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Loom: The game is fantasy. The interface is magic.
Source: VideoGames and Computer Entertainment 16 (May 1990)
Scan Source: RetroMags

#retrogaming #amigagaming #dosgaming

Richard Scarry's How Things Work in Busytown (Novotrade International/Computer Curriculum, 1994) #DOSGaming

On January 3rd 2026, US military launched airstrikes across northern Venezuela and captured the president, effectively overthrowing the local government. In 1988, the exact same event could occur in the game #HiddenAgenda. At the time inspired by events in Nicaragua, it seems our world has not changed much.

https://www.goodolddays.net/en/game/Hidden-Agenda/

#DOSGaming
#RetroGaming

A wooden desktop covered with a newspaper, two photos of men, and several other documents

A woman proposing to increase funding for education, giving a politically charged argument. The player has the options to agree to or refuse the proposal.

Bard's Tale Fans, Rejoice! Dragon Wars
Source: VideoGames and Computer Entertainment 16 (May 1990)
Scan Source: RetroMags

#retrogaming #c64gaming #dosgaming

Doom Mower asset in the #World_of_Padman #WoP

#ioQuake3 #Quake3 #idTech3 #idSoftware

The "JoeHouse" custom map by me:

https://moddb.com/games/world-of-padman/addons/joehouse

#DoomClassic #DOSGaming #Modding #Pentium #QuakeC #clanguage #RetroGaming

#IBM #Hyper3D #ai #Robin #90sgames #Chaos #Chaotic #chaoticevil #devil #hell #1993tech #monsters #spaceship_tech
#spacebase #future_moon #tech_mess

#robotics #metal #chips #EXE #Mapping #LevelDesign #WAD #Doom_1993 #MS_DOS #x86 #IBM #VintagePC #RetroFPS #RetroPC #DOS_Tech #90s!

I replayed Stunt Car Racer on Atari ST 🛣️ 🎢

This game is still incredibly fun! Especially with a modern controller 😀

I loved playing it with a friend (by connecting our two computers)

#StuntCarRacer #GeoffCrammond #MicroProse #AtariST #Amiga #Commodore64 #AmstradCPC #DOSGaming #RetroGaming

Tau-Ceti/Tau Ceti: The Lost Star Colony (ComTec/Thunder Mountain, 1987) #DOSGaming

a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.

i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour

it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.

and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.

so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.

so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.

we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.

it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.

enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️

paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf

DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb