Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

3 Ball Juggler (First Magnitude, 1991) #DOSGaming

WARNING FOR SURVIVORS WHO USE A BURNER PHONE!
If you are a survivor who uses a burner phone as part of your safety plan, BE AWARE of the following:
Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 2:20 pm
EST /12:20pm MST, a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System will take place. All cellphones will broadcast a loud, blaring sound, like an Amber Alert, and then display a text message with additional info. This could be a safety concern for survivors who have 'secret' phones that they are trying to hide from abusers. To prevent this, and any local or national alerts, from sounding, phones can be powered off, turned to airplane zxmode, or turned off in your phone settings.
National Domestic Violence
Hotline: 800-799-7233 or
SMS: Text START to 88788

It's an "XMPlay skinned to look like an Amiga and blasting breakbeat 4-channel MODs" kind of morning

#DailyRetroGame 205: Pro Pinball: Big Race USA (1998)

While less well received than its Pro Pinball predecessors, I loved Big Race USA. The table design was excellent, with plenty to do, and it looked superb. The ability to mess around with configs also unleashed your inner pinball table geek. Alas, only Timeshock ever got a modern remake, and so this game’s race permanently ended long ago.

Play it on: #PlayStation, #PC, #Mac, #Dreamcast

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDTtoxon58I&t=9s

#retrogaming

PSD Animals--Prairie Dog

Sent from Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.A. on August 26, 1995. https://postcardware.net/?id=30-15

Buick Dimensions/Buick Classic (The InMar Group/General Motors, 1990) #DOSGaming

Raptor: Call of the Shadows source code got released today:
https://github.com/skynettx/dosraptor

moses: old testament adventure #1, screenshot, dos (1987) https://www.mobygames.com/game/8151/moses-old-testament-adventure-1/screenshots/dos/36141/

What's more obscure and retro than a TAM? Why, using the S-Video on the TAM to play a Japanese Sega Saturn! For October, here's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, playing as Saturn-exclusive Maria. Comes with a nice Vampire Killer remix! https://youtu.be/iSX3vyT3SNM

The original advertisement for Golden Tee Golf, the franchise which was the shining light of the coin-op video game business in the late 90s. #videogamehistory #arcade

"I discovered that the unrented office suites directly next door are a time capsule of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and we got permission from the building owners to put on an exhibition of vintage computers and telephones in the offices."
And/Or Gallery -- Recap Computing History #2 -- Oct 7 - 21, 2023
https://www.andorgallery.com/press37.html

I've been talking about how AI will directly lead to an Idiocracy (2006) scenario for some time, but today's update to the "can you melt eggs?" saga is as clear an illustration of how as I think it's possible to ever have.

Quora's AI answers made up the melting point of eggs, and then Google picked it up and responded affirmatively that you can indeed melt eggs.

Then people wrote articles about how stupid it is that Google says eggs can melt. Then Google fixes the answer.

Then Google ingests an article about how stupid it is that Google says you can melt eggs, and suddenly Google starts answering affirmatively again that you can melt eggs, citing the article about how stupid Google is for thinking you can melt eggs.