Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Some landscape renders made with Bryce 3D come by on Mastodon this week and it reminded me of the first landscape renderer I used: VistaPro.

It was was one of many DOS programs on the "Virtual Reality Madness" compilation disc from 1993. VistaPro also came out on Amiga and Mac OS, and later Windows.

VistaPro (v1.01) didn't give you much control but the results looked stunning then, if you allowed your computer to render the highest quality image for a few hours that is.

thank you delta emulator 🙏🙏🙏

Phantasy Star 3 opening track, arranged on Roland MT-32 (1987 LA synth) by me. Real hardware recording.
I sometimes listen to stuff like this that I've arranged to go to sleep to. Did this by ear, btw.
#phantasystar #phantasystar3 #mt32 #rolandmt32 #midi #music #arrangement

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/