Graham White

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But whenever I complained, I was reminded of the hell of 1960s punch cards.

Could scare him even further with 80s IT trauma.. using single-sided 400k disks to backup a 100mb harddrive with a single floppy drive that alternately needs 1) the system disk, 2) the application disk, 3) and the destination data disk. The process took 5 hours of steady disk swapping.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show released on 4k blu-ray today. On a 50" screen, sitting close, it's almost like being back in the theater again (though we had to supply the audience lines).

i see you shiver, with antici

My Freshman college roommate and I both got the exact same Macintosh for our high school graduation. And we'd both bought Prince of Persia. We probably played that thing waaaaaay too much. Prince of Persia 2 was even more fun. Mac glory days.

Applesoft BASIC, because, why not?

even though I don't speak it, I've long felt Japanese is a more intelligent language. For example, there are no spelling bees in Japan. Since every symbol is a syllable, everything is spelled exactly as it sounds. I've never understood why only the far east has languages that use this style.

gotta have that 2000 FPS.

Assembled from dozens of screenshots in Photoshop, screenshots of Ultima V being emulated on an Apple 2 emulator (apple2win). In the center is Lord Blackthorn, surrounded by three Shadowlords. Above that room is the official shot of the party, with Lord British Himself reflected in the mirror.

While this dungeon doesn't technically exist in Ultima V (1988), it is in essence a collage of most of the dungeon rooms in the game, with a little combat flavoring added.
#4kWallpaper #apple2 #retrogaming

seriously tho, it's a fun game to play. Boring AF to watch, and like graveyards it belongs to a time when people didn't need to think about conserving land resources, but IMO it's fun to play. Miniature golf, too.

Yeah, I thought Middle Earth.

"Bandobras 'Bullroarer' Took, a large hobbit, charged into the goblin ranks, struck their king, Golfimbul, with a club, and knocked his head off. The head flew through the air and landed in a rabbit hole, which the hobbits then considered to be the first game of golf."

Space Quest (1986) 4k wallpaper composite image here of the first location you start out at. It's very graphic gory.
#apple2 #retrogaming

Me school you? Surprising! You could be a university professor in Photoshop.

The shadows _do_ have to be cut back a bit when you do that to make it look right; they overlap unconvincingly. So it's not a good technique for pure roll20'ers.

do not ask me to elaborate, but Tom Lehrer is music for people whose parents went to college

It was fun, funny, catchy, and educational. Not much in the world fits all that.

Have had a lot of fun with this set. You can get really tall cliffs by creating a new layer below the main, and shrinking the cliff elements. Then create another layer below _that_ that shrinks the elements even more. Absolutely realistic looking results.

In our time measurement system, it counts zero. 7 am (and zero milliseconds) is definitely 7 am, not the previous hour. So the same would be true for the Tomorrow Line of midnight, I think.

(probably goes without saying, but BritBox streams every British show I've ever heard of)

That is amazing. What a scam.

We use the BritBox app to stream shows. Wonderful app/website, no commercials, reasonable rates, A+ customer service.

Not to mention cars. I adore the cars from that era.

I wish there was a planet we could send all the MAGAts to. Videos like this show how Trump & the MAGAts are already in their own world. Deflect reality!

The one on the right is how police hold it. If the light is in the criminal's eyes, they might simply shoot at the light. So police hold the light up and away from their bodies.

Outside of that very understandable reason, I'd imagine nearly everybody holds it like the one on the left.

In Little Computer People, you take care of an LCP and his dog (the dog is at the bottom left of the screen). You can watch him do his thing, or you can ask him (nicely) to do specific activities. Also, if you don't deliver food to him, his skin turns green and he gets sick. If you leave him like that for a few days, he dies. It's so great.

This is The Sims Zero. Also known as Little Computer People (1985) for the Apple ][ personal computer. The image has been enhanced with lighting/shading in Photoshop, but otherwise this is the game. One screen for the whole house.
#4kWallpaper #retrogaming #TheSims

Agreed. Tho if it couldn't be Nimoy, I'm glad it was Sid. I read on IGN years ago that it was the last Civilization game that Sid Meyer was directly involved with designing, so it fits.

Have played every Civ _extensively_ but 7 and 2. While I prefer the strategic situations of Civ5, I'd debate anyone who claims Civ4 didn't have the most polish of the series. It is a such a masterpiece of game design refinement that it isn't even surprising that Leonard Nimoy is the narrator.

Teens with magic powers... such a thing couldn't possibly get old... 🙄

If I could be in the shower or on the toilet wherever I go I would be so happy. I do my best thinking there.

All seven playable characters in the game are seen here. If you haven't played the game, you might not know this, but if you haven't played the game, why are you reading this?

Dozens of 4k wallpapers for the remastered version of Final Fantasy X (2001) are available for free download here: pacati.net/geek/graphic...

It wasn't my first Final Fantasy by far, but it's always been my favorite. I'm told this is because I'm a simp.

A completely sensical representation of a completely non-sensical concept: that the universe is full of holes that move around at different times, and can transport you to other holes in history.

Time Bandits' map of all the holes in the universe. (pity Bluesky limits the pics to 1000x1000 pixels.. this image is actually just under 9k pixels wide)