iolar @iolar@zitidar.barsoom.cc

Just discovering that Stéphane Picq released the complete remastered version of Dune Spice Opera yesterday! 😀

➡️ Listen to it here: https://stphanepicq.bandcamp.com/album/dune-spice-opera-2024-remaster

Can't wait for the physical version ❤️

#DuneSpiceOpera #StephanePicq #Soundtrack #OST #Dune #CryoInteractive #Exxos #RetroGaming #Bandcamp @StephanePicq

Since people are asking about the Netware thing

I know you don't like "AI" in general but GPTs are the future! I pushed the mystic.txt and display_codes.txt to it and fine-tuned the "AI mission". Now it's super helpful for finding right codes and overall inspiration for you BBS!

Virtual SysOp GPT: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-GbfC4fKY5-virtual-sysop

Old meets new ;)

#ChatGPT #GPT #BBS #Mystic #mysticBBS

In my humid climate, I find that a brush on primer is important. Really digging acrylic gesso as an option. It just goes on so pretty. #minipainting

640k Was Never Enough For Anyone: How DOS Broke Free https://hackaday.com/2024/01/21/640k-was-never-enough-for-anyone-how-dos-broke-free/ #Retrocomputing #8086 #dos #ram

I took some time to work out the exact #formatting that #Elasticsearch demands. If you think this might be useful, go ahead and boost. If you find any errors or would like to suggest additions, please also post a reply!

Hopefully this can help prevent a lot of frustration and trouble people might encounter and give them a better Mastodon experience!

(Updated to Revision 2)

I love these old art books of classic sci-fi/fantasy art.
And I recognised the image on this book by artist Peter Jones as it was used by Psygnosis on the box art of the Amiga game Blood Money I used to play a lot with my buddy before school back in the early 90s (he lived next door to the school so we were rarely late).

#videogames #amiga #retrogaming

A Bone giant from One Page Rules Mummified Undead. At 10cm tall, this fella had a lot of large flat areas, that I've tried to fill with different textures. Painted in oils over a dark brown primer.

#OnePageRules.
#minipainting
#miniaturepainting
#miniatures
#TombKings

Remembering when #ByteMagazine carried water for #Microsoft's 1990s FUD: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1992-09

These days the #FreeBSD-derived #Darwin powering #Apple's operating systems has about the same installed base as #Windows. Adding the de facto Unix #Linux and derivatives like #Android easily eclipses Microsoft's efforts several times over.

#Unix #WindowsNT #RetroComputing

Dumping the ROM of a GBA game by crashing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-7PSmYYHF0

#arcade #videogames #retrogaming #nintendo

“A publisher told me that his (successful) business operated on the rule of thumb that 80% of books were not read by the purchaser - they were either gifts or found their way onto glass tables or dusty bookshelves

…That's why we like to say a record collection defines who you are, and a book collection defines who you really want to be.”

Will Page in the Winter 2023 issue of The Author

Any time someone posts #retrocomputing content:

DOS_deck is impressive, and incredibly handy if you want to play MS-DOS games in the comfort of your browser. Have a look: https://dosdeck.com/

#msdos #dos #retrogaming

Trebors 7800 ROM PROPack, the complete #Atari7800 console rom collection has been updated. Download v7.14 https://7800.8bitdev.org/index.php/Trebors_7800_ROM_PROPack #retrogames #retrogaming

I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):

- Display votes with results in the notifications

- Improve single choice voting dialog

- Implemented multiple choice voting

Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS