Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
- the stuff i do
- https://wildweasel486.github.io
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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Roughly 4 months ago, my primary Vehicle - a recumbent e-trike - was stolen from my home. Because I have no income, I can't save up to replace it, and it sucks to not have reliable transportation without begging. Help? Maybe? https://gofund.me/f1442f7c
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Remember: here's the breaking news handbook. All of these are good rules to stand by at the moment.
@burgerbecky hell yeah 👍
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Archive of ~3800 .plan file updates from 1998-2004
https://d8d.org/plan-archive/
Me and @sponge have been working together for the last few days to collect 3835 .plan file updates from a handful of online archives and the Wayback Machine. These .plan file updates come from the likes of id Software, 3D Realms, Raven Software, GodGames, Ritual Entertainment, and dozens of other game development companies in that "scene".
These text files constitute an entire oral history of the games industry from about 1997 to 2004, told through the proto-blogging platform known as the Finger protocol.
For context, the Finger protocol was invented in 1971 as an extremely simple way to query information and updates about a user on a particular remote server. I have no idea how popular it was in its time, but during the late mid-late 90s and early 2000s, the crusty old thing was used by these developers as a way to trickle out small rants, posts, and development updates from their company computers.
If you have any old .plan files sitting around, feel free to submit them to me or sponge via email!
Me and @sponge have been working together for the last few days to collect 3835 .plan file updates from a handful of online archives and the Wayback Machine. These .plan file updates come from the likes of id Software, 3D Realms, Raven Software, GodGames, Ritual Entertainment, and dozens of other game development companies in that "scene".
These text files constitute an entire oral history of the games industry from about 1997 to 2004, told through the proto-blogging platform known as the Finger protocol.
For context, the Finger protocol was invented in 1971 as an extremely simple way to query information and updates about a user on a particular remote server. I have no idea how popular it was in its time, but during the late mid-late 90s and early 2000s, the crusty old thing was used by these developers as a way to trickle out small rants, posts, and development updates from their company computers.
If you have any old .plan files sitting around, feel free to submit them to me or sponge via email!
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haven’t used it in a year so it just reads as unbelievably passive aggressive
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So this, from Firefox, is fucking toxic: https://mstdn.social/@Lokjo/112772496939724214
You might be aware Chrome— a browser made by an ad company— has been trying to claw back the limitations recently placed on ad networks by the death of third-party cookies, and added new features that gather and report data directly to ad networks. You'd know this because Chrome displayed a popup.
If you're a Firefox user, what you probably don't know is Firefox added this feature and *has already turned it on without asking you*
@Coehill I would like more information, please. What's your budget? Is there an abstract of what the project does and who it's for?
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Marathon 2 has been free for a while but it’s nice seeing it available somewhere else too, and it has the XBLA graphics as a bonus free DLC
https://mastodon.rip/@steamreleasebot/112774349708070157
Roughly 4 months ago, my primary Vehicle - a recumbent e-trike - was stolen from my home. Because I have no income, I can't save up to replace it, and it sucks to not have reliable transportation without begging. Help? Maybe? https://gofund.me/f1442f7c
@benjedwards Andy mentioned Everett Kaser - I've heard of that guy before! One of DOS shareware's somewhat more prevalent names, still in business to this day selling updated versions of his logic puzzle games. That's a really cool connection.
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I recently discovered an odd first-person maze game called “Lair of Squid” built into my HP 200LX palmtop PC, released in 1994
Then I found the author. Here’s the story of how this quirky Doom-inspired title came to be: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/07/how-i-found-a-forgotten-squid-based-ode-to-doom-on-a-1994-palmtop-pc/
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https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/ bitcoin must be erased from the earth by any means necessary
@mattgrayyes this idea does remind me of a bot idea i had back in college, that'd reply to any tweet that mentions the name of a politician, with "source?"
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I put up a hosted version of my extremely simple Macintosh Garden FTP Search site. Super simple HTML and short result pages. Should be useful if you want to download items from Macintosh Garden directly to your Internet enabled classic Mac!
Reply with a picture of your classic Mac using it! 😎
- the stuff i do
- https://wildweasel486.github.io
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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