Programmer. Pippin hacker. Fan of Macs, Apple, 70s/80s/novelty music, retro gaming, VR, DeLoreans, and combinations thereof. Opinions expressed are mine. He/him
Bay Area, CA
Joined May 2010
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I've decided to determine this scientifically. Here's my first pass with my subjective opinion about current relevancy of each of the lines.
Reply with your suggested changes *and* reasoning for them. Everything will be considered. We'll figure it out.
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A small FYI: Starting with macOS Ventura, the Preview app no longer supports PostScript (.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files.
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Mortal Kombat's digitized martial artists went to court for more credit in the '90s. And this is what ended up happening: arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/โฆ
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The Secret History of Mac Gaming: Expanded Edition
Celebrate the history of gaming on the Apple Mac with this beautiful 480-page hardback book, featuring more than 250 Mac titles.
Product link: bitmapbooks.com/collections/โฆ
#bitmapbooks #book #retrogaming #fyp #tbt #mac #apple
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The intriguing story of 1985 Mac title Enchanted Scepters, an early point & click/text adventure hybrid: retro365.blog/2022/08/24/bitโฆ
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Hey, just a heads-up. Turns out the upcoming Disney Plus series โAndorโ isnโt about logic gates at all. Itโs just some Star Wars thing.
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I recently discovered fastweapons in GZDoom and the super shotgun is the funniest thing with this on. I can't stop laughing.
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More background on the โbite out of the Apple logoโ
He told me years back that it was for scale and the common experience. (And the rumours about the strips are mostly rubbish too โย it was about colour bars on a monitor and making sure green was at the top with the leaf.)
reverttosaved.com/2011/02/23โฆ
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Area 5150 demo is mind blowing: youtu.be/-xJZ9I4iqg8 - this is running on a 1981 PC with 4.77MHz CPU and CGA graphics.
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I'm not sure if younger people know this, but before pizza on a bagel, we could only legally eat pizza on Friday between 8 and 10 PM
ALT Bagel Bites pizza snacks product box. "Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evenin', pizza at suppertime! When pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime"
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Saddened by news of the passing of Al Evans, creator of the popular 1985 shareware game Cap'n Magneto. His little sci-fi adventure game was one of the first successful shareware games, and a favourite in (and inspiration to) the Mac community for years afterwards.
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today i learned that the Mathematica code that appears onscreen in the movie Arrival (1) actually works and (2) was written by Stephen Wolframโs son
ALT screenshot of a mathematica notebook that appears in the movie Arrival
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today is the last day Excess Solutions is open. the last electronics surplus store in Silicon Valley.
(Anchor Electronics is still around but they don't do a lot of surplus.)
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Stab in the dark, but does anyone know how to find a guy named "Deepflow" who was a demo scene / mod tracker who made electronic music around 1999? He may have worked with a group called Bamboo. I can't find anything other than his defunct GeoCities page: geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Clโฆ
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Chip has stayed on top of the metaverse across decades. Chip Morningstar interview: How the metaverse started with Habitat venturebeat.com/2022/07/08/cโฆ via @GamesBeat
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most movies explain how games are made the same way Willy Wonka explains how candy is made
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Making abortion a felony when most states donโt allow felons to vote is effectively reversing the 19th Amendment.
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Famous/infamous Sega of America ex-CEO, Bernard Stolar passed away yesterday. While folks have a lot of opinions about him and his legacy, he remains a significant thread in the fabric of Sega's (and Sony's) history. He will be remembered & talked about for decades to come. RIP๐ข