Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

A new office cat joined this week. Steve is doing the onboarding. Steve loves cats.

@zzt Can't get rid of the sesam seeds https://techhub.social/@TeXUsersGroup/117565325521960499

“Commodore 64 Xmas Demo” by Viovis Acropolis (2004)
[C64XMAS.ZZT] - “TRIPPY-ASS MOSAIC AHAAHWHAWHWHWA”
View World: https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/c64xmas/?file=C64XMAS.ZZT&board=6
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Learn More: https://museumofzzt.com/file/article/c64xmas/ #bot

Boardwalk - Scott Hunter
https://macthemes.garden/themes/7800f1b79bc7-Boardwalk

Any cow that is above sea level is technically a Highland cow.

It is not good for Tektronix 4010s vector graphics terminals to be left on their own, they are very social terminals, if possible, give them a lil friend

#tektronix #tektronix4010 #tektronix4006 #vintageComputing #retrocomputing

I found this photo in an eBay listing for a batch of used pinball-machine balls in July of 2000.

I didn't bid, but I messaged the seller letting them know they absolutely made my day with this photo and they replied with gratitude. I even set it as the desktop image on a computer I used in the arcade workshop I worked in at the time.

It's been sitting on my hard drives for 26 years, and I no longer wish to keep it to myself.

#RandomPhoto #Pinball #Balls

Porting Willows TWIN (A Win16/Win32 emulator that started in 1993) to modern-ish Linux. Making some progress, but I saw an error from #skifree that probably very few people have seen!

Yet outta memory, duuuude!

#retrocomputing

The fun(*) part of building a Z-machine interpreter from scratch is that once you get the basics working -- opcodes are parsed and handled correctly, objects and properties and attributes are tracked correctly, subroutines are called and returned from correctly, conformance checkers pass -- you are still sitting on a pile of undiscovered bugs. Some of these bugs are subtle and difficult to find. And then there's this one, where you can't go west.

#AppleII #retrocomputing #interactivefiction

Photo from my collection, and I actually have some interesting info about this lady. This is Mina Winslow in 1915. She was an accomplished biologist specializing in mollusks (malacology)! She was the first curator of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology's Mollusc Division.

congrats to clément on the big box collectors group for completing his eidos stargate 🙏

#bigboxgames #retrogaming

We're trying something new: in January we're hosting a game jam!

It's about Basic, the programming language. We ask people to make a game in Basic, any version will do. GW-Basic, QuickBasic, whatever you like.

The only other requirement is that your game runs on DOS, because that's our whole thing!

The jam runs for the whole of January 2027. And in February we'll play all the entries with the club and talk about them in a podcast!

More info here: https://www.dosgameclub.com/basic-game-jam-in-january/

#dosGaming #gamejam