Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Got invited to join the Video Game History Foundation's podcast this week, talking about my "first CD-ROM game" blog post from the other week. Chatting with Phil was a lot of fun, hope you enjoy listening!

https://gamehistory.org/ep-116-the-first-cd-rom-game/

1985 Sbarro Challenge I

Speaking of exploding animated hamburgers on Amiga...

burgerkill, title screen, msx (1986) https://mobygames.com/game/msx/macattack/screenshots/gameShotId,139184/

hi i need money would you like to buy some hand crafted pixels #commissions #pixelart https://maple.pet/commissions bring your face, bring a picture, bring a pet, that's right, we'll draw your pet

h.u.r.g. (high level user friendly real time games designer), title screen, zx spectrum (1984) https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=2398

Updated Chrome today, and was immediately given a prompt about how my browsing preferences would be directly used to feed me ads.

Chrome auto-enabled a feature that sends sites info to send me personalized ads based on browsing history, the ability for sites to determine what I like and update the ads as I browse, and the ability for sites to measure ad effectiveness.

These are built-in features of the browser now.

STOP USING CHROME

Realms of Darkness was billed as an #Amiga RPG, for those who hated RPGs. Featuring isometric sections mixed with 2D combat views, the game looked impressive - but was canned after lack of payment from Grandslam. Could remains of it be found some day?

https://gamesthatwerent.com/2023/08/realms-of-darkness/

NetzAmpV311[1].wsz

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/bdde76b5a8b32111d3422e18d2ac77bc

100 Reasons the Amiga Was Amazing #3 Directory Opus

File manager Directory Opus started on the Amiga and moved to Windows, making it one of those essential tools that I use on both systems. Going back to File Explorer after DOpus' dual pane listers feels like losing a limb.

Knights of the Sky (MPS Labs/MicroProse Software, 1990) #DOSGaming

I am *SO* sick of joining #Discord Servers for everything and anything.

I do NOT want to join your server of 400+ people I *do not know* and have no desire to talk to because you wouldn't link me your GitHub or site directly or put necessary information in your README for a thing I just want to download and use.

Please, for the love of Celestia STOP doing this. IF your server gets deleted, that information is GONE. If Discord shuts down, that information is GONE. If someone doesn't want to join a 400+ person chat room, they're SCREWED. PLEASE STOP.

You people know that there are limits to the number of servers people can JOIN right?!

Sweet Luna's Moon! Seriously, just make an RSS Feed..! Put up an info page on GitHub Pages, it's FREE.

I miss forums you could browse without an account

Please... please... #StopDiscordCentralization

/rant

TIL there is apparently no way to emulate the CD-i version of The 7th Guest on PC because it requires a CD-i add-on called the Digital Video Cartridge. I checked three different emulators and none of them support DVC.

It's a real shame, too, because it looks like they re-rendered all the walking transitions in a much higher framerate than the DOS version, and I'd love to get some hi-res footage of that. It's fucking smooth as butter!

Have a look: https://youtube.com/watch?v=J-hz7JYAiFM

2006 Venturi Eclectic Concept 1