Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

I'm laying in bed. Christine comes in. "Are you okay?"

Me, puzzled. "Sure, why?"

"You cried out loudly."

"Oh!", I reply. "That was because I saw this." https://mastodon.social/@shaknais/111629168891156031

M4 engine lands ScummVM master.

This engine is used by two games, Orion Burger and Riddle of Master Lu. So far, only Orion Burger is completable. It is our second attempt to bring the engine, the first one started in 2008, and in 2011, we removed the engine because it hit a dead end in its development.

The engine has all of its logic hard-coded, e.g., every aspect, every actor, and every object has relevant code in C++. This is why it took so much effort from DreamMaster. And the resulting engine is almost 75k lines of code, supporting only one game so far.

@flexion @aks It doesn't look random, but it is also hard to make sense of it. It doesn't look like a list of vertices, that's for sure.

crazy climber, screenshot, nes (1986) http://vgmuseum.com/end/nes/c/crazyclimb.htm

Happy Holidays!

so here it is

Oh and hey, the free Epic game today is Ghostwire Tokyo! That was great!

Got shat on super unfairly, it was super fun to explore ghost Japan and pewpew with magic fingers and string. The verticality of the space was super memorable too, kinda rare in open world FPSes.

Somewhere, someone finally made this and I think it's beautiful

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4687836

#hardware

So here's how I've nerdsniped myself this morning.

I've discovered when Wikipedia lists a person's birthplace (I assume this is a documented WP:BIO policy) they list the country *as it was named at the time they were born*. For example Yoko Ono is listed as having been born in the "Empire of Japan".

This policy extends to territories which were occupied. Former Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee is listed as having been born in "Japanese Korea (present-day Daegu, Republic of Korea)". (1/3)

oh dang this wordpress plugin for this even has sample code you can use to adapt it to non-wordpress sites; very handy!

https://stefanbohacek.com/project/detect-missing-adblocker-wordpress-plugin/#resources

Stéphane Picq (music from Dune, KGB, Lost Eden, MegaRace, and others) has released a new album. Money from sales will go to fix his computer, so work on remastering Dune: Spice Opera album could continue:
https://stphanepicq.bandcamp.com/album/secret-beach

here are two photoshops i made in september 2022. you can see they both have the same masking around the imac g3 shell. the PSDs for these are in a hard drive in a box that i'll only have access to in the coming weeks.

sept 2022 posts:
https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/109078509009784821
https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/109078583399910709

and a completely unrelated post i'll just leave here
https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/111597112035637656

@NanoRaptor hey i remember this! https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/109078509009784821

Back in January, we looked at The Legend of Billy Boulder. An #Amiga, #AtariST and #PC title from U.S. Gold in 1990 - featuring artwork by the late Art Huff. Reviewed by at least two publications, it completely disappeared. Can something of it be found?

https://gamesthatwerent.com/2023/01/the-legend-of-billy-boulder/

IT HAS BEEN

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DAYS SINCE A PROGRAM FAILED TO COMPILE BECAUSE PASTED SAMPLE CODE HAD BEEN PASSED THROUGH A SYSTEM THAT TRANSFORMED QUOTES TO SMART QUOTES

I see #OpenAI have made infinite loops on ChatGPT a terms of service violation.

Brings back memories of the early days of this bot ...

https://www.engadget.com/chatgpt-says-that-asking-it-to-repeat-words-forever-is-a-violation-of-its-terms-202622018.html