Ah gotcha!
So the presence (and condition) of the sleeve means this was barely used if at all, I guess.
Score! 😁
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Ah gotcha!
So the presence (and condition) of the sleeve means this was barely used if at all, I guess.
Score! 😁
Obtained.
The label reading "Space Quest Historian" is under the secondhand store's plastic wrap, so presumably was on there from the factory?
In any case, this one is not still sealed. The sleeve with the aforementioned label is slit along one edge. Still, it's in VERY nice condition!
It really is!!
I spent the last 2 days driving around going to [Hard/Book]-Off stores of all sizes near-ish Tokyo. As far east as Funabashi and Chiba, west as Hanakoganei, north as Saitama, and south as Kawasaki. I didn't end up buying much, but it was SUCH A COOL ADVENTURE!!!
Normies brains after visiting Japan: Don don donkiii---
My brain: youtu.be/D1RXghv7ZO4
Fresh new hardware for aging old computers on LGR!
youtu.be/td6QdOnMvnk
The ZuluIDE and PicoIDE optical drive emulators replace your old CD/DVD drive with a MicroSD card solution for loading ISOs, including support for Redbook CD digital audio! Among other features like virtual hard disks and more
OpenOMF, an open source remake of "One Must Fall 2097" with new options and network play: github.com/omf2097/open...
I'll go back for a look, the SQ3 one was about 3400 yen, or 30ish Australian dollary-doos.
Maybe I should go back and grab it, budget be damned 👀
The SQ6 one was there too, but I had to make a budget constrained choice 😅
A piece of 1-bit pixel art on a simulated Macintosh screen. the piece of 512x342 pixels in size, and depicts a wacked-out bit of art showin the giant number "2026" floating in space over a piece of "Globaltalk" text with an Apple logo next to it. Various spacy shit is around the piece, like a nebula behind, a planet with rings, a small black hole, a whole bunch of stylised magnetar lines, clouds, rocks, and black bubbles of possibly vacuum decay. it's signed in the bottom right corner by me, 'nanoraptor'
For Globaltalk, in Marchintosh 2026.
18.5 hours, 1 bit, black and white only.
(Original .pict on a bunch of your globaltalk servers)
A decidedly un-Japanese, un-secondhand find in a Japanese secondhand retro game shop!! Still sealed! @spacequesthistorian.com
There's a Foone BBS? 👀
Good stuff!
DESQview stands out to me, seems to have been the king of multi-node DOS BBS multitasking.
The package I'm running, Ezycom, has explicit support for it. My Win32 "telnet to FOSSIL" bridge emulates it for the ntvdm session, too.
A PCMCIA card with a label saying "YYZ Credit Card Adapter for Everything" in the style of the PCMCIA cards that IBM made back in the 90s. A small wifi antenna, SD card slot, and dongle connector are on the card's edge.
Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? @yyzkevin.com's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/
... Very convenient!
What this also means is that the assets for the Tandy versions were bespoke for those ports, which is kind of impressive for this era.
It shows that the port devs and/or Sierra really cared about the player experience across their target systems.
@pixelmusement.com I'm on a bit of a "Japanese PC" odyssey at the moment, and it reminded me of your Thexder 1+2 episodes.
These are PC8801 games. They were limited to the "V2" modes, giving 8 colours at 640x200.
The EGA modes in both games' DOS ports could use the original assets 1:1 this way...
ATTENTION DOSember/DOS streamers! The community has stepped up and we have a new home for DOSember!
Please spread this around! Things are still quite bare bones, but we're trying to get the community gather into one place.
dosember.net
discord.dosember.net
#dos #dosgaming #retrocomputers
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Allegedly Hard mode because no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
His name is Paul aka Avon and is very helpful. He even set up a Youtube channel to help people set up MysticBBS (and has videos on how to connect to message networks).
www.youtube.com/@MysticGuyBBS
i2cdetect output showing device 3c
oled demo
Turkey day fun: You can interface I2C devices with a PC’s SMBUS as long as there are no address conflicts. This is an SSD1306 based 128x32 monochrome OLED on an abit bp6 motherboard (running T2 SDE Linux). SMBCON pinout and gist follow. It is device ‘3c’ here.
It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
Jet Set for Fucking Willy
Pepsi for TV Game, but in the style of that New York mayoral ad thingie
Never forget
Holy moly I can't wait!!! (Also thanks for linking the generator 😎)
I have FOMO: Fond of Missing Out
"PREDATOR: BAAD CC", I guess if you want subtitles you need to choose the "PREDATOR: GOOD CC" screening 🙃
Hmmmmm
My Space Quest site, Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset, launched 30 years ago this month. That makes it one of the oldest video game fan sites on the web.
To celebrate the milestone, I've updated the site for the first time in ages with tons of new content. Check it out! wiw.org/~jess/roger.html
A screenshot of a twitter post by @foone on October 26th, 2017. She posts "PQ2 death generator is live! make ol' Jim Walls say whatever you want." with a link to the site, and an included image: It's the death dialogbox from the Sierra adventure game Police Quest 2. It shows Jim Walls, a retired police officer, as a portrait on the left. The titlebar says "Jim shakes his head and says..." and there's "Restore", "Restart", "Quit" buttons. The text has been edited to read: "YOU CAN MAKE ME SAY THINGS ANYTHING YOU WANT i miss sierra games :("
for some reason back in 2017, I decided to make a website to make fake video game screenshots. This was a good idea and made a lot of people laugh.
Here's to the Death Generator, eight years and 270ish games later!
deathgenerator.com
Soy ramen eggs are a gift from the gods. 👌
