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Fly256 @fly256.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Back at it again with the Lodev DDA (lodev.org/cgtutor/rayc...) ray casting experiments. This is running in Real Mode x86-16, with VGA using the tweaked 320x100 mode for double buffering. With just the minimal interface code for testing, the current EXE is about under 4KB. (Open Watcom C/C++ 1.9)

Black floor, white ceiling. The walls are either a monochromatic gradient, or the VGA palette EGA colors. Looking at a corner with a pillar covering the actual corner.
(This image has been Nearest Neighbor scaled from a 320x100 framebuffer to 640x480.)

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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is amazing! SimCopter had a great soundtrack by Jerry Martin but the game’s files were highly compressed. So LucasVB got in touch with Mr. Martin and he was able to find most of the original high quality tracks! Awesome to hear “Hangar” in such clarity after 30 years archive.org/details/SimC...

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SimCopter original soundtrack (high quality)

SimCopter is a somewhat obscure game released in 1996 by Maxis, the studio behind the SimCity and The Sims franchises.In the game, the player controls a helicopter pilot in various missions across a c...

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 27/08/2026

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

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Brütal Legend | The Tainted Coil shall rule forever! by Double Fine Productions

A sale by Double Fine Productions, 100% off Brütal Legend

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

An X-Men game was intended for release for the SEGA 32X, but was cancelled. New footage of this game emerged from our E3 1995 archives showing Wolverine... well, wander around aimlessly for a bit. archive.gamehistory.org/item/92b103…

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Mark McPherson @movieswithmark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"So, you’re an anime/manga store?" "Yes, well... we don't sell manga anymore." "Okay, but you can buy anime Blu-rays, right?" "Yes... although you will need a subscription to buy them." "Oh, so, you pay a subscription and then you get the Blu-rays without additional payments?" "Well...no...uh..."

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Fly256 @fly256.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Returning to Allegro 4 on DOS. I now have a 386DX 25 to test on as a lowest-spec target machine. (It's on a Full AT Intel server board from ~1991.)

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minimme @minimme.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This article is the closest thing we'll ever get to understanding how the total enigma of a GBA game Urban Yeti exists, a bad game I can't help but love. Delightful and well researched read about a niche corner of video game history

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GKIDS Films @gkids.com · 07/08/2026

Follow your muse. ✍️ The global sensation LOOK BACK from Kiyotaka Oshiyama comes to 4K UHD Collector's Edition for the first time in North America. Available September 8. Pre-order now exclusively at the GKIDS Store! 📓 brnw.ch/21x3Pa9

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conto @conto.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

kakugo no susume

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Fly256 @fly256.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Silly question, but has anyone ever actually make a whole game within #PowerPoint? #gamedev #why

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Haysey_Draws Sleepy Teachers @haysey-draws.art · 14/07/2026

So if I’m getting this right… You need a subscription to access the physical goods store where everything is more expensive then it is elsewhere (that isn’t exclusive to said store… that you won’t know is on said store without a subscription) Sony what are you doing!?

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Even after all these years I still find the fact that something like *this* was on the official soundtrack of a version of "Sid Meier's Pirates!" incredibly amusing. Only in the early 90s. 🏴‍☠️💿🔊🎶

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Kimulator's Films inc. @kimulatorsfilms.com · 01/07/2026

Having one of our games get a physical release on PlayStation was one of our proudest accomplishments. We hope this isn’t the end for physical games. Collecting has always been a big passion of ours. Thank you again to Limited Run Games, for the opportunity of a lifetime!

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David Doel @daviddoel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Still can't get over the fact that @playstation.com announced an end to physical media in the same post they announced the closure of their digital store for older platforms. Literally justifying the worries people have about a digital-only future within the same post.

From PlayStation on Twitter:

Important updates:

News on physical discs for new games - http://play.st/4v86Wg3

News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - http://play.st/4vEN9FX

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G Dutreix @geedutreix.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Happy Birthday to a legend against oppression The pro mental health king

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Vinnk @vinnk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Disc Rot? I run an online game/CD shop. More than 10,000 discs CD/DVD/LD/BD have passed through me. I test each one. I find scratched discs for sure. And moldy discs in cases that also have moldy manuals. But a pristine case with a “rotted” disc? Twice. 2 times in the 15 years I have sold games.

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Fly256 @fly256.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Going to write a very rudimentary card-stack system with pictures/things that hyperlink to other slides, will see if I can turn it into a single-header #C library for just the interface portion. #gamedev

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Kazuno@ff14 @kazunokabe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

神崎ひとみ　エスカフローネ

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 19/06/2026

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026

Like, I really wish this country could stop having such shitty foreign policy, not just for all the fucked up horrors we cast into the world and whatnot, but because europeans learning about our absolutely ridiculous food spectacles that we think of as normal is always entertaining

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ManaBrent 🔮 Final Profit on Steam @finalprofit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

GotchaGotchaGames dropped today that they're shutting down the official rpgmaker forums next week, and taking down access entirely come December... Final Profit wouldn't exist without these forums, there's so much knowledge about to be lost. I'm mortified. forums.rpgmakerweb.com/forums/impor...

