Exactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: "Computers -- the World's Greatest Toy!" And more....

I played this a few times (on VIC-20 version? I think Peter had this.)

https://www.commodoregames.net/CommodorePET/Dungeon-86.html

It's a weird, laggy game. But there's a kind of purity to the single-level and guess-the-hidden-room "design".

Here, I took one step too far into some mob with more HP than me.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

Sam & Max Hit the Road

❤️ My favorite GFX card 💕 💎

Minor update to

THE CYBER HOLE
https://cyberhole.online

Added TAB, ESC, and Fn keys (with a modifier) to the keyboard. Probably needs a few more, but those resolved my immediate needs.

Starting to port Mystic Dungeon over, it'll be a while before that's ready.
#retrocomputing #cyberhole

This Soviet-Style Clock Uses Homemade Nixie Tubes and Glowing Logic

https://hackaday.com/2025/08/31/this-soviet-style-clock-uses-homemade-nixie-tubes-and-glowing-logic/

Adafruit Fruit Jam – An RP2350 mini computer running classic Macintosh - CNX Software https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/27/adafruit-fruit-jam-a-rp2350-mini-computer-running-classic-macintosh/

#3135 - Sea Level

As a blind person, I've always wanted to play the cool classic RPG'S, like Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy 7, and games like Castlevania and such. While AI is good enough right now to let me know what menu item I'm on in games, and describing one snapshot at a time in games, that's hardly enough for me to have fun in games with lots of moving around a map, like even the opening area of Final Fantasy 10.

But it sure is enough to play what I think of as a non-cannon version of those games. Take Chrono Cross. I told it to consider the world, characters, and story of the game, and to start a text-based version of the game. It will be an emulator, playing describing the game in text-adventure style output, and receiving interactive fiction command input. And it worked pretty well. I know it got the dialog pretty close to perfect, since I read a script of it a few years ago.

Now, the combat wasn't the best. It left out the element system almost entirely, but otherwise that was pretty good too. And it managed to hang on to inventory throughout the game so far. I've made it to Another World, and yeah the graveyard with Surge's grave gave me chills, if that's there in the original game.

Now, I tried a similar prompt, even more exact, with ChatGPT 5, and yeah it started all the way in some other area with tons of puzzles, but still with Kid and the other, hooded companion along with Surge. No Lynx in sight. Of course, I don't really remember the actual game having combat in the first area before Surge wakes up, but again I've not played it and have only listened to playthroughs, which weren't exactly described either.

But, Gemini seems to be a ton more accurate to the game in story, and a lot more descriptive. Of course, it would be great if Gemini for Android worked better with TalkBack, Android's Screen Reader, but Google is busy releasing bananas.

I NEED ZINES!

I am an advisor to a college creative writing club, and I want to present some #zines to the students so they get a sense of the potential as a way to share their writing. If you have a zine you are cool with me printing up or sharing with them, please let me know. Drop a link!

Just a heads up for my #Filipino fediverse (and Bluesky) folk:

Are you familiar with something called Bayanihan Linux? If so, then if you have copies of versions 1.0 to 4.0, Bayanihan Linux Government Edition, and the Bayanihan Linux 5 add-on discs, please let me know.

#tech #technology #linux #lostmedia

hot startup idea: oldschool disk defrag simulator as an xscreensaver module

Can't quite get a good photo of my blue Kangaroo Paw because of the sun but six weeks in, it's very happy. Will try again in the afternoon #AustralianNature #KangarooPaw #Nollamarra #Masquerade

#NicCLIM Map Editor pushing v2 right now (no time like the present)

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/trying-nicclim-v2/

#commonLisp #gameDev #devlog #itchio.

This version introduces executing lists of commands, a "current player" with put/get on them, and host lisp interactions (i.e. there's a com-apply that applies the host lisp's apply to the map location).

Some apologies to @dougmerritt

Mistodon: is this #ASCIIart kitten simply cavorting with an #emoji ball of yarn on the rug, or are they actively unravelling the carpet? I think the 'busted' expression on its face speaks volumes. This piece by @Lockja was included in last month's #cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.