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by blakespot 1mo ago
I started playing NMS at age 44. I'm 54 now.
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by blakespot 1mo ago
I am the author. I've been running the blog these 10 years. I sat down to write about the game, summarizing it and how it has grown over the years at this huge milestone. And then, as I started writing, it occurred to me that ... I --
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by blakespot 1mo ago
From the engoodening video: “…they never added pay-to-win, they never added microtransasctions or paid DLC, they never made VR as a second game. They didn’t give up on the game or scale their resources back to do it. They didn’t come out an
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by blakespot 1mo ago
More photos of the DualUp can be seen in my Mac Studio photo gallery, over on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/7217772030208...
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by blakespot 1mo ago
Indeed not, sadly.
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by blakespot 1mo ago
Indeed, it is a DualUp -- the best display I have ever owned. I love it so very much, I planned to get a spare for when it dies, before they EOL'ed it. (I assumed it would not last long, as there can't be widespread appeal for suc
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My Ten Years in No Man's Sky(nmsspot.com)
79 points by blakespot 1mo ago|88 comments
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Fungus-inspired Linux hack gives Amiga a Doom-only brain(theregister.com)
4 points by blakespot 1y ago|0 comments
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Init Hello 2025 Conference Gallery (System Source Computer Musem)(flickr.com)
2 points by blakespot 1y ago|0 comments
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Watched 'Lion, Witch, Wardrobe' last night – centaurs looked freakishly long(oldbytes.space)
2 points by blakespot 1y ago|0 comments
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by blakespot 1y ago
Yep, I was lucky. We were a middle-class family and my mom and dad did support my extreme passion in computers. I went through a huge amount of systems. Here's the list: https://bytecellar.com/the-list I would buy one,
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by blakespot 1y ago
Yep, one of the first games that really needed a chunky pixel video memory layout (which the Amiga lacked). Amiga's planar arrangement was perfect for platformers, which was the target of the Amiga gfx hardware design.
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by blakespot 1y ago
Most of my friends were gaming on consoles at the time. I very much preferred the Amiga (I also had Atari STs during this time) to consoles perhaps mainly due to the ability to use RGB monitors with a proper RGB signal. It was at best compo
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by blakespot 1y ago
Indeed, I got my first Amiga in October 1985 - I believe it was the first Amiga sold in Virginia (U.S.) and one of the first ever sold - period. https://bytecellar.com/2020/10/27/looking-back-on-35-years-a...
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Doom Didn't Kill the Amiga (2024)(datagubbe.se)
62 points by blakespot 1y ago|116 comments
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Desktop Icons of Yore(datagubbe.se)
7 points by blakespot 1y ago|0 comments
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A history of the microcomputer industry in 300 adverts(nosher.net)
2 points by blakespot 2y ago|0 comments
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by blakespot 2y ago
I gave Linux on the desktop a good shake once, back in 1994. I installed Debian from a dev branch that came on 15 floppies. I was running it on an AMD 5x86 160 with 24MB RAM and had a lovely 17-inch (unusual for the time) trinitron display
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I spent 18 years in the Linux console(eugene-andrienko.com)
217 points by blakespot 2y ago|143 comments
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Tinkerer brings this retro-futuristic Mac concept to life(cultofmac.com)
2 points by blakespot 2y ago|1 comments
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Brief History of Haptic Computing(medium.com)
2 points by blakespot 2y ago|0 comments
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It Is Now Legal to Hack McFlurry Machines (and Medical Devices) to Fix Them(404media.co)
2 points by blakespot 2y ago|1 comments
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Midnight Rendezvous with Telix: Musings of a BBS Junkie(brodieworld.com)
1 points by blakespot 2y ago|0 comments
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Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene(marincomics.com)
495 points by blakespot 2y ago|118 comments
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Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux(gamingonlinux.com)
3 points by blakespot 2y ago|2 comments
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by blakespot 2y ago
This is a great look at the creation of the Tinitron aperture grille CRT. My preference for aperture grille over shadow mask technology cannot be overstated. Once I got my first aperture grill display (a Nokia 447Xi with a Trinitron tube) i
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Sony's Breakthrough Color TV [video](youtube.com)
2 points by blakespot 2y ago|1 comments
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by blakespot 2y ago
A good handful of variants were tested as well, as explained in the article. It doesn't seem it could be items on the list. (Fake chips were discussed and identified as well.)
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Something is wrong with the AY-3-8913(fenarinarsa.com)
15 points by blakespot 2y ago|6 comments
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Was the Fusion Drive a good idea?(eclecticlight.co)
6 points by blakespot 2y ago|5 comments

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