here's my little (:D it hits 120 virtual channels) tracker music entry for Nova 2025 which was dedicated to Stingray/Scoopex and absent friends <3 x

#demoscene #impulsetracker #tracking #nova2025

Good morning Fedi friends!

I’m spending the weekend with my extended family. Yesterday a family member said “I hear you released a video this week that got popular. Are you monetizing it?”

Me: “No! That’s not the point. Not everything is about money - I’m doing it for the cause.”

This is not virtue signalling. I firmly believe it’s vital to normalize doing things for their own innate value and the greater cause. I believe this is how we change the status quo ✊✨🚀

#TheFutureIsFederated

Yhara Zayd, who is good, did a video essay, which is good, about a film that is also good.

Strange Days - it's good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgl6GW8U450

The video from my talk at VCF East 2025, "Making a Hardware Emulator for a Legendary PC Sound Card" is now on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTLAhIkmUl0

@afreytes A few posts above yours:

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gk6rmhqrprzk5zwmt46lbndk/post/3lrlwe3fkec2w

(I agree)

@hannu_ikonen and may i also recommend #babylon5, for similar reasons?

Martina at Nerdforge, the patron saint of unhinged bookbinding projects, rebound all 40 Discworld books as one giant 14,000 page book that's a giant fantasy-themed Rolodex you turn with a hand crank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAdnN0TDZ5w

I've not posted much this week, honestly I've had a bad one, mentally not great at the moment and feeling really low, but hey things will get better.
Back 25 years ago this was my Friday evening: Beige box, CRT, MPEG2 decoder card, DVD-ROM and a👌movie
Have a great weekend peeps

@Gammitin Such a great choice too. The Matrix is among my favorite movies. It's one of the first DVDs I bought, back then I had a DVD drive in my PC and a video card with TV-out, and ran RCA cables along the walls of my apartment to get to my TV which was at the opposite end!

Hope things pick up for you. Hang in there.

If you weren't at VCF East 2025 like me, you missed Ian Scott's presentation on his behemoth project PicoGUS sound card for old PCs with ISA slots. Here it is, his path, and the wonderful open source community around it. Also, plans for future revisions https://youtu.be/gTLAhIkmUl0?si=IaC9JQjiUZIwMHYZ

#WingCommander

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqcNVz8UuCsIDqI_5e4w7F4BrWOzFMNiP

#cartoon #CompleteSeries #tvseries #animation

Dear Fedi friends,

By now you might have seen the post announcing the release of my promotional video for the Fediverse. But in case you have boosts turned off, here we go: https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

I posted about it this morning from my #GoToSocial account because I have a 5000 character limit there. And I had so many people to thank for their help. It really takes a village.

Thank you for all the wonderful feedback so far ❤️

Today we reveal a very early prototype of The Lion King for #SEGA #GameGear, dated April 1993. Glitchy, incomplete, and packed with placeholders (plus Lemmings music?!). A fascinating look at this work-in-progress Disney title.

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/06/the-lion-king-game-gear-prototype/

With thanks to Mark Greenshields for allowing the preservation.

@gamesthatwerent @llamasoft_ox Big "tighten up the graphics on level 3" vibes...

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tighten-up-the-graphics-on-level-3

A whole new world. A new fantastic point of view.

A young physics professor named Lester conducts a particle experiment. Suddenly, something goes wrong, lightning strikes, and in a moment Lester finds himself in a strange alien world.

Now he must fight for his life in this strange place. Luckily, he'll find help along the way..

The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce full support for Out of this World (aka Another World).

https://scummvm.org/news/20250611/

#retrogaming #adventuregame

Back at Vulkanised I presented a new Arm Mali GPU scheduler profiler which could hook your API debug labels to tag the boxes in the GPU queue visualization, with a promise of available "soon".

It's taken a while, but "soon" is finally here. Android 16 update for Pixel 7/8/9 includes the driver update to our r53p0 driver which adds the data tracking we needed. If you like making Arm GPUs go fast, give it a go and let me know what you think.

https://github.com/ARM-software/libGPULayers/blob/main/layer_gpu_timeline/README_LAYER.md

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TOuTXBfgok

#SIGGRAPH - Save the date - Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games will be Tue, Aug 12 - a full day course in 2 parts (Part I - 9am-12:15pm, Part II - 2pm-5:15pm).

Stay Tuned for the program and the speakers - the line up is very strong this year!

If you are interested in low-level development, our rendering lead @clayjohn wrote a post sharing some insights into the optimization process for mobile devices using Arm Performance Studio 👇

https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/mobile-graphics-and-gaming-blog/posts/optimizing-3d-scenes-in-godot-on-arm-gpus