Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
- 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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Violet - Francois Bordenave-Gabriel
https://macthemes.garden/themes/25a4398a93af-Violet
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Today I was poking a little bit into the possibility of porting some Hercules games onto the Apricot. It is harder than I hoped it would be.
But I did an image quality check, and ouch it looks pretty good, which makes me sad that the Apricot didn't have decent games for it. This is a mock-up, I couldn't make the real game run, of course.
The screen has multiple frames because the monitor is 800x400, the image is 720x348, and the actual gameplay area is 448x192 (software scrolling on 4.77 MHz is slow, okay?!)
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💾 NEW PODCAST 💾 In November we looked at Toonstruck, the FMV point & click adventure game from 1996 featuring none other than Christopher Lloyd (that's "Doc Brown" from Back to the Future!)
This was a huge production at the time, with apparently a budget of around 8 million dollar!
Sadly the game seems a bit forgotten now, but that's all the more reason for us to take a look at it.
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I might have created the most overcooked soccer game in existance.
Check out the latest update to Lazy Kickers! I added money!
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@volpeon the best modern file search tool to my experience is the one included in FreeCommander which does not need any AI models to be both faster, more accurate, and more generally useful than the one in Windows. It even has "search within files" functionality, for not much hit on performance at all.
We don't need this new technology to make something infinitely better than we have. It's already right there.
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We've been using Jitsi for conference calls with DOS Game Club for many years now.
It's simple, it's free, you don't need to sign up, it works right from the browser (although there is an app if you want that). Your call duration isn't limited. It just works.
Truly difficult to understand why people keep using Zoom or Teams or whatever.
@literalgrill Alas I've only seen 3 or 4 episodes of the series myself, but I'll make a note to check this video later. 👍
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mostly i browse what's coming out on steam each week cause every once in a while i run into something like this https://store.steampowered.com/app/3269810/KNOCKOFF and i'm like what the fuck
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2026-01-13.html - A small haul on a foggy afternoon, in today's Golfshrine Acquisitions Update.
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"Damien what do you want to do when you retire?" I want to hope I have enough time and money to buy those stupid rare records and rip them in FLAC and put that shit on soulseek
i think the reason i don't quite grasp the popular form of tone indicators is because my brain is too fixated on incorrect meanings that make no sense. i just spotted a "/lh" and immediately thought "oh, short for 'loadhigh', we're loading this post into DOS extended memory"
Decided to "redesign" the Weasel Center Shelter for Old and Abandoned Computers today. Well, "redesign" is saying a lot there as a word, when what I actually did was swap three background images, reduce the contrast of one of them, and change the font color. But still!
https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelter/index.html
This did also slightly bury the lede of me adding a section to said website to explain (and embed) the Quake Benchmarks spreadsheet.
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This is Quake running on CGA. Normally Quake requires VGA (320x200 256 colours), but WinQuake can actually run fine on any card supported by Windows 95.
Now, CGA doesn't support Windows 95. But turns out with a little manual hex editing, it can start with a CGA driver from Windows 3.0 (I believe no one succeeded in doing this before). And with Windows 95 kind of sort of running on CGA, @gloriouscow recommended to try if Quake would run. It does, and it is almost playable. Definitely more playable than Doom8088 on MDA.
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I made a free short game for the heck of it! It's live on itch, enjoy!
https://wavey-games.itch.io/celestial-coffee-quest
#pointandclick #adventuregame #retrogaming #ags #indiegame #indiedev
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It is a long-standing tradition for Microsoft to use a runtime copy of Windows as a part of Windows Setup. But the copy is so stripped-down, it cannot run anything but the setup program (winsetup.bin).
OR IS IT?
A mini-challenge for myself: create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Windows 95 installer but not using any other Microsoft products.
Lots of nostalgic and weird screenshots in this 🧵 thread
@tommorris some guy yesterday joined one of my discords and was bragging about how he ported some very specialized game editing software using Claude and it "only" cost him £200 a month. he would listen to no reasons why that was a completely fucked up thing to be doing.
- 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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Joined Oct 2017