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS: FORUM CLOSURE

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Fly256 @fly256.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Can I please focus for one whole second? Might just code\setup an operating environment for FreeDOS, that only does my game-dev tasks and nothing else...

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 04/06/2026

The most important cultural lesson of the late 80s/early 90s

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Fly256 @fly256.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Sidetracked once again with 2.5D/3D rendering systems, and trying to implement a rule-based hybrid tile/sector system to draw city environments without using too much memory or tanking the framerate on older machines.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT is $3.39 on Steam buff.ly/rCFDSWG Deck playable

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Fly256 @fly256.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

No better time than now to build Allegro 4.2.3 from source in an old DJGPP within a DOSBox.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 27/04/2026

thinking about this comments i got... i actually have exactly one thing to say about moon child: it's cheerful and optimistic in a way that i think everyone yearns for right now. that's the end of this video essay about moon child thanks for watching

three youtube comments and a reply from the author. they read as follows:
from niniv: Would love to see you do a video on current bluesky sensation Moon Child, since the rave-like OST and psychedelic visuals are getting a lot of people obsessed over it, and the devs have made the source files available to the world as a result. Somebody was even able to reverse engineer the stems to the AMIGA version title demo which is the song that launched the game's current popularity.
from furious poultry: listen to this guy do that
from eunaoseibrother467: yes

and the reply from GST Channel:
I do adore Moon Child and it's resurgence but I don't think I have anything new to say about it

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nuhdumm @nuhdumm.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This power is what all true friends strive for

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Jon Davies 🦖 🔜 Pixel Art Park (Tokyo) @sovanjedi.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Okay so you might see this video with the audio muted. Now imagine how the music must sound like. I urge you to unmute and listen to what it's actually like because I guarantee you you're not prepared for it.

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Mora @agrimmora.itch.io · 14/04/2026

Moon child fanart

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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 08/04/2026

if "cancelation" can refer to someone either 1. Being broadly disliked by a bunch of powerless randos on the internet, or 2. Being legally barred from entering a G7 nation, then I think the word is too imprecise for further use. pack it in, fellas

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

One of the things I love about retro games as a hobby is that there's always more and it's always weirder. Nobody can possibly hold the entirety of the topic in their head and so you're always finding out about some strange game that you've never heard of.

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Fly256 @fly256.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Honestly, It's one thing to hear of this in passing on social media. It's another to actually, barely but still, see the inferno from the window of your own fucking bedroom. I'm having a mental health moment today, gimme a bit before I'm back to being barely productive.

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Liam Triforce @liamtriforce.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It is happening again.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Remaster of Broken Sword 2 is being crowdfunded right now, and this time Revolution are taking a no-AI approach: www.kickstarter.com/projects/rev...

This game has over 55,000 unique frames of animation, and is created by a team of talented classical animators who have redrawn and reanimated this game frame by frame. Adding subtle, context-sensitive characterisation and human expressions is something that AI can't do, and never will be able to do.

During the development of Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged we tried to integrate our own internal tool trained on art produced by ourselves. In the end it was a lot of work that could have frankly been spent directly on the game, so that's what we're doing this time around!

No AI, just humans ❤︎

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CoyoteTraveller @coyotetraveller.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Hey if you still have an Angelfire or Tripod site, or if you like one, now is the time to back it up, like, urgently

Wikipedia snippet:

On March 6, 2026, Lycos announced that their services, specifically Angelfire and Tripod, were experiencing temporary outages in a note on their frontpage.[6] Later that day, the message was updated to say "To our users of Angelfire and Tripod. We apologize for the service interruptions. Unfortunately we will be shutting down in the next 30 days. Please move your hosting to another host as soon as possible."[7] The message was removed from the homepage shortly after, without further official statement from the company.[8]

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renni @renniultrafox.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Ganon O'Toole (Remastered)

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Fly256 @fly256.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Note to self: When writing a MIDI ISR sound driver, maybe don't assume that 0-delay events mean 1-timer tick. Otherwise, it will make your song sound... wonky.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

ShadowSnake from Battle of the Eras has a chainable low-kick normal with 0-frame startup and +60 advantage

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

TECHNLGY/ALR25T.GIF

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Fly256 @fly256.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I hope I can get code up an running to start working on a #DOS #VGA game project. Sound, and keyboard code is functional enough, but I'll need to start on game logic things for a project soon. #C #gamedev #OPL2

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