Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Some people have seemed confused about what my Low Quality Facts account is, so I made this graph to help you all understand it.

rare lore: back in 2018 I came across a 500-page technical deep dive guidebook on SimCity 2000. In a process that took several years because they had so much backlog of manuals, magazines, etc, I sent it to Gaming Alexandria and they made a proper professional scan of it and uploaded it to archive.org. You can read it right now!

When I say technical... I mean there's a section on how to hex edit your save files.

https://archive.org/details/sim-city-2000-power-politics-and-planning-revised-edition-strategy-guide/

#gaming #retrogaming #simcity

computer graphics (1996) https://archive.org/details/cdromuser199601/page/n59/mode/2up

It's 2026 -- DOES YOUR HARDWARE ACCELERATED WINDOW MANAGER CAST SHADOWS ACCURATELY?? 1996 for comparison.

#psion #wayland #linux #retrocomputing

⭐ Jurassic Park Computers in Excruciating Detail https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html

This is what personal blogs were made for. Be weird and obsessive then write about it.

∞ https://rknight.me/links/jurassic-park-computers-in-excruciating-detail-/

A new engine landed in ScummVM!

Introducing: The Fool's Errand, a critically-acclaimed narrative puzzle game written by Cliff Johnson in 1987 and based on characters and arcana from the tarot.

The engine, implemented by own @moralrecordings, adds support for all known Macintosh releases of the game.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #linuxgaming

New on Patreon ($1/month or more): It's Soldier of Fortune Inc. and the episode "Alpha Dogs."

A run-of-the-mill 90s action show where one episode has a computer nerd recreating military combat scenarios in Quake, and gets more what he bargained for.

https://www.patreon.com/youfoundasecretarea/posts/looking-at-of-s-163802634

most emulators: hey we finally figured out how to emulate this super obscure n64 game! and also, we've added some better support for running romhacks! isn't that great?

scummvm, for some reason: dude you can now run mcdonalds circus of edutainment for the mac+ on your fucking psp. duuuuude

“Fuck this, I quit.”
“Wait Stan, you can’t just-“
“Later, losers!”

lemmings & oh no! more lemmings, disc, playstation (1998) https://www.mobygames.com/game/12725/lemmings-oh-no-more-lemmings/cover/group-62016/cover-167543/

Writing on the back of this one says “I don’t like this program”. Photo from my collection, 1961.

I've had this post on the backburner for six years, through an entire format-change (it was almost a YouTube video!), before I decided it needed to be a blog post instead. Prime Target, a Macintosh FPS game that's weird precisely because it isn't weird.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/blaugh/posts/2026-07-05-Prime-Target---Senseless-Patriotism.html

hot shots golf 2, print ad, imagery, playstation (2000) https://archive.org/details/official-us-playstation-magazine-issue-31-april-2000/page/n1/mode/2up

Oasis - Ed Latimer
https://macthemes.garden/themes/7356550eda88-Oasis

someone said there are no CGA nerds, there are only CGA sickos.

I take offense to that, I can be both

Thanks @cpi whose flyer scans got me looking at this pinball machine

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nQFlzcj-k

I legit can't tell if this is rad as hell or Engineer's Disease: The Pinball or whether it's somehow both