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@jplebreton yeah... somebody showed me that yesterday and i was left wondering, "ok, but why?" rendering a 3D video game is more or less a solved problem, absolutely trivial. why complicate it that much for no benefit whatsoever? i even tried reading their abstract, and could not make any sense of what they thought this was good for.

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My brand-new MiniGolf game for Palm OS is ready! โ›ณ There's even a full-fledged level editor built in. (All in a 55kb executable!)

If you don't have a Palm, you can also play it in the in-browser emulator.
quarters.captaintouch.com/capt

Nitty gritty details can be found on my blog: ctrl-c.club/~captain/posts/202

Hope someone enjoys this, I at least had a blast making it!

#palmos #palm #retrocomputing #retro #retrogaming

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i grew up with the master system version of olympic gold. i didn't find out until like over a decade later that there was also a mega drive version, and that menu title arrangement always sounded wrong to me. anyway here's my arrangement of the master system version more or less how it played out in my head

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Weโ€™re currently being hit by a #typhoon here in Kagoshima, #Japan right now, and everyone has their eyes glued to this palm tree (nicknamed ใƒคใƒƒใ‚ทใƒผ) to see if it will ever fall over in the wind, cheering it on in the live chat. Itโ€™s kind of become a typhoon tradition here.

youtube.com/watch?v=22OVcUsCmo

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Another overlooked arcade classic, the three-player Super Off Road by Leland.

The story behind this license involves a chance meeting at a sushi bar. One day I hope to tell that story - had to cut this one from the book! #videogamehistory

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@vga256 given the way capstone's SB/adlib music sounds in their other games, my expectations were never very high to begin with :blobrofl:โ€‹

@vga256 daaamn, roland support, they were getting ritzy with that one

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I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Sewer music from the NES Terminator game, but it's a simple beat that never ends like they ran out of time before they could finish it.

So, using a NES soundfont, I had a go at making an actual tune out of it whilst also trying to crowbar the Terminator "motif" in there.

#MIDI #RetroGaming

@loadhigh @likesoldmacs iirc MIDI synthesis is handled by the version of QuickTime installed on the system, so the music could sound radically different between a PB running System 7.x and an iMac running >OS 8.6. I think QT4 and up are using a General MIDI library that samples a Roland SC-55, which is roughly the same thing Windows was doing starting from around 2000 or so.

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@ifixcoinops at least nobody is horny about any member of the Pacfamily. ...I hope.

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They say big trucks are just a reality if you want to make deliveries in the city.

I say there's other ways to solve the "last-mile" problem...

There's your beer kegsโ€”sorted.

#London

๐Ÿงต

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โ€œThatโ€™s when Neil looked at the coin counter meter. it read โ€œ000001โ€:

And, sitting in the coin bucket was a single coin; a quarter dated 1983.โ€

arcadeblogger.com/2017/01/20/c

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@RealDaveRyder oof, that's a damning indictment of Ryder's sex life right there

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