@[email protected] it is hard to believe that copies of the Dig still exist out there.
... he also had Outpost 1 and Outpost 2...
... I did not give in.
did i just drive 300 km one way in the middle of the night to pick up fifteen big box games.
yes.
yes i did.
#bigboxgames #retrogaming
@[email protected] i fear that most of the civilized world has forgotten too. i found them dirt cheap at thrift shops. i doubt they're still in print, but thankfully they are dirt cheap from used book sellers
how could i forget these two absolutely hilarious and informative illustrated texts on medieval and 18th century life.
i’ve had them sitting on the shelves for years, and realized they make a compelling visual reference
#bookstodon #illustration #books
adding two incredible finds to this medieval technology reading/research bibliography: Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel by Frances and Joseph Gies. The bookseller immediately recognized it and exclaimed “I appreciate a writer with the common touch!”
The second book - Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon by HPR Finberg was an accidental find. While it does not speak to technological change in the late middle ages, it speaks to the social and cultural life of an abbey and its surrounding village.
#books #bookstodon
you... you included regina, but edmonton didn't make the cut?
😭
#RetroGaming #canada #yeg
if you grew up in canada in the 90s and 2000s, you probably visited a Playdium arcade at one point or another.
if you didn't, playdium was a canadian national mega-arcade that had over a dozen locations at its peak. it grew in the late 90s and early 2000s when arcades had already withered away in most malls. they imported a ton of interesting massive arcade units, like Dance Dance Revolution, monster truck simulators and ride-racing sims
the playdium archive is an online mini-museum of playdium history. the edmonton-based archivist has done an incredible job of digitizing old footage.
my personal favourite are these reloadable Playcards that you'd use instead of cash in the arcade cabs. i wish i had hung on to mine.
#canada #history #arcade #yeg
oh boy. i just found my academic records published on my old CS department's server 🤣
back in 1997 when i was a snot nosed first year university student, i was planning on becoming a CS student.
the first requirement of the degree was CMPUT 114: Introduction to Computer Science.
the course was pretty straightforward: learn how to code and solve problems with Turbo Pascal 7 in a lab, while learning about data structures and bubble search and encapsulation in class.
unfortunately, that same semester, Ultima Online launched. 12 of my 14 hours a day were spent playing UO, leaving a few minutes for completing assignments.
i have circled the assignments i missed, and final exam which i did not study for because i was trying to GM my swordsman in UO 🤣
#ultima #uo #retroGaming
found a really cool document: the official developer/user documentation for the codec used to compress most of the Sega CD FMV games: Cinepak for Sega-CD
sadly, the software (macintosh) doesn't seem to be preserved anywhere. it had a really simple interface, and came with a driver for playback on the console
#macintosh #gamePreservation #vintageApple #sega #retroGaming
back in the early 90s, i only knew of four ways to get new computer games:
of all of the above, only the last two were reliable sources of new games every week. i was one of the only kids in the school that had a modem, so i spent every evening sourcing out hot new shareware on my local boards. i'd wear out my credits and time limits downloading every single disk i could find at 2400 baud, usually taking about an hour
of the dozens of games I downloaded, two of them proved to be mega-hits: Tank Wars and Crystal Caves. for over a year, my two best friends and i huddled around the computer playing hotseat tank wars, and took turns trying to finish CC levels.
consider that, at the time, we owned AAA titles like Wing Commander II and Space Quest IV, and a sega genesis with a dozen games between us. and yet, crystal caves was the first thing we'd load up on sleepovers. it found the exact right balance of addictive, fun and friendly.
a few years ago i started collecting old shareware distributor diskettes - the kind you'd find for $2 at a grocery store. and i absolutely treasure them. 🙏
#apogee #shareware #retroGaming #dosgaming
say what you want about crapstone games - but damn is that hi-res installer hot
#dosgaming #retroGaming
@[email protected] i somehow managed to mentally block out that it got a sequel until i saw the guy's pic of it this evening.
i took phantasmagoria instead. it's hard to imagine that being a lesser evil to anything, and yet, here we are