Crepuscular rays around a towering cloud, outside IBM building 906 in Austin, Texas, April 23, 2010. #photography

It's all fun and games until someone looses AI.

Park Bend Drive, Austin, Texas, June 30, 2007 Taken during my first trip to Austin for a summer internship with IBM. #photography

Construction site at The Domain, Austin, Texas, August 31, 2008 #photography

Mill City, Nevada, July 20, 2012 #photography

The Kickstarter for Annalog on NES is now LIVE! 🔥🔥🔥 Go check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ell...

Weakness counting, my only weakness

It is said the Ironic Throne was forged from ten thousand spoons

worth its wait in godot

20/20: Game has been released! Thank you all for your support. You are invited to POKE ALL TOADS!

Opus Magnum: De Re Metallica is out now! Craft alchemical substances using novel, occult glyphs in the DLC for the automation game Opus Magnum by Zachtronics! thinkygames.com/games/opus-m...

i DON'T care with the COOLTH of a thousand NONSUNS

"I got a new SSD" "How many GB?" "One."

Here's volume 1 of the NHK Wild Birds CD-G series, Forest Part 1. Check out all 42 birds, with recordings and narration, in my web player: hcs64.com/VOG-YC1/ With this I've finally completed the 4 volume set! I ran across volume 2 in 2024, it's taken a few years for the others to show up for sale.

Introducing OmniDrive! A firmware modification for MediaTek MT1959-based optical disc drives manufactured by Hitachi-LG Data Storage that enables features that allow for better, more complete reading of discs, including proprietary game discs. github.com/RibShark/Omn...

Here's the last NHK Wild Birds of Japan CD-G I have: Volume 3: Grasslands, with illustrations and recordings of 31 birds. Now I just need to find Volume 1! Check it out in my web viewer hcs64.com/VOG-YC3/ (Previously featured Volume 2 bsky.app/profile/hcs6... and Volume 4 bsky.app/profile/hcs6...)

We crashed Quest 64 but it made this sick remix

I have come here to kick Caesar, not to praise bubblegum

Speaking of Virtual Boy, here's a clip from a Video Boy VUE, a tool from Intelligent Systems for showing Virtual Boy games on a TV or monitor. In 2021 I wrote up an article examining the hardware: hcs64.com/video-boy-vue/

NHK Sound Effects Collection 6: Theater, Baseball, Charumera (1990)

Still have CRC32 on the mind. Here's something I've been thinking about for a while, correct a single byte error using CRC, checking with MD5 since these collide often with larger files: github.com/hcs64/crc-flip Finally got the algorithm simplified, mostly publishing to get it out of my head.

Turns out I was half right. And less than half wrong.

Check out the soundtrack (slightly arranged) starting with track 21 of the 1987 album "パソコン・ミュージック Jesus / Gandhara / Wingman 2" [BY30-5169] archive.org/details/paso...

NHK Sound Effects Collection 5: Shopping, Construction, Amusement Park (1990) NHK効果音集 - 5 - 商店街・工事・遊園地

I was asked about using crc32 to identify files corrupted with initial zero bytes, since I'd written crctrunc back in 2019 to (slowly) match zeroes at the end. I finally got around to it, here's crc-init-trunc. As a bonus it's also vastly faster at crctrunc's job. github.com/hcs64/crc-in...

NHK Sound Effects Collection Disc 4 of 10: Telephone, Clock, Kitchen, School (1990) NHK効果音集 - 4 - 電話・時計・台所・学校

As the saying goes: tough, the tough go saying.

NHK Sound Effects Collection - 3 - Frogs, Crickets, Cicadas, Horses, Dogs (1990) NHK効果音集 - 3 - カエル・虫・セミ・ウマ・イヌ

Keep Honking, I'm Reticulating Splines

Herd is now finally out. Available as a physical game and as print files. Physical version is also part of the Letibus Bundle for 10% off. There are 100 free community copies of print files on Itch.io. blazgracar.com/herd

Working on the tracklist for my Wikipedia concept album 1. Controversy 2. Fictional character biography 3. Demographics 4. Exile on Saint Helena 5. In popular culture 6. See also (hidden track) References

Raeder - Programming In Pictures (November 1984), page 99 archive.org/details/Raed...

the fate of the ellipsoid remains uncertain

NHK Sound Effects Collection: Disc 2: Waves, Rivers, Birds

NHK Sound Effects Collection: Disc 1: Wind, Rain, Avalanche (1990)

I acquired two more NHK Wild Birds CD-Gs! Here's Volume 4, Waterside birds (水辺の野鳥編). 46 birds in 70 minutes, check it out on the web: hcs64.com/VOG-YC4/

Happy birthday! For me it's the OoT crash debugger tcrf.net/The_Legend_o...

It's been 30 years since the launch of CD Extra! These audio CDs have special features for computers, hidden from CD players in a 2nd session. Initially it was called "CD Plus", as in this mid-1995 Sony demo. The name was soon changed, but the Blue Book standard kept a CDPLUS directory for metadata.

I acquired two more NHK Wild Birds CD-Gs! Here's Volume 4, Waterside birds (水辺の野鳥編). 46 birds in 70 minutes, check it out on the web: hcs64.com/VOG-YC4/

Ran across an interesting early CD+G technical document, from "AV Technology on Display", December 1985: "Toshiba Corporation: Putting CD Graphics into Practical Use". Has some good technical info and a rare aside about Line Graphics www.cieri.net/Documenti/Do...

That's the last time I'm suffering through another Topaz on Towpaths project, my next app will use Tourmaline on Two Legs

Reading this write-up on Daniel Temkin's upcoming esolang book, I learned of the author's amusing Olympus language, expressing programs as prayers to ancient Greek gods: danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/Oly... I remembered an ambitious idea for an educational programming game: gashlin.net/blog/pages/2...

The soundtrack for Super B-Daman Battle Phoenix 64 is an enhanced CD, but though the obi makes a big deal of the MIDI content, the data track contains only a single Standard MIDI file. I collect N64 soundtracks but hadn't heard of this one until I spotted an auction last year.

Ingi Game Theme Music CD-ROM (인기게임 테마뮤직) includes vocal tracks and BGM for four games published in Korea by SKC Softland: Ant Man, Blue Chicago Blues, Dark Side Story, and Eclipse. Track 1 is a DOS CD player program, with a cool feature to show graphics from the games: youtu.be/JKl5XQCTCN0

While Avex Trax would later include Enhanced CD content in many releases, this 1994 compilation "Avex Dance Vol. 1" is the only one I found using CD+G. Mostly it's slowly scrolling artist bios and album covers, with occasional neat effects like this fractal palette cycle: youtu.be/8u3zKPIbza0

I'm always on the lookout for unusual uses of CD+G, this is the most unique yet: CDG Palm Reading, a 3 disc set showing hand diagrams, explaining the fortune telling interpretation. Imagine a market with enough CDG players where this would make sense instead of a CD and book, or a PC CD-ROM.

A nice selection of photos for a soothing half hour of rhythmic waterwheel clanking and light BGM. I now have 6 of the 10 CD-G discs in this series, earlier mentioned here bsky.app/profile/hcs6...

First blog post in a while, how I encoded Bad Apple!! to CD+G for a karaoke machine gashlin.net/blog/pages/2...