hlabrande

vga256, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to retrocomputing

picked up some zip disks at a thrift store and this one looks promising. 😋

this would have been used with e-mu's sampler - an ESI-4000 "Turbo Zip" variant, which had an integrated zip drive.

#synth #retroComputing

hlabrande, 2 months ago to random

On #COVID #masks #masking, I frequently read (and empathize with) people around here posting abt comments by various ppl questioning their masks. It sucks!

Wanted to give an other perspective: I've worn N95s (pillowy Dräger 1750) at the office for 2 years (incl. dozens of business meetings) and nobody's ever said anything about it. (A couple of "are you sick today or just cautious" in 2 years.)

Your mileage may vary, but in case you've been thinking about trying, hope hearing that might help?

jmac, 3 months ago to random

I am remembering a moment a couple of months ago when some YouTuber with a YouTubey name like MrMonkeybutt or whatever made a video and it felt like everyone here was like "Wow, another five hour epic from MrMonkeybutt! Let's all talk about it!!” and I listened to the first hour while walking, and, like, it was just all him dressing down another YouTuber named JoeyUnderpants5K or whatever. And then nobody talked about it again.

Do you all remember this? That was weird, right?

hlabrande, 4 months ago to android

A week ago someone around here mentioned the #Android app StreetComplete, an app made to help people add data points that are missing on #OpenStreetMap ("Wikipedia for geographical information").

The app is super smooth and I fell down the rabbit hole hard - there's so much information missing for #Calgary #yyc! You walk around, you pay more attention to urban features, do it for a few days and you somehow end up in the worldwide top 50 this week 😯

Do it! It's fun!
#opensource #FOSS #OSM

vsp, 5 months ago to random

Is this the Professor Tombe, @trevortombe?

jmac, 5 months ago to Budapest

Toured the Zwack distillery in #Budapest, home of the punishingly “medicinal” Unicum. I had never heard of it before! Unicum can’t be sold in the U.S. because its Hungarian crafters refuse to divulge its ingredients, as a point of familial and national pride.

We tasted some. It is… startling. We bought two bottles.

A long hallways lined with large wooden barrels for aging liquor, receding into the shadowy distance.
An old print ad for Unicum, showing a man apparently adrift in the middle of the sea, his hair and beard sopping wet as if he’s just surfaced. He is looking at a bottle of Unicum floating by with an expression of absolute mania, grinning and wide-eyed.
A photo-booth photo showing jmac and Amy posing with the wild-eyed swimming man from the old print ad. He is wearing a party hat now, and the floating bottle says “Happy New Year!” The photo is captioned “Greetings from the House of Unicum!”

hlabrande, 6 months ago to foss

It's time! "Tristam Island", my #retro #textadventure that I released for 35 platforms 3 years ago, is now #FOSS and #donationware !

I'm very happy and proud of what I accomplished with this project! It pushed the envelope, found new audiences, and was a lot of fun to make! Enjoy and please chat if you have a question!

IFDB reviews: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=6gtq9ahrolz2ry2

Git (with source, design docs, and postmortem): https://www.github.com/hlabrand/tristam-island

Itch page for downloads and donations: https://hlabrande.itch.io/tristam-island

hlabrande, 6 months ago to retrogaming

In 9 days, it'll be the 3-year anniversary of my #retrogaming #textadventure "Tristam Island"!

It's never been very expensive, but now feels like the right time to stop selling it... So I'm happy to announce that I'm working on making it #free #opensource ! #fosstodon

The source code, the build scripts - I also want to write a postmortem and give access to the pre-sale only feelies. Anything else you'd like to see in there? 🤔
#PunyInform #ParserGames #retro #Commodore64 #ZXSpectrum #Amiga

vga256, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

after doing some research on writing my own vector animation engine (à la Another World), i remembered this incredibly beautiful 2D/3D #gamedev IDE+Framework from the mid 2010's called Polycode. does anyone else remember it?

Polycode was a joy to work with from a designer's standpoint: it was fully cross-platform, had built-in code editor, 2d/3d editor, and generated some really easy to distribute binaries. it even had a built-in sprite editor!

