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Fly256
@mineblox128.bsky.social
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Old computing, anime/movies, and funnies. (He/Him, 23)

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gst.melosylexia.com
I'd like to share this old video of hers, where she talks about her time working on the 3DO port of Doom.
it's a wild story that stuck with me, and a reminder that sometimes "bad games" have amazing people working on them
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
mineblox128.bsky.social
Doing things to the #Lua 1.1 code to get it to print standard output to anywhere other than the standard console, that way, I can get it working in graphical #DOS, and #Win16.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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10amlunch.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
mineblox128.bsky.social
Is anyone out there willing to yap about #Win16 API programming, especially pertaining to the MultiMedia Extensions? Playing with my OpenWatcom #C IDE, trying to make some kind of multimedia app for Windows 3.0 w\ MME, because why wouldn't I?

Yes, my focus is still in shambles.
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
mineblox128.bsky.social
Looking into #Win16 programming, targeting 3.0 with the MME extensions minimum, within Standard Mode.
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
mineblox128.bsky.social
#retro #gamedev #DOS #VGA

I am once again(?) messing with unusual VGA modes derived from standard modes, this time using a 640x240 16 color to be able to use 2-3 pages of graphics on a standard VGA card.

Of course, my #VN engine, when I finally cobble it together, may be put towards this.
October 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
mineblox128.bsky.social
this is mostly hard-coded, but once I have an interpreter made and running, this could be something.

640x480 16 color VGA, Open Watcom C/C++ 1.9 default graphics library.

#retro #gamedev #VN #DOS #VGA
Blueish screenshot of a visual novel engine with green window descriptors on top of the 2 windows rounded in blue: the first window is labeled 'Viewport', and has a picture of a beach at night, dithered into less than 16 colors, mostly blue with very tiny pink speckles on the clouds on the upper right corner. (Image from UNCLE MUGEN of the LSF fourms.) This image is surrounded by a black background. The Textbox is in a similar window, with the black background more prominent here, but has the following text: " DOS VN ENGINE - (Pre-Alpha) Version 0.01 Your text here... (Image from UNCLE MUGEN) "
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
mineblox128.bsky.social
i may be working on a rudimentary VN/ADV system in DOS using the included Open Watcom graphics library, because writing low-level graphics routines has overwhelmed my impatient zoomer brain rn...

at least I have an AdLib music thing working...

it's nice to tinker with VGA 16 color 640x480.
September 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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dakkpasserida.bsky.social
I'm sorry, I heard this so clear in my head I just had to actualize it
September 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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gifs-bot.bsky.social
BOATS/CANOE.GIF
September 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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mhughson.bsky.social
The NES game library is full of technical wonders!

One of my favorite effects has to be the spotlights 🔦 in "Rescue: The Embassy Mission."

What’s even cooler is how SIMPLE it is to achieve if you know the tricks!

Let me break it down for you! 🧵 #nesdev #screenshotsaturday
September 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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thomasfuchs.at
Congratulations, you’ve reached the end of your doomscrolling
DOOM running on 90s PC
September 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
mineblox128.bsky.social
Faking 3D in Game Maker 4 (2002)
#gamedev #retro #pixel
2 views in a Game Maker 4 game with a grey background overall. Top view is a 3D, first-person view using only the purple ball sprite to draw a 2.5D corridor. Bottom view is the top-down, whole map view of above, with a computer sprite and a tiny purple ball to signify viewing direction.
August 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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foone.bsky.social
happy windows95mas
A sticker on a blue hatchback, with the Windows logo and "Gone but not Forgotten - Windows 95. August 24th, 1995 - December 31st, 2001" in comic sans text.
August 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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foone.bsky.social
the other wrinkle in all these "we're banning porn for UK users!" and "bluesky isn't available in mississippi" stories that no one seems to be talking about:
geo-ip is inaccurate as shit, even before VPNs get involved. you can't just detect where people are with any kind of consistency
August 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
mineblox128.bsky.social
Since ~2 days ago, I've been cooking some #gamedev stuff.

In Game Maker 4 (2002)
August 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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psudonym.bsky.social
Thinkin bout psyduyck
short comic strip of Psyduck and Misty looking at a sunset where the third panel is Psyduck asking psy-ay-ay?
August 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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stcymsn.bsky.social
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:
2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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prismagic.bsky.social
Bluesky doesn't penalize you for using links, tags, using key words like Patreon or commissions, and doesn't have a central algorithm on your following feed, which means all the power rests on you to help your favourite creators be seen!
Utopia meme with text saying "Bluesky is people used the repost button more frequently."
July 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
mineblox128.bsky.social
Deus Ex (2000)

fun time
July 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
mineblox128.bsky.social
been messing with a movie generator program that came as bundled bloatware on my childhood 2008 HP family PC
July 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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meowthiroth.bsky.social
"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones
July 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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pokemongems.bsky.social
Psyduck likes to ski
Screenshot of a let’s find Pokémon picture book showing a Psyduck skiing!
July 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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kekekeball.bsky.social
School computer! *Windows XP startup sound*
July 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)
A whitewashed pub wall, with mortar standing proud of the stones.
July 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM