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Black and white illustration a woman who seems to be surrounded by flames he's holding up a rocket ship which looks like a toy in her hand or maybe she's a gigantic woman standing on the side of the rocket ship just outside a hatch is a tiny little astronaut

Virgil Finlay

A delisting notice in Steam for the original version of System Shock 2. It reads: System Shock 2 (1999) will be delisted from PC platforms on October 10, 2025. Existing owners of System Shock 2 (1999) will still be able to re-download and play it from their library, but new users will no longer be able to purchase System Shock 2 (1999) as a standalone product. At the time of delisting, System Shock 2 (1999) will be made available with the purchase of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster. Both new and existing owners of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster will be able to access System Shock 2 (1999) from their library at no additional cost. If you have any questions, please reach out to our support team (support@atari.com).

This is why I'm not generally in favour of remasters as they tend to lead to the erasure of originals, or at best, they are relegated to becoming DLC for newer versions.

This is not preservation, just a cynical cash grab, ironically by a company that is not even the original it claims to be.

By the way, my first publication was a book on 4D, spacetime, and higher mind...about 50 years ago. Still in print! And you can read it for free as a web page. www.rudyrucker.com/geometryrela...

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

Neat article on code golfing. Many techniques that I use:
blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-go...

reposting this because the replies contain such a wealth of amazing fonts! i'm still trying them all out, myself.

Florida roof rat (1/2)

A truly magical place. What a loss.

YouTube video by reassembler Coding OUTRUN for the AMIGA! A Technicolour Trip [Chapter 2]

Chapter 2 of reassembler's experience porting Sega's Out Run to the Amiga is up. Good stuff!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-QA...

🚀🚀LITTLE ROCKET LAB IS OUT NOW!!! 🚀🚀

4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass

store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...

RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3

Recently had the opportunity to build 3 demos to demonstrate the power of game feel!

Oh, interesting. I knew there were instruction differences, but I guess I forgot about the major hardware issues. I see what's going on now. BUS ENABLE has to be held high (that pin floats), and VECTOR PULL has to be isolated from ground.

In terms of what's actually happening here, there's no writeup in English, but it seems closely related to this TAS: tasvideos.org/7170S

Basically, FF2 RNG is seeded from uninitialized ram, and it *seems* Dr Mario is used just because the value it leaves there manips a rare battle and drop.

What in the world is going on here?!

Tonight will be the biggest and brightest moon of the year. We'll see the Harvest Supermoon peak at 11:47 PM eastern time tonight. Here's a recreation in Bryce 3D.

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

SOUP IN 4K

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

Listen, @burgerbecky.bsky.social is one of the greats. If you can spare anything at all, and you have love for this medium, I can guarantee she's in some way part of the games you love. Please help our industry help her out.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

A demon in the guise of "Blue Prince" force-feeds Homer Simpson and says, "So, you like puzzles, eh? Have all the puzzles in the world!"

a mockup illustration made to look like a screen from pitfall! with the protagonist using a rope to swing over a pool full of alligators. a snake is on the left as is a ladder leading down into a cavern. a scorpion is down in the cavern. on the right is a bar of gold(?). background is green and trees. score and time are shown in the upper left hand corner. upper right hand corner had some diagonal white text that says: pitfall! game of the month activion's jungle adventure game combines superb color graphics and excellent game play.

pitfall!, game of the month, electronic fun with computers & games, magazine (1983) archive.org/details/elec...

Rebecca Heineman needs our help. She’s currently fighting cancer, and I can only imagine how hard that must be. Please consider supporting her.

Rebecca worked on many beloved SNES classics at Interplay -- including Another World, The Lost Vikings, Battle Chess and many more.

"One Battle After Another" turned out to be pretty spectacular. I don't know why I ever doubted it. I hate the feeling that it couldn't be made today, that things have turned that quickly.

How To Make Show Cards : Charles Arthur Miller : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive HOW TO MAKE SHOW CARDS A practical treatise on the fundamental principles of artistic lettering with pen and brush for the use of retail merchants and their...

A 1911 guide to brush lettering for in-store advertisement. Designers, design nerds, history geeks, collectors of historical ephemera and anyone else... this is a treasure trove of research!

archive.org/details/how-...

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#screenshotsaturday #GoblinGirlGame #indiedev #gamemaker #pixelart #ドット絵

That looks incredible. I gotta see those dev blogs.

Save 35% on 4D Golf on Steam Explore higher dimensions... with golf! Conquer mind-bending challenges, design your own 4D courses, and unlock new worlds and accessories as you golf your way through the 4th dimension and beyond!

Random 'final day of the Steam sale' recommendation - if you enjoy feeling like someone's been working your brain with a meat tenderizer, 4D Golf is mini-golf but existentially terrifying.

YouTube video by The Coding Train Coming soon!

Making some videos again. youtu.be/qhs-xppFRgE

new blog post! why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? i put llama-3.3-70b through its paces with the logit lens to find out, and explain what the logit lens (everyone's favorite underrated interpretability tool) is in the process.

link in reply!

If you do only one nice thing today, please let it be helping Rebecca meet her cancer treatment fund goal

YouTube video by Andrew Davie Atari 2600 - Lemmings (WIP) - optimising sprite draw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V5E...

Optimizing a 6502 image decoder – part II: assembly Second part of the article about image decoder optimization, this time focusing on 6502 assembly tricks.

Optimizing a 6502 image decoder – part II: assembly | Discussion