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Thanks to @Stephen who acted as an american facilitator, I was able to purchase Super Studio Session from ebay from a seller who refused to sell to Canadians. After paying for all costs involved, it found me at my home today! Composer Ed Bogas teamed up with the likes of Steve Capps (which you...

That's because......it's the solution! Try it out. Click where the 1's are, once. I confirmed it with this, which has an editor built-in: https://www.sfu.ca/~jtmulhol/math302/puzzles-lo.html

I tried my hand at solving the first stage of the B side of levels. You use an augmented matrix that puts 0 everywhere, except in the spots where a cell influences nearby cells. Also, the solution vector has 1's everywhere a square is initially lit up. Here's the exposed method...

ExoDOS Free up a TB somewhere.

Bonus round - these were bought AFTER Ultima VII back in the day (1993ish) to satisfy some completionist streak (such was the power of game companies such as Sierra and Origin). I'm noticing both the Ultima VI disks and its cloth map are missing, maybe I lent them out to someone or are just lost...

Finally got this classic back in my fold. If I recall, this was our 2nd boxed PC game bought for our late 1991 386SX/25, probably around its time of release in 1992. This RPG series is revered among C64 (for the early ones at least) and PC users alike. This was the first entry into VGA and broke...

First testing is done in mini-vMac (I suspect a real Mac Plus is slightly even slower from memory with other tests years ago). This is a baseline without optimizing anything. I perform the screen->offscreen->screen an integer multiple of 50 times and check the difference in TickCount...

Very nice writeup as usual. The other day, my 7 yo son but especially my 4 yo daughter wanted to play with Duck Hunt again. I was tired of fighting for 20+ minutes with the classic cartridge fiddling (inserting-power-on-eject-rinse-repeat) that I just inspected the 72 pins and pulled them...

I'm pre-generating the snowflakes as a char (8-bit) array of 64 characters width (which manages exactly 512 pixels, 1 bit per pixel, same as the compact mac resolution) and 400 lines height (so that the visual repetition of the snowflakes isn't so obvious and memory usage is kept on the...

The THINPC Client of their time! (not really) It looks neat and it looks sharp running the CGA era of games I had back in my primary and secondary school computer labs (which had very outdated equipment in those days).

A covox was a pre-adlib/sound blaster, cheap device that plugged in the parallel port and was released around at the end of 1987, before people massively adopted the adlib at first, then the sound blaster for their sound and music gaming needs. It provided low quality audio signals that occupied...

I wanted to do this for last winter, but I got sidetracked. Right now, I haven't even completed the proof-of-concept, but my goals are: phase 1: -Have a nice little demo program with a winter snowfall theme in the same vein as the famous C64 christmas demo, possibly with music out of the 4-tone...

\m/ ( `◉ _◉´) \m/ nicely done

(p.63) "In order to encourage more registrations, Buckland had promised to send the sequel, Crystal Quest, to anyone who paid for Crystal Raider. 'I had absolutely no idea what Crystal Quest was going to be,' he admits. When people started paying money he thought he'd better get to work on it...

LGR (lazy game reviews) the popular youtuber did a bit on this machine and released a video yesterday or today, since theRasteri sent him a unit:

I bought a cable off Aliexpress with the hopes of having a working connector to the PC gameport (check) and a split into MIDI in, MIDI out and another joystick gameport. The cable was atrociously wired inside, almost nothing worked (especially MIDI, absolutely no signal). I remade it myself and...

16.95 GBP so around 28.50 $CAD Still haven't got it, the shipment was sent later than predicted and on par to get here mid next-week.

A very useful alternative while using a modern Windows machine (applicable from Windows XP to at least Win10 and in all probability, Win11 as well) is: HFVExplorer - a standalone virtual HFS disk image creator/editor. It also loads and interacts with 1.44 mb real physical disks just fine...

My rationale is: the b&w macs get very little attention in the homebrew community and I'd spend my efforts propping them up first and foremost. Can't start targeting a common denominator that only few own, but they can certainly have a slightly adapted version as an afterthought.

Made a pixel perfect mock full screen test with the regular 24x24 tiles: As you can see, there's way too much room, but not enough room that you can just pixel double your way to a solution. I'm wondering if they encountered this problem in other ports and went with 32x32 tiles (occupying 45%...