(you could also ignore the IDE completely and write C++ using the framework API.)

i'm so sad that the project never really gained traction. imo, it was the perfect middle-ground between Unity and lighter-weight engines like Adventure Game Studio.

anyway, it broke my heart that polycode.org went defunct earlier this year. update - now preserved here:
https://archive.org/details/polycode-win-64-0.8.4

jon, 7 months ago to random

Welcome to #CrossBorderRail Autumn 2023 Day 29, 29 Oct, Hendaye - Paris - Mannheim - Berlin

Today I’m crossing these borders
Euskotren - Irun Ficoba 🇪🇸 - Hendaye 🇫🇷
Saarbrücken 🇩🇪 - Forbach 🇫🇷

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#6/48.115/5.801

Today’s Live Blog
https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/live-blog-autumn-2023-day-29/

leonardbertos, 7 months ago to random French

Please just tell up front if you’re fascist and poor

dosnostalgic, 7 months ago to random

Could use a bit of distraction. Link me with a recent videogame-themed video essay you've enjoyed.

hlabrande, 8 months ago to random

I know everyone is focused on and excited about #IFComp starting very soon but let me toot my horn:

Tonight I've finished writing the transition between Act 3 and 4 of my parser-based #Cento - that is, I've strung together 74 sentences from 73 #InteractiveFiction games to make a "cutscene" that moves the story forward with a pretty big plot twist! And yes it reads pretty well 😀

This game a lot of work, but also a lot of fun. Onwards!

vga256, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to Canada

my extended family (not me!) was put under evac notice a few hours ago in the northwest territories of #canada

this photo by julie beaver looks as if someone got a little happy with instagram filters....

... but it is perfectly color-accurate. this is what it looks like in the southern #NWT right now, due to dozens of out of control #wildfires

hlabrande, 9 months ago to retrogaming

My writeups on the "Zero Escape" games are being posted on @HG101 !

First: "999", which honestly is among my favorite games of all time - if the DS version had a few QoL improvements it'd probably dethrone the first Phoenix Weight trilogy! Anyway, very dark and gritty atmosphere, great writing, amazing dedication to its central mechanic, awesome plot twist, just a great, great game!

(1/3)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/999-nine-hours-nine-persons-nine-doors/

#VisualNovel #VN #NintendoDS #NDS #RetroGaming #Uchikoshi

hlabrande, 9 months ago to pixelart French

Ouah ce pixel art de fou de @helpcomputer0 , je suis amoureux 😍

https://mastodon.art/@helpcomputer0/110181199495189170

Bio complète (si vous voulez acheter son art ou voir ses jeux) https://bio.link/helpcomputer0

#pixelArt #ZXSpectrum

dosnostalgic, 10 months ago to random

🤷‍♂️

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CorentinLamy, 10 months ago to retrocomputing French

Oh mais j'y pense, je vous ai pas encore abreuvés, sous Mastodon, de ma collection de vieux jeux PC 🤓

De passage chez mes parents où elle est stockée je vais pouvoir vous montrer ça, je commence par ce Caesar II que je viens juste de recevoir.

Un jeu que j'ai jamais possédé mais que j'ai poncé chez un copain, son "Plebes are needed" me hante encore.

#Retrocomputing #retrogaming #90s #caesar #bigbox #PCgaming

Le verso et l'intérieur de la boîte. On y voit la notice et le boîtier du CD.

scummvm, 10 months ago to random

A New World of Discoveries!

Adibou, the first game in the beloved children's series, is now ready for public testing! Also known as Adi Jr.'s World of Discoveries, this 1991 Coktel Vision title began the educational Adibou collection aimed at children of age 4 to 7 years.

Many of the iconic activities and mechanisms of the series were already part of this first opus: planting flowers, playing the game Breakout, and being rewarded with sweets upon completing Read/Count exercises. And of course, this was Adibou's first appearance!

Dust off your disks, get the current daily build from https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#daily and have fun!

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jmac, 10 months ago to Athens

Not on my 2023 bingo card: preparing to see #Kraftwerk perform at an ancient Odeon in the #Athens acropolis. #ElectronicMusic #Music

hlabrande, 10 months ago to retrogaming French

Mon toot d'hier semble avoir plu du coup j'en profite pour mentionner que j'ai aussi fait une traduction de "Super Mario Bros 3" en français au tout début de la pandémie 🙂

https://www.romhacking.net/translations/5432/

#Traduction #RomHacking #RetroGaming #NES

hlabrande, 11 months ago to Football French

Pendant la pandémie j'ai travaillé sur la localisation d'un jeu NES : "Captain Tsubasa II: Super Striker" !

Oui oui, "Olive et Tom II: Super Attaquant!"

Mon but était "et si AB Productions avait sorti le jeu en français". Donc j'ai regardé des dizaines d'épisodes pour avoir les bons noms 😁

C'est un RomHacker biélorusse qui s'occupe du code, et il a récemment repris le boulot dessus. J'espère que ça sera prêt bientôt !!

#RomHacking #90s #ClubDorothee #OliveEtTom #Football #RetroGaming #NES

mcc, 11 months ago to random

If I were operating a website, and my web server received a request, I would simply have my web server respond to the request. It would be easy for me