I should go back to reading BASIC games others have written.
I remember this one RPG I played on my 386 back in my childhood. It came off qbasic.com, and I just loved the different levels of the dungeons -- it had an experience system and the boss battles were just difficult enough...
Here, enjoy a Floppy Disk Drive interface for the #TK2000 you don't (but could, it's an easy homebrew build!) have!
https://codeberg.org/hkzlab/TK2000_DiskInterface_REDUX
With this you get dual floppy support, and it works wonderfully with the FloppyEmu too!
A shout to the guys at #PCBWay , because this board run was sponsored by them, so this card got released way sooner than expected thanks to them. And it doesn't end here, I still have another project to thank them for. You will see something more in the next days!
The Crate just gets in the way, but can get in the guards' way too. They can be shot to get rid of them, or picked up or pushed to get them out of the way. Possibly useful to disrupt the guards' actions. #teamdroid #ibmpc #msdos #cga
Been day dreaming about BASIC again.
This time "Bag Quest"--a sandbox game about storing bags within bags recursively.
Perhaps it only needs to be interactive from a prompt, and not have directional controls like a rogue like?
Something like a display for the current contents of the bag, and then a series of options about where to place your inventory items.
i adore this. in 1996, the creator of the Ultizurk series uploaded an ad for his little ultima-like rpg to wuarchive.wustl.edu, hoping a publisher would pick it up
MADMANPX.PCX
"This is a beautiful mosaic of the upcomming game: MADMAN,
rendered in a full 800x600x256 PCX file.
Very colorful, and gives an excellent overview of a startling
new role-playing game. Enjoy! -Dr. Dungeon"
playable here:
https://archive.org/details/MADMANV1
fansite for Dr Dungeon games/Ultizurk
https://web.archive.org/web/20010422075335/http://www.eskimo.com/~shamus/bio.html
@jackie nova Linux is weird because it's basically Ubuntu, but modified to suit the needs of a Marxist-Leninist island country.
Auspol Cost of Living
#Auspol
Is the “Cost of Living” crisis just an election thing, or is Labor actually going to do something about electricity prices, housing prices, and supermarket price gouging?
Transmission #0572 from NROL-111 (UNCLASSIFIED)
1. Abyss of Code
does anyone else want to help rebuild the wuarchive.wustl.edu anonymous ftp 😢
my first ftp site. i will always remember you for your /pub/incoming/.warez/win95beta/ my dear friend.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110414181344/http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/
WTFpotomus. I added "<html lang='en'>" to my pages, hoping it'd stop Safari from its stupid "translation available" thing. And it changed my fucking fonts!
It's not Fira Sans/Code, which uses a dot 0 and has open 4.
HARD DRUGS.
Why is this happening? I'm happy to take the lang back off, but I don't know why it did this.
I got a start in upgrading 7 donated laptops. 4 are done. GNU/Linux Mint with Xfce desktop installed in about 30 minutes per computer. Another 10-15 minutes to run updates. Specs: 4 to 8GB of memory, hard drives (rather than SSDs). Instead of being recycled they are ready for continued use. Totally usable for day-to-day general use. Anyone can do this kind of direct action, community mutual aid that conserves energy and resources.
The IBM PC is 44 years old today. Here's an interesting article in PCGamesN about the early days of the PC, some of the decisions made, and how it compares to other computers then and now. https://www.pcgamesn.com/pc-retro-tech/ibm-pc-5150 #ibmpc
Does anyone have reliable UK source of 80 column tractor feed printer paper where the cost is less than £30/box?
I found 1 place a while back where it was £15/box, but the delivery charge was £15 too. And I've lost that link anyway.