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mr_creosote

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Writing about computer game culture at https://www.goodolddays.net
Blogging about movies (in German) at https://www.yllr.net/filmarchiv
Occasional software written can be found at https://www.yllr.net

There is too much in the world to see it all. Won't stop me from trying.

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mr_creosote, to indiegaming
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Here is our attempt to be totally up-to-date. has been out for only few days. To be on top of recent development, we even shifted our regular schedule. Good thing that you're subscribed to our RSS feed, so you've caught this unusual Tuesday addition!

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%2C1582/Galastrad.html


A female face in a space helmet
A Galaga-like screen

Tijn, to Eurovision
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I always like the more ethnic world-music type entries in #eurovision

For me that's what makes Eurovision Eurovision. It would be sad to hear 20 western pop songs with English vocals imho

mr_creosote,
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@Tijn Totally agree! Too bad that some totally forgettable English language pop song from Sweden wins every year. Can't blame the other countries for copying this.

mr_creosote, to RaspberryPi
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Beginning of the year, I asked here: can I use a #RaspberryPi 5 as my primary desktop machine? After encouraging responses, I went for it. Here are my experiences after three months of usage. It will be a thread, but goes a bit beyond the usual "how do the initial installation and setup".

mr_creosote,
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Mastodon: no client in the repositories. Some would be on Flathub. Flathub, of course, means installing essentially a second complete system, with fully redundant libraries etc. Worst software management concept of all time. Using the web frontend on this computer. Which is not great, but... "OK".

mr_creosote,
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@Tijn I never used Twitter one way or another, so cannot compare. I like multi-column Mastodon clients to monitor several feeds at once. Plus, the web frontend feels not overly responsive (no fault of the RPI, confirmed on other computers). But, yes, it's OK for basic usage.

mr_creosote, to retrogaming German
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, probably a typical American garage company – or a start-up, as we would call it today – was founded solely for the purpose of publishing the produced by owner himself. Reportedly already addicted to science fiction literature as a teenager, the game he first published, Oo-Topos, was naturally also from this genre.

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%2C1579/Oo-Topos.html



mr_creosote, to random
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I played through the opening act of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (until finding the Lost Dialogue).

What I liked:

  • Playable credits
  • The irony of the book having been in Barnett College all along after travelling through half the world
  • Really evil nazi antagonists
mr_creosote,
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What I didn't like:

  • Way too much travelling. People keep saying it's "like a movie". No, it isn't. No movie would have this location hopping, just to have a single dialogue or find one object.
  • Wonky cause and effect. Suddenly, the guy is frozen, because...?
  • The percentage of expository dialogue AND puzzles relying on dialogue is much too high.
mr_creosote,
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@Tijn
Absolutely! For a game which overall is supposed to be serious in its tone (in a pulp way), this felt completely out of place.

mr_creosote,
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@Tijn
I like the world traveling in The Riddle of Master Lu. It really felt like going to a different place. So far in Indy, the Azores may as well have been another district of his home town.

mr_creosote,
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Made it. Overall, considering team path, liked it. Quite a pace for an adventure game. Constant forward movement. I do wonder why it is listed as "hard puzzles" often. It's very linear, few locations available at each time, few objects. Never really opened up. This made almost everything straightforward, even in less logical moments. In the endgame, use of light, colours and perspective were the highlight for me.

mr_creosote,
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@Tijn Yup! Plus, the classic Indiana Jones ending: everything would have happened and ended exactly the same way without him.

dosgameclub, to Podcast
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💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 Can you believe we're 90 episodes into this show and still haven't done Lemmings??

Lemmings (DMA Design / Psygnosis, 1991) was a massive hit, allegedly selling over 15M copies over the span of its lifetime on various platforms.

And those were many platforms indeed! There's barely a system out there which doesn't have a version of Lemmings.

