Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Everyone Go Follow Patrick Willems on YouTube. It's a crime against culture he doesn't have a million subscribers. Easily one of the very best video essayists on the Internet. @patrickhwillems.bsky.social

Infocom's Cornerstone and the mu machine that would have brought it to every platform of the '80s are not so lost anymore... blog.zarfhome.com/2026/04/corn...

Dear OS providers: please for the love of god stop hiding your restart option. You are not perfect. Sometimes you need to reboot the freaking device. And now that everyone's assigned "long hold on power" to AI, it becomes nigh impossible to figure out how to do a restart. (Looking at you Android)

I know, the timing is weird. Victor Franco ported my published sources for Glider 4.0 to the modern MacOS and, yes, we have another Glider game for the Mac. It's faithful to the original Glider 4.0 that came out in 1990. (And it's free.) apps.apple.com/us/app/glide...

Guess it was naive to hope that Disney would keep selling the OG versions of Dark Forces and Outlaws after the remasters were released. 🙄 Star Wars: Rebellion is now no longer available well. Updated my "Where to buy these games" page, which is looking sadder and sadder. dreamm.aarongiles.com/buy/

Warsaw is both medieval hunting lodge and Cyberpunk 2077

This was awesome. It hadn't occurred to me that a video signal of scrolling text would be physically legible on a CAV disc medium like laserdisc or CED, but it makes total sense. (Skip to the halfway point if you don't care about unboxing the microscope.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR...

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

The oldest MIDI file I have personally collected - a rendition of Sting's "Englishman in New York", dated September 25th 1993. 🔊🎵

Brutal.

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

📅 29 years ago today, Outlaws was released! 💾 Outlaws was released on April 7th, 1997! 💾

That's right! We destroyed the oldschool demo compo with my most advanced 6502 code to date. This is really running in a stock Atari 2600 with no expansions! (except 32k ROM bank switching) Full video at my channel youtu.be/aEJ0A8Wvdxs

1/2 *cup* of ground cumin??? I think not! (Pretty sure that should be 1/2 tsp like the ones below.)

First thought: There's no way this is going to be good. Second thought: OK, but it will fall apart once they get to the chorus. Final thought: Holy shit, the chorus works even better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1E4...

What is the greatest sequel of all time? There are many opinions. Personally, I found mine in 2009:

"The current work-in-progress version of my LucasArts emulator DREAMM emulates over 20 Star Wars games. While getting them all working, I couldn't help but notice huge inconsistencies in how the opening crawl was handled from game to game." @aarongiles.com

In case you were craving a 4k restoration of the #1 song in the US 40 years ago... www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-H8...

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

I joined Harmonia this year to sing Messiah again in December, but this was my 2nd most anticipated program. At least I'd sung Messiah before! This was 28 new choruses to learn in 6 weeks, definitely a challenge but feeling pretty good for tomorrow's performance! harmoniaseattle.org/concerts/202...

Seriously, I had no idea until @aarongiles.com told me! It turns out that you had to be more persistent on the Mac version and USE the computer FIVE TIMES! #MARCHintosh #LucasArts youtu.be/N5AZY3tNFW4

Today's 27-year-old nostalgia blast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNF... After being reminded of this a few years ago, went down the Bomfunk MC's rabbit hole and found 3 pretty solid albums (accounting for the occasional '90s hip-hop cringe).

Been obsessing way too much over the Dreamm project. This may as well be the "LucasArts Classic Mini" where you supply the games and it handles the configuration. Covers Scumm, DOS and Windows titles with a host of QoL fixes, joystick and network support in an easy to use environment.

Ah, NERO__BURNING_ROM ... the dead giveaway you're looking at a rip and not an original CD image. Also the 2022 dates.

Every once in a while Raymond Chen does an architectural comparison series and I get to see (a paraphrased version of) some code I wrote way back when. He's right about why we passed stack size/16, but surprised he didn't call out the unconventional x15 usage. devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...

