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Eric’s Edge

@ericsedge.com
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He/Him Authoring ”Adventure! The Quack of Dawn” mostly text adventure game in #HyperCard. quackofdawn.com “Ask me about HyperCard” I'm all about vintage computers and vintage analog medium/large format film photography.

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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 16/09/2026
I ran into this study while researching game design. It's nearly 10 years old and still holds up. Technically, being born in 1963, I fall into "Generation Jones" - growing up in the shadow of the silent generation - too young to participate in the cultural revolution.
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Heersred @heersred.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@ericsedge.com hi Eric, this is Jennifer from #RobJenCollecions, we aren't in the show this year. But definitely will be coming for a visit. I got some of my paintings accepted into an art show in Chicago on Oct 2, in a gallery in the Logan Square neighborhood.. www.vibrantcast.com/events/608
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People's Choice Fall Exhibition at Hairpin Arts Center — October 2, 2026 — VibrantCast
VibrantCast invites artists to submit up to three original artworks for our upcoming People’s Choice Fall Exhibition—a one-day, in-person exhibition shaped with the help of art lovers and collectors.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 28/08/2026
www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/28/b...
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 13/08/2026
ko-fi.com/post/The-Thr... #cats #herding #management
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The Three Laws of Cat Herding
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 12/08/2026
Playing around with alternative opening scenes for my game. The protagonist in the opening scene compares a crowd of people boarding a train at a station to a European Starling murmuration. The music is "Our Story Begins" from the prolific Kevin MacLeod. The video is cut from several CC videos.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 11/08/2026
Quantum of Solace youtu.be/IJ7SiDlikXQ #Macintosh #Quantum #Sticky #Bumper #Restoration
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Quantum of Solace
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 25/07/2026
Who do you hope ISN’T the voice of this narrator?
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 05/07/2026
Bos Taurus - The Heifer from Ipanema
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 04/07/2026
I feel a similar vibe with the vintage computer hobby. And in a different way. Our greatest challenge will be a scarcity of original components followed by the art and craftsmanship dying off. It is critical that we inspire the next generation, or it dies with us. youtu.be/c8svUszBVxo?...
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This Historic 110-Year-Old NYC Business Is Shutting Down
YouTube video by Joshua Charow
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 03/07/2026
Development Blog - Three Ways of Knowing Building a Murder Mystery Game on Peircean Semiotics #Peirce #Game #Design #Semiotics ko-fi.com/post/Develop...
Charles Sanders Peirce, the 19th-century American philosopher
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 01/07/2026
Current annoyance - overfilled fruit cups. Must be opened over a sink to avoid spilling. Why? #annoyed #packaging
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 29/06/2026
Another developer blog entry. This post is about one of the characters I'm developing for a game. ko-fi.com/post/Death-a...
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Death at Dawn on the Orient Star - A Developer's Blog - 2026/6/29
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 25/06/2026
I was raised on these streets.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 21/06/2026
I joined the RIFA smoking club this weekend. Took some #Macintosh computers to our #LAVCC meetup Saturday. And reveled in the smell of burning plastic and sadness.
Our small event at a local maker space.  Release the magic smoke!
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Sam Johnson @analoguelass.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Capturing Spring - photograph of the leaves of a Japanese Maple tree taken on a Spring morning using my Nikon F2 and Ilford FP4 developed with DD-X and printed onto mulberry paper #believeinfilm
A black and white photograph capturing the intricate structure of leaves and delicate branches of the Japanese Maple tree taken on a spring morning. It is printed onto delicate mulberry paper.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 20/06/2026
I will be at our second official LAVCC event is tomorrow, Saturday, June 20th at the Lansing Makers Network from 11AM to 5PM. As always, the event is entirely free, and I’ll have Adventure! The Quack of Dawn running if you want to play the game. lavcc.org/events/3
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LAVCC Event Registration
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 12/06/2026
Development Blog - The Arbiters of Agency ko-fi.com/Post/Develop...
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Development Blog - The Arbiters of Agency
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 07/06/2026
Development Blog - Prior Art ko-fi.com/post/Develop...
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Development Blog - Prior Art
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 01/06/2026
"Good" content still exists on the Internet. Sometimes I get lucky. "...go light on the furniture wax and/or Botox. You don’t want to turn yourself from a slightly scuffed midcentury classic into a brutalist nightmare with Mar-a-Lago face." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
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Your Body Is Now Considered Vintage
“We are pleased to inform you that after several decades of constant (if often subpar) operation, you have finally crossed the threshold from ‘garage sale ju...
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 01/06/2026
"Good" content still exists on the Internet. Sometimes I get lucky. "...go light on the furniture wax and/or Botox. You don’t want to turn yourself from a slightly scuffed midcentury classic into a brutalist nightmare with Mar-a-Lago face." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
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Your Body Is Now Considered Vintage
“We are pleased to inform you that after several decades of constant (if often subpar) operation, you have finally crossed the threshold from ‘garage sale ju...
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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 30/05/2026
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 30/05/2026
Developer’s Blog - A Fist Full of Androids ko-fi.com/post/Develop...
Data gesturing “Oh well”.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 24/05/2026
Oh great and powerful Internet Netizens, hear my plea! I’m working on a game. A point and click game. A murder mystery game. Starting with a script with an embedded player decision tree. The script reads much like a choose your own adventure book actually.
Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 23/05/2026
Death at Dawn on the Orient Star - A Developer's Blog - 2026/5/23 Character Profiles ko-fi.com/post/Death-a...
