Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
I'm into #retrocomputing and #retrogaming, including emulation, lots of real hardware, & #FPGA. I also dabble in electronics, #microcontrollers, and coding.
Joined Oct 2018
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On the web, you can do other stuff while reading an article. On a BBS, get distracted and it will kick your ass off!
Calling around with Comm Term 3+.
This is what I used BITD before most boards supported ANSI or even PETSCII.
In the early days..most of the boards I called were usually running on Z80-based TRS-80s or clones, such as LOBOs, and were straight-up ASCII.
Term running on Amiga in "Interlaced Super HiRes". Looks way better in-person than this picture makes it look.
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There's a pretty decent arcade here. There's some of the modern redemption crap, but also some electronic and even a few ancient electro-mechanical arcade machines.
Modern me (as opposed to 1984-ish me, in my avatars) at the Morenet 2019 conference at the Margaritaville/Tan-Tar-a resort in mid-Missouri.
My room here has a pretty decent view from the deck.
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Straight out of the 1990s...
The scope also has an Ethernet port. When it's connected and gets an IP address (DHCP or static), you have some remote options.
Auto-calibrating as part of a firmware update...
So,earlier tonight,I was downstairs BBSing, as one does on a Thursday night, and just before I went back upstairs,I thought, "eh..one quick game of Asteriods II on the Amiga before I go up.".
It's favorite Asteroids-a-like on *any* system
You just never know how these "quick" gaming sessions are going to go.
I obliterated many rocks and enemies, and 10 levels and 856,750 points later realized that I'd gotten into the elusive "zone",and it wound up not being a quick game at all.
I used it with GZdoom, available here...
It's a simple matter of unzipping GZdoom into a directory, and "drag & dropping" the single texture file on the GZdoom executable. Instant Heretic at much more modern resolution.
Simply amazing!
This pretty much took over my night last night.
https://www.nexusmods.com/hereticshadowoftheserpentriders/mods/1?tab=description
Heretic was one of my favorites BITD, and this texture pack makes it look amazing, even on today's terms.
Videos are starting to get posted from VCF Midwest.
*This is not my video*, but it features a lot of the same stuff that I had in my photo set.
Overhead view of the downstairs retro station.
Not the prettiest setup, but very fun and functional.
BBSing with the TI99/4A earlier tonight.
Changing it up...
Mad World BBS in green screen.
A good night of BBSing and gaming on the downstairs machines tonight.
In other news..the TRS-80 M4 throws a hell of an RF interference pattern at the Intellivision when they're both on.
Part of the experience.
I just got back from VCF Midwest. Here are a few pictures from the show.
I'm into #retrocomputing and #retrogaming, including emulation, lots of real hardware, & #FPGA. I also dabble in electronics, #microcontrollers, and coding.
Joined Oct 2018
