Peter Mackay

If the Space Jockey is stuck in the chair, the facehugger wouldn’t have to hold on so tight. Maybe just grabbing the face is good enough. Also it’s just a movie.

Farcade Friday! Longplay Auditions - Part 3. Come along and suggest a game with substance. This is the final stream before I pick a couple to play through in depth.

8pm UK today twitch.tv/charliefar

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

Save 95% on The Seventia Collection on Steam

Just noticed that the Seventia Collection - a duo of top notch shmups - is down to £1.50/$2 again.

If you have enjoyed a side or vertically scrolling shooter ever before, this is a no-brainer. Pocket change goodness.

We are looking for a Godot consultant to help us investigate and fix an issue with long load times on iOS. It seems like Godot 4.5's shader baker might not be working on iOS only.
If you're interested, please email hello@draknek.org with your experience and rates.
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I am honored to support the UK Together for Palestine concert

Even if they can’t find an artist, I’d rather see the crudest of MS Paint efforts than GenAI.

AI title screens and so on seem common in Amiga / other retro homebrew games.

Demoscene might be safe for a while, as the sceners value “doing the hard yards”, as it were, and crediting people where it’s due, and consequently plagiarism is quite rightly intensely discouraged.

True. Except the glasses have the opposite effect.

If you’re anything like me, being told that something is impossible or is a stupid idea only increases my motivation. (Folks said PS Vita emulation was not going to work, so I started Vita3K.)

Yet the idea has taken hold

Also the form factor influenced button placement and use. Pad type controllers and arcade sticks were very unusual for computers, where most people had flight type joysticks. If you had multiple buttons, they might be arranged strangely.

😁 yes quite possibly, regarding the controller. I use a Mega Drive pad currently but of course only one button works. I suppose decent original CD32 pads are somewhat scarce but there will be good alternatives.

Ask @h0ffman.bsky.social about Neo Geo?

Would be technically difficult with tons of Amiga-specific special cases IMO. Lots of bobs, including large ones. Also very tricky with a one button joystick.

I’d love to know how the author made it so accurate. The original was closed source C++ (I did some porting from the original source years ago before Nicalis entered the picture)

I had Hong Kong Phooey on C64, it was… fine? Or at least I didn’t know better

Everybody’s Golf

@retroreversing.bsky.social Hi, some of the pages on the site appear to display source code, such as www.retroreversing.com/games/

We're at the point where it is a news story that a company which sells articles of clothing is not refusing to cater to certain categories of people who need those articles of clothing. The transphobic moral panic not just evil, it is objectively insane.

All the while your son is probably asking “is it working yet? What’s wrong?” and you can’t effectively explain it because there are too many layers of over-complicated nonsense

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gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor.

stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.

they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.

fuck them, pay labor.

Full screen paywall

I run AmigaVision on my MiSTer. Should work fine in FS-UAE

Reminder: the only number that matters to them is users. Blueberry has seventeen Bs if that makes the metrics go up

I bought it, thank you!

AI companies would come in their baggy clown pants if they thought they could sell AI tools to governments, for them to provide it as a tax-funded state benefit.

Oh my god the PayPal call was SO FUNNY. The guy on the phone was like "We don't allow processing payments for explicit material."

So I hit him with "So if I were to go and purchase a copy of Game of Thrones online, my payment would be blocked?"

I think it clicked for him then.

Lidl Doritos joined together like a triangle strip

I hadn’t considered until now that I might be a foodie, but I am an appreciator of beautiful foods. If that means I’m a foodie then so be it.

Behold, the GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP of supermarket brand Doritos: