Tuned in to Retro Vidya / Tech!

This is pretty cool. I love learning about obscure shit like this, thanks for sharing

Nice blog too, but is it still active? Some of the buttons seem to not be working for me

This was primarily a post to see if I could get past the captcha, so feel free to ban me or not, that's fine. Anyway, I use my computer mainly as a Melee and Donkey Kong Country 2 machine.

Stardew Valley for me. Something about it makes me not realise how much time has passed

Personally, I have been working towards completing my backlog for awhile now.

i'm a pooron so it's not like i have a choice to have many games, my most played games so far is acnl for the 3ds, tekken and rdr2. lately i've been playing a lot of dwarf fortress mosltry to take my mind off work

Sims series.

>>1863
>>1875
You're not supposed to be doing any guessing at all. A well programmed minesweeper game will only generate maps that are fully solveable just by following the numbers.

>>1877
even given that, the first click will have to be random, right?

>>1880
I don't think this ever happened to me on any variant of Windows Minesweeper. The game might be programmed to not do this.

>>1881

You'd be correct, the game generates the maze on click, not on load

the first 2 clicks are always luck based lol, but the rest is a piece of cake, love playing minesweeper online, you can even play no guess mode so you don't have to click random

if there was a way to use my Razr V3 on a modern network you bet your ass I'd still be using it.

>>575
every uhh scroll input means change of angle of the object?

>>1430
Writing a seamless text smooth scrolling function utilizing the text GDC on PC-98. Planned for use in a future demo. Recorded an actual machine because emulators do not correctly replicate this behavior.

>>21
Oh hey, I bought that game a few years back for no real reason. I only played a bit of it but thought it was interesting nonetheless.

While I do play a lot of vidya in my spare time, I actually don't delve into obscure games as much as the more popular ones, but here are a few I've finished over the past few years/from childhood.

>Metal Max Returns
Found out about this back in 2020, really cool JRPG that mixes the gameplay of the OG Dragon Quests with a world like Mad Max. Had tons of fun exploring the world and going from town to town repairing, upgrading and customizing my Tank, great little soundtrack too. Only suffers from a weak story and even weaker party members, a real shame they lose ALL of their personality the second they join your party. Great game though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI1XqEyVowo

>Phantom Crash
Really unique mech fighter game released on the original Xbox. Fun combat, an okay story, a really cool world but the one thing about this game is that it has an incredibly unique and amazing soundtrack. One of my favourites in gaming. I never finished the game though, despite owning it from when I was a kid. Really should get back to finishing it one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5otbc54hEg

>Mendel Palace
Really cool puzzle game from before Game Freak made it big. For an NES game it's surprisingly short and easy, would honestly recommend it to anyone despite its age. I actually found out about it by doing a /vr/ gauntlet last year, never finished the gauntlet as I was given fucking Hatris to complete which was impossible for me, but I'm glad I played it just for Mendel Palace. The soundtrack was also composed by the Pokémon composer so a lot of it sounds like lost Gen 1 tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNmBcIs-Fs

>Battle Mania
Dirty Pair the game, basically. A really cool Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>925
It's neat (and I do wish BeOS became Mac OS X), but it's always just going to be a novelty at best without a company behind it like the old days, especially given that it's not Windows nor Linux/Unix.

>>927
>without a company behind it like the old days
It does have a company behind it though

https://www.haiku-inc.org/

Haiku will actually be viable to daily drive someday like 9front is for those who only need to manipulate text. All it needs is for Chrome to work since so much is done in the browser nowadays. It might get to stability before ReactOS. This is probably going to happen when the year of the Linux desktop finally arrives which is when the desktop is obsolete and also when Linux is compromised and people move to the BSDs.

>>925
I think it's pretty neat.

>>125
Always wanted to try PSO, as a kid I wanted the Gamecube version so I could get a Tails chao in SA2:B, and now as an adult just to see how it'd run on a Dreamcast in 2022 and if it'd be fun, never played an MMO before so having my first be something like PSO might make me gloss over the outdated aspects of the game.

Will probably have to look into it eventually if I do go through with it one day.

>>125
I've actually set up a private server for this game, although it only lasted around a month and I didn't have a lot of time to play on it. You can set up a local server pretty easily, just download the game off of archive.org.

I used to play pso on the dreamcast online a few years back,I've never heard of this. I'd love to hop on and try playing with some people from here