Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Do you remember SUN JDS (Java Desktop System)? It was a beautifully modified version of GNOME 2. Even a Live CD based on Morphix was available.

Sadly, the internet (even archive.org) has forgotten mostly everything about it. If you still have a copy of the JDS Live CD, please contact me, and I am going to build an IceWM theme based on the design.

Additional screenshots can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140705002919/http://hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7328

#Linux #Morphix #Java #SUN #GNOME #IceWM #JDS #Retro #Retrocomputing

If anyone out there can tell me the source of this image of Miyamoto and Takeda posing with their Sheriff game, so I can try to track down a better scan, I will be so grateful.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1421490/Rise_of_the_Triad_Ludicrous_Edition/

Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition is out!

buy now and you, too, can wonder how the hell i ended up in the credits to an actual real videogame

and here also a similar thing, but now also inverting it about a circle in this fixed frame

This is an Xbox 360. No, really. An ad-hoc dev kit version based around PowerMac G5s.

A photo from a disgruntled Xbox dev who was annoyed that even as late as May of 2005, they still didn't have any actual proper 360s to work with.

#retrocomputing #xbox #retrogaming #gamedev

Second Reality by Future Crew is now 30 years old. It was released at the second Assembly party in Finland (which about 1500 people attended) and it became the definite #DOS demo of its day, putting the PC firmly on the #demoscene map! The people behind it went on to found 3dMark, Bugbear and Remedy.

New blog post! I wrote about Journey to the Source, a CD-ROM travelogue that follows a team of people as they go 6,300 kilometres down the Yangtze to find its source. It's a *really* interesting disc, as much about the people who live all along that river and their lives as it is about making that discovery. So many things have changed there in the years since, so I loved getting an impression of daily life that's long gone.

https://cdrom.ca/educational/non-fiction/2023/07/23/journey-to-the-source.html

A clip of a 1993 CES promo reel from that most magnificent of video game owls, Psygnosis.

Very cool to see Psygnosis here moving in all directions as the 32-bit era dawns, including their big ambitions for Scavenger-4 and hitting it big in Japan - later retooled into Novastorm.

#Retrogaming #Retrocomputing #Amiga #gamehistory #videogames

1963 BMW 700 Colani prototype

We gotta stop calling games, movies, tv etc. "bad" and instead use words like "doesn't meet my needs." Cause lots of folks are losing their minds over entertainment.

People who complain about the different rules on different #fediverse servers never navigated the Internet when forums were the thing.

It was the norm to read the damn rules and lurk for a while to get your head around the culture of the place.

Yes, I'm old. Perhaps that's why fedi is majority #GenX. We've done this kind of thing before and it's not that big of a deal.

when you see a photo of a kitten do you ever pretend to pet its head with the mouse cursor