Always hate it when I'm searching up an algorithm and can only seem to find academic CS papers and articles written in (La)TeX rather than any actual implementations. I'll take working sample code over equations any day, even if I'm going to ultimately write my own implementation.

Follow-up to my QuickTime SDK question: The best place to search was discmaster.textfiles.com The key was knowing the names of some of the files that would only be in the SDK, like qtim32.lib. From there I was able to find many betas plus 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 3.0, 4.0, 4.1.2, and 5.0 at least. 👍

Meh, car's check engine light came on, dealer says it needs a full engine replacement. Been thinking of a used EV for a while, now seems like the moment. It's a 2nd car mostly used for commuting around the area, low mileage stuff. My 6'2" son needs to fit as a passenger. Hit me with recommendations!

Anyone know of an archive that has old QuickTime SDKs? Looking for 3.x specifically, but in general would like to have the full collection. I found a 2.0 CD but it appears to only have docs and marketing, no headers or libraries.

This week‘s guest was an essential force in making it possible for kids like me to play many adventure gaming classics. Let's Chat with Aaron Giles - LucasArts Macintosh Conversions + DREAMM 4.0! #MARCHintosh youtu.be/XrHFd5SCei8

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

Interview with @aarongiles.com, DREAMM Emulator author: "I have Battle for Naboo up and running with some glitches." darylbaxter.com/posts/interv...

Decided to upgrade to Visual Studio 2026. Seems to still compile my code ok. I mostly use the IDE for debugging and was hoping they'd have fixed the fact that the properties page doesn't respect dark mode after 4 years, but based on my seared eyeballs apparently not. 😞

LOL did that 9games.com thing and honestly you can tell I haven't done much gaming in the last, oh, say 30 years. 😜

i actually don't ever want a beer that tastes like a chocolate cake

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Simon And Garfunkel next. #totp

LucasArts Classics Return to Modern PCs with DREAMM 4.0 Update DREAMM 4.0 update brings LucasArts titles back to modern PCs and the Steam Deck, with new games, controller support, netplay, and MIDI audio. 👉 View More

Fire up DREAMM 4.0 and marathon late 90s Star Wars and LucasArts oddities on your Steam Deck or desktop without old installer headaches. retrohandhelds.gg/lucasarts-em...

Aaron Giles recently shipped v4.0 of his excellent LucasArts emulator, DREAMM. You can download it here: dreamm.aarongiles.co... @danielalbu.bsky.social is premiering his fourth conversation with Aaron this Sunday at noon (PT), focused on what’s new in v4.0: ▶️ youtu.be/qNtvbXX6TJE ◀️

TMBG on the cutting edge as always

Two years ago, I premiered my third conversation with Aaron Giles about DREAMM v3.0, which had just been released at the time. ▶️ youtu.be/dSyHQwKD8qc ◀️ Stay tuned for my fourth conversation with Aaron, premiering this Sunday at noon (PT), all about DREAMM v4.0...

Everybody check out Afterlife if you'd at least like some artificial justice to soothe you right now.

News from Mojo: DREAMM Hits 4

DREAMM emulator for LucasArts, Lucasfilm, and Lucas Learning games v4.0 out now #PCGaming #Retro #RetroGaming #Emulation #Gaming

LucasArts Emulator DREAMM Adds Support For A Bunch Of Old Star Wars In "Major" Update.

I'm amazed. For years, I've had so much trouble getting the PC version of Phantom Menace to work. In 3 clicks via DREAMM by @aarongiles.com, I'm playing it on my Mac, complete with the 60 FPS cheat enabled. Home run.

Out of curiosity I decided to check what emulators the 30th Anniversary Edition uses since I've seen a lot of misinformation about it (no it doesn't use RetroArch 😛) SNES: Mednafen (snes_faust) GBC: sameboy GBA: mGBA Jaguar: BigPEmu MS-DOS: DREAMM PS1: Pancake #rayman