Anatoly Shashkin💾

Buccaneers and buried gold. Whipstaff doth a treasure hold.

I only recently learned that Spear if Destiny has a boss key - F1. And that carried over to later versions of Wolf 3D as well, despite everywhere in it F1 still listed as help.

I was gonna say "too new!," but it's a damn good shutdown sound. 🎵

Good night.

My response to almost every other news story is "what could possibly go wrong?" like I'm goddamn Bubsy.

"Graphic media" 🤷

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👆 This is what a lot of the "discourse" sounds like to me these days.

What do Kandarian demons mean when they say "join us"? We don't actually know. Maybe they just want to hang out, have a few cold ones, watch a movie and whatnot. We just don't know.

a photo of text from a MS-DOS game reading Equation Setting - Mind Blowing

SET EQUATION TO MIND BLOWING

I think I'm yet to a raytraced mirror in a commercial game, and not a tech demo.

In the old days? That's mostly how reflections still work.

The scariest dude in One Battle After Another was the army guy, Sean Penn's 2nd in command. Because he was one of the characters that wasn't a caricature, and his interrogations felt *real*. Well, turns out he's just a real military guy they hired.

Good night.

One "downgrade" in the remaster of System Shock 2 is the textures in the Body of the Many. They are now painted instead of being digitized from someone's colonoscopy footage.

ScummVM announced testing of support of "Tex Murphy 2: Martian Memorandum"
scummvm.org/news/20251005/

It's Schrodinger's Duke. He exists only when you look at him.

Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the engine trickiest of them all?
#DOSGaming

Btw, it's another contender for an early WASD-like FPS controls, as they are very Ultima Underworld inspired:
It's SZXC. S and X and for walking forwards and backwards, Z and C properly strafe, and A and D are used for turning. W is for running. The real question is would this be considered an FPS.

You can watch @macaw45.bsky.social play through the entirety of the 3 (!) levels the dreadful "Bram Stoker's Dracula" for DOS (1993) offers over the course of 7 hours:

Nope, no battery. It's a wired mouse.

Well, now that it figured out I'm onto it, it stopped. 👀

You can hear this, right?

Or, I'm having auditory hallucinations and have finally lost my mind. One or the other.

Well, this is a new one. My mouse is... ticking. 🤔🤷‍♂️

I booted up windows 98 to defrag my BADAPPLE drive

Yep. And then it was impossible to run in high resolution software mode on *anything*.

"Carmageddon" still feels very therapeutic to play.

Somehow missed a new release of Dethrace, a reverse-engineered port of Carmageddon, two weeks ago.
github.com/dethrace-lab...
Right now it doesn't offer any enhancements beyond unlocked framerate, but the game seems to run perfectly fine in software rendered 640x480.