Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 11

@muzej Well, technically they are making a game *just like that* right now. 😉
https://youtu.be/GGAdDxmZG-Y?si=d2WeMJPB5R40E0Kw

I'm going in for the kill
I'm doing it for a thrill
Oh, I'm hoping you'll understand
And not let go of my hand

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

@mirabilos @Quinn9282 @Gammitin @Foone I... don't actually know if that's the case. Until recently, for example, I believed that one couldn't reliably write an 320kb 5.25"' disk with an HD drive because everyone on the internet told me that, but that turned out to be not true. So now, because I personally haven't tested it, I don't actually know.

Here's a nice breakdown of how Quake 3 engine works by Fabien Sanglard:
https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/

So the Quake 3 engine is cooler than I expected for a 1999 game. Turned out that it's not all one executable, but a bunch of DLLs that are loaded at runtime. So I just had to recompile the UI dll, and drop it in the BASEQ3 folder to override the included one, and it just works. 👍

Nerdly Pleasures: Tandy Deskmate - Tandy's Ace in the Hole
http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2024/07/tandy-deskmate-tandys-ace-in-hole.html

Trump Castle II (Brian A. Rice/Capstone Software, 1991) #DOSGaming

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

@HauntedOwlbear A couple of months

@Illuminatus They are a nice couple that let an ageing depressed nerd live in their house for 15 years for not a whole lot of money. It's the system, not them.

My landlord just informed me that I need to move. My month is off to a great start. 😅

Bryce 2 (Windows 9x/MacOS System 7.1, 1996) #NotDOS

Friends, as some of you know I've had a bit of an "adventure" in the US healthcare system recently. Good part is - I have insurance through my job that covered most of it. But what's left comes at a time when I'm already struggling to begin with.

If you enjoy my content, and wouldn't mind helping out a bit you can do it here: https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic

Hopy-ONE (TLK Games/Webfoot Technologies, 1996) #DOSGaming

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur (Infocom, 1989) #DOSGaming

@north @Alice Right after "Blue (Da Ba Dee)".

Note to self: prepare a playlist for your own funeral. Other people are guaranteed to fuck it up.

Going into my second funeral of the week. Hopefully the quota on this part of my life has been filled for a while.

I'm assuming this is *the* @darmato writing in to Siskel & Ebert about original unused ending of Clerks (1994):

𝒯𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎'𝓈 #OPL3MIDI 𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝒻𝓊𝓃𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓁 𝐼'𝓂 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓃𝒹. 𝐼𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓃𝑔. 𝑅𝐼𝒫

Rocky Raccoon checked into his room
Only to find Gideon's Bible
Rocky had come equipped with a gun
To shoot off the legs of his rival
🔊🎵