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Replied to Metin Seven 🎨

As a youngster in the late 1980s, I formed an #Amiga game dev team with two partners.

Before making games, we tried to sell low-RAM game music, made with our own music editor called SIDmon.

To promote our music, an army game style tune was composed by our musician Ramon Braumuller. The original file is only 42 kilobytes, Including sampled sounds.

Check the 🧵 and the #TeamHoi hashtag for more tunes.

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So if anyone else is ever deranged enough to want to try installing some kind of functional version of Photoshop on a PowerPC G4 Macintosh in the year of our lord 2025, my opinion after a lot of rabbit hole diving is that you're going to want Photoshop Elements 4.

Earlier versions are hard to get running on Leopard, and most of the CS range from that era requires online activation that isn't possible any more.

Elements 4 is pretty capable of opening old documents I've got in my backups, so it'll do.

Replied to Rusty Invader

... wenn ich über etwas Neues aus der Demoszene stolpere, ob das so in der Art noch wer feiert?
Um den schönen Gedanken zu einem charismatischen Ende zu bringen, krame ich einen schönen Song zum Träumen raus ... herrlich chillig und direct wired:
"Illumination" von Cube / DEE
RELEASED 13 AUGUST 1995
2ND IN THE ASSEMBLY 1995
in der Kategorie
4 CHANNEL MUSIC COMPETITION
#4channel #soundtracker #fasttracker2 #fasttracker #retrotuneoftheday #retrocomputer #retrocomputing #soundblaster
... 3/4

Several years ago, a friend gave me some old computer stuff. Amongst it, this #Vectrex game. I unfortunately don't own a console to test it out.
I remember playing on it only once or twice back in the day. Not that many people owned one.
I was really impressed by its vector based display. It was monochrome but used color overlays to add the background graphics of the game, as can be seen on the picture.
#Retrocomputing #Retrogaming #ThrowbackThursday

🚀 Paul Lefebvre writes an epic saga about the Atari 1200XL, a "revolutionary" computer that was as successful as a lead balloon. 🎈 With more shielding than a nuclear bunker, it was all set to save Atari from the Commodore 64... until reality called and asked for its computer back. 💾
goto10retro.com/p/the-atari-12 #Atari1200XL #AtariHistory #RetroComputing #TechFails #ComputerSaga #HackerNews #ngated

Goto 10: Retro Computing & Gaming · The Atari 1200XL FiascoBy Paul Lefebvre

got Kiwix (offline Wikipedia reader) running on my 21-year-old PC. I tried:

* The official archive[1]. 0.10 works with 2020-07 Wikipedia, but not 2023-09. They also have an up-to-date XP build, but iirc it required SSE2 and uses JS

* Internet In a Box[2]. 3.1.2-5 is the latest without an illegal instruction error. 2025-01 Wikipedia works but the rendering is jacked up on older Firefox/SeaMonkey

[1] - download.kiwix.org/archive/kiw

[2] - download.iiab.io/packages/kiwi