made a ravine kind of scene in blender and ran it through my 160x100 8bpp qbasic engine. i kinda like it :3
made a ravine kind of scene in blender and ran it through my 160x100 8bpp qbasic engine. i kinda like it :3
Hello you wonderfully wierd fedizens. I'm looking for something, something so obscure someone here is bound to know it.
I'm looking for a font that 'feels'™ like old IBM terminals. I know of the 3270 font, however I find it a bit hard to read.
It's for a book, where I will use it for "forum posts" and "short messages". So, it'll be used for prose, but short.
I could use a regular monospace font, but would prefer something a bit more 80s.
Estate sale find!
#RetroComputing #RetroComputers
The existence of InstallShield implies the existence of InstallSword.
The existence of InstallShield implies the existence of InstallSword.
the last time it was acceptable to make a user interface that had the cursor lag when the user presses up and down was never. computers have always been fast enough to handle this.
somehow my 4k TV, however, is not
Which is kind of amazing, considering the early #Mac models did all of their #graphics, including compositing the mouse cursor on top of the rest of the screen's contents, in software on a CPU that may as well have been an abacus compared to what we're using now.
And yet, somehow, there was no noticeable lag in the mouse cursor's motion.
Someone at #Apple in the early 1980s was very, very good at their job.
We’re in the process of freeing the DATA trapped on these esoteric carriers. Would you support and help us store and carefully recover this data with a membership or sponsorship? https://icm.museum
#software #preservation #esoteric #tapes #disks #media #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
We’re in the process of freeing the DATA trapped on these esoteric carriers. Would you support and help us store and carefully recover this data with a membership or sponsorship? https://icm.museum
#software #preservation #esoteric #tapes #disks #media #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
Estate sale find!
#RetroComputing #RetroComputers
That time I stacked 10 classic Macs and ran After Dark to see Flying Toasters wide screen.
Maybe I should do something like that again for #MARCHintosh.
I was very disappointed to discover that these so-called “ROM COM” movies contain no references to either Read Only Memory, or COM ports.
2/10, would not recommend 🤨
Hardcore #Apple desktop setup.
Here's the Seequa Chameleon video circuit. Now to just wire everything up in KiCad...
the world is divided between those who would turn up their noses at a $5 USR Sportster at a thrift shop, and mastodon
i've made a git repo for my Aseprite script that exports to QBasic's BSAVE format: https://github.com/Enichan/BSAVE-Aseprite
#aseprite #PixelArt #GameDev #QBasic #RetroDev #RetroComputing #dos
