Benj Edwards

Someone suggested I start a retro tech blog—I already did in 2005! 😁 www.vintagecomputing.com 560+ more works: www.benjedwards.com/works.php Culture of Tech podcast: www.thecultureoftech.com Retro works for HTG: www.howtogeek.com/826448/best-... MIT Press book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204506...

All the code for Apple II Agent is up on GitHub if you want to run it yourself. You need an Uthernet II card in your Apple II at the moment: github.com/benj-edwards... Also, Claude assembled a "how it was made" technical document that is an interesting read: bxfoundry.com/apple2agent/

TIL: someone has ported English to Rust github.com/Aaryan-Kapoo...

Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/

Hey! I can do this too, right now! And I've been able to since the 1990s!

Pre-emptive Mooon Under Waater. Deansgate. Another yummy carpet. Gambling girls push me off my spot. Smells cleaner than Pic. By 1% . The customers are very motivated . There’s a forgotten art deco about the building.

This is fascinating, and why the hell would you choose NORTH DAKOTA as a pilot program to see how well a state specific game would sell

Obv I didn’t buy a $2000+ phone *just* to emulate old handheld games… But it factored into my decision 🤭

Food

I’ve discovered that you can turn any mediocre salsa into Good Salsa (TM) if you dump a small jar of pickled jalapeno slices into it. This is a universal thing!

If there were any justice in the world, every day would be #WorldWombatDay, but today is the official day to celebrate these glorious creatures that crush their enemies with their buttocks, dig burrows tens of metres long, constantly regrow their teeth, have babies called wombatlets, and poop cubes.

New office...new alumni game collection! Are you an @rittigers.bsky.social alumni and shipped a game? We want to celebrate your accomplishments. DM or email to igm@rit.edu for info. Thx Alex P., Daijya R. Bel C. and William T. for getting us get started! Let's fill this window!

my man saw some shit in that mystery dungeon

An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.

Thanks to Frank, Robin, and Phil for making this happen! Dig in there and see what weird stuff you can find!

People don’t realize how easy it is to overstate things on Bluesky if you frame them in absolute terms. EVERYTHING on Bluesky is this way

STARTREK/PICARD3.GIF

Super Mario Bros 2 (NA, Oct-9 1988) and Super Mario Bros 3 (Japan, Oct-23 1988) were released only two weeks apart. The sprites for SMB 2 were very likely developed *after* SMB 3’s sprites! (Thanks @heyphilsummers.bsky.social)

RIP to this angel

“Grocery items you might like” Yes, yes I might like it very much

My least favorite thing about this kind of linked login system is I always forget how I originally logged in to a service, then I end up accidentally creating three new accounts trying to find it

Bacon is so good for you because it clogs your arteries with lifegiving fats, which makes your heart pump harder, keeping it in shape

Same here. Hoard berries and let them rot or gobble selfishly

Finally sat down and finished editing the latest Atari Archive blog post on Video Pinball, featuring a rundown of a lot of the early arcade and console titles! There's even a couple mentions of very early computer games that I'd love to have turn up one day. www.atariarchive.org/atari-vcs/vi...

I lost my NES Four Score somewhere in storage, so I was thinking about cracking open a minty fresh one I bought at Toys R Us on clearance in the 1990s Should I do it

I’ve been working on a mod of Super Mario Bros. with Zapper support. One player plays as normal and the other can use the light gun to shoot blocks and enemies on the screen—or to make Mario huge!

Hell Yeah Alucard

when life gives you lemons, give em back! don't accept the lemons!!

@benjedwards.com Just letting you know, NES FujiNet exists. fujinet.online/nes/

Spooky season continues. 🎃 #DOSGaming

My day involves a stack of Atari computers, a laser disc player, digitizer, CRT, former Atari employee, and an ultra rare Atari cosmos How’s your day going? 

The second performance by the two Wreck-gars, seen her celebrating Nee Pong Night in Provence, will be at 7 pm at Jams in Santa Monica on October 22nd. Tickets will get you signed books of Idle in Provence as well as The Wreck-gars deuxieme duo dance. Almost sold out.

#pixelart