Half Life (1998) is now as old as the first ever arcade game, Computer Space (1971) was when Half Life was released.

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

Finally, it's the character reference sheet of your nerdy girl next door Donna Bright! 👓✨
#ドーンナブライト
#キャラクター設定資料 #キャラ設定

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

The Super Mario 2 level data video by @rgmechex.com was really illuminating, making me appreciate the layers of compression the game used. I also wanted to hack the game a bit to reveal the location of mushrooms in the main level. Haven't found the logic yet, but a quick hack can change its tiles:

Can a digital “sale” be real if it can vanish overnight?

Sen. Ron Wyden, Internet Archive, Public Knowledge & allies are calling on the FTC to protect true ownership in the digital marketplace.

More ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/p...

CS in university goes so hard!!🧵

Here's a thread of some old renders from a semester long computer graphics project. I CODED THESE!! (1/8)

#earth #blueskyartshow #screenshotsaturday #rendering #raytracing #computergraphics #c++ #texturing

~Thread of misc. Discmaster finds~

Sonic the Hedgehog wallpapers for Windows 3.1, from 1993.
discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/10781...

I'm an artist too! :D
#gamemaker #gamedev #indiegame

Haiku ❤ Nvidia (porting Nvidia GPU driver)

discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvid...

#haikuos #beos #opensource #nvidia #osdev

We made a comic about a job interview.

The Arwing used in the cutscene sequences of Star Fox Snes, viewed straight from the game's imported source code.

SFView is currently WIP so there'll be errors here & there, but it's amazing what it can do thus far!

#starfox #snes #supernintendo #Nintendo #arwing #3Dmodel

The rules developers were required to follow for creating games for the Sega Saturn:

SUPER MARIO BROS. 2
NINTENDO 1988
NES

The stylish, unknown & extremely rare SEGA AI COMPUTER (1986) promised natural language processing and "artificial intelligence" via its Prolog interpreter.

Available today, for the first time ever: system roms, game cards, tapes recordings, scans, photos, MAME driver & more: smspower.org/SegaAI

Hello, Bluesky.