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androidarts, 9 days ago to random

A (Sept.) 1985 Yamaha MSX presented with a mouse – a rare conjunction mayhaps. Giving me Amiga tank mouse vibes. The Amiga 1000 came out in July, and originally with only 256KB RAM iirc. Its sound and graphical chipset was more impressive than MSX2 I'd say.

Looks like around 200K¥ for the bundle below. Hard to guess what that is in modern money since something happened to the yen in 1985 (the Plaza Accord).

androidarts, 17 days ago to random

Step 1: Pick up nasty dog poo with dog poo bag.
Step 2: Throw dog poo bag to the side of the road.
????

androidarts, 29 days ago to random

Sometimes (or even often) when I search for stuff now it seems the search engine just latches onto one of the words and ignores the rest. Doesn't show up in the summary or where on the page when I ctrl+F. Perhaps it's partly due to so many pages being dynamic now.

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Micro-robot sketches

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Updated my Tribes page a bit:
https://androidarts.com/starsiege/tribes.htm

Nice references here (old concept art and design/lore docs):
http://erewhon.superkuh.com/library/Games/Starsiege%20and%20Tribes/
"TU Weapon & Armor Descriptions.rtf" covers the technology fluff.

Webpage for the compenium:
https://starsiegecompendium.com/

Found a press/magazine image... looks like beta models/skins with the saucy lady.

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Cleaned up another old Tribes sheet a bit. Resources and consoles might encourage and put focus on social interaction (afaik newer versions have streamlined this element away and have pre-match class selection).
Added ideas for lifeforms to bump into. Maybe a predatory crocodile bird. Exploding longleg ticks, stupid herds of grazing duck cows, and floating blimps getting in the way (or usable as springboards).

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

More Starsiege/Cyberstorm/Earthsiege stuff revisted.

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Went back and gave Ramses high heels. Here I was going for a unified language for the Cybrids, downplaying the newer bug theme in favor of the older steel look.
#Starsiege

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Nibbling on some old Tribes sketches.

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Saw someone claim that games didn't use to have political content. Seems like bollocks. Final Fantasy 7? Too many to name? I think people just didn't notice because they were kids and controversy stirring was less of a thing.

Back then it was mainly outsiders being upset about games perhaps? I remember Commando Libya, Cannon Fodder and also the whole satanism panic...

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Traveller Doggos

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Mantis Warrior

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Ogre counter redesign. Little road puffs for movement, and other visual stuff.

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Nuke-jumping Ogre, breaking. Who needs parachutes?

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Ogre variants, haphazard sizes with some calculations. When it comes to soil mechanics, apparently it really helps for tanks to have malleable treads, with suspension and such, so I gave mine 6 tilt-able track modules with 4 tracks each. Even so, pressure is more than 2x that of a modern tank. Possibly an Ogre might need rockets or even nukes for glassing terrain to get out of situations.

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

More Ogre stuff. Not sure what the scale are, since it varies a bit between drawings, minis and 3D models... as do the designs of the side silhouettes and drawings. Apparently there are ninjas in the game. I imagine they're only useful for taking out other infantry, and maybe some kind of OGRE sabotage with sticky bombs?
Added a Stridsvagn 103 GEV for fun. Rifle is from a single drawing, as is the antennas, Winchell Chung did much of the original art back in the '70s.

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Ogre light tank.

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

What are you doing, internet?

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Was browsing my warhammer stuff and noticed the beaky knight:
http://androidarts.com/40k/Amazon.jpg
Thought I had stolen the Steel Rook exclusive mini, but mine is from March last year...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/29/warhammer-events-miniatures-announced-for-2024/
At any rate, theirs is an order of magnitude better with the little steel feathers.

androidarts, 1 month ago to random

Adeptus Custodes, and a Jes Goodwin oldhammer variant.

androidarts, 2 months ago to random

Sometimes when I see these stories by authors promoting some new social system which -just-works- because characters behave responsibly, I'm reminded of my idea for unguarded community sheds where people could just drop off "garage junk" and pick up stuff they need. Sounds like it could save a lot of resources. But in reality it'd only take sporadic outbursts of drunk teenagers and a single organized drive-by looting gang to ruin the whole thing on a national level.

androidarts, 2 months ago to random

A CASIO MX-10 except completely different. Using a katakana in-order layout and what might be function key abuse.

androidarts, 2 months ago to random

One reason why I didn't constantly update my linux machine was because it feelt like... if someone went turncoat and snuck a malicious update into one of the many repos or whatever which I pull down updates from, then I'd absolutely catch it 100% of the time. I thought I was paranoid and unrealistic, but maybe not, huh.

androidarts, 2 months ago to random

One sad part about the enshittification of the web is that alternative OSes can't keep up, so it acts as a further filter. A lot of OSes are nearly fully featured, but fall because they can't do banking, play videos in browser even though videos play fine in VLC and whatnot, or even display simple text and images from a certain social media site.

Anyways, just learned about Kolibri OS, fitting on an MF2HD floppy. It's got spreadsheets, games, editors and everything.