I was bummed the 74XX YouTube channel hadn't uploaded in a while but today was blessed with this amazing video that starts with finding some Wild Gunman film reels and ends with an amazing recreation of the original game. Probably my favorite low sub channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfq...
Last week my demo group won the 1st place at REVISION with the eponymous PC demo "Razor 1911": A 10 minutes long coded audio-visual journey thru different eras to celebrate 40 years of activity in demoscene.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Anb...
SPREAD THE CODE
LONG LIVE THE SCENE
Lossless h.265 in an mkv container meets your requirements (mkv supports variable framerates). Capture and playback are the remaining problems.
I don't think playing back to a mister is the correct target, as the mister can emulate and produce the images natively?
A stack of boulders with a robot on top
Generating the landscape in The Sentinel
A panorama of landscape 0000 in The Sentinel
A contour map of the landscape in The Sentinel
It's finished! The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic game, is now fully documented.
* 41,902 lines of lovingly annotated source code
* 51 deep dives (116,240 words)
* Buildable repository
* 100% handcrafted AI-free content
* 7 months’ work
thesentinel.bbcelite.com
#retrocomputing #C64 #BBCMicro
What is this absolute horseshit?! Your AI bot posted this as a reply 52 seconds after I posted the original.
No human will see this answer, but no, AI applications don't "enhance" "discovery" -- they're just a different algorithm than the platform's algorithm. Nice try, and please go away.
I just *LOVE* how AI enables theft AT SCALE. LOVE! IT!
Surely we are not heading for a dystopian nightmare where no media can be trusted as authentic. Surely not.
A pixel art rendering of an IBM PC model 5150 with a green monochrome IBM 5151 monitor
Have a pixel art IBM PC Model 5150!
License: CC4
#retrocomputing #pixelart
According to the most recent entry at this year's Revision, even the music routine is not on the CPU.
a pixel art Tandy 1000, with a CRT monitor sitting on top
Have a pixel art Tandy 1000!
#retrocomputing #pixelart
I almost don't want to tell you about the no-CPU Amiga demos that have been cropping up in the last few years
There will be gaps, hence my suggestion.
If computer games are in scope, you can fill your gaps with "Where in the USA is Carmen SanDiego?" and "The Spy's Adventures in North America"
Common sense is pretty easy to apply here:
- Game almost half a century old for a long dead platform that is not currently in any retail compilation? Save it, spread it.
- Property still being developed and sold by large established corporation? Save it, then wait for copyright law to change.
Piracy does it better.
My favorite phrase in this area is "beyond economic recovery". If the material cannot generate any meaningful income for the copyright holder, it would be difficult for the copyright holder to prove financial harm from its distribution.
IANAL, and this isn't legal advice.
Focusing on just one area for 30+ years has also made me a subject matter expert in that area, and I feel I've been able to provide greater value to the community that way. (I'd be lying if I said it didn't also cause me great distress, because I am hypersensitive to inaccuracies and anachronisms.)
Interpreted to one extreme by a certain tophat-wearing person, that could be read as "archive everything". Since that's literally impossible, I choose to focus on a specific area that *is* achievable, and dedicate my time to just that area. Over the past 30 years, I think it's been very successful.
No, not a fool. It's the children who are wrong.
Strongly voiced by @frankcifaldi.bsky.social in many forms and presentations, but not expressly acknowledged in my article: Modern law will never support archival, so we must archive first and figure out access later.
Fantastic. Signed 8-bit is the quickest target to mix PCM channels into, so glad it's in there.
It's like asking AI for a type of crack that will get you high, let you down easy, and not be habit forming. AI will bend over backwards trying to solve that problem, instead of saying "hey, all crack is bad, and you shouldn't be trying to do this." Which is what I really needed.
It's not that it provided me bad info; all the info it gave was factually correct. What made me mad is that the AI was so dedicated to "helping" me that it neglected to mention obvious problems that prevented me using the product for my purposes -- problems that it later acknowledged when I got mad.
When I had AI pushed on me in 2023, it felt cult-like. I resisted running my own tests, but when I did, it confirmed their enthusiasm was justified *as well as* vindicating my own suspicions that AI was not the panacea it was being pushed to me as.
Do your own research; take your own metrics.
Also possible my original post landed with a thud because nobody cares about computergame history. (Or, equally likely, me.) So this is the last time I'll mention it. At least I learned a lot from the exercise. Thanks to @philsalv.bsky.social and @frankcifaldi.bsky.social for starting the podcast.
What's the worst time to post something gaming history related? A few days before GDC. Well, GDC is over, so I'll try again:
Here's what I learned (as an archivist, for archivists) after listening to 150 episodes of the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social podcast: trixter.oldskool.org/2026/03/05/s...
This essay about refusing genAI in journalism is fantastic. Great reporting—and great writing, broadly—is irreducibly human. And not just the final prose, but rather the whole process that leads there—ideation, research, 1st draft, *every* phase of editing + more www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...
Half a million people are watching this live from around the world as I type this. It's comforting to know there's still some interest in science and exploration.
Nice! Does it support the SB16's signed 8-bit PCM mode too, or only the 16-bit modes?
I have picked a fortuitous week to finally start watching Silicon Valley
