Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
- the stuff i do
- https://netizen.club/~wildweasel
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Decided to "redesign" the Weasel Center Shelter for Old and Abandoned Computers today. Well, "redesign" is saying a lot there as a word, when what I actually did was swap three background images, reduce the contrast of one of them, and change the font color. But still!
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelter/index.html
This did also slightly bury the lede of me adding a section to said website to explain (and embed) the Quake Benchmarks spreadsheet.
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This is Quake running on CGA. Normally Quake requires VGA (320x200 256 colours), but WinQuake can actually run fine on any card supported by Windows 95.
Now, CGA doesn't support Windows 95. But turns out with a little manual hex editing, it can start with a CGA driver from Windows 3.0 (I believe no one succeeded in doing this before). And with Windows 95 kind of sort of running on CGA, @gloriouscow recommended to try if Quake would run. It does, and it is almost playable. Definitely more playable than Doom8088 on MDA.
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I made a free short game for the heck of it! It's live on itch, enjoy!
https://wavey-games.itch.io/celestial-coffee-quest
#pointandclick #adventuregame #retrogaming #ags #indiegame #indiedev
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It is a long-standing tradition for Microsoft to use a runtime copy of Windows as a part of Windows Setup. But the copy is so stripped-down, it cannot run anything but the setup program (winsetup.bin).
OR IS IT?
A mini-challenge for myself: create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Windows 95 installer but not using any other Microsoft products.
Lots of nostalgic and weird screenshots in this 🧵 thread
@tommorris some guy yesterday joined one of my discords and was bragging about how he ported some very specialized game editing software using Claude and it "only" cost him £200 a month. he would listen to no reasons why that was a completely fucked up thing to be doing.
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@ann3nova Nice - found a golf club. (Had to edit the GUI colors to make it visible though.)
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The Amiga Pointer Archive
@mavica_again make them call an ICE all-hands meeting there first
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Dragons on a Chip
(source: https://archive.org/details/agm_Temple_of_Apshai_Trilogy/page/n79/mode/2up )
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Was digging around the Wayback Machine to try to find some old Tseng Labs drivers.
Behold their website from 1997. Best web site ever.
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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
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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.
i don't even really care about the star ratings, so much as i'm amazed at the pettiness on display. like, how long ago did i even interact with that person? some grudges die hard i guess
taking a trip down memory lane looking at my itchio analytics: on the 12th of december 2024, shortly after doomworld's cacowards premiered that year, a user i'd had previous negative interactions with gave 1-star ratings to both doom mods i'd put on itch.
that'd be the year "Weasel Presents: Terrorists" won a Missed Cacoward. i suspect the reviewer just hated being reminded that i existed. ...i'm kind of surprised they only did that to my doom mods and not the card game or the VN pitch demo.
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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
yeah, i don't usually post about my dreams here but i needed to write it down somewhere and i was already on here
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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!
- the stuff i do
- https://netizen.club/~wildweasel
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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Joined Oct 2017
