests. Days since last party wipe.

Soda machine? Well, specifically one that dispenses cans. Not terribly concerned over the exact style, but would lean towards retro if I had a choice. 70s or 80s-style. Wouldn't even mind if I had to have quarters handy for it.

It's such an unusual experience to get to play in a famous painting. But that's exactly what this game is about: Loyal H. "Bud" Chapman's Infamous 18, a PC golf sim from 2006 that aims to replicate the dream courses painted by Bud Chapman in the early 1980s. Just added to the Golfshrine inventory yesterday, and the main subject of today's acquisitions update!

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates.html

By all of that, I can make an informed assumption about what the 3DO Content Library really is: a ready-made compilation of existing libraries of assets, images, sounds, music, and video clips, provided by the 3DO Company to its licensed developers. Perhaps its container formats are specifically formats already meant for use with the 3DO hardware, to remove the need for conversion?

Such a collection existing would certainly explain a lot about some 3DO games' aesthetics. Videos and all.

Presently downloading and installing Adobe Creative Suite 2 on this 2004 iBook G4. For reasons.

It has taken multiple hours.

this stats screen on After Dark Solitaire is a pretty accurate representation of how the last year of my life has gone

yup, this Easter egg still exists in the OS X version

https://wildweasel.itch.io/roguesl

Rogue: The Solitaire-Like! I wrote this set of rules for a dungeon-crawling Rogue-like using only a deck of playing cards, some years ago, never fully finishing it. Today I've decided to publish it to itch as a prototype. Feedback (or tips?) encouraged.

the mood seems a bit down, across my various feeds today; seems like everybody could use a hug.

it's hard out there, i know. but know that somebody out there appreciates you and is rooting for you.

A couple of weeks ago I brought my Dell Mini 1012 back into service by wiping the install of Windows 7 Ultimate and putting XP Service Pack 3 on instead. Amazingly, Dell not only still had the drivers on their site, but they still had drivers for this model FOR XP. An OS this model never officially shipped with to my knowledge.

Dropping the OS a couple of tiers not only improves its compatibility with software it can actually run, but also gained it 20 more frames per second on Quake.

Double rainbow all the way across the sky.

... What? I'm hip with the times, aren't I?

Exclusive preview of an upcoming redesign of Golfshrine Online. This aims to make actual use of my web design knowledge, as well as clean it up a lot in terms of code, and make it much less of a pain to update. Also make it look more golfy.

Dad's been having fun building these nice wooden "barn quilts" in the garage. Keep telling him he should start taking commissions from the neighbors or something.