David Walters

Links Awakening handles this in a fun way. You talk to some kids playing in town and they say something like "I heard you press [B] to block, dunno what that means though, I'm just a kid"

Youtube putting 3 times playback speed behind a paywall

This is probably well known, but I just discovered 3x speed YT is paywalled. This is so petty it's making me chuckle. (Jokes on them 2x speed is already way faster than my rusty old brain can handle.)

Well FWIW I downgraded back to VS2019 immediately that CoPilot appeared in 2022. I'm doing my part lol. I can't imagine that's a permanent solution but SFSG. Sad to hear of other IDEs succumbing to this madness :(

I've been using Visual Assist for decades now. It doesn’t need an LLM and its autocomplete dramatically speeds up my typing in Visual Studio. Why can't people just make/use tools like that 😭

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the SEGA Mark III console in Japan, Astro Climber will be released and available for free on 20th October. #homebrew #mastersystem

I'm thinking of stuff like Black & White, also N64 games that would auto hide the HUD after showing you a changed value. I guess people(devs) wanted extra immersion in their fancy accelerated graphics

"Lapse"
for(float i,z,d,h;i++<5e1;o+=vec4(3,z,i,1)/d)
{vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a;a.y++;p.z+=7.;a=mix(dot(a,p)*a,p,sin(h=length(p)-t))+cos(h)*cross(a,p);
for(d=0.;d++<9.;a+=sin(round(a*d)-t).zxy/d);z+=d=.1*length(a.xz);}
o=tanh(o/1e4);

people really hated huds back then!

God's gonna sit this one out.

A screenshot of a custom map for Doom II (1994) with two imps approaching the player with obvious aggression that is surely unwarranted.

On Sundays we muck about and make Doom levels.

Thanks, Enjoy!

Ending soon !

South City (Reciproheat 5000/Bravo Air Race/Air Race, PS1, Xing Entertainment, 1997)

Up top, the slogan: "If flying your IBM® PC got any more realistic, you'd need a license." Upper half, dense ad copy with headings like "The plane inside your PC," "The world beneath your fingers," "The learning curve," "The Ace in your soul," and "Throttle on." At the end of the ad copy, the MICROSOFT "pixel earth" logo, with the slogan: "Better Tools For Microcomputers." Below, the viewer is put behind a tilted art-deco airplane control panel, looking towards a vaporwave horizon; the plane is lining up for Runway 18. The registration on the dash, N4081L, belonged to a real Piper PA-31 Navajo in the 80s, and the instrument panel is (with some artistic license) what it would look like if you were sitting in the copilot's seat.

If flying your IBM® PC got any more realistic, you'd need a license. (Source.)

😬👍 that's what they're preparing for the new website, right?

Check out this amazing remastered (at 4k!) version of "The Making of Myst" mini-doc! Originally included on the Myst CD-ROM in 1993, this version has been carefully recreated by Ted Sase using footage preserved by the VGHF!
https://youtu.be/xBtLZDPnYlM

no no no no no no no no NO NO

also they ported the suite to Linux 😬🤞

Kirks chair buttons marked alert, alert and jettison pod

Watching a Star Trek where a disgruntled officer tries to frame Kirk with an AI generated video. But doing so used so much of the Enterprise computer power it had to delete half of Spock's chess program. Then Kirk finds the guy and kicks his ass. Great episode.

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps. 1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says “Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown!” 2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…yes, sir!” 3rd panel: “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…” 4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, “How I hate him!”

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

AVIATION/UNVF.GIF

Atari ST in 3D To mark its 40th anniversary, check out this fantastic interactive Atari ST in 3D!

An interactive 3D #AtariST computer mesmotronic.github.io/atari-st/ #atari

I like that the space bar turned into a C logo. Poetic.

0.09% of Windows users, apparently saying "I'd rather use Windows Server 22 rather than Windows 11" 🤣

No, I'll only be supporting cyan/magenta and cyan/red palettes.

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#dungeoncrawler #gamedev #ttrpg #mapping

Yessss gorgeous EGA! 🤩

a window within a window: 3d view of a simplified 3d house, garage, green backyard, surrounding fence, outside backyard. user interface takes up the rest of the screen, contained in menus up the top of the screen and smaller windows with icons and a further out view of the house and yard.

garden designer 2, magazine screenshot, pc (1995) archive.org/details/cd-r...

Thanks! I use a custom binary model format. It's nothing special really, but it supports sub-meshes of points, lines, triangles, quads, splines and hard or soft skinning, all the stuff the renderer can support.