@codl So nice of Sony to think about modem users when we want to play online
Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖
Co-creator (hi @Twarda), programmer and writer of Zniw Adventure and Zid Journey.
tl;dr I like to code things, especially dinosaurs of cartoony variety
Also this summer beach episode Zniw artwork too. I don't think it was ever shared in full resolution. I wasn't even aware it was lurking in the depths of ZA code repo
She swims with a grace of an average rock, so a pool ring is an absolute must
Oh yea right, Steam Summer Sale. This time I did not in fact forget to set proper discounts in the admin panel, so you all can enjoy adventures and dinosaurs for 20% off!
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@RockyBoulder Mail pterosaurs deliver fresh posts quite infrequently to this part of the forest!
Me checking my Masto feed every 2 weeks or something
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What I love about this room I made for fireorange in 2006 is that my self-portrait on the right became the foundation for the pictures on the left by two other authors.
The one in the middle was drawn by @problem, the composer of Zniw Adventure made by @Twarda and @kurasiu.
#pixelart #retro #game #ManiacMansionMania #adventure #adventuregame
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in 1998 i bought my first CD writer - a 2x mitsumi with so little internal cache that if you moved the mouse even once during a burn, it would push the cpu to 100% usage and coaster a $10 CDR.
but the prospect of having 650MB (overburn to 700mb was only for rich plextor kids) was intoxicating. just *finding* things to do with a burner was exciting
one of the unexpected possibilities it created was pirating playstation games. i hadn't even considered this as a possibility up to this point, as getting your psx "chipped" was more expensive than it was worth (about $100).
i found out that there was a little grey box called a PSKey that would let me play burned cd's. it was relatively cheap (I think I paid $50 for it) and plugged in to the mysterious I/O expansion port on the back of my psx. i burned half a dozen psx games and spent an entire week trying to make it work.
it never booted a single game even once, and i never managed to get it to even load the configuration screen.
25 years later, i found it at the bottom of a drawer this morning and decided to pry it open. it turns out to be a single Winbond 128kb cmos flash chip wired to the pins. that's it.
as it turns out, the PSKey was itself a pirate clone of the ubiquitous Gameshark. and it *did* work just fine - but I didn't know at the time that the pins were notoriously bad for poor connections due to the design, and required some polishing with an eraser to scrub away the oxidation.
Oh hey no worries I'm still alive and well (and so are our dinosaurs)
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qdEngine development is now complete, playtest your games!
It's been seven months since the first few qdEngine games were supported.
After further work on the engine and playtesting, we are pleased to announce support for the remaining games!
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Cautionary tale about checking your thumbnails before uploading.
Here's your monthly dinopost dump. First three done by Cyjon, the last one by @RadiantRodent !
Somebody commented that "Zniw could probably do a cool backflip", and I really thought about it
Yeah, she's not the nimblest dinosaur around
@vga256 Maybe not dream, but I recall using a Samsung SyncMaster 500s for the entirety of my childhood, until I finally got a notebok with 720p screen in high school. It was solid as a rock, working absolutely fine for all those years. If I ever wanted to pick up a VGA CRT now, I'd highly consider the very same one.
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Fuck, i forgot my key...
Good thing i always keep a spare one around!
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The rear end of a T. rex for #FossilFriday. This replica skeleton is the centrepiece to the new Discovering Dinosaurs gallery, which opened this week at Wollaton Hall @GeorgeTheGorilla
#NottNatHist #museum #dinosaur #museum #paleontology
Back in January while looking for a completely unrelated thing, we found a whole bunch of both early dev phase, and pre-ZA sketches done by @Twarda
Previously thought to be lost forever, they were just neatly stashed away in an expertly disguised and cleverly named 'ZZ Backup' directory on one of the old external drives.
@vga256 Damn I love it
@vga256 That would make an absolutely banging YT series though
"DEC PDP-11 restoration, part 68 of ??"
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