@TonicBH it looks like the only music i've ever had in my library (besides the U2 album) is the soundtrack to EA's BLACK (which I long since converted to DRM-free MP3 when i bought the thing). frankly i'm impressed that apple remembered i owned that.
I have just relased a new version 2.9 of GrafX2, "the ultimate 256-color painting program".
Binaries are available for Haiku, Gamepark Holdings GP2x, Nintendo Switch, Atari Mint and Windows (yes, our build automation somehow focuses only on the most ridiculous platforms). For Linux it should hopefully be updated in your favorite distribution soon.
Not a lot of changes in this version, many bugfixes and more fileformats supported (Apple IIgs, C64, CPC, Atari TT...)
#GrafX2 #PixelArt
New Secret Area post: PopStar Guitar on the PS2.
A knockoff of Guitar Hero/Rock Band, it really feels like something your mom would get instead of the real thing.
Likes, reposts and comments appreciated, as always.
@somafm Underground 80s and Illinois Street Lounge. Often back and forth at that!
GEnie
Air Warrior
Kesmai is the most important innovator in online gaming, and it was their impetus that launched the GEnie service.
Their real-time 3D game Air Warrior originally for the Macintosh brought the thrill of PLATO flight game deathmatch to the mainstream.
With this new preview build now available, the next stage of work begins in replacing as many of the still re-used plug-ins from 5.666 with WACUP native options. This is also a requirement to then allow the currently beta only Windows 64-bit build to be eventually made available.
-dro
It's been just over 3 years since a #WACUP preview build showed an update was available. https://getwacup.com/preview/
That's now happened with build 1.99.12.18980 available with a cumulative changelog of over 1701 entries compared to 2021's build 1.0.21.7236.
There's been many more changes in the interim-builds to the first full preview build to run without the need to re-use the #winamp 5.666 core exe (note: it still needs to re-use a few of the plug-ins & supporting dlls https://getwacup.com/files.html#winamp )
This is the sort of thing more people should be writing re emulation. Point people at legit legal games. Show use cases beyond piracy. Bravo. #retrogaming
From: @darylbaxter
https://mastodon.social/@darylbaxter/112316392175459273
The time has arrived: Escape From Evil Island is now available as pay-what-you-want (for Windows, MacOS, or Linux) on itch.io!
https://speveril.itch.io/evil-island
If you're feeling a hankering for some old-school DOS-style platforming action, Evil Island should fit the bill nicely. I hope you enjoy!
Some landscape renders made with Bryce 3D come by on Mastodon this week and it reminded me of the first landscape renderer I used: VistaPro.
It was was one of many DOS programs on the "Virtual Reality Madness" compilation disc from 1993. VistaPro also came out on Amiga and Mac OS, and later Windows.
VistaPro (v1.01) didn't give you much control but the results looked stunning then, if you allowed your computer to render the highest quality image for a few hours that is.
@mavica_again yeah i'd presume this revision tries to detect whether an inserted disk is magnetic when inserted, and the cleaning disk is not, so it throws the error immediately.
i'll just have to get in the mood to shove anything into this that isn't a disk πβ
@lunarloony @fraggle i've always said printers are fueled by the Olde Dark Magicks, especially old printers which can not only sense intense emotions, but act malevolently towards them
there's a third thing coming in the mail today, an Apple 5x IDE DVD-ROM drive, which will hopefully be in enough working order to correctly respect boot preferences in my G3 blue-and-white and get OS X 10.2 installed on it. we shall, of course, see whether that brings the score up to 2 for 3, or whether i'll have yet another useless IDE optical drive in the collection
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, π, LGBTQ+ π, DOS π, ππ©π.