Meanwhile, Four Sequels Later... - ADG-se Week 2 YouTube video by Pixelmusement

New Ancient DOS Games Shareware Edition video uploaded and ready to watch! youtu.be/clV-z_IxLSE

Save States: Things you learn consuming 150+ episodes of a gaming history podcast 2026 is the 30-year anniversary I would consider myself having been directly involved in computer/video game archival from a preservation and outreach standpoint. From the early days building up th…

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...

To wit: The Japanese Game Preservation Society got criticism when they reached out for funding last year. Mainly around limited accessibility. They are heavily constrained by Japanese IP law.

"Piracy does it better" was a recurring trope from the peanut gallery.

What are your thoughts there?

These all seem like logical, prudent points.

To us, I think the reason to meticulously preserve this material is self-evident, but some people out there take the view that such archives need not exist if they don't offer free, unfettered access to their contents.

Cont'd..

I know it's not that song, but the thumbnail haha 🤣

He's not Walken, he's Dancen

Nope, identical 🤣

NEC PC-8801MkII SR
NEC uPD780C-1 @ 4MHz

325 seconds

This is using NEC N-88 ROM BASIC, 1981 Microsoft.

I will run again using Disk BASIC, which is a few years newer.

I 'member!

And I'll have you know that as of last week my cholesterol is perfectly cromulent.

Still gotta schedule that colonoscopy though 😂

Ah gotcha!

So the presence (and condition) of the sleeve means this was barely used if at all, I guess.

Score! 😁

Obtained.

The label reading "Space Quest Historian" is under the secondhand store's plastic wrap, so presumably was on there from the factory?

In any case, this one is not still sealed. The sleeve with the aforementioned label is slit along one edge. Still, it's in VERY nice condition!

It really is!!

I spent the last 2 days driving around going to [Hard/Book]-Off stores of all sizes near-ish Tokyo. As far east as Funabashi and Chiba, west as Hanakoganei, north as Saitama, and south as Kawasaki. I didn't end up buying much, but it was SUCH A COOL ADVENTURE!!!

SC-1903 YouTube video by Nash Music Library - Topic

Normies brains after visiting Japan: Don don donkiii---

My brain: youtu.be/D1RXghv7ZO4

At last! New IDE Optical Drive Emulators for Retro PCs YouTube video by LGR

Fresh new hardware for aging old computers on LGR!

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The ZuluIDE and PicoIDE optical drive emulators replace your old CD/DVD drive with a MicroSD card solution for loading ISOs, including support for Redbook CD digital audio! Among other features like virtual hard disks and more

OpenOMF, an open source remake of "One Must Fall 2097" with new options and network play: github.com/omf2097/open...

I'll go back for a look, the SQ3 one was about 3400 yen, or 30ish Australian dollary-doos.

Maybe I should go back and grab it, budget be damned 👀

The SQ6 one was there too, but I had to make a budget constrained choice 😅

A piece of 1-bit pixel art on a simulated Macintosh screen. the piece of 512x342 pixels in size, and depicts a wacked-out bit of art showin the giant number "2026" floating in space over a piece of "Globaltalk" text with an Apple logo next to it. Various spacy shit is around the piece, like a nebula behind, a planet with rings, a small black hole, a whole bunch of stylised magnetar lines, clouds, rocks, and black bubbles of possibly vacuum decay. it's signed in the bottom right corner by me, 'nanoraptor'

For Globaltalk, in Marchintosh 2026.

18.5 hours, 1 bit, black and white only.

(Original .pict on a bunch of your globaltalk servers)

A decidedly un-Japanese, un-secondhand find in a Japanese secondhand retro game shop!! Still sealed! @spacequesthistorian.com

There's a Foone BBS? 👀

Good stuff!

DESQview stands out to me, seems to have been the king of multi-node DOS BBS multitasking.

The package I'm running, Ezycom, has explicit support for it. My Win32 "telnet to FOSSIL" bridge emulates it for the ntvdm session, too.

A PCMCIA card with a label saying "YYZ Credit Card Adapter for Everything" in the style of the PCMCIA cards that IBM made back in the 90s. A small wifi antenna, SD card slot, and dongle connector are on the card's edge.

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... Very convenient!

What this also means is that the assets for the Tandy versions were bespoke for those ports, which is kind of impressive for this era.

It shows that the port devs and/or Sierra really cared about the player experience across their target systems.

@pixelmusement.com I'm on a bit of a "Japanese PC" odyssey at the moment, and it reminded me of your Thexder 1+2 episodes.

These are PC8801 games. They were limited to the "V2" modes, giving 8 colours at 640x200.

The EGA modes in both games' DOS ports could use the original assets 1:1 this way...

a blue background with the word ms dos on it Alt: MS-DOS logo bouncing around on a blue background like the DVD logo

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Allegedly Hard mode because no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

i2cdetect output showing device 3c

oled demo

Turkey day fun: You can interface I2C devices with a PC’s SMBUS as long as there are no address conflicts. This is an SSD1306 based 128x32 monochrome OLED on an abit bp6 motherboard (running T2 SDE Linux). SMBCON pinout and gist follow. It is device ‘3c’ here.