indigenous canadian, recovering academic → game dev → interactive media artist with a penchant for dial-up modems, the 4o3 bbs scene, 1-bit art, trackers/mods, classic macs, and 80s and 90s gaming. curator of internet, canadian & gaming obscura. 🇨🇦 #nobot #nobots #noindex
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Last Notes npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 i do not need another presario AIO i do not need another 486 i d- F #retrocomputing https://dialup.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/112/686/113/248/953/480/original/8c34af03e9d59fb4.jpeg npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 @npub16mz…hm5n 😂 we don’t got much but what we do have is free all summer! npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 after two pretty borked sourdough loaves, i finally got my act together and got the right consistency for a perfect rise. #food #bread https://dialup.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/112/559/433/862/952/074/original/921f7ffbb4bddabd.jpeg npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 @npub13le…6saf 😋 you're reminding me that some day i want to replace the fans in my EXL. they run louder than anything in my possession 😆 npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 @npub1up2…k6en interesting! I've never seen a north american version of this. npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 @npub1nsq…23w7 congrats! great save. npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 @npub1nsq…23w7 🤣 these are the kinds of terrible jokes that my Wintel friends used to rage out over in the 2000s npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 @npub1x6a…d5cx mine sent me this in the middle of my workday asking, "what do i click on?" 😬 https://dialup.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/112/173/680/143/067/349/original/cd8fff3f0ee25f7b.mp4 npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 this 200 gram bag of stamps from the 1960s was lovingly collected and curated by someone who loved international stamp art. i found it at a thrift store today, and will be turning it into physical pixel art in the coming weeks #stamps https://dialup.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/112/141/318/400/122/142/original/c49eaa538398c09b.jpeg npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 little story for tonight. while i was goofing around with #globalTalk, I ended up searching for some old Simpsons icons for my classic Macintosh (an LC 475), and stumbled upon an entry on the garden called Banned Simpsons Icons. (Who could resist downloading something with a title like that?) They were called the "Banned Simpsons Icons" because Fox once sent the artist - Jeanette Foshee - a cease & desist letter for her uncannily perfect renderings of the copyrighted characters. they planned on suing her for every penny she made ($0.00) on them. this was back in 1995. i thought - hell, what a wild story. why don't I get a hold of the artist - jeanette - and find out more about her banned icon set? what i stumbled upon broke my heart, and i ended up spending a week digitally preserving what i could find. read the rest of this diary entry here: https://www.dialup.cafe/~vga256/diary.htm #smallWeb #homepage #worldwideweb #marchintosh #macintosh https://dialup.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/112/091/917/685/693/407/original/e811f4138737ae81.png npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 @npub1nsq…23w7 😆 it's amazingly terrible. i think it's built on top of some wiki software that was never meant to be turned into a CMS npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 @npub1wav…h99e woohoo! well done and thank you! (edit: aw, too bad that it was already uploaded elsewhere on the garden) npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 can someone just please build an open source distributed icq with this interface my computer isn't very powerful, and i don't have many friends https://dialup.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/111/684/519/490/112/223/original/dfefcaa59e2f4397.png npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 @npub1rdf…5z7y they are very interesting takes on the books. same setting, completely different characters and plot. if you like text adventures, i highly recommend them. if you don't, i don't 😅 npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 although rarely spoken of, the Gateway series by Legend Entertainment - re-imaginings of Fred Pohl's books of the same name - have some of the most gorgeous high-res art i have ever seen in the ms-dos era while some scenes are almost monochromatic looking, each painting make subtle use of all 256 colours in the palette; each scene has a completely different palette. a close examination of each illustration reveals non-algorithmic dithering all painted pixel by pixel. each scene is truly a digital pixel art piece, and not a de-res'd scan of physical art. these scenes are from Homeworld II. #art #painting #dosgaming https://dialup.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/111/682/862/834/408/805/original/c365d90f05ba6d62.png https://dialup.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/111/682/862/849/330/518/original/ea72c51d14c65540.png https://dialup.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/111/682/862/874/777/168/original/d3ba2c2099a7b190.png npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 @npub13le…6saf any strong opinions on the Apple 410 plotter? in my year-long quest to find a plotter locally, one came up. i'm noticing there seems to be a bit of a gauntlet to run in terms of pushing data to it via serial. npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 this past year alone, my family has faced evacuation twice in the #canadian north due to #wildfire. during the current evac, thousands of northerners have zero communication with their families, emergency personnel or access to wildfire data. this is entirely due to the collapse of NorthwesTel's fibre network infrastructure and zero secondary systems for comms. the sub/arctic is infamous for its fragile, ancient comms architecture. i want to change that, and i'd like help thinking out loud about potential citizen-owned/operated technologies for long-distance emergency comms. #hamradio and #packetradio enthusiasts - could you please recommend some research resources on the following: - legal/frequency considerations for non-voice/packet transmission specific to #Canada - recommended hardware & software for 1000km+ transmission, tcp/ip - examples of amateur radio clubs that have undertaken this kind of role before if possible, please respond with links to documentation, research and/or policy papers. my entire family has worked wildfire management since the teletype days, and i hopefully can effect some actual useful change for northerners here. npub1z8nqp6gnl9ed9u73wvgs8nu6qqlssazlemg6j3z4eepe2sj7qrcquuwt4u vga256 my extended family (not me!) was put under evac notice a few hours ago in the northwest territories of #canada this photo by julie beaver looks as if someone got a little happy with instagram filters.... ... but it is perfectly color-accurate. this is what it looks like in the southern #NWT right now, due to dozens of out of control #wildfires https://dialup.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/885/344/064/818/884/original/6caaaa1499df8041.jpg