Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

I've had this post on the backburner for six years, through an entire format-change (it was almost a YouTube video!), before I decided it needed to be a blog post instead. Prime Target, a Macintosh FPS game that's weird precisely because it isn't weird.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/blaugh/posts/2026-07-05-Prime-Target---Senseless-Patriotism.html

hot shots golf 2, print ad, imagery, playstation (2000) https://archive.org/details/official-us-playstation-magazine-issue-31-april-2000/page/n1/mode/2up

Oasis - Ed Latimer
https://macthemes.garden/themes/7356550eda88-Oasis

someone said there are no CGA nerds, there are only CGA sickos.

I take offense to that, I can be both

Thanks @cpi whose flyer scans got me looking at this pinball machine

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nQFlzcj-k

I legit can't tell if this is rad as hell or Engineer's Disease: The Pinball or whether it's somehow both

oh neat an open source project that looks cool

check the github for claude

check the lead dev's website for dogwhistles or outright bigotry

check the forums or subreddit for acceptable behavior

The Dig

Due to illness, I was unable to present at INIT HELLO 2026. In this thread I will post my slides and what I was planning to say about them.

COPY OF A COPY: How I set out to fix a 40-year-old bug in Copy II Plus and ended up rebuilding the entire application (and fixing the bug)

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#AppleII #retrocomputing

This quote has been circulating recently, from a 1985 paper that was part of a conversation at the time about what a computer program *is*. Is it the source code? Or the final executable binary? Or the sum of its versions? Or the people who wrote it?

I've been programming for over 40 years, and I can tell you with great confidence that Naur was right. When I'm building software, first and foremost what I'm building is me.

Who’s ready for my famous posta sance

This is by far one of my favourite 386 machines, the Acer AnyWare 1100LX (1990), complete with detachable mechanical keyboard.
I've upgraded the ram from 3MB to 5MB, so I'm running memtest on it, love how clear the screen is.