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vga256

@vga256@dialup.cafe

indigenous canadian, recovering academic → game dev & interactive media artist with a penchant for dial-up modems, the 4o3 bbs scene, 1-bit art, trackers/mods, classic macs, and 80s and 90s gaming. curator of internet, canadian & gaming obscura.

game development: tomodashi studio
https://tomodashi.com

current major project: tomo, a decentralized discussion group network that's better than reddit https://tomo.city

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#nobot #nobots #noindex
(profile pic: a 1988 red fox 6¢ canada stamp)

Dieses Profil is von einem föderierten Server und möglicherweise unvollständig. Auf der Original-Instanz anzeigen

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designing my next keyboard PCB is going well

EDIT: There's a typo in the alt text. It's supposed to read "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll design a keyboard.' Now they have two problems"

vga256 ,
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@foone existing wording appears more correct

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did i just drive to the boonies to buy 100 blank floppies because one box contained SkiFree

yes. yes i did

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #dosgaming

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the sacred verbatim diskette has been imaged and uploaded to IA

now we are all richer 🙏

https://archive.org/details/verbatim_mep

#retrogaming #windows31 #dosgaming

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@foone now thats some 11th disk thinking

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Alternate universe where Redbox launched in 1994 and didn't rent movies, but PC CD-ROM games

vga256 ,
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@foone by 1999, 'burn your cd while you wait' (45 minutes) service

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@foone the terror of touching the single trackball during a burn and pushing the cpu beyond 99% 😬

i agree. some technologies are too advanced for us

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

#fonts

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Exile: Escape from the Pit game is absolutely endearing in win 3.1

#retroGaming #windows311 #shareware

The installer for Exile, showing some pretty gnarly 16 colour vector graphics.

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