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ATMcashpoint
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Nerdy about LucasArts and Sierra video games, Star Wars, architecture, JRR Tolkien. He/him/fhtagn. Also on mastodon.social under the same username.
plus a commemorative postcard of L'Oiseau Blanc with headshots of Nungesser and Coli, with Coli wearing a more ordinary eyepatch under his flying gear
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
here's another photo of Nungesser and Coli shortly before their disappearance, where you can see the black monocle in better light
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
François Coli and Charles Nungesser, pilots of the airplane L'Oiseau Blanc, lost trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.

Coli lost an eye in World War I and wore a black-tinted monocle afterward.

This is the kind of drip I suspect @qsy.bsky.social & @funereel.bsky.social would appreciate
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
good news for this guy
November 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
From Conan: Scourge of the Serpent #1 & #2 (script Jim Zub, art Ivan Gil, colors Jão Canola).

Ms. Gordon, your ancestral counterpart wears an extremely fashionable outfit and I suggest you start wearing it at all times.

(also Zub's Conan comics are extremely good, highly recommended)
November 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"It is, as I believe the kids these days put it, morbing time."
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An Amiga press build of #MonkeyIsland 1, shown in The One magazine #35 (August 1991).

This build is mostly like the final version, but in some cutscenes the screen was vertically centered - something also seen in prerelease builds of MI1 and #LOOM on other platforms.
#lucasarts #adventuregames
October 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It also looks like the second screenshot has a WIP version of the VGA background of the deck of LeChuck's ghost ship.
#monkeyisland #lucasarts #adventuregames #lucasfilmgames
October 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
and then there was Sierra's ad for KQ4 that was directly in response to that EA one:
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Roger's mocap sprite was likely just a placeholder to use in "bullshots".

The sprite has 60 colors, including transparency.

Sierra VGA games tended to use a common pool of ~64 colors for virtually all the in-game sprites. A single 60-color sprite would never work in a fully developed build.
September 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I guess the official title of Disney's next Star Wars project is "The Star Wars Mandalorian and Grogu".
#starwars
September 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The image with a cursor has a line of distorted pixels in the upper-left corner. Similar glitches in the upper left appear in several backgrounds in a leaked beta version of #SpaceQuest 4, and in other games like SQ4 EGA and even #KingsQuest 5!
@wilcoweb.bsky.social
#sierra #adventuregames
September 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This WIP motion-capture Roger sprite also appears in a preview in French magazine Génération 4 #025 (September 1990).
@wilcoweb.bsky.social
#sierra #spacequest #adventuregames
September 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Wow, that's a sprite of WIP motion-capture Roger! From a Textfiles.com search, it seems that image appeared in a set of GIFs found on several shareware CDs.

There are actually two variants, one with & one without the cursor. The cursor-less file is usually dated August 19, 1990.
#spacequest #sierra
September 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Hirst's statue pays particular homage to the statue of St. Bartholomew in Milan Cathedral, sculpted by Marco d’Agrate in the 1560s:
September 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The real shocker is how Charles' white tie (technically a unique royal variant called a "Windsor uniform", as if they need an excuse for more fancy clothes) fits so badly for such a famous clotheshorse.

Once again, Prince Philip had a much better version in 2009.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor...
September 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
White tie is difficult to get right and requires precise fittings. It's almost never worn even by US presidents, so slipups on visits abroad are not unusual.

Here's Barack Obama in 2011, wearing a tailcoat that *almost* fits, while Prince Philip's fits like a glove.
September 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
UK state visit update: surprisingly, Trump is wearing a white tie outfit that fits properly, unlike the one he wore on his last UK state visit.

Even more astonishingly, the notoriously clothing-obsessed King Charles is wearing a tailcoat that fits very poorly.
September 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
what if I centered your title screen, LucasArts, huh, how about that
#thedig #lucasarts #adventuregames
September 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Nice. Presumably it has to be better than the ZX Spectrum version of the Fate of Atlantis Action Game. ;)
September 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The death screen in Rise of the Dragon.

More games should have an ending screen that says "THEND"
#dynamix #riseofthedragon #sierra #adventuregames
September 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
TIL the Duke of Cumberland bedchamber at Hampton Court Palace was absolutely butchered by a 2016 "restoration" in the process of turning it into an art gallery.

The cornice now has a completely different profile that departs from 18th century practice, and the columns have way too many flutes.
September 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A similar softlock occurs if you fill the stein with ale & give it to Biff (who breaks it) without using it on the coals in the kitchen first. Then you can't get the roast boar, which you need to get the trophy to get Biff drunk.
#lucasarts #lucasfilmgames #indianajones #lastcrusade #adventuregames
September 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I like it! :D Reminds me of a scene drawn by Rick Parks (RIP) for the first Kyrandia game.
September 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Something I only noticed today in the EGA version of LucasArts' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade game: the wine bottle in the Venice cafe is partly transparent. Notice how the colors change when Indy stands behind it!
#lucasarts #indianajones #lastcrusade #lucasfilmgames #adventuregames
September 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM