bananaboy

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Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New(blog.archive.org)
114 points by bananaboy 19h ago|36 comments
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Version control second coming(psantosl.github.io)
101 points by bananaboy 9d ago|79 comments
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by bananaboy 16d ago
The art was outsourced to pretty much one artist. Zach and Tarn implemented it.
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by bananaboy 23d ago
There is a more recently maintained fork here https://github.com/sobitcorp/metapad
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Tiny, fast Windows Notepad replacement (source available)(liquidninja.com)
2 points by bananaboy 23d ago|1 comments
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by bananaboy 23d ago
For a long time I used metapad as a notepad replacement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metapad (I even renamed the exe to notepad). Very fast and minimal.
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by bananaboy 24d ago
Now that’s attention to detail!
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by bananaboy 25d ago
Woah that’s cool! I love the case!
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by bananaboy 25d ago
I love the Watcom C inline assembler. I use it frequently in my retro projects!
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Modplay by Mark J Cox(esoom.com)
4 points by bananaboy 26d ago|0 comments
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The Pit of Success – An Interview with Rico Mariani(youtube.com)
1 points by bananaboy 28d ago|0 comments
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The VC Days: So many miracles(ricomariani.medium.com)
1 points by bananaboy 28d ago|0 comments
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by bananaboy 28d ago
Haha that was the case at my uni too. I met my (ex) girlfriend on the unix system at uni through `talk` and `to` [1]. A lot of the CS students (me included) had .plans that we would update regularly as sort of proto-blogs. Definitely a lot
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Running Anachronistic Demakes on Vintage Atari VCS Hardware(deater.net)
4 points by bananaboy 29d ago|1 comments
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OpenWatcom Working on Updates to the Toolchain(openwatcom.org)
4 points by bananaboy 1mo ago|0 comments
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
Omg yes, I found this borderline unreadable. So dense with clever phrases that say almost nothing. I came here to this thread to see if it was just me; I'm glad it wasn't!
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
Same here, I played a lot of LORD! Only a little bit of BRE. Incidentally the author of LORD Seth Robinson continues making games long after LORD. I think he’s semiretired now but he has been working on an ai-coded photoshop clone https:&#
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
Haha I've been there! I was just browsing a few of your past comments and see you were in gamedev in Melbourne. Maybe we've crossed paths - I was at Blue Tongue until we were shut down by THQ, then Tantalus for a year or two, then
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
Yeah I remember when Hot Coffee happened I was working at a studio owned by THQ and a message came down from the executive level basically warning us not to put in anything hidden like that. All secrets had to be disclosed and known by the
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
Same here! Very fond memories. I used Turbo Pascal 3.3 under CP/M on the Microbee but found it a bit hard and cumbersome to use. But when I discovered TP5 on MS-DOS I was blown away! This was coming from writing BASIC and batch files.
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
Years ago I worked with Mark Feldman who put together PC-GPE! I did a bit of a double take and fanboyed a bit when he started because I had spent so much time reading it.
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
I read the denthor tutorials back in the day! So good! I think I used to get them via email on a bbs that had an internet gateway. It was all very clunky, just a terminal account, I think it didn’t even have slirp
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
I’ve been working in the games industry as a programmer for 21 years and I’ve seen this so many times. I also used to see it on gamedev.net and flipcode.com. Very technical people, engine programmers, think they can make a game and seem to
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Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk(theguardian.com)
4 points by bananaboy 1mo ago|0 comments
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
The creator Andy Davidson has been posting some more fun stuff about worms over on X https://x.com/totalwormage/status/2087263286962094258
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
Same - I always preferred the pixel art look to the smooth cartoony look!
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
Very nice! I bought a Gigatron six years ago just after Marcel (one of the original developers) passed away. I think it was one of the last kits that Walter (the other developer) shipped out before running out of stock. It came with the woo
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
WinWord 2 or maybe 6 had everything I ever needed.
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Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)(breakintochat.com)
62 points by bananaboy 1mo ago|15 comments
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by bananaboy 1mo ago
The author, Amit Patel, wrote the BBS door game Solar Realms Elite! His brother went on to write Baron Realms Elite.

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