Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

few remember this, but back in the mid-90s origin systems built #UltimaIX as a 3d game with a unique isometric camera using a software renderer running at 640x480

screenshots from this early pre-alpha were sent around to a few german gaming mags, and then forgotten as it went into development hell

here are a handful of the dozen or so screenshots from that early build of U9, before it was scrapped in favour of a 3D hardware GPU-friendly renderer

although the final game would look much prettier, i always thought this early build preserved the soul of #Ultima

#RetroGaming

Day of the Tentacle copy protection from the floppy disk release:
#DOSGaming

boost this cat when they least expect it

forced_to_be.wsz

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/f510eff704da494cf80aa9a6391b681c

finally have some time to work on Atari 2600 Myst again. Maybe I'll make some progress before Mysterium happens

Working on some less iconic (though no less important) areas

This reminds me of something I posted on a previous social media account.

“You’ve Got Mail”: a romantic comedy about a little bookstore being overrun by a huge bookstore/DVD store

“You’ve Got ‘You’ve Got Mail’”: a dark comedy about a huge bookstore/DVD store being overrun by an online mail-order megastore.

“You’ve Got ‘You’ve Got “You’ve Got Mail”’”: a tragedy about an online mail-order megastore being supplanted by streaming services. ← YOU ARE HERE

“No One’s Got ‘You’ve Got Mail’”: a farce about how all movies have become unavailable because companies withhold them for the tax write-offs.

“You’ve Got Mail-full-1080p.mkv”: a documentary about the valuable role that pirates are performing as librarians and archivists.

Cheshire Cat (Disney)
VS
Albatross

Colonel Faffywaffy (Arilou Lalee'lay) + Sasha Nein
VS
Elmer Fudd + Marvin the Martian

for people with ADHD, it's not that our memory is bad, it's that our garbage collection is too strict

Love knows no boundaries.

Tutorial on how to recreate multiplayer maps from GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark in TimeSplitters 2 on GameCube.
from NGC Magazine 76 - January 2003 (UK)

This issue can be downloaded in full here:
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/NGCmagazine.html

#retrogaming
#Nintendo
#GameCube

I'd rather do something and make a mistake than be frightened into doing nothing. That's the problem back home. Folks have been conned into thinking they can't change the world. Have to accept what is. I'll tell you something, my friends, the world is changing every day. The only question is, who's doing it?

— Reverend Will Dexter, from "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place", Babylon 5, S03E20

Have you played Command Performance? A late 80s mystical RPG in the land of Xa- ok, it's a system manager. No reason for that cover art to go so hard, but no one tell them otherwise.