@danmons.bsky.social
🇦🇺 🏳️🌈 Professional Linux/FOSS/HPC/VFX specialist and digital preservationist. CRT, game history and colour science enthusiast. 18 year Leukaemia fighter and survivor.
were so fucking back guys
14.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 3865 🔁 1100 💬 26 📌 10Ever wonder why a Supergun has such a stupid (but cool) name?
It was just a name used by Taiwanese firm Gamesgroup Corp, similar to later products like Super Wildcard & SuperUFO game copiers
Raven Games (London) got their own version made to UK spec & called it Supergun Deluxe. It stuck
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Yeah it’s funny to see the Avengers eat or whatever but they could NEVER go this hard real talk youtu.be/uxHWm_bGScY?...
30.10.2025 04:10 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Very exciting. The retro stuff is absolutely my favourite part of DF. Very happy to hear this becoming a regular thing, and looking forward to the upcoming guests too.
28.10.2025 22:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a To Do list in the style of Untitled Goose Game. The items listed are: send Raiden to fight Terry (crossed out) send Billy Kane to fight Terry (crossed out) "Holy cow! You disturbed my plan again!" (crossed out) REPPUKEN! REPPUKEN! get kicked out of window "Waaaaahhh!" (demonstrate sprite scaling)
Untitled Geese Game
27.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 257 🔁 111 💬 7 📌 0
tubi is kind of the perfect streaming service
27.10.2025 01:58 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Any retro-gamer who used emulators in the 90's NEEDS to see this awesome interview @zophar.bsky.social just posted with the creator of ZSNES, zsKnight! I really enjoyed this one: www.retrorgb.com/zophar-inter...
24.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 117 🔁 38 💬 3 📌 3From prototype changes by RQ87 to some lesser known(?) things in the game you might not know about from me
Different title screen items are shown on each day of the week
Sun - Sakura petals
Mon - Maple leaves
Tue - Hanafuda cards
Wed - Confetti
Thu - Snow
Fri - Sakurasou flowers
Sat - Feathers
DOS archaeology ain't much, but it's honest work.
26.10.2025 02:52 — 👍 328 🔁 106 💬 6 📌 3To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the SEGA Mark III console in Japan, Astro Climber is now available for free on Itch ⬇️ #homebrew #mastersystem
20.10.2025 10:39 — 👍 257 🔁 129 💬 5 📌 5What desktop environment are you using?
19.10.2025 22:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#atari8bit #apple2 #coco #c64 #plus4 #commodore #trs80coco #msdos #pcjr
All playing the same networked game. Together.
More to come.
That's FujiNet.
youtu.be/F4l51soCiiA
(website: fujinet dot online)
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
Super sad to hear that #80s icon and artist Drew Struzan has passed away at the age of 78. Super talented. He was the illustrator of our childhood dreams! RIP Drew!
15.10.2025 02:08 — 👍 189 🔁 41 💬 4 📌 1KDE/Plasma can use the "kscreen-doctor" tool to do the same. Complete command line controls over brightness, colour, gamma, SDR and HDR settings.
14.10.2025 02:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's a pretty sad state of affairs when we have plenty of viable, royalty-free HDR image formats that would work for this. There's no excuse for it in 2025.
14.10.2025 02:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Unfortunately Sony do an awful job of exporting HDR captures. PNG just crushes everything, and JPG weirdly looks different (seems to do some sort of tone mapping), although it's still bad (and their compression is horrendous).
14.10.2025 02:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The FujiNet 5 Card Stud networked game continues to be ported to every available #FujiNet target. This one being the #Commodore TED machines (#Plus4 and #C16). Still to be done, double buffering to remove the flicker.
youtu.be/Z6XujyeTUF0
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
I got cited by Frank. Swoon! 💛
12.10.2025 13:39 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Aspect ratio of the gods.
07.10.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Signalis is a properly awesome game. But my ADHD makes some of these puzzles pure tedium. This particular letter/number switch up was fine. But the water level puzzle - nope.
I am forever cursed to love survival horror, but hate puzzles.
05.10.2025 07:29 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yay! Let's start a new #MODtober fest thread and share your love for tracked music, one track a day!
Old and new stuff, and yes, not just .MOD: SID, SND, XM, and so on as long as it's tracked music
I've spent 25 years babysitting humans who are awful at Excel. Quite honestly, this changes little for me, other than the emotional state of the entity I'm babysitting.
01.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As a tall, broad shouldered fellow, I never enjoyed the cramped ergonomics of the compact computer nook. I was very happy to leave this behind for a spacious desk.
01.10.2025 19:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0the youtube vs yt-dlp arms race is hilarious, because of how lopsided it is.
on the one hand, you've got a company with the GDP of Denmark who has about a manhattan-project's worth of developers they can assign to this.
but on the other end, you've got every bored or annoyed javascript hacker.
Anniversary: Mean Machines, The UK's Greatest Console Magazine, Turns 35 Today. (Repost)
30.09.2025 20:35 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
35 years ago, I was playing US Gold's top class SMS port of Gauntlet. More interestingly, YOB's Gossip page had some VERY interesting info. Considering it was written in Sept 1990, there are some really juicy nuggets about forthcoming systems years ahead of their release!
29.09.2025 10:29 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
The state of HDR in the game industry right now is catastrophic.
Silent Hill F, AAA game, shipped w/out color grading in HDR, on top of the raised blacks that come with all UE HDR games
It doesn't look as it's supposed to in HDR, atmospehre is completely gone, devs either didn't know or care for it
