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Posts by Rik's Random Retro

A spaceship floating among some asteroids

A spaceship floating among some asteroids

A rover making a huge jump over a desolate moon landscape

A rover making a huge jump over a desolate moon landscape

Starfield has fully pulled me in, and the gameplay loop is addictive. Bethesda games have their issues but boy is it video game comfort food.

The new update elevated the game even further.

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Livestream - Crusaders of Might and Magic YouTube video by Rik's Random Retro

Dynamic schedule this week, but we're streaming tonight!

Crusaders of Might and Magic is up, and the Voodoo 2 is at the ready. Starting at 8 PM CT.

youtube.com/live/ExfIQKO...

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The bus picks up the kids by our driveway. Our son waits as long as possible before he goes out, saying "I have calculated, on average, the bus arrives at 7:25 and 51 seconds."

He's not impressed by my tales of walking to the bus in the Swedish winter as a kid, up hills both ways of course.

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a man with a beard is wearing a crown and saying you bow to no one . ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a crown and saying you bow to no one .

Family first always. You do so much for this community already, your personal life and sanity need not suffer as well.

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I had not heard of this, and the album rocks! Bought!

4 days ago 4 0 1 0

What an amazing show!

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Some of those boxes are amazing. I would flip through business catalogs admiring all the cool designs. Definitely grab some when I come across cool ones!

I never used CorelDraw in any real capacity but the hot air balloon imagery is burned into my brain.

1 week ago 1 0 0 0

Thanks to @polpo.org for coming on stream helping me out live as I fumbled around with the setup.

Great piece of kit, and great creator!

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Livestream - HP Vectra 486 feat PicoGUS YouTube video by Rik's Random Retro

Back with another stream! I drug the 486 out again, so let's play some DOS games, and maybe test out the new SB16 mode on the PicoGUS!

Starting tonight at 8 PM CT

youtube.com/live/YzMSPrp...

1 week ago 13 2 0 1
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The PicoGUS is the device that keeps on giving! Excited to give this a try.

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A corgi resting in a dog bed, barely awake

A corgi resting in a dog bed, barely awake

I enjoy working from home when my schedule allows, but the coworkers here are very low energy. No get up and go!

3 weeks ago 6 1 1 0
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Livestream - PowerMac G4 with Radeon 9800 Pro YouTube video by Rik's Random Retro

Another #MARCHintosh stream tonight, dragging out the beast of a PowerMac G4! One of the last models, featuring dual 1.4 GHz CPUs, and a Radeon 9800 Pro to top it off!

Let's see what it can do, starting tonight at 8:45 PM CT!

youtube.com/live/60x9Boi...

3 weeks ago 11 4 0 0
A box for the game Megarace

A box for the game Megarace

Can't wait to experience this newfangled CD-ROM multimedia thing I've heard so much about!

3 weeks ago 10 0 1 0

Indeed it is! Got it locally a few years ago form the original owner. Unfortunately, the screen is not doing well, and it needs some other work done to it. Sitting on the "work on eventually" shelf...

1 month ago 3 0 1 0
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Livestream - Hexen YouTube video by Rik's Random Retro

Getting back in the groove of streaming, last week was fun, so let's do it again!

Tonight at 8 PM CT, I'll be firing up the Pentium 166, and we'll play some Hexen. The Roland is standing by to provide the backing soundtrack!

youtube.com/live/Ua1Y54I...

1 month ago 4 1 0 0

Now now, that is the new old stock case I bought for my own build I planned to do... 2 years ago. Sheesh. Any day now!

1 month ago 1 0 1 0
A storage shelf with a mixture of random vintage computers, and accessories

A storage shelf with a mixture of random vintage computers, and accessories

Our storage room had become a mess of shoving random things in it for months. Thanks to a monumental effort from @geekate.bsky.social that's all taken care of.

I can now actually get to my storage shelf without tripping over things!

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A box for the computer game Sam & Max hit the road

A box for the computer game Sam & Max hit the road

I really like the LRG reprints for games that demand a high price. There was a vault drop on this one, and I had to jump on it.

Nice box, great game!

1 month ago 10 2 2 0
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I actually just used Cubic Player, and selected tracks by hand. Not as efficient to say the least, if it does have a playlist feature I haven't found it yet!

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A desk with 2 vintage computers

A desk with 2 vintage computers

Last night I actually did some retro things. I put the Mac back where it goes, and played some Sim City 2000. All while the 486 was on tracker duty in the background.

I should probably sit down and use the stuff more often!

1 month ago 11 0 1 0
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a man in a striped shirt and tie stands in front of a computer screen with the words pc load letter written below him Alt: Michael Bolton has problems with a printer
1 month ago 1 0 0 0

Impressive! And another part saved.

1 month ago 1 0 0 0
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Livestream - Power Chillin with the Power Mac YouTube video by Rik's Random Retro

I got the need. The need to stream! It's been a while but in honor of #MARCHintosh, I'm fiddling around with the PowerMac 7100 tonight, starting at 8 PM CT.

I'll be checking out some ports of popular games. See you there!

youtube.com/live/axaOA2-...

1 month ago 7 3 2 0

Just a guess, but it seems it's trying to authenticate to the secure service on the other tenant (that has the user who sent the email), using the home/normal account, and they don't have that allowed on their side with their external collab settings. Browser it is!

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A screen showing the mac version of the game civilization

A screen showing the mac version of the game civilization

Well the French civilization was coming along nicely, until meeting a neighbor caused the game to freeze...

1 month ago 3 0 0 0
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A Power Mac 7100 playing the game Civilization

A Power Mac 7100 playing the game Civilization

A little bit of Civ on the Mac for #marchintosh.

I'm always fascinated by different ports of games. In this case the resolution boost makes a big difference compared to the other versions!

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A bedroom in the game avowed

A bedroom in the game avowed

A cave in the game avowed

A cave in the game avowed

A camp outside in the game avowed

A camp outside in the game avowed

The inside of an old workshop in the game avowed

The inside of an old workshop in the game avowed

I mean seriously. I love games with good art direction. Thinking back 10 yo me would have been blow away by a render of a scene like this. Playing it in real-time feels unreal (unreal 5, even).

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A sun soaked landscape in the game avowed

A sun soaked landscape in the game avowed

A sweeping landscape picture from the game avowed

A sweeping landscape picture from the game avowed

A room interior in the game avowed

A room interior in the game avowed

A cave in the game avowed

A cave in the game avowed

Finally got stuck back into playing Avowed, and it hooked me this time. I absolutely love the art style with all the fantastic color pops, and sweeping landscapes. It's painfully beautiful at times.

Just the type of game I needed right now. The combat is super fun too.

1 month ago 9 0 2 0

I think you mean peak humor.

2 months ago 3 0 0 0
A Commodore Amiga 1200 playing the game Roguecraft DX

A Commodore Amiga 1200 playing the game Roguecraft DX

Here we go again! Trying out Roguecraft DX. The original version was great, so had to grab this as well.

I love new games for old systems!

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