Work on the next LGR space begins! Looking forward to a much bigger and more open place to create in 2026. So ready to say goodbye to storage units after renting for ten years 😩

Fuck John Carmack.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

I wrote an obituary of celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman for Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Me: "I'll use Ethernet to transfer these files to Windows 3.11, the transfer rate will be quicker." The transfer rate:

A little quiz for all you old nerds. Q. The hard drive is not recognised in a 386-class computer. You begin troubleshooting by replacing the cable but you only have a modern 80-conductor cable available. What is the mechanical issue that is likely to prevent you from using this cable?

FFS 😭

Current status.

Half Life 2 (2004) is now as old as the Star Wars arcade game (1983) was when Half Life 2 came out.

Flower Power G4 Tower

1/ I've never liked the RTS genre. I happened to play Dune II for the first time recently and really enjoyed it so thought maybe I was being irrational. I like the way it's set up as sequential missions of increasing length and complexity. But I realised why I don't like RTS: there's no chill.

Trans woman here. Out to society for over 7 years. Working at the biggest Spaceport on the planet for almost 5 years. Everyone know I'm trans. In a meeting this morning with some very high level types, on preps for Artemis II. They call me ma'am. Use she & her. Acceptance isn't that hard.

Are you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. picoide.com

Every time someone describes a Dell system as a "gaming PC", a component in an actual gaming PC dies.

It's not just Polymatt's ideas that make him a genius, it's also his attitude. He demonstrates a methodology that is centred around the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. The result is that the 'unsaveable' was saved. Incredible.

So far Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini have all failed to debug 40 year old C64 BASIC code. If you wanted a benchmark for how good "AI programming" is in 2025

"I cannot play Super Mario Kaizo for toffee" is your quote of the day, folks.

Guys I think I found the source of the beef between John Romero and Sandy Petersen. 😂

Love it so much when old computers find new ways to torment me. It keeps doing this at the very end of the DOS installation. It's a 512MB CompactFlash drive. The 256MB one worked fine. Maybe different geometry to make the recognised capacity smaller will work.

Live from 8pm GMT and a slight change to normal proceedings, I'll be playing Sharp X68000 games. No coding, no music.. just playing games! See you on stream twitch.tv/djh0ffman

Repairing a power supply. The good news: I found the problem immediately. The bad news: it exploded. Seems to be a voltage regulator but identifying it will be a challenge to say the least. 😅

The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

Closest you could get to 3Dfx gaming on a laptop back in the day.

When you install stuff (games particularly) in Windows 98, do you: 1. Install stuff wherever the installer wants to? 2. Customise the path and/or Start Menu folders? Number 2 is a real problem for some of us as not all installers provide the option.

Bobby Prince. He wrote the soundtrack to my gaming childhood.

Want.

1/ Today in 'Useless Shit I Collect' we have PCMCIA Cards. And here's a thread where I'll go through all of them individually because validation. Aren't you thrilled?

BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's Crown Jewels from the Louvre

ROMs for booting MacOS on the Apple Network Server have been found/archived - now how to flash them to other ANS - Are you a OF expert or know about PPC Mac ROMs? Join in and let us know. tinkerdifferent.com/threads/appl...

Still the only point-and-click adventure I've ever completed, Beneath a Steel Sky is pretty unique and a wonderfully imagined world.

Looking on eBay for additional CompactFlash cards and this is the most sus photo I've ever seen. Almost want to buy it to see how dodgy it actually is. 🤣

I own the X-Wing Collector Series CDs, which include X-Wing 95 and X-Wing vs Tie Fighter: Flight School on one disc and Tie Fighter '95 on the other. They have been mislabeled. The X-Wing CD has the Tie Fighter data on it. Weird.

The latest date recognised by Geoff Crammond's Formula 1 Grand Prix is 29th August 2022. The day is somehow wrong (it was a Monday).

Super Karts from circa 1994. VGA graphics, CD audio, and some questionable driver names.

#MODtober continues. Todays mod is Freerunner, a fast paced chip-tune with rolling beats, strong PWM bass and melancholic lead lines. Better get your running shoes on -> youtu.be/h_H4P4_trdY

Added Redneck Rampage to the collection. I think I played a demo of this once back in the day so this will be amusing. Also gonna introduce some home-educated teens to it. 🤣

I'm so annoyed they broke SMB 1.0 in Windows 10 recently. They're not gonna fix it are they. Now I have to boot into Wickes 7 so I can copy files onto my Windows 3.1 maybe. 😭

Anyone know a video editor? I need help! ytjobs.co/job/30336 (Sharing appreciated!)

Holy shit there's a Colombia Data Products PC clone on eBay. Hopefully the existing bidder fixes it.

#MODtober selection for today is another one from Assembly '94, 'All Nite Groove' by Dizzy of CNCD. modarchive.org/index.php?re...

Today's #MODtober offering is 'Vote for Me' by Leinad of Avalanche from the Assembly '94 4-channel competition. This one obviously really stuck in my mind! modarchive.org/index.php?re...

Forgot to do #MODtober yesterday, but busy. Today's offering is via the MOD Archive, which has an online player and you can download the original XM. This is 'Constellations' by Komosa, who produces commercially now via Bandcamp. modarchive.org/index.php?re...

So my loophole for #MODtober is that I uploaded a couple of musicdisks by Delusion a few years back and I don't think they're well known. But I love them. So I'll be sharing some tracks from them until I'm home. This one is '6 Hours... To Do This' again by Cosmic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k0I...

Today's #MODtober selection is a track called 'Demanding Minds' by Cosmic of Delusion. (The entire Radical Rhythms album is available on this link, but it starts at the track specified.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYX...

This is a bad time for me to join #MODtober fest because I'm away from tomorrow! But I think I've got a loophole to exploit. For now here's 'Legalise It' by Dev from 1993. youtu.be/xTqpwJrp4xI

Fuck centre-negative.

My oldskool capture stuff isn't set up right now, but here's the Descent demo song on the IBM MWave's general MIDI synth. Usually I pass-thru to an SC55.

If you ever get a chance to inspire, do it! ... as great day had at #CyberGirlsFirst event at Aston Uni, inspiring 13yo girls to pursue tech careers by sharing my journey & passion for tech. Loved their energy & curiosity! Let's keep encouraging the next gen of women in STEM! #WomenInTech

For devices that are, at their most basic level, constructed from the literal building blocks of logic, they are surprisingly illogical and nonsensical. I've been trying to get this one low profile graphics card, a HD6450, to work in this i3 PC. Upgrading to an i7 fixed it. What the actual fuck. 🥴