Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
- the stuff i do
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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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@TonicBH that song came on during lunch one day last year and somebody at the table said "augh,i hate country music, why'd they make a country cover of this song?" And it was the original song.
i feel like that's more damning of country music not having its own sound anymore than anything wrong with the song itself.
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@idTechpics "time slayer," surely
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Here's a quick post about the practice of media archaeology and a piece of the history of a prominent #BBS.
The @mediaarchaeologylab has a box that was donated that used to be the controller for a BBS called The Thing. It ran DOS and had a physical telephone line adapter called an IPAD (not to be confused with the Apple device) that allowed up to 16 people at a time to dial in to the BBS, which was running a commercial BBS software called TBBS.
This BBS was and still remains an important piece of the history of BBSes, because it was mainly populated by artists based in New York in the late 90s. There is still a website (https://thing.net/) though it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.
I've been trying to get this box online for a while - since the Before Times - but the hard drive (a whopping 425MB) has been...uncooperative. I've previously tried to use a number of IDE interface tools to mount the drive or image it, but the platters seem not to like it very much.
Well, yesterday I brought in a device that I've owned for years but never used. It's called a Logicube Forensic MD5. It's a standalone device designed to create forensically-valid clones of hard drives and their files for law enforcement investigators that they can use to demonstrate chain of custody. This model was designed for IDE/ATA hard drives, the generation this DOS box used. I've had it in a storage closet for going on 20 years and decided to bust it out.
And you know what? This thing WORKS GREAT. It made a drive image using onboard dd which I was able to mount in other tools. It did this in minutes. From what it looks like, the entire filesystem is intact. Not only was it loaded with an unreleased beta version of the IPAD software, it seems to have a lot of BBS files stored on it that bear scrutiny. The system seems to have last booted up in 1998, so many of these files haven't seen the light of day in nearly a quarter century.
And now...the real work begins on looking through those files to see what we can learn about this important piece of history.
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Be careful what you wish for. You may be targeted with ads for similar items.
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my wife's company is trying to convince people to return to the office because one of their executives thinks its embarrassing when clients come by and the offices are empty, anyways, theatre students always need some pocket money and if someone wants to join my exciting new "potemkin village as a service" startup
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A thinking man's shoot-em-up, Gun Fury was a late #Amiga release due from Binary Emotions in 1997. A fun and good looking puzzler that disappeared without a trace.
More in our new post on the game: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2023/03/gun-fury/
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@sos you've only got a real problem when they've all got thematic names.
@ActionRetro betcha can't run minecraft on a Quadra! 😈
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Admins: Keep an eye out for this bot: @r2squared.io@home.social
It's reporting users on random instances for no reason. Pain in the arse.
@Homebrewandhacking tbh I have no idea who any of those are; I kind of know about Fisto, but only because Fisto became the butt of several jokes within my online circles.
@foone ah, Jixxa, the puzzle game present on all kinds of "desktop accessory" packs.
I think there's even a copy on the Duke 3D Atomic Edition CD
@ifixcoinops yup - very good reason why no kid of the 80s remembers anything HB put out in the 80s outside of He-Man (and even then: who remembers anybody *in* He-Man besides He-Man and Skeletor?)
@jplebreton we'd have that forever, if only the government would quit stalling on abolishing the "fall-back" part 🤷♂️
@winampskins Wow, a "fancy hi-fi" skin that really drives home how bad the glare was on those fancy glossy displays.
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- the stuff i do
- https://netizen.club/~wildweasel
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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