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Danielle
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FM synthesis-junkie, Sharp x68000 lover, pinballer, occasional writer, and obscure hardware enthusiast! (Casio Loopy = 💙)
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I forgot to post up my VCFMW table setup yesterday. There were so many lovely folks to chat with and share my love of these systems with.

The lead-up work for conventions is so stressful, but seeing so many folks connect with systems from Japan makes it all worthwhile.
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Happy Snatcher day! Today marks 37 years since Snatcher came out on the NEC PC-8801. Over the last year we've been able to preserve the full manga run of Snatcher within our scanning group. Enjoy the scans and an article by @segasky.bsky.social here - www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/11/s...
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Oh!X [オー/エックス] April, May, and June 1992 have been scanned in high quality and archived, please enjoy!
archive.org/details/OhX-...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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related to my last repost: my metric for how successful a console should be is entirely based on how cute the logo is.

because of this, the best consoles are the 3DO, Apple Pippin and Casio Loopy
October 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
October 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I may be sore, bruised, and without much of a voice, but VCFMW was a lot of fun. Met so many people and was able to talk about so many different Japanese systems that I think it was worth it.

And surprisingly I did not walk away with another computer 😂
September 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I forgot to post up my VCFMW table setup yesterday. There were so many lovely folks to chat with and share my love of these systems with.

The lead-up work for conventions is so stressful, but seeing so many folks connect with systems from Japan makes it all worthwhile.
September 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I know as a child I thought it was saying "OK Ska?" or "OK Scott?". I say this at least once every other week.

youtu.be/l-GLlHfiSn0
September 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It's #Sharptember everyone. Good thing I'm already working on a bunch of Sharp systems for #VCFMW.
Who can make it officially Sharptember?
September 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Yay, it's Sharptember!!!
September is now (un)officially #Sharptember 😀🙂To kick things off here is the best photo ever taken of the Sharp MZ-80A and its disk drives - courtesy of @heredragons.be

The 80A came out in 1982 as a direct successor to the MZ-80K. It is a Z80 machine running at 2MHz.
September 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Today we have released ares v146. This release is significant because it introduces emulation for the Pioneer LaserActive, which has never been emulated successfully in the past.

Read more at ares-emu.net/news/ares-v1...
Get ares at ares-emu.net
August 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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August 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Who was the first person to use kilo = 1024?

We need to know them by name and be reminded of what they forced upon us.
August 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I love the way I label parts. Sometimes it'll be months before I get to something and I surprise myself.

"Lotus - CGROM Relocator"
vs
"Lotus - CGROM Relocator But Pretty"
August 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Gaze in awe and horror! It’s a PC-FX! NO! We must go stupider!

It’s a PC-FX as a SCSI CD-ROM drive! LOOK AGAIN!

It’s a PC-FX as a SCSI CD-ROM drive in a PC-9821as equipped with a PC-FX GA playing PC-FX on another monitor!

...say that 3 times fast #pcfx
June 12, 2021 at 10:54 PM
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I've never seen this game before, so I ripped the font and added it to the arcade font engine!

nfggames.com/games/fontma...

Now with 175+ fonts!!
July 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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List a set of numbers that might not look like anything but are instantly recognizable in your field:

555, 741, 2040, 2350, 7400, 6502, 6800, 6809, 8080, 8088, 68000
605 610 630 650 660 700 800 840 900 950
What’s a number (or set of numbers) in your field or hobby that might seem unrelated but anyone else in that group would recognise in an instant?

221 255 260 289 302 351
July 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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💾 Be you, whichever way you are formatted 💾

Happy #Pride 💜
June 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I played Bow-Wow Puppy Love Story (Wanwan Aijou Monogatari)! I liked it a lot! It was really cute, the writing was delightful and had a lot of fun moments. It was a charming little VN! Also it made me cry really hard
April 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Hey Casio Loopy fans, the first English translation (and great localization) of Puppy Love Story is available!

It even includes a translated manual!
I'm delighted to announce my English translation of Puppy Love Story on Casio Loopy, a visual novel penned by Kenji Terada. You can play on real hardware with a Floopy Drive, or emulate with LoopyMSE. I translated the manual as a little bonus too! Prepatched available at archive.org/details/pupp...
April 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I'm delighted to announce my English translation of Puppy Love Story on Casio Loopy, a visual novel penned by Kenji Terada. You can play on real hardware with a Floopy Drive, or emulate with LoopyMSE. I translated the manual as a little bonus too! Prepatched available at archive.org/details/pupp...
April 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The retro and indie computing scene is built almost completely from small businesses who are hugely dependent on trading around the world.

So much of the tariff commentary is about how this will affect big guys like Apple. It's already affecting the small guys working day to day.
April 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I haven't had a chance to post much this trip (first time in Japan) but I've been able to go to some stores I import from to see what it's like.

I've decided to not bring home any new systems to work on since I have enough at home to keep me busy until VCFMW!
March 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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when an american electronic appliance chirps at me: I did not invite you to speak. I despise you. I wish to destroy you

when a japanese appliance chirps at me: You are my little friend. You are my companion in the journey of life
March 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I wrote about how gamings rejection of humanity, and embrace of A.I., is the cause of the problems from everyone in the industy, from AAA to indie, journalist to Youtuber. And I highlighted some folks who are fighting to keep games human. Please reskeet for humanity? maxutmost.com/the-video-ga...
The video game industry is miserable, but some people are trying to make it fun again
Videogames are making more money than ever, but in 2025, everyone I know who’s livelihood depends on the industry in any capacity feels some degree of doomed. But maybe it’s not all bad. Mayb…
maxutmost.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM