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n3ffo 110 days ago | parent | on: Instant Graphics and Sound, Part 1
Somehow I don't think I ever saw RIP (or IGS) in action on a BBS, I might have always said no not understanding what it was (or whatever clients I used didn't support it).
Though presumably v.44 protocols would compress ANSI graphics text reasonably well?
n3ffo 116 days ago | parent | on: Roguecraft Devs On Developing For Amiga In 2024
Some genuinely great games being worked on for Amiga in 2024. Cecconoid was great too.
n3ffo 121 days ago | parent | on: Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998...
Wow, that's almost as old a website as this one:
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
n3ffo 121 days ago | parent | on: Digital Antiquarian on The Later Years of Douglas ...
My username is a oblique reference to HHGTTG, so it had some effect on me. :)
Dirk Gently was underrated though.
n3ffo 123 days ago | parent | on: Digital Antiquarian on The Later Years of Douglas ...
As usual, the antiquarian covers a lot of ground (partly around Adam's books), but does talk about the disappointing Starship Titanic game and how Adams' fans felt about his other work.
He later regretted the tone of Mostly Harmless and wanted to revisit with another book (but died before he began serious work on it).
n3ffo 126 days ago | parent | on: Did buying the Amiga cause Escom's bamkruptcy?
To be fair that was my submission not the original article (typo and all)
- bmonkey325 126 days ago
  Warts and all made a lot of people read the article.
n3ffo 128 days ago | parent | on: Grind - An epic first person shooter for Amiga 50...
This seems like some kind of magic.
- Darkstar 128 days ago
  Yeah, I don't believe any of this until I see it running on my trusty old A2000 ;-)
  - bmonkey325 128 days ago
    Duke nukem forever. Amiga edition …
n3ffo 143 days ago | parent | on: Ghosts in the ROM
Some many crazy bits here: - someone left a Mac SE on the sidewalk (this was 2012) - they had spare ROM spare for 1bit images (256kb ROM) - nobody stopped them
n3ffo 150 days ago | parent | on: David Braben's other classic game - Lander
https://lander.bbcelite.com/
Mark's site has a bit more technical a break down as well (and has done some great work with BBC Micros)
n3ffo 153 days ago | parent | on: The biggest CRT display ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
450 pounds, or about 200 kg
- bmonkey325 152 days ago
  I had. 50” hitachi diamondscan from this era that was about the same weight. My niece killed the screen with duck hunt
  - qingcharles 152 days ago
    What's a Diamondscan?
    I had the 40" Sony CRT. It took 3 of us to lift that thing. I bought it just for lightgun games.
    - bmonkey325 152 days ago
      4:3 rear projector 50” tv of the same era. 3 colour tubes to composite and project each colour plane. Just a big, bulky, dumb tv. I only noted it because it had the same mass as the tube tv you had.it took 3 persons to cart it up the 2 flights of steps into my apartment.