Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
- the stuff i do
- https://wildweasel486.github.io
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
modern hobbyist software has way too big of a minefield anymore.
wanted to rip a music track out of Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, a task for which there are already mod tools, since the respective archive and audio formats are known since a few games ago. unfortunately, one of the necessary tools flags my antimalware so badly that even 7-Zip starts freaking out as soon as it lays eyes on the thing, in addition to my browser refusing to follow the link and Windows throwing SmartScreen errors.
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hitman, weapon selection screen, zx spectrum (1984) https://www.mobygames.com/game/145309/hitman/screenshots/zx-spectrum/1011007/
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The most infuriating thing about trying to get a broken MacBook back to work is looking at this abomination.
For goodness sake, don’t stick a Mercator projection into a circle; please use an orthographic projection. #mapstodon
@TonicBH if i had more disposable income, I'd buy some of those eBay lots of "VHS tapes sold as blank" - often those have fascinating stuff in them.
I also hope one day to really confuse one of those "found footage" types with the tape I've been constructing.
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suffice to say, i think my guests approve of their welcoming committee #likeadragon
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I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.
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I thought I knew the SimCity series pretty well but I never knew there was a "version 2.00" for DOS, renamed to "SimCity Classic".
It has some smaller improvements (built-in terrain editor, slightly higher EGA resolution and all the graphics addon sets) but the biggest is sound card support: no more PC speaker yelling at you when you misclick. Some of the sounds effects were reused in SimCity 2000.
It also has a nice music track but, it being the only one, it unfortunately becomes old quickly.
@foone I half wonder if a Windows Defender 32-Bit bootable CD would run on hardware that old. Maybe not...
@mcc yeah... i remember when Internet Explorer always did that, when in reality the page whose link you clicked had not even received the request to respond to it, and all the bar ticking along was doing was representing how long until IE decided to declare a request-timeout
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Six MS-DOS (and Win9x) era laptops all up and going, really fun to have these setup and playing the same game.
286 Compaq from 1988
386 Acer from 1990
486 Toshiba from 1993
Pentium Toshiba from 1995
Pentium II Gateway from 1998
Pentium III IBM from 2000
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@katewillaert All it takes to make a graphic novel at Alan Moore's level is a substantial disdain for one's audience and a sincere belief that you are smarter than the readers ever will be. And a pinch (or five) of pessimism to taste.
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I found this early draft of Monkey Island 2 ad copy...
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support archive.org, too! donate a few bucks to them if you can! they deserve your support and they are an insanely invaluable resource - the wayback machine is an archive.org project and the amount of times ive used it to gain access to old files on now defunct websites is countless
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please upload any lost software to archive.org instead.
its clear betaarchive has no interest in actual software preservation if they lock their downloads behind contributor status on accounts that can be deleted after a month of inactivity.
- the stuff i do
- https://wildweasel486.github.io
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
