Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 44

Nerdly Pleasures: King's Quest IV - The First True PC Game
http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2024/01/kings-quest-iv-first-true-pc-game.html

The Surprising Origins of Duke 3D's Sound Effects - Revenant Evil
https://youtu.be/Y_lQDLfigKM

A synthesizer truly can reproduce the sound of any instrument except perhaps for the bassoon.

Tonight's relaxing jam:
Tetris CD-i soundtrack 🎵
https://soundcloud.com/user-391016128/only-you?in=user-391016128/sets/phillips-cdi&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

@donni We're all screwed when the 32 bit date overflows in 2038 anyway, so I'm not sure I'm gonna last that long.

@nitrofurano nah, there were more. Even more just done by Sierra, as the two you've mentioned.

"The effect of the IBM PC on creative games is roughly similar to that of the Spanish Inquisition on scientific inquiry." - Will Wright (1992)

Do you think there are Orson Welles-style outtakes of Brian Cox doing the Tekken 8 commercial?

I know some people think it's against the law for a Russian like myself not to know how to play chess, but I can assure you Russia has the same ratio of people who don't how to play chess as any other country. ♟🤔🤷♂️

86-DOS Chess on
- Book 8088 (NEC V20, MS-DOS 6.22)
- HP 200lx (Intel 80186, MS-DOS 5.0)
- IBM PS/30 Model 30 (Intel 8086, MS-DOS 6.22)

@Sonikku Could it be why they changed this? 🤔

@vampiress Hmmm... I might watch after it's over then. I only ever saw the first season.

@lunarloony There are forks now that support much larger sizes. But I still think mine's a tad too big even for them.

@lunarloony Nah, this is to put up your archive online to be publicly searchable. While this is also something I would like to do, this option doesn't work for me as it requires the archives to be under 2GB. Mine is 45 and counting. 😅

@zorinlynx Yeah, but they are a MESS. I need something that organizes the data.

Has anyone made a Birbsite archive offline reader? I realized that at some point I might have to sift through all of my old bullshit to pull out threads and such to rework them into something hopefully a bit more permanent.

@LaserdiscTurtle Rise of the Robots TWO!

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@indigoparadox @bhtooefr I'm only kidding, as I am not a fan of rigid definitions in the first place. But yes, in my mind, if a platform is stand-alone (in a way) then it's its own platform. If its compatible with another platform out of the box, then we can debate various semantics.

Martha Hornback, widow of the Apogee/3D Realms artist Stephen Hornback (Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, American McGee's Alice, and others,) has put up many items from Stephen's collection on eBay.

All listings here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=rares_market_consignments&store_name=raresmarket&_oac=1&_nkw=hornback%20collection