Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

StrataVision was the 3D modeling and rendering package used to produce graphics of the original Myst. They are so proud of this that even right now if you get the latest version of it ("Strata Design 3D SE", free on Steam,) it comes with a bunch of Myst assets in its library:

well no idea how i did it (but i know i have a valid backup of that amiga drive, because it's recent and it runs on winuae) but looks like there's a newer fork of win32diskimager that can work with physical drives and not just drive letters https://github.com/dnobori/DN-Win32DiskImagerRenewal/releases

hitman: blood money, concept art (2006) https://www.mobygames.com/game/22576/hitman-blood-money/promo/group-101941/image-792828/

Someone dubbed the #cybertruck the "WankPanzer" and now that's its name.

I don't make the rules.

firefox asking me if about:blank is relevant to me

No YOU crawled into the box of cocoa powder

Such a beautiful game. So rare to see this kind of risk taken by a AAA+ game studio.

#amiga #retrogaming #lucasfilm

For rainy days we have a treadmill but it's locked into the vendor's subscription service if you want to watch videos.

Except...tap the bottom left 10 times, wait 7 seconds, tap 10 more times, up pops a number, use that as a seed to generate a number with lrand48, reduce modulo 999999 (not 1000000!) and type that number back in, and now you have an Android tablet with web browser and access to YouTube.

Greedy (Eclipse, 1996) #DOSGaming

She will forgive almost anything once. Twice, if you’re lucky.

On the third transgression, there will be consequences.

Once, she could be easy. Once, she could be a childhood pet, a mother’s maiden name, an elementary school’s mascot. Once, she was unbreakable. Now, she is become endless strings of letters and numbers, incomprehensible, unpronounceable, holy and profane. Speak her secret names aloud and wake the end of days.

Continue: https://leemoyer.wordpress.com/2021/03/19/automata-hari-small-god-of-passwords/

Into The Shadows was an impressive looking 3D fantasy fighting game developed for Scavenger back in 1996 for #PC, #PlayStation and #Sega #Saturn. Only a rolling demo currently exists, but something playable is hoped to be found. Can it be saved?

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2024/04/into-the-shadows/

this shit is so funny

New blog post: I dug out my old copy of a favourite Japanese Mac game from 2004, and ended up discovering that it's had an official English translation hidden inside its files this entire time - that can be unlocked by just changing a single byte in the save file.

https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/04/07/unlocking-puyo-puyo-fever-for-macs-english-mode/

FTC denies rating board's suggestion for age verification system

The Federal Trade Commission has denied a petition to allow companies to use facial age estimation (FAE) technology to obtain parental consent when collecting data from children under 13, a requirement for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

#FTC #ESRB #COPPA #games #gaming #facialrecognition #biometrics #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.techspot.com/news/102493-ftc-denies-esrb-petition-suggesting-facial-age-estimation.html