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- Comment on LisaGUI recreates Apple’s Lisa interface in your browser 2 days ago:
Fun. I really prefer the days when interfaces were simpler like this. I explored this on my phone, and while I like modern conveniences like capacitive touch and swipe keyboard entry, I miss the complete lack of assistive this and AI that.
I took a few moments to play the slide puzzle and pretended technology evolved in a different direction for a bit…
- Comment on How A Blast From The Past - Lemmy.World 1 week ago:
It really doesn’t seem all that long ago that I would pull a tab from the BBS phone number tear sheets from my local grocery store (just a store in a small regional chain, not a national chain), then go home and fire up my 9600 baud modem and check out what was on offer. No ads, no corporatization yet, because it wasn’t interesting enough for companies to spend time on it and they didn’t really understand it anyway. Everything moved more slowly then.
People would actually pay me money to build them websites not too many years later. What a time to be alive.
- Comment on Legendary game designer, programmer Rebecca Heineman has died 1 week ago:
What a delightful person she was. My boxed copy of The Bard’s Tale III for Apple II and my giant book of mega dungeons are both on display in my house. They stand as a small monument to her and her wife’s contributions to the games industry.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 2 weeks ago:
I think it was pretty rare, at least after the first year or so. I had a Game Gear maybe a year after it launched, and I desperately wanted this as a kid so I could watch TV in my bedroom or on car trips. I searched everywhere, called stores, etc. but never did find one.
- Comment on Is it too late to post something spooky? 2 weeks ago:
befingered
- Comment on It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console 2 weeks ago:
Who is this for?
- Comment on It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console 2 weeks ago:
First of all, no one is praising this, so that’s one demerit.
Second, “sheeple.” Two demerits.
Third, I’ve had to down vote way too many of your posts lately.
Three demerits. I’m afraid it’s detention for you
- Comment on Heroes of Might and Magic 2 mod for Civilization II released on ModDB 3 weeks ago:
Ah, New World Computing… synonymous in my mind with vaguely incongruent art direction, an absolutely unrestrained amount of pillow shading, and just enough almost-imperceptibly incompatible perspective lines to give you a slight feeling of unease while playing the game.
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 4 weeks ago:
My recommendation is don’t do it. You can just, like, not connect your TV to the Internet. That’s what I do. It works fine.
I used to own a really high-end plasma and held off on replacing it until high-end 4K OLED screens became more affordable, but I swapped it out about five years ago and haven’t missed it.
I was playing the original Castlevania on it just the other day. Game mode, RetroUSB AVS, and an 8bitdo N30 wireless controller, and the lag is only like 10-12 ms. I can play Battletoads just fine with this setup.
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 5 weeks ago:
My parents would have ensured my soul left my body if I had tried to call one of these
- Comment on DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core 5 weeks ago:
Any reason to continue using plain old Dosbox instead of this release?
- Comment on How Sierra and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s (2018) 5 weeks ago:
That crossed my mind as I was reading too, but if he is, he’s never said it publicly. I’d like to imagine he’s not, even though he was clearly pro-business conservative back in the day.
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- Comment on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ported from NES to SNES with improvements 1 month ago:
No graphical or gameplay enhancements, just music and no slowdowns or flicker
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Follins and his brother Geoff are great. I own pristine copies of both of those games just because of his soundtrack.
Here’s another random one from around that time period. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
That said, he had a very strong prog rock sensibility and and sometimes the music didn’t really fit the game very well. He’s said he typically would just compose something he wanted because they had nothing to show him to give him direction.
Here’s a funk theme by the two brothers from Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge. That entire soundtrack is the most '70s infused one on the Super NES.
He kept composing into the 2000s. He did a really atmospheric track for the Dreamcast Ecco the Dolphin game. This is a nice one.
- Comment on What are some of your favorite Master System memories? 1 month ago:
When I went over to my friend’s house for the first time and he apologized for having a Master System instead of an NES.
- Comment on Tarrifs? 1 month ago:
Contact the company and ask. No one here will be able to tell you about tariffs for some very specific product and company, most likely.
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 2 months ago:
Yeah. You can use Dosbox for most things, and Wine will handle some things, but if you want to play Windows titles and emulate specific configurations and 3D cards, etc., you should look into one of these.
- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 2 months ago:
Shining Force II was the first RPG I ever played, back in the days when you could rent the entire console. I absolutely fell in love with that game.
In addition to many listed elsewhere…
Beyond Oasis. Castlevania: Bloodlines. Rocket Knight Adventures. Shadowrun. Phantasy Star series. Castle of Illusion and World of Illusion. Might and Magic II.
And the Genesis version of Earthworm Jim remains the definitive version for me.
- Comment on Taki Udon has a PlayStation FPGA console that's in batch 3, shipping Q1 2026 2 months ago:
This is a MiSTer FPGA in a cool shell that reads memory cards and uses original controllers, but they’re also adding a disc drive add-on that rips your games.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s also not what Commando for the NES looks like. This looks closer to the arcade version of Ikari Warriors.
- Comment on Replacement PS/2 cable for IBM Model M keyboard? 2 months ago:
If you actually just need a replacement PS/2 cable, it looks like eBay has them for sale.
Monoprice sells PS/2 to USB dongles.
- Comment on Romhacker colorizes all Final Fantasy branded games for the original Game Boy 2 months ago:
Oh great, if the IPS file is available that makes it much easier.
- Comment on Romhacker colorizes all Final Fantasy branded games for the original Game Boy 2 months ago:
Does anyone know what the commands in Unix are? It looks like the output is a regularly .gbc file, and I assume each of those tools has a Unix equivalent.
- Comment on Whats a good Resource on Learning 6502 Assembly, for someone who has little to no experience Programming? 2 months ago:
If you have little to no experience with programming at all, I suggest trying the assembly game TIS-100 first to wrap your head around the concepts rather than trying to learn 6502 right away.
- Comment on Is Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII Worth Playing in 2025? 2 months ago:
Well, it’s not a long game. It’s like 6 hours. So if you’re interested, just play it and form your own opinion.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 3 months ago:
As for games, my partner does not allow gaming at all.
That seems like something that should be a discussion rather than an edict
- Comment on A Blunt Message Against Collective Shout 4 months ago:
Thank you. I read both of the links and I don’t really understand what the OP is trying to achieve with this post, which no one from that group will read, just as no one from that group has ever played a video game. They just seem like publicity-seeking busybodies with time to kill between complaints about their neighbors to their HOAs.
In particular I still don’t understand why any of this is relevant to retro games. Modern games, sure. But it doesn’t look like they’re trying to get Crash Bandicoot banned from Steam.
- Comment on A Blunt Message Against Collective Shout 4 months ago:
I don’t know what this group is and I have no idea what you’re talking about
- Comment on Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z – the Mountain Dew of Ninja Gaiden games 4 months ago:
If this were called Yaiba: Zombie Slayer 2099, no one would be talking about it now. The only thing that makes this game not immediately consigned to the ash heap of history is the name.
