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  • Lammy 690 days ago | parent | on: Videogamesprites.net, Featuring Over 36,000 Sprite...
    See also https://www.spriters-resource.com/
  • Lammy 695 days ago | parent | on: Algorithm question: can new comments bump threads?
    > Measures only to spur discussion and avoid “tumbleweed” posts that briefly appear on the front page and then sink back into obscurity.

    Yeah, exactly this. Lazy "bump" comments could and should be moderated away. It would be fine for comments-by-submission-author to not bump a submission in this way.

  • Lammy 696 days ago | parent | on: What happened to Adaptec? I found out.
    > Adaptec also produced software. If you wanted to burn a CD in the mid 90s, you may very well have used EZ CD Creator on Windows or Toast on a Mac. Adaptec divested its software business in 2001, spinning it off as Roxio.

    Those were both Adaptec acquisitions to begin with, in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Easy CD Creator was Corel CD Creator, and Toast was originally developed by Miles GmbH and published by Astarte:

    • https://web.archive.org/web/20021202191813/http://www3.corel...

    • https://archive.org/details/CorelCDCreatorSCSI1996 / https://archive.org/details/corelcdcreatormac1995

    • https://web.archive.org/web/19980518224734fw_/http://www.ast... “Toast CD-ROM Pro and Toast CD-DA were sold to Adaptec Inc.”

    • https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/astarte-toast-256

    My earliest memory of Adaptec was having to install their ASPI layer to pirate Dreamcast games with DiscJuggler after installing a retail HP CD-RW 8x4x32 ATAPI drive in my family Win98 PⅡ machine: http://aspi.radified.com/

    e: http://twostopbits.com/item?id=1287

  • Lammy 707 days ago | parent | on: WACUP — Winamp Community Update Project
    Note: they have removed all mention of "Winamp" from this page since Llama Group née Radionomy announced plans to reboot Winamp-proper. WACUP diverged from the old 5.666 release.

    The Classic Modern theme is excellent, by Victhor on DA: https://www.deviantart.com/victhor/art/Winamp-Classic-Modern... (I even donated to him for it)

    WACUP earned a permanent spot at the bottom of my portrait-oriented monitor ever since I found out about it in 2019: https://i.imgur.com/piTGF2E.png

  • Lammy 708 days ago | parent | on: Collection of mods, tracks, and paint schemes for ...
    Papyrus' last game, and direct predecessor of iRacing:

    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_Design_Group

    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRacing#Development

    Windows version: https://archive.org/details/NASCAR_Racing_2003_Season_USA

    Mac OS X version: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/nascar-racing-2003-season

  • Lammy 711 days ago | parent | on: The development of GTA3 (1999-2001)
    I won't write it out here in case they decide they want to unperson their blog entirely, but click the Hamburger Butan on the left of the site and all will be revealed to you.
  • Lammy 712 days ago | parent | on: The development of GTA3 (1999-2001)
    Mirrored before R* got to it ;) https://archive.org/details/insiderockstarnorth.blogspot.com
    • bmonkey325 711 days ago
      Yup. That didn't take long
  • Lammy 729 days ago | parent | on: The History of Slackware
    > On the 26th of March in 2005, Volkerding announced that GNOME was removed from Slackware current and turned over to the community to support and to distribute. This had been under consideration for a few years as community efforts had been “more complete” than Slackware’s included GNOME distribution.

    I 'member using GARNOME to build it on Slackware 10: https://web.archive.org/web/20051225020929/http://www.gnome..../

  • Lammy 730 days ago | parent | on: The making of RoadBlasters
    My favorite Atari game by far. I would love to play the huge sit-down cabinet some day.
    • bmonkey325 730 days ago
      I have never seen or heard of a sit down version.
      • Lammy 730 days ago
        Peak 1987 https://www.flickr.com/photos/10707024@N04/48699330972 (not my photo)
        • bmonkey325 730 days ago
          Wow. That’s really amazing. I imagine that would have been more comfortable to play
  • Lammy 745 days ago | parent | on: Macintosh Application Environment 3.0 — The virtua...
    Yes, and yes!

    http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/apple-macintosh-application-...

    https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10...

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