Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

please upload any lost software to archive.org instead.

its clear betaarchive has no interest in actual software preservation if they lock their downloads behind contributor status on accounts that can be deleted after a month of inactivity.

Tonight's relaxing jam:
Tetris CD-i soundtrack 🎵
https://soundcloud.com/user-391016128/only-you?in=user-391016128/sets/phillips-cdi&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

I ran @p_malin's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=9dbur #bbcbasic

I ran @coprolite9000's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=9ctpk #bbcbasic

ok here's my proof of work. stealth modchip installed in PS1 that isn't one of the any motherboards that's properly documented (that i've found). the modchip is custom burnt on an attiny

ok here's my proof of work. i serviced my amiga 600 featuring a previous owner's exploded badly replaced capacitor with several keyboard controller traces destroyed

does anyone in the uk need their retro computer serviced/fixed/restored. i need money and i don't have a work visa #fedihire #fedihired #getfedihired #mutualaid

Whoa. For 30th anniversary of the Russian cult classic ZX Spectrum game "The Adventures of Buratino" its creator Vyacheslav "Copper Feet" Mednonogov released a Windows remake of it & extended it with new material 2x the size of the original!
https://copperfeetgames.itch.io/the-new-secret-of-pinocchio

I found my old Win9X thin client! Remember getting this little thing after watching Phil's Computer Lab video, though I managed to go even lower than Windows 98SE, despite the first ATI Radeon not having native Windows 95 support.

This thing worked remarkably well for a Transmeta Crusoe-based PC. Behaved more or less like a Pentium II machine, enough juice for the vast majority of 199x-2000 games.

Did you release a game for a retro platform in 2023?

DOS? GBA? Mega Drive? C64? NES? PS1? Wii? Speccy?

Or do you know of one that you really like as a player?

Can you tell me about it within the next 14 hours?

I'm writing a very fast turn-around article for a retro book that I'm handing over first thing tomorrow morning and I want to finish it up by name checking some modern retro games, including those that aren't necessarily on my radar.

I obviously know about notable stuff like The Aching, Briley Witch 2, GoodBoy Galaxy, and Barren Planet, but there's just so much cool software coming out on "dead" platforms and I'd like to know about anything amazing that I might have missed.

It's currently about 15:30 UTC on the 10th of January 2024. That means your cut-off is around 5:30 UTC on the 11th of January. The sooner the better, though.

#GameDev #RetroGaming

Listen to Svetlana’s “The Space Adventures of General Mibi” by https://syniphas.bandcamp.com/album/the-space-adventures-of-general-mibi

using my blog to just dump all my knowledge of obscure lost games in the hope that one day someone will dump them online, starting with a FMV game staring Ty Burrell made for Minute Maid

https://virtualmoose.org/2024/01/08/lost-game-when-oranges-attack/

Played some of this old Atari 2600 game today, as it's one my brother and I adored - we played the hell out of this. I remember thinking it was super advanced, which I suppose it was in some ways back in the day. :)

It was an RPG called Dragonstomper.

#OhNoAGolem #Dragonstomper #Atari #Atari2600

I collect these. I call them "design in the wild" where end users fix design mistakes on their own. It's a bit shocking how often this happens. Think of how bad it has to be to reach this point. #ux

Steamboat Willie is public domain. So, the First Person Shooter I never knew I needed, or wanted, is coming soon... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoNDAW4JrE

Picard engineering tip: Make it so every subsystem can be found and repaired manually, even if you need to crawl to reach it.

Happy New Year from Éric Zmiro's Prehistorik 2! 🥂