But we of course focus on the DOS port, which still holds up well even today.

https://www.dosgameclub.com/lemmings/

#podcast #retroGaming #dosGaming

mr_creosote,
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@dosgameclub Do you really think anyone back in 1991 did not know Shadow of the Beast? Of course that level was instantly recognizable to everyone.

mr_creosote,
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@Tijn Fair enough, maybe it was an Amiga-centric view, but I consider it one of the biggest games of its time. Which really annoys me, because it's so mediocre ;)

Tijn, to random
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I you like games and don't want them killed, this is a good thing to take a look at: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

mr_creosote,
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@Tijn
What is the point of this initiative? If people just stopped buying such games, the problem would be over in an instant. Buying is confirmation of this practice's commercial validity.

dosnostalgic, to random
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The DOS port of The Bitmap Bros' Magic Pockets has this weird quirk:
When selecting EGA mode the game is ugly when played on an actual EGA card, but picking EGA mode on a VGA card gives you a new custom palette, but these 16 colors are different from the 16 colors in the actual VGA mode. 🤷‍♂️

EGA -> EGA on VGA -> VGA

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mr_creosote,
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@dosnostalgic
Because the EGA palette is awful (optimized for contrast, not artistry) and it is quite possible to achieve much nicer visuals with 16 different colors? It is what i always wished Sierra would have done for their Amiga ports : OK to keep only 16 colors, but at least use decent ones!

mr_creosote, to boardgames
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Bought the #boardgame #Karak. It is essentially a monster & loot simulator like classic (simplified) D&D. Seems fun, though of course highly dependent on luck. A good roll early on gives you a +3 axe, and you'll breeze through the rest of the game. Also, the Seer character has significant advantages as far as I can see so far. Well, no big deal. It's adventurous, highly replayable and kid-approved.

mr_creosote,
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@Tijn Yup, I had that one as well, of course. Plus the mission packs :) The downside of Hero Quest for me has always been that there is very little replayability. If you've beaten a mission once, you know where to go etc.

mr_creosote, to Sonic
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Yup, it's #Sonic! But, of course, it would be too easy to take the one everyone knows. Let's be honest, nothing to add to the public opinion about that one. Though the semi-recent release of a #C64 port motivated me to take a look. Hoping to raise some awareness of this amazing work.

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%2C1574/Sonic-the-Hedgehog.html

Sonic standing on the ground, looking to jump on a platform
Sonic jumping upwards
Sonic between pinball bumpers

sqhistorian, to random
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Not to mention this is also bad for video game preservation. Years from now, the servers meant to handle your account creation will probably cease to be, and the games will be unplayable unless someone cracks them. The shortsightedness of this industry never fails to amaze me.

mr_creosote,
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@sqhistorian Why do you call it short-sightedness? This is perfect to sell new games later down the road!

Tijn, to random
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The petrol station croissants in France are better than anything I can get from the bakery here in NL 😭

mr_creosote,
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@Tijn That's as it may be, but can you find any sourdough bread in France? I know I haven't, and I looked hard.

mr_creosote,
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@Tijn Haha - I have a number of colleagues in France who ask me to bring some whenever I go on a business trip ;)

mr_creosote, to norcal
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When #Sierra handed over the development of #SpaceQuestV to #Dynamix, they let appear their logo in more or less hidden places. On top of that, they integrated the logo of a real sponsor. You can read here whether the outsourcing has affected the usual quality in any other way.

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%2C1569/Space-Quest-V-The-Next-Mutation.html

#RetroGaming
#DOSGaming

Mutated Captain Quirk welcoming Roger on board

mr_creosote, to random
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What could lend itself better as source material for a jump'n'run game than the ? All the slapstick, coupled with cartoon graphics as it became possible on home systems in the early 1990s, what could go wrong? A lot, as illustrates.

https://www.goodolddays.net/game/id%2C1104/Taz-Mania.html


The Tasmanian Devil frozen in a block of ice.

thomasfuchs, to random
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The last 10 years or so of tech:

2013: Blockchain! It's a like a database, but slower and worse!
2016: VR! It's like monitors, but slower and worse!
2021: NFTs! It's like pictures, but slower and worse!
2023: AI! It's like algorithms, but slower and worse!

mr_creosote,
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@thomasfuchs

2007: Touchscreens! They are like keyboards, but slower, less precise and worse!

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