sometimes you have no choice but to drive 300km to a boondocks antique store to rescue a bunch of abandoned dos games

#dosgaming #bigboxgames #RetroGaming

my wife had to go into work today so i got put in charge of pumpkin carving

i'm sure you'll agree that halloween is an important day to scare children by rattling the bones of our dead culture

suspect next year she'll decide to stay home instead.

#halloween #retroComputing

thank you @pheller for digitizing this extremely obscure broadcast review of ONE BBSCON, a 1994 trade show all about bbs software and hardware. the broadcast consists of interviews with trade show hosts on the conference floor.

the coolest interview imho was at 00:39:00 with Telegraphix and RIPScrip

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/1gc06wi/one_bbscon_1994_video/

#bbs #retroComputing

@foone this the one? https://web.archive.org/web/20120205022255/http://www.nextcomputing.com/products/portable-workstations/nextdimension-evo

this was cool to watch go up and up and up

https://www.ebay.com/itm/276679792365

#retroComputing #pixar

i've noticed in recent years that the laudable return to personal homepages has generally brought with it a very specific re-imagining of 1990s web design - usually lo-fi 1994 html-only and neon cyberpunkish affairs with loud animated gifs.

lost in that specific imaginary are the playful 1996-1997 corporate designs that brought a slightly more conservative aesthetic that noneless remained playful.

if you played Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb, Dinotopia, or Faery Tale Adventure 2 you would remember The Dreamers Guild. this is their corporate site still live and maintained by joe pearce and brad schenk.

https://inherittheearth.net/dgi/indexnf.htm

#webHistory #worldwideWeb #webPreservation #gameHistory

doing some visual design research on isometric tile-based games and came across this incredible screenshot from Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye

that entire screenshot was drawn with just *sixteen colours*

(click screenshot to view as razor sharp pixels)

#gameArt #retroGaming

in celebration of the late Ward Christensen's life and contributions to the BBS, i've uploaded the raw, uncut, extended three-hour interview @textfiles conducted with him in 2002 for the BBS Documentary

warning: the files are 15gb each just as they came off of the camera tapes without further recompression.

https://pixeldrain.com/l/cFtC5YE4

these are the same interviews included in the BBS Documentary archive.org collection - unfortunately IA is still down at the moment.

#bbs #history #retroComputing