Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
- the stuff i do
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He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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I'm gonna replace my resume with a little card that says:
Foone Turing
Computer Toucher
I can touch computers for you in whatever way you want. I've been doing this a long while, I know how it works. There's no need to get more specific
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today's digital preservation project:
some might recognize the name Advanced Gravis from its incredible line of UltraSound sound cards, or maybe its classic joysticks and gamepads.
fewer know that this was a canadian company from burnaby, bc. its logo changed a lot over the years until the company's demise. unfortunately, wiki/logopedia/etc all seem to believe that its ugliest logo was its only logo.
so today i replicated the only Advanced Gravis logo that ever mattered: the one that graced my early-90s analog joystick and gamepad.
no one has ever properly researched the typeface for Advanced Gravis' logo. after some font ID magic, it turns out to be URW Type Foundry's Antique Olive Standard Compact Italic.
the A is swapped for an inverted V, which gives the logo that perfect sense of proportion and hi-tech slickness
designed in Affinity Designer. enjoy.
real talk, every time i have a good flan pudding, it just makes me want a really good creme brulee
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Whip McButtCheese
I feel like posting something else on here and can't remember what I have and have not posted before.
So here is a GIF loop of Tuvok spinning.
Let it be known for the record, that for every movie that Everybody Has Seen, there is roughly a 95% chance that I have not actually seen it at all and only know what people are talking about through cultural osmosis.
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TIL there was Reflection X for Windows 3.1. This means there were at least 3 X servers for Windows 3.x - XAppeal, Reflection and Xonnet. This isn't NT, because there wasn't Windows NT in Japanese in 1993.
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Today was a good day, so I hacked on VisiOn, the first GUI OS for IBM PC that inspired Bill Gates to deliver Windows ASAP. There never were any third-party apps for VisiOn, so I kind of want to make one.
I was thinking about this project for quite some time, but only could devote it a few hours today. It is still very raw, there's no real development happening, just hacking/reverse engineering.
This project is kind of a fun litmus test for permacomputing fantasies: we have a fairly well documented hardware platform, a set of incredible programming tools, but no documentation on a complex bit of software that we really, really want to run. What would it take us to figure it out, ideally without spending multiple years on disassembling 200+ KB of x86 binaries.
I finally actually watched the original RoboCop last night, a movie almost exactly as old as I am. Its status as a classic was never in question. I thought the Jesus-allegory reading was a little strange, but then I noticed nearly every time Robo busts through a door, he's got the God rays shining on him through it.
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The SQ Quadraphonic version of Tubular Bells came a with sticker on the front cover that said 'For people with four ears'. The rear cover said 'Store in four dry places'.
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All that playing of Chibi-Robo and its sequels sparked me to write a few thousand words to my Blaugh about chore games, whimsy, and when appealing to the masses may be the most boring thing you can do.
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I hadn't seen anyone post this yet so here is a late cursed #mechanicon find.
this was my favorite design, referencing the most ~~cursed~~ efficient way to pack 17 squares.
All that playing of Chibi-Robo and its sequels sparked me to write a few thousand words to my Blaugh about chore games, whimsy, and when appealing to the masses may be the most boring thing you can do.
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redraw of my favorite louis wain illustration, feat. my catsona
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How do I search my own posts on here for a specific keyword? on bsky i can put in something like `from:me fox` and it'll search the word "fox" in all posts i've personally written. i don't know how to do that on glitchsoc
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It seems U-95 for Windows 3.1 is virtually unknown to the English-speaking internets?
- the stuff i do
- https://netizen.club/~wildweasel
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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Joined Oct 2017
