Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

one nice thing that id Software's been doing with its official doom and quake remasters: they re-publish classic community mods as semi-official "add-ons" and interview the original designers https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en/article/7hE8TVhxv582NcRLcJiDr8/nods-to-mods-interview-contract-revoked-for-quake

The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.

Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit

Stéphane Picq's soundtrack for "Lost Eden" is freaking awesome.
🔊🎵🦕🦖

TIL that in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, as you level up the Skeleton Waiter soul, it throws out a progressively more sumptuous curry feast. Interestingly, the first level curry is clearly a Japanese style curry with a couple pixels of bright red pickled veg on the side, the second is a bit ambiguous, and the third is a south Indian style platter of different curries, chutneys, and some sort of bread (poori or naan, perhaps).
Sorry if reading this made you hungry!

So, I don't use this place as much as I probably should, my attention is split, but let me just give a mention to the game Chained Echoes, it's quickly become one of the best RPGs I've played lately, it's awesome.

But, the moment I knew this game was gonna be special? The song for the turtle race minigame.

It's one of life's many mysteries.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Good morning, folks. Have a sysadmin tip:

When you ssh to a remote system, make it a habit to run either `screen` or `tmux` first. Always. Even for just a quick little command.

That way, when your crap ISP monopoly drops your connection for no reason whatsoever, your remote command won't be SIGHUP'd, & you can resume with `screen -r` or `tmux attach` when they decide your connection can be restored.

This is, hands down, one of the worst ways to run Photoshop: in a Mac emulator on an old Sun machine.
#RetroComputing

:D

80s blank cassette aesthetics are untouchable

"Very broadly speaking, the video game industry has supported the idea of game preservation. But when it comes to copyright reform, consistently we’ve received pushback from the video game industry and its lobbying groups for even modest changes to copyright law to make it easier for libraries to do their jobs."

Me, on Marketplace today!

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/older-video-games-are-in-danger-of-going-extinct/

Friends, I've just had the most marvelous game idea.

(https://botsin.space/@possumeveryhour/110707842582916288)

DREAMM 2.1b7 is now up

https://aarongiles.com/dreamm/beta/

It's been a couple of weeks and I've been on vacation (and recovering from COVID), but I'm back and have some fixes for you.

• Fixed Linux case-sensitivity issue with Escape from Monkey Island saves
• Fixed crash when fielding an unexpected exception
• Fixed crash on failure to lock game texture
• Added stubs for the full set of Win98 kernel32/user32/gdi32 APIs
• Fixed occasional lost key up messages in Windows, which resulted in "sticky" keys
• Fixed handling of assert in Infernal Machine so it shows up and exits gracefully
• Added option to load game directly at startup in Infernal Machine
• Fixed difficulty configuring in Loom FM Towns version
• Added new 3D rasterizers reported via telemetry
• Improved error reporting for crashes and added reporting for unexpected exceptions
• Minor UI refinements