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An exclusive look at my office for Mastodon followers. One of these is an unshipped prototype. Can you spot it?
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Answer: It's this fellow right here. Got this from, I believe, Glenda back in the Westlake days. It's a prototype Macally iShock 2. It's basically unusable: one analog stick is not mapped properly, and...
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First Mastodon admission: I looked through the interface for an "English (US)" option because it just told me a toot was "favourited"
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In hindsight, it should have been obvious that tooting about "favourited" would end in more "favourited".
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Good news: daughter has rearranged the pile of controllers on my floor into color-coded piles.
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I've been using a new tool called Applesauce to image all my old Apple 2 floppies.It took me longer than I care to admit to figure out why this particular Bard's Tale 2 disk was reading as blank. Can...
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As a hint, here's a picture of the first disk, which didn't cause any problems.
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As I continue my way through old Apple 2 floppies to image, I fondly recall a time when Chuck Yeager had his name on a dozen different flight sims.Here's the first.
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Worker: "Hey boss, there was a bit of a mixup mastering the 4 disk sides..."Boss: "Eh."
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From Wikipedia: "Much of The Magic Candle's fun derives from discovering exactly what is needed to preserve the eponymous candle."
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Also from Wikipedia: "Scorpia of Computer Gaming World in 1989 gave the game a very positive review, noting that killed monsters tend to stay dead"
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Clearly one of my best purchases: a Soundblaster Live card for Macintosh, ready for your G3 or G4! (Yes, still in shrink-wrap, which means money literally down the toilet.)
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The next step after this picture was to take it directly to the trash can. I've thrown away my money in more efficient ways, to be sure.
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