IceCreamJonsey

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by IceCreamJonsey 6d ago
It was ported to the Vectrex, too. https://www.vectrexmuseum.com/mirror/vgdb/pages/VGDB059.html
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Booze Elroy(pinback.itch.io)
5 points by IceCreamJonsey 9mo ago|0 comments
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by IceCreamJonsey 2y ago
I never really played HHGG as a kid but started it up on my Apple //e using this wonderful disk image, which has a great front end for Infocom games, in case anyone hasn't seen it: https://archive.org/details&
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Analogue Duo Jailbreak Released(github.com)
2 points by IceCreamJonsey 3y ago|0 comments
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Leonard Nimoy 'Star Trek: The Menagerie' rare host footage found from 1975(msn.com)
3 points by IceCreamJonsey 3y ago|1 comments
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by IceCreamJonsey 3y ago
Mike also runs the best PCjr forum! It's been invaluable for help as I got my recently purchased PCjr running with mods and flash media. https://www.brutman.com/forums/index.php
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by IceCreamJonsey 3y ago
Exact thing happened to me when I first started collecting arcade games. I was ready to sell a Xenophobe cabinet, which is a massive, awkward monstrosity. Took a huge "loss" on it but at the time needed it out of my house and only
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by IceCreamJonsey 4y ago
More info, including a direct download link to the .crt file here: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=226060
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ParserComp, an annual text adventure competition for parser games is open(itch.io)
3 points by IceCreamJonsey 4y ago|0 comments
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by IceCreamJonsey 5y ago
I make text adventure games in a language called Hugo. It was released in the late 90s and has not changed much. I have enjoyed being able to code with some stability for fun as I've learned other languages for work. Hugo feels like ho
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by IceCreamJonsey 5y ago
The fact that "Click to expand" / auto-collapse is the default for almost all conversations and there is no way to toggle it off is inexplicable to me.
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Radio XPD, 24/7 streaming of Amiga .mods(xpd.co.nz)
2 points by IceCreamJonsey 5y ago|0 comments
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by IceCreamJonsey 6y ago
Yeah! And Warlords for the Atari 800 (or "Castle Crisis," which is a homebrew / arcade-perfect port of the arcade version of Warlords) with some friends and real paddle controllers is a lot of fun.
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by IceCreamJonsey 6y ago
If you're used to exclusively programming with line numbers and you're a kid, sure, it might take a little bit of time and instruction to comprehend that line numbers aren't necessary. But from what he wrote it just sounds li
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by IceCreamJonsey 6y ago
For a lot of the text adventure systems that it now supports, this site will let you search by language - https://ifdb.tads.org/
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by IceCreamJonsey 6y ago
Coincidence for me to see this here, as a book by Dr. Stuart Ritchie was just published about this very thing. https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fictions-Negligence-Undermine...
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Joust for the Commodore 64 has been found and preserved(gamesthatwerent.com)
2 points by IceCreamJonsey 6y ago|0 comments
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by IceCreamJonsey 6y ago
Seriously. I'm all for lightweight text editors, but the ability to open a folder and a way to start a new text file is minimum viable product.
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by IceCreamJonsey 6y ago
I learned about quiche long before I ever encountered it in real life. http://www.textfiles.com/humor/COMPUTER/quiche.txt