Stuart McVicar

Works on my machine.

Earth: Harmless.

My intro to the Eagles and Journey of the Sourcerer...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBrdkw6RACU&list=PLO-wxIy9sHyZsh6B56YoiHYbf9IAQGo3c
Good times. :)

Oh-my-god that's awesome!!!

The Gentrification of Video Game History We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

Since today's discourse is on how "not everyone grew up with Nintendo", I'll reshare this: medium.com/@felipepepe/...

And reinforce that this is systemic - a consequence of US hegemony. It's NOT a personal attack on American journos, youtubers & gamers, but rather a reminder of our differences.

2000s?!?! HA! There is no way that photo's from 15+ years ago. You'd need a time machine or the fountain of youth for that to be from the 00's! That said, such an indie band album cover in the making!

Do you like arcade and home computer game disassemblies? This site might be to your tastes.

mrcook.uk/arcade-game-...

#RetroDev

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GitHub - FFmpeg/asm-lessons: FFMPEG Assembly Language Lessons FFMPEG Assembly Language Lessons. Contribute to FFmpeg/asm-lessons development by creating an account on GitHub.

TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:

Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!

github.com/FFmpeg/asm-l...

Jack Irish: Series 1 Episode 1 Jack Irish finds himself staring down the barrel of a brand new case, but something goes awry and Jack ends up framed for murder. While it seems it is curtains for Jack, an alibi turns up out of the b...

Can fully recommend Jack Irish with Guy Pearce if you're looking for something else. iview.abc.net.au/show/jack-ir...

HAHAHA! Glad I could help...? :)

YouTube video by GCAP Optimising Games for a Complex World

Interesting presentation from Matt Delbosc at GCAP where he talks about using telemetry for remote performance monitoring and the data science behind understanding what they are seeing better.

They use influxdb for storage and Grafana for presentation of data.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0xa...

I appreciate that it would be a sacrifice. But it would be worth it. 😂🍻🍻🍻

They might make an exception for a regular local. 😁

Welcome aboard. Your early work and dev diaries inspired me to become a games developer. Thanks for all the great games you've made and knowledge you've shared. I certainly owe you a couple of pints for the impact you've had on me.

Yes, yes, yes!

Great series! Thanks for recording this piece of gaming history. Ordered!

Most definitely, yes!

Ship it! ;)

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

I thought you might find this article from The Atlantic interesting: "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days" - www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv.... It explores how authoritarianism gains traction through legal and institutional loopholes and complements Mayer's themes nicely.

All home servers named after movie computers - WOPR, HAL, Deepthought, MCP, Edgar.

Yes!!

Amiga hardware reference manual front cover photo on wooden slat table.

That's awesome! This is the series I had. I use to love pouring over these. Cost a small fortune when you're at high-school too. Tried showing friends at school, but they just asked if I could copy un-cracked games with it.
I had the same obsession with the PS2's EE, GS and VU manuals later too. :)

Was huge in Europe, but not the US. 🤷‍♂️ I'll have to checkout the @jesperjuul.bsky.social book myself. It sounds interesting. </rant>

<rant>I think the whole of computer history is "tainted" this way TBH. The Amiga for example always seems to be forgotten despite having a full pre-emptive multitasking, window GUI OS, a full colour display with up to 4096 colours in 1985 and costing 70% of an Apple Mac and offering way more.

Same experience for me. Growing up in Australia, I saw very few titles from the US for the platforms I had, the c64 and Amiga. Most were from Europe which is also where all the reading material(mags) came from, Zzap64, Commodore User, C&VG, CCI.

If you find this interesting, check out as well The Llamasoft Source Code Project by @mwenge.bsky.social: github.com/mwenge/llama...

#retrogamedev

Also, if you do decide to take on this 'civil rights issue,' I fully expect to see you delivering powerful speeches while clutching a banned book in one hand and a controller in the other. Iconic.

National Phenomenon Chantal has a nice ring to it, though! 👑 The parenting groups clearly weren't ready for your fiery takes. But honestly, fighting for kids' right to read spicy books and creating a game? You’re basically the superhero we didn’t know we needed.