Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

There was a point in the last month I felt like I had put the direction of my life on a very conscious, well-planned trajectory but now I am compiling Renderdoc in a laundromat so now I'm not so sure

"Still no flying cars," I told the tree that was once a creator from long ago, "But the work-week is only twenty hours. There's teenagers about with no microplastics in their bodies."

The leaves rustled in the breeze, as if bursting with approval.

"I think you'd've liked it here," I added, "Thank you for the oxygen."

I placed a small pin-wheel among the roots.

"Thank you for believing humanity could be better despite all your experiences."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #SciFi

The Activision thing finally landed. Which means MS owns Infocom, via an impressive 40-year chain of buyouts, takeovers, and shakeups.

Now I formally put forth the plea:

Microsoft should put all of Infocom’s IP under a Creative Commons license. Or donate the rights to a nonprofit which can do the same. Let’s bring all these legally-shaky fan sites and collections into the light.

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/10/microsoft-consumes-activision

(Yes, I’m part of a nonprofit that could do that.)

Pass it along.

#InteractiveFiction

Secret of the 7th Labyrinth was a Wolfenstein/RPG hybrid set across 7 different themed labyrinths, and was due for release on #PC by MicroProse back in 1993. Disappearing without trace, only a few screenshots now seem to exist. Can it be found?

https://gamesthatwerent.com/2023/11/secret-of-the-7th-labyrinth/

Wizard Replay lets you play "Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord," "Knight of Diamonds," and "Legacy of Llylgamyn," and several unauthorized third-party scenarios, all from the comfort of your ProDOS hard drive. It features integrated WizPlus for character editing, integrated scenario backup & restore, modern bug fixes from <https://www.zimlab.com/wizardry/proving-grounds-v3/>, and of course zero copy protection.

https://archive.org/details/WizardReplay

Thanks to @a2_qkumba for everything.

#AppleII

Cabel Sasser's masterwork blog post on the DAK Catalog. A journey. https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/

A collection of early Indian electronic music, from tapes from National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad). Recorded between 1969 and 1972

https://state51.bandcamp.com/album/the-nid-tapes-electronic-music-from-india-1969-1972

#Music #India #ElectronicMusic #Bandcamp

Silver Barrel II - Woo Kong Teik

blaupunktcaraudio.wsz

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/03e4b612ea63ff840595c52e1e1a35b0

jill of the jungle: jill saves the prince, prompt, dos (1992) https://www.mobygames.com/game/776/jill-of-the-jungle-jill-saves-the-prince/screenshots/dos/315484/

Just released at Demosplash 2023, an Apple II remake of the Second Reality demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNOqu4vcDto

By the way as long as I'm talking about pieces of music that get used everywhere while neglecting related music: Did you know "Moonlight Sonata" has three fucking movements and you've only ever heard the first one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSlgAOBr7VA

That explains a lot.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

10 Friday
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#commodore #amiga #pixelart #retrocomputing

A quick search of the Perforce website gives a whole bunch of similar articles that all follow the same format. Even articles with titles like "Working with Git", "Ways to scale Git" and "Best Practices for Git Commit" are ads which in some cases spread FUD and disinformation like "Github is not safe"

Googling "what is git lfs" gives a featured snippet that leads to a competing product's website. The article answers the question in a biased way that carefully points out all the downsides of using git before launching into a full-on ad for their product. Sleazy use of SEO in a way that manipulates search results