Professor Friedrich Reinhardt - a portrait of a elderly man of nervous intellect.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 14/05/2026
You can follow my #game #development bloggity #blog posts here: ko-fi.com/ericsedge/po...
Eric is wearing Apple Vision Classic - Vista Mac II glasses with an eye on the future.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 14/05/2026
Death at Dawn on the Orient Star - A Developer’s Blog - 2026/5/14 Character Profiles ko-fi.com/post/Death-a...
Colonel Dmitri Sokolov profile in dress uniform. The man could crack walnuts with a single hand.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 13/05/2026
I've been looking for a VS Code replacement that isn't crammed full of AI bullshit, and Gram is proving to be a delight so far. And look at that frog! #programming #editor #fuckai gram-editor.com
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GRAM
Gram is an open source code editor with built-in support for many popular languages. Gram is an opinionated fork of the Zed code editor.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 10/05/2026
I can’t imagine a more fitting beverage for our current time.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 08/05/2026
I printed a thing for my PowerBook 1400c.
The PowerBook 1400c has a clear plastic window that fits on the cover. Apple had various printed cards you could insert. This is an abstract image of people and space related things.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 05/05/2026
Death at Dawn on the Orient Star - A Developer’s Blog - 2026/5/05 Character Profiles ko-fi.com/post/Death-a...
1890s photograph of some random dude. He's all together too proud of himself.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 01/05/2026
So do I.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 01/05/2026
ko-fi.com/post/Death-a... #GameDesign #HyperCard #Murder #Mystery
The Orient Express circa 1885. Various rail workers are repairing track, talking, loading the train, or just standing around talking.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 25/04/2026
ko-fi.com/post/The-Gho... The Ghost in the Automated "Loom" Reclaiming Job’s Bicycle for the Mind Are we using AI to reach new destinations, or are we just enjoying the leisure of no longer having to pedal?
Two 19th century weavers destroying a loom.
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Michelle likes democracy. @democracymichelle.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Yeah. How does this work? I wonder how many degrees of separation from the original post it has to be before she stops calling the state police and FBI. Also, her state police or mine? 🧐
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 15/04/2026
Train enthusiasts hear my plea! As some of you know, I’m writing the script for a point-and-click game. I am looking for descriptions of vintage train experiences from the 1890s.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"Schrodinger's Strait of Hormuz"
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 10/04/2026
Bloggity blog post on my next game. "Death on the Orient Star". #game #programming #HyperCard #blog ko-fi.com/post/Game-De...
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Death on the Orient Star - Game Development Blog - The Early Stages
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NYAHALLO 🐈‍⬛ @nyahalloshop.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Retro stage (retro-stage.com) is stealing my capybara swimsuit design and using AI generated photos to sell my design without my permission or consent whatsoever. Please help me report this shop and be very wary about buying from them in general!
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 04/04/2026
So I’ve been working on the script for my next game. It’s a murder on the orient express style point-and-click. What are your favorite murder mystery tropes you’d expect to see? #AgathaIsMyMuse #MurderHeWrote #Mystery #Murder #Game #HyperCard
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 29/03/2026
#MARCHintosh 2026 #GlobalTalk youtu.be/52kS0akTlHY
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MARCHintosh 2026
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 29/03/2026
#MARCHintosh #Globaltalk
#MARCHintosh 2026 on #GlobalTalk!
@acn128@oldbytes.space is sending greetings to all you cool GlobalTalk people out there!
It's insanely great to see this cool network running and thriving!
Thank you to everyone to make this happen!
And thank you for all the cool and creative documents to my printer!
Now I have to start browsing all zones and shares before the month is over:
Best regards,
Anna
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 28/03/2026
#MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk
Scanning for viruses...
Happy #MARCHintosh 2026!
- Fifi and Sam
(@sci@masrodon social)
ar PurrTopia
(hopefully no paper jams this time :))
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 27/03/2026
#MARCHintosh #Globaltalk
Womp wompSecret communications from Apple about HyperCard shenanigans. #MARCHintosh 2026
Greetings from Horningsea
A small village on the River Cam just outside
Cambridge, UK
@tergycool@mastodonsocial - https://scolgate.org - Globaltalk: scotgate
“I’m not creepy” 
Um, yes, this is very creepy.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 24/03/2026
This is so true. My local university library has a media collection for old software stretching back into the 1980s. It isn’t large and leans academic. There are few places where the original physical media can be found.
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KIM-1 @kim-6502.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Seattle area folks - the retro event of the year is back. May 2,3. vcfpnw.org
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 21/03/2026
Livestream in like 7 minutes. Just talking about what's going on. youtube.com/live/FeKqrnW...
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Eric's Edge - What's Going On?
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 19/03/2026
Today’s #marchintosh #globaltalk
2026 is truly an amazing time to be alive with the continued presence of Globallalk
simply the network to be on in these modern times. Uncle 0’ Grimacey says
May your MARCHintosh be as green as the molement you’ll have after one of these shakes!
Happy, MARCkIntosh, ma mhulrun!
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 15/03/2026
Beannachtaí na Féile Padraig Ort roaneband.com One of our friends from the Michigan Renaissance Festival
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 15/03/2026
Will somebody please give him another shiny gold plated participation award so he’ll go to a corner and play with himself? I know it only occupies him for a day or two but still.
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Eric’s Edge @ericsedge.com · 15/03/2026
We made the local news. www.wilx.com/2026/03/14/l...
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Lansing Area Vintage Computer Club holds first public meet
The Lansing Area Vintage Computer Club held its first public meet, bringing together computer enthusiasts to interact with older technology.
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