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vga256, 13 days ago to retrocomputing

as promised, i'm archiving this 42 year old D&D campaign building software on cassette

warning: loud/annoying modulation sounds 😆

#tandy #trs80 #cassette #retroComputing

A cassette titled "Fantasy Gamer" by Prickly-Pear Software is inserted into a Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer Cassette Recorder. The owner hits play, and it begins playing back modulation sounds recorded on the tape.

vga256, 13 days ago to retrogaming

i have fallen in love with the mail order/ziplock bag era of software publishing. this piece is 42 years old, and came from a TRS-80 owner that I inherited it (and dozens of other software/hardware from) fifteen years ago

the original owner of Dunkey Munkey for the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer ordered it from a home business called Intellitronics, based out of Smithtown, NY, USA.

play as luigi 😎

what stands out to me is the cover art. this would have been created using a font stencil and paper cut-outs, hand-placed and then duplicated with a four-colour printing press process. i'd love to know if anyone into printing recognizes the technique/machinery that might have been used to duplicate it.

#retroGaming #tandy #trs80

vga256, 13 days ago to edmonton

well that is a new one

two eight year old girls just came up to our door.

“we’re selling rocks. the big one is $4 and the small one is $2”

🤣

#yeg

vga256, 13 days ago to InitialD

ah i can finally play ataru and taitoo classics like abscondee and aim cruise

#arcade #retroGaming

A mini arcade machine with a dizzying number of ripoff games that bear titles similar to, but not quite close enough, to what they were trying to ape.

vga256, 14 days ago to edmonton

irene parlby park is in full bloom 😻

#yeg #yegdt #flowers #bloomscrolling

People talk excitedly as they take photos of one another under the cherry blossom trees.
A closeup of cherry blossoms wide open. They are grapefruit pink.

vga256, 14 days ago to edmonton

today is volunteer appreciation day bbq for Santa’s Anonymous. this is the first time i’ve got to sit in the outfield of telus/remax field/john ducey park 😻

#yeg #yegdt #baseball

A wide panorama of a baseball field from behind second base. The skies are blue interspersed with clouds.

driph, 14 days ago to random

8694557. Why do I still know that.

NunavutBirder, 14 days ago to random

So a favourite story about the crack in Victor Bay pictured with the ATV. A few years back no crack formed there, it happens some times. We went out to Qikiqtalik Nuvua on the Canada long weekend to camp, and to hunt on Admiralty Inlet.

We returned and there was still no crack. We had been using my BIL’s snowmobile and left it on the ice by the beach.

About a week later the ice came free of the shore prior to break up. I went down to get the snowmobile.

1/

vga256, 15 days ago to Bloomscrolling

our first tulip of the season just opened 😻

#bloomscrolling #flowers

vga256, 15 days ago to random

to the russian shithead who stole my #328747 account 20 years ago: icq is shutting down in one month

https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows

😆

billgoats, 15 days ago to random

Welp. My luggage didn’t make it to Kirkwall International Airport, but at least the IIgs did. :apple_inc:

misty, 15 days ago to random

Mac users: if you're a fan of The Unarchiver but you're annoyed by the analytics and stuff the new owners have been putting in, give Keka a try. It's free (or $7 on the app store), and so far it seems to support pretty much anything The Unarchiver does.

https://www.keka.io/en/

ThreeOhFour, 16 days ago to random

I am happy that the Wizardry remake is good (I tried it just a little this morning) and has been well received. I had a good time with the Bard's Tale remake of a few years ago. I'd love to see other classics like Might & Magic 1 and Pool of Radiance get some love, too!

vga256, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to retrogaming

this illustration was commissioned for a type-in program called Islands for the commodore 64, in the august 1988 issue of RUN magazine.

i am in love with the line-art/woodcut style, painstakingly inked and coloured. it was a different age in which a work of art could be commissioned for a BASIC game that a handful of people in the world would bother to hand-code and play.

this is better art than 90% of the physical big box games i own

update: as it turns out, there is not merely emulating etching/woodcut with inked lines, it IS an etching by artist doug smith who was famous for this style.

more of his work here: https://richardsolomon.com/artists/douglas-smith/

#retrogaming #art

vga256, 22 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to Fonts

oh hell yes. i think i just found the original typeface used: it was LTC Spire by the Lanston Type Company

edit: it led to a fascinating web preservation backstory about the origins of the font itself:
https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/112460660100094359

#fonts