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th , vor einem Tag an Random Englisch

extremely #cursed numeric keypad layout

matthewpburgess , vor einem Tag an Random Englisch

Anyone have any experience disk imaging 'Lanier' 5.25 floppy disks? Our Mitsumi D509V5 floppy drive attached to a Kryoflux does not recognise the disks. They have multiple index holes, which indicate where the 'hard' sectors start according to this web page: https://cowlark.com/fluxengine/doc/disk-aeslanier.html

eniko , vor 2 Tagen an Random Englisch

Anyway if you want to help out a team full of impoverished queer artists working on failing hardware (I'm not the only one) on a core game that focuses heavily on queer joy you should wishlist Kitsune Tails and then buy it day 1 on August 1st when it comes out on PC: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

mediaarchaeologylab , vor 2 Tagen an Random Englisch

the FUTURE

thelobdegg , vor 3 Tagen an Random Englisch

It has been 0 days since I've heard a grown adult in the #Doom community blame the Geneva Conventions, a series of articles of international law with the intent of defining war crimes, for the legal actions of the American Red Cross, an American corporation who owns a trademark on what the rest of the world considers a humanitarian emblem, to protect its intellectual property.

christinelove , vor 3 Tagen an Random Englisch

JUST TWENTY FOUR HOURS LEFT!

Wanna get a cute plushie of your favourite trans disaster lesbian Support/Ravage healer AND giftable Steam keys for the game, both DLC chapters, and the OST? We only need 25 more sales to make it happen… help bring her home!

https://www.makeship.com/products/sam-anon-plush

NanoRaptor , vor 3 Tagen an Random Englisch

It’s a little known fact that early versions of Sony’s revolutionary 3.5” floppy drive were bulky top loading units.

mwichary , vor 3 Tagen an Random Englisch

This week at Config I gave a talk about pixel fonts that I think turned out really well.

It’s called “In defense of an old pixel,” and I don’t think I ever worked harder on a talk before. Check it out here! (25 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDI8ubVZi7w

DotMaetrix , vor 4 Tagen an Random Englisch

WOO! Just in time for the end of Pride Month, we have for you here a page-by-page dissection I helped write, along with Jessica of Boolean Union and a few others, of Jack Chick's "classic" homophobic screed, The Gay Blade.

As a reaction to the early gay rights movement of the early 1970s, it actually serves as quite an interesting piece of queer history. By going off on one about various magazine articles and media appearances, Chick accidentally gives us here in the future an interesting reading list of things to look up to get a vibe of how media in the 70s portrayed early Pride protests and gay culture, and it gives an interesting picture of how much things have and haven't changed in the last 50+ years.

CWs for religiously motivated homophobia apply throughout.

https://boolean-union.com/dissections/boolunion/BU.CHICK.GAYB.DISCT.html

congusbongus , vor 5 Tagen an Random Englisch

This week I've been preparing for the first release of #OpenCrystalCaves! Most of the time was spent on fixing build scripts; between CMake, Github Actions, itch.io/butler and fixing multiplatform compile errors, I'm ready to shovel my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon. 👁️ 🥄 🩸

Fortunately I do have progress to show: the in-game quit menu works now, so you don't get stuck in a broken level! That's something, I guess...

#DOS #OpenSource #RetroGaming #CrystalCaves #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday

In game footage of OpenCrystalCaves, showing the player character start in the main level, enter a level, and transition to a bare level with concrete blocks and a few barrels. The player opens the pause/quit menu, showing options to quit to Windows, Title or Main Level.

Dee , vor 5 Tagen an Random Englisch

worldbuilding a dystopian future where Earth is divided into six numbered regions, and seeing how long it takes people to realize they're DVD regions

thomask , vor 5 Tagen an Random Englisch

Suddenly rediscovered this glorious piece of software: "Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut" https://github.com/veggiedefender/open-and-shut

ernie , vor 5 Tagen an Random Englisch

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

phos , vor 6 Tagen an Random

Are you HP ScanJet Plus compatible?

somepx , vor 6 Tagen an Random Englisch

Hey, if you recently got my May/June bundle and you want even more fonts - check this!

https://itch.io/s/125763/summer-sale-2024

#fonts #gamedev #pixelart

fight , vor 6 Tagen an Random Englisch

Publishing execs who think data on readers is their new product?

Get ready, because it’s about to get awkward.

internetarchive , vor 7 Tagen an Random Englisch

We’re fighting to restore access to more than 500,000 books in court this week. You can show your support in a number of ways - learn more 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/26/were-fighting-for-library-rights-in-court-this-friday-join-us/

danhon , vor 7 Tagen an Random Englisch

Science fiction is all about a Great Forgetting age where records are lost etc and sometimes it's natural disaster and sometimes it's revolutionary action but in our world it's apparently for tax write-offs

NanoRaptor , vor 7 Tagen an Random Englisch

Pride is resistance.

gewt , vor 9 Tagen an Random Englisch

anyone wanna sponsor me to acquire the still-racked compuserve sc-40s that the LCM had that they never got a chance to do anything with

mediaarchaeologylab , vor 10 Tagen an Random Englisch

if anyone has access to closed-captioning software (of the type that can be used with a hardware encoder) we'd love to see documentation of it working

ashleygjovik , vor 10 Tagen an Random Englisch

🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, in 2023, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into the apartment windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off the US EPA, who sent their env cops to raid Apple's plant in Aug of 2023. The US EPA finally released the report of their enforcement inspections & sent me a copy on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

tubetime , vor 10 Tagen an Random Englisch

fun fact: the landing zone on a hard disk platter has a special surface texture that reduces stiction. the rest of the surface is so smooth the head would get stuck if it landed on it.

dosnostalgic , vor 11 Tagen an Random Englisch

Happy birthday to the Internet SHAREWARE version of Quake! 🎂🎉🍾🥂
Remember, it was only 8 maps long. To get the full game you had to order it for $45 + $5 S&H (about $100 today) and wait for it to get finished and shipped to you.

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Gammitin , vor 12 Tagen an Random Englisch

A little Saturday retro computing 'hack':
Usb floppy drives from places like Amazon, only write HD 1.44MB disks, have you ever wanted to write a DD 720k disk on a modern computer easily, without something like a Greaseweazle?
Get yourself a Dell MPF82E, it has a USB port

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