danc256

Got this off ebay and have no idea where it might have come from. Glossy stock, 16"x24", perfectly folded, looks professionally printed. Any thoughts, suggestions, wild guesses appreciated. @BrianFargo Any Ideas?

@txgx42 Terrible consequences but fascinating artifact. What happened? Or how did it happen?

Looks like I just cracked the screen on my laptop 😧

@A2_Canada It’s like an Apple Walk of Fame@

So I might have found more disks... always more disks...

@a2_4am At least the Dominos guy didn’t log your call and all peripheral details for eternity then periodically hijack arbitrary phone conversations to tell you about deals on pizza.

A lot of people denigrate the internet but in the early 90s I ordered a pizza from Domino's and the next day I didn't know how to reheat it so I called back and the guy said to put it in the oven for 45 minutes and now I can just go on YouTube and find out that pizza's not real.

@DiskBlitz So where is support for disk duplicator hardware for automated batch disk imaging?

Kay imaged 1,281 disk sides in this batch over the last 2 months! My arm is tired just thinking about doing that many. Fantastic work!

@textfiles Finally watched it once. Superb. One of the best lines (paraphrased) is that most of the technical innovations of crypto were for problems created by the protocol in the first place.

Having watched this video twice, I can only recommend it be watched three times and I'll be joining you on that journey. youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWv…

@textfiles 1:17 long and I can’t bring myself to watch the whole thing.

Welcome to the world of paid endorsements, where money swaps hands and people in the talent pool are told, either by producers, representation or others, what they have to say, and they stumble over the words because they're weird words. twitter.com/iNabber69/stat…

@txgx42 What magazines did they advertise in?

Reading about floppy disk duplicators from the 80s... now I kind of want one

@appleIIcracks I found the ring. It’s behind this brick wall.

@MarcusBrodie6 Put some stick family stickers around them. You’ll be fine.

@DiskBlitz So when does SETI@home start using AppleSauce…

What makes the Victor disks different and why they are hard to image? Several reasons. One is shown in this scatter graph of flux timings. Both use variable-speed drives with GCR encoding. There should be 3 horizontal lines equally spaced. Narrow lines show better consistency.

@a2_4am Who would have guessed the galaxy was laid out in a uniform grid?

Galactic Wars boot video: archive.org/details/A2Vide…

Galactic Wars (unpreserved, cracked by Passport, thanks @a2_qkumba) archive.org/details/Galact… Thanks to @yesterbits for the disk!

@a2_4am Missed it by that much

Found an off-by-one bug in the original Apple II version of Prince of Persia

@a2_4am Peacefully enjoying the boot sound AND THEN THE MUSIC KICKS IN.

Space Port boot video: archive.org/details/A2Vide…

Space Port (unpreserved, cracked by Passport) archive.org/details/SpaceP…

@a2_4am @yesterbits Logical disk structure or map of the Death Star?

Logic Workout (unpreserved, cracked by Passport) archive.org/details/LogicW… Thanks to @yesterbits for the disk!

@burgerbecky I have never pondered what a cat would look like with a six-pack until now.

Gaze upon his murder mittens. He is plotting for round two on my arm.

@textfiles I can’t find the DVD or stream for that anywhere (last I checked 4-5 months ago).

At a screening, hope this documentary is good

@iFixRetro The way that blue wire is so optimally wrapped around the IC… Patrick Bateman would lose it on the spot.

MODE ODE and Fram chip installed for the Sega Saturn! Access your favorite titles using a multi media storage solution and keep your saves intact without relying on the coin battery to retain them!

@textfiles Infocom text adventure plot: Travel back in time 30 years and convince your younger self that in the future NFTs will sell for millions of dollars.

Oh No

@desktopsimmer @Why485 Yes. It’s easier to throw commodity resources at a problem than cultivate a team that can deliver a compelling experience. Personally when the addition or removal of a team member no longer makes or breaks the game the team is too big. Thanks for the compliment.

@danc256 @Why485 The little things do make a game. Today is just throwing the processor power at graphics, rather than making a good game. Ona separate note, that is a nice MicroProse collection there. I had almost every game, but then got rid of the boxEd. Building up the collection, slowly.

The fully extracted game is so big now with all the new audio added since the last build. It sits at a whopping 200MB now 👀💦