Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Here, I made you a Slack emoji for when you're talking about GenAI

Please do not gaze upon my works and despair! I worked really hard on them

The game is packed with references to world food… from Vietnamese rice pancakes (Banh xeo) to Italian mushroom sauce for pasta (Boscaiola) to Turkish stuffed aubergines (Imam bayildi) to Welsh leek soup (Cawl cennin).

As with everything else in the game, the localisation team did a fantastic job digging up this stuff. Some of these dishes don't even have a Wikipedia entry.

One example here. I'd never heard of Ema Datshi before. In game, it's described as a cheese and hot chilli pepper dish from the Azim Steppe.

In reality, it's from Bhutan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ema_datshi

#FFXIV

I’ve had such an education in the exotic foods of the world by looking up the names of #FFXIV food items on Wikipedia.

Voxel Doom 2 is OUT! Stellar job! Links below / Voxel Doom 2 está en la calle! Un trabajo estelar.
Moddb link: https://www.moddb.com/mods/voxel-doom-ii
Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlqiysdGbRI

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

Teach your young ones the value of honor and stabbing in one glorious toy!