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This is the sort of thing more people should be writing re emulation. Point people at legit legal games. Show use cases beyond piracy. Bravo. #retrogaming

From: @darylbaxter
mastodon.social/@darylbaxter/1

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The time has arrived: Escape From Evil Island is now available as pay-what-you-want (for Windows, MacOS, or Linux) on itch.io!

speveril.itch.io/evil-island

If you're feeling a hankering for some old-school DOS-style platforming action, Evil Island should fit the bill nicely. I hope you enjoy!

#godotengine #indiedev #gamedev

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that feeling when I'm trying to type a password or something sensitive, and notice halfway through that text is not appearing in the field, and the brief horror that emerges when I try to figure out what in hell I was typing into instead of the password field

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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.

there's a third thing coming in the mail today, an Apple 5x IDE DVD-ROM drive, which will hopefully be in enough working order to correctly respect boot preferences in my G3 blue-and-white and get OS X 10.2 installed on it. we shall, of course, see whether that brings the score up to 2 for 3, or whether i'll have yet another useless IDE optical drive in the collection

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presently, 1 for 2, for hardware resuscitation this week.

- got my new motherboard for my gaming rig, which had decided to quit POSTing after I tried to FIX THE CLOCK IN BIOS. That machine is now running again, perfectly.
- also got a disk cleaning kit for my Sony Mavica FD-73. unfortunately this model does not like to use cleaning disks, it spins for only a split second before spitting out a drive error. so getting it to read disks again is going to mean taking it apart. sighhhhh

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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

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In Super Mario 64, Bob-ombs will spontaneously explode if they approach signs. However, this only applies to signs with text on them; they are completely fine with arrow signs. This can be humorously interpreted as though Bob-ombs really hate reading.

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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:

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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 github.com/dnobori/DN-Win32Dis

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

I don't make the rules.

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