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Nothing says "designed for business" like software on ROM cartridges. #retrocomputing

Oh wow! Well, I guess there's a first time for everything, even if nearly 40 years needs to go by.

"Works perfectly!" said the note I wrote to myself when I put it in on the rack four years ago. And if it's on for more than two minutes, it won't POST enough to get this far. Another project for if I eventually try to learn (and succeed at) electronics repair.

New content, new combat playstyle, new modding capabilities, new quests. After 1200 hours, time to reinstall Cyberpunk 2077 and go through it one last time (after I finish the anime).

A video game reverse engineering community has shut down because many games can now be trivially reverse engineered and decompiled with AI: "The community aspect of decompilation has been broken." www.404media.co/video-game-r...

A pretty big emulation milestone - The NEC V20/V30 CPU has now been emulated at the microcode level. #retrocomputing #emulation

As one of the showrunners of Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, my responsibility is all of the presentations, including making sure they get onto YouTube. 27 talks, over 23 hours of video. They start going live tomorrow. youtu.be/yAlKatCoV7U?...

DOS Friends! A new mTCP is available! This version is mostly a maintenance release, except for NetDrive which has some major improvements. (It is faster, especially on remote links.) Downloads and release notes are at www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html. #retrocomputing

My Namelib is finally available! It can read in ASCII text in a language, and spit out names that vaguely sound like that language, giving each faction or region in your game its own flavour. You can get the library on its Itch page: cyningstan.itch.io/namelib #msdos #gamedev

Your very first computer is back. 🖥️ We're happy to report the 800XL includes a full-sized mechanical keyboard and working cartridge slot. Plus, we added features designed for today’s televisions and gaming setups. 🤝 Learn more: atari.com/800xl

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

Well done to the person in charge of Surface for doing a presentation where Surface wasn’t spelled correctly.

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

do a demo and win a compo! 68k-inside.party/dos/

I have effectively lost all desire to code, AI-assisted or otherwise. When results no longer take effort, where is the sense of achievement? Alternate take: When meticulously hand-crafted assembly is lazily dismissed as AI-generated, where is the motivation to work on projects any more?

Watching how Megademica 4K builds its uv tables is almost as fascinating as watching the intro play. What an insane thing to build and script in 4K. www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... Self-mod code, stack for fast table traversal and other Z80 tricks I used myself in the 80s, but the pattern generator...

A new tactical combat game for #msdos has been released! #StarCadre Team Command puts you in charge of a squad of elite operatives in the far future, conducting special missions on behalf of an interstellar civilisation. Get it from cyningstan.itch.io/star-cadre-t... #ibmpc #cga

A fast follow but a project ive had in the works for a while now: youtu.be/ZxjuEHTKXMw?...

What depths of development madness have we sunk to? Discover why @oldskool.org called this art style "ANSI from Hell" ... wesleygames.com/tools/macroc...

The DOS version of my Indy 500 (1989) launcher is now available. Basically like the Amiga version, this has some additional telemetry, selects the combined telemetry window by default and has a steering linearity slider #simracing #retrogaming #indy500 #indycar racesimcentral.net/indy-500-dos... #ad

Check out SimFanatic's look at my Sim Gaming Expo booth right here: youtu.be/cdAkcOyhFfw?... #simracing #retrogaming

Reflexes

MartyPC.net, the web based cycle accurate IBM PC emulator has gotten a massive upgrade including tape loading support! This is just so cool to all be running inside your browser. Highly recommend you check it out.

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That can't be good.

Sega Dreamcast Info is a preservation site dedicated to Dreamcast history, with occasional coverage of other consoles. Discover 200+ archived prototypes, explore Katana Dev Kit files, read exclusive Making-Ofs, and play Unreleased games: www.sega-dreamcast-info.com/en

Well, I know what animated movie from 1986 I'll be watching tonight. Trivia: The 4:3 version of Transformers is the intended experience; that's how it was presented in its theatrical run. One 4k UHD version crops in to fit 16:9, which also isn't much of a picture upgrade at that zoom level.

With a PS/2, late 1980s #retrocomputing #rip

This is a perfectly valid and rational response, but I can't directly thank @karaboo.bsky.social because they limited who could reply. Thank you. Reaching out has always been my first action when hopelessly stuck. But on some projects, a point is reached where they are just as hopelessly stuck.

What I've learned in since posting an AI disclosure: - I should keep my opinions to myself - I am willfully destroying the earth - I should cease all project development - I am a clown - I am, somehow, against human and environmental rights I thought I was being ethical and responsible; guess not.