Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Today is a huge day for Apple II software preservation. With the help of Antoine Vignau and @txgx42, we have managed to recover, make playable, and archive renowned game designer Dani Bunten's first game, Wheeler Dealers. Released in 1978/79 and published by Speakeasy Software, a small Canadian developer, Wheeler Dealers is a multi-player stock market simulation that only sold ~50 copies. It is the first (known) computer game to have been sold in a box. The game was considered lost until now.

Launched a new Death Generator, based on a request by Kitsune86. They wanted a Nokia 3310 generator, but the best I could do was a Nokia 3410... which was close enough for jazz.

https://deathgenerator.com/#nokia

hi son 🧺

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hi son ☎️

If you find yourself in the place I did (which, like, the longer you stay here the higher that probability gets), and you DIDN'T back up that .csv, you're gonna at some point vent about this Situation to an actual real-life friend, in person, using your meat mouth, and they're gonna make this face 😱 and they'll be RIGHT to do so and you'll know it.

Seriously I see so many "Hey all the newbies, remember to CW eye contact and food and get off .social ASAP," but I don't see "Back your followers the hell up because beefs between admins you don't even know will silently and irrevocably sever your relationships" posted, like, Anywhere. TBH if it were up to me that'd be the first damn thing the website tells you.

Also while I'm PSAing maybe don't make threads that get so long they've gotta span THREE DANG SERVERS but I know you all are too sensible to do that so that's more of a Note To Self thing

luminosity.zip

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/62f80ef8f734d9264a5993e3a9d02d2b

IBM ThinkBoy.

🚨SELACO launches in EARLY ACCESS in MAY 2024!

The initial launch contains:
☑️25 Open Levels
☑️11 Fully Upgradable Weapons
☑️Dynamic Combat
☑️Intelligent Enemies
☑️Immersive and Interactive World
☑️DRM-Free
☑️Full Open-Source Modding Support
☑️Inspired by F.E.A.R. and Half-Life

#gamedev #fps #indie

Seems like a good time to repost this:

#TerryPratchett #Offense #Humour #GoodOmens

How DOES someone who doesn't constantly stream on Twitch promote a single streaming event? In this case, I am wanting to do a stream to do a comprehensive overview of a system few people really know about, the #ColecoAdam. #retrocomputing #retrogaming #colecovision

📸🕹️ The interactive exhibit that allows visitors to experience retro video terminals has received a new feature this week - sending photos from the Game Boy Camera to email. 😎

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #gameboy #vgm #vt320 #GameBoyCamera

You never, ever see a Baby Pacman with the right colours on the monitor.

This is partly down to pinball guys not being good at monitors, but it's also because monitor guys are not good with Baby Pacman monitors.

Your arcade guy, he comes in and goes "Oof yeah that Baby Pacman monitor has its colour balance all outta whack, let's see what we can do about that." So he opens up the back and he finds the knobs and gives them a twiddle.

There's the screen voltage pot on the flyback (which acts as a brightness control by encouraging electrons to hit the phosphors harder), and there's also individual controls for each colour. Two each in most monitors, the cutoff and the drive, affecting the highs and the lows. In old monitors like in baby pacman one colour will lack a drive control, usually green, you use this colour as a base reference.

So your monitor person, they've done this a thousand times, they hold a hand mirror round the front of the game and twiddle those knobs like they've always done.

And it looks Worse.

"What the hell," says Monitor Toucher, "Can't get this bloody thing adjusted up right, it just doesn't want to cooperate." Maybe the hamfisted pinball guy in here last had a go and screwed it all up - let's abandon the idea of a quick minor-adjustment tune-up and set all the knobs to the centre mark and get a sense of how the tube's ageing and do a complete ground-up rough-in and see where we go from there.

At some point, later on, the tube rejuvenator might make an appearance.

Some time later, the monitor guy will angrily shove the back door closed and write on the back "Monitor's as good as it's gonna get, LEAVE IT ALONE"

And the only people who will ever find the third set of adjustment knobs, located on the VIDIOT! board and altering the R/G/B/Sync signals before they even reach the monitor, are the people who go "Hmm, if I were a pinball company trying to make a videogame, just how badly would I bollocks it all up..."

(╹◡╹) スポットはいいぞ…
#pixelart #ドット絵 #スポット

Very exciting news for collectors of old cellphones:
There's ways again to get data connectivity on devices which don't support GPRS/packet data.

This Nokia Communicator 9110 is running DOS on a AMD x86 CPU and is connected to the internet via a 9600bps CSD call through a private GSM network!

The Osmocom free/open GSM stack gained CSD support over the last months and it now actually works :)