sqhistorian

sqhistorian, 11 months ago to gaming

My first new video in 6 months premieres THIS WEDNESDAY at 10pm CEST. Come hang out and watch the premiere live with us! https://youtu.be/hNXvqeVUSVs

#PoliceQuest #retrospective #SierraOnLine #adventuregames

sqhistorian, 11 months ago to gaming

Whomever's job it was to come up with the debug activation commands for old Sierra games didn't get paid enough. I enjoy the non-sensical ones (like "rats ass" for KQ3, "suck blue frog" for QFG2, and "pump shark" for SQ3), but the real stand-out is LSL2.

Go on, guess.

It's "praise lord."

#adventuregames #sierraonline

DOSBox_Staging, 11 months ago to VintageOSes

DOSBox Staging Basics
Today: IMGMOUNT wildcard support

The IMGMOUNT command allows you to mount disk or CD images, but sometimes you may want to mount multiple images to a single drive, swappable via a keyboard shortcut.

Previously you had to specify the names of the all the image files one by one, even if they have some patterns in common (like DISK1.IMG, DISK2.IMG, DISK3.IMG, etc).

DOSBox Stagings IMGMOUNT command supports wildcards for mounting image files, so that you can just specify a file pattern that matches all the image files that you want to include. For example, the command:

IMGMOUNT a *.img -t floppy

will mount the first image file with the IMG extension in the current directory as drive A:. You can easily swap to the next image using the hotkey CTRL+F4 on the command line or during setup when installing a new game.

#dosbox #dosgaming #msdos #emulation #retrogaming #linuxgaming #macgaming #foss

Gwendolyn, 11 months ago to random

Been struggling with writing music and I wonder if I've maybe made a discovery...

I love metal. I listen to a ton of metal. I want to make the songs I'm working on metal.

When writing... through the process the songs become progressively more moody and haunting and less actually metal.

I'm finding that as much as I can do it... it feels inauthentic. It feels far off from my creative center. I rarely like the straight metal tracks I make. I almost feel like the heavy distortion and pounding drums need to be more of an accent than the main feature of my stuff.

Is this just me discovering "my style" or a case of struggling to get out of my comfort zone?

It's not like I haven't been trying for years to do styles out of my comfort zone.

So, now I'm asking... Should I drop the dream (at least for now) of putting together a straightforward metal project and just do what comes naturally?

It's this weird thing where I'm examining what I want to do vs what I think I'd actually be good at.

It's so weird... I don't want to make those songs... But I like them more than the songs I want to make.

sqhistorian, 11 months ago to gaming

Holy shit. Sluicebox just blew the doors to the Sierra kingdom wide open. This is a game-changer for anyone who's ever tried to poke around in or modify old Sierra SCI games.

Check out OneShortEye's video for a brief explanation: https://youtu.be/zi5sFqd-YYg

Or go straight to the source: https://www.benshoof.org/blog/sci-scripts

#adventuregames #sierraonline

sqhistorian, 11 months ago to random

@rnlf Custom emojis, you say? 🤔😁

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Gwendolyn, 11 months ago to random

Just had a moment while cutting grass where I realized what I was actually doing and now I feel really bad for the grass.

sqhistorian, 11 months ago to gaming

Did you play The Excavation of Barrow Hill... (edit: sorry! it's called Hob's Barrow! damn you, AGG!)? I haven't yet, but I hear it's really good. So good, in fact, that my mate Adventure Game Geek went to visit some of the real-life locations in the game: https://youtu.be/Jh13nbtcoDw

#adventuregames

sqhistorian, 11 months ago to Podcast

New episode of the AGHN Podcast hosted by yours truly! Join me along with OneShortEye, Daniel Albu from @ConvosCurtis
, Adventure Game Geek, and Paul & Anna from the Classic Gamers Guild Podcast as we chat nostalgia and share tips on content creation. Have a listen — you might like it! https://aghn.podbean.com/e/tips-tricks-and-sometimes-failures-of-creating-adventure-game-content/

#podcast #YouTube #contentcreation #adventuregames

sqhistorian, 11 months ago to gaming

Today's topic on !adventuregames: What is your favorite adventure game UI?

Let's hear 'em: https://lemm.ee/post/487268

#adventuregames #gamedev #ui

sqhistorian, 11 months ago to fediverse

To new followers and new friends, a quick #introduction is perhaps in order. My old post history is still available at https://helvede.net/@SQHistorian but just briefly:

I am a content creator of some ill repute. I do videos about (mostly) adventure games. I just relaunched my channels on #PeerTube: https://spectra.video/a/sqhistorian/video-channels

I also put out game music on vinyl. My "label" is Two Guys Records: https://twoguysrecords.com / https://twoguysrecords.bandcamp.com

I swear a lot.

sqhistorian, 11 months ago to random

I moved instances! My new handle is @sqhistorian (https://dosgame.club/@sqhistorian).

Thanks so much to @Tijn and the @dosgameclub for letting me in. I apologize in advance. 😂

And thanks to @summerb for making it happen. 🙏