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I make MegaZeux, games for MegaZeux, and other junk. MegaZeux is a cross-platform game creation system originally written for DOS in 1994 by Alexis Janson. she/her · Account run by Lachesis · digitalmzx.com

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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: [Company 51% owned by Grok CSAM defender Tim's Weeney] has delayed its upcoming [multi-billion dollar brand slop] as it pivots to complete [slop] development. "[Pay us to eat up the slop, little piggies]," a director told [customers]. ["Also, you don't own anything you paid for anymore."]
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authorblues @authorblu.es · 14h
This is how culture dies. Games made by nobody, for an audience of nobody, remembered by nobody, built on the bones of great artists who came before. This is the last act of a dying civilization that forgot what it means to be human, if it ever actually was.
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
you have to turn it off separately on EVERY FUCKING DEVICE by the way
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
it's that season where Discord can't be bothered to remember your settings again. don't forget to go turn this off!
fucking discord turned on their fucking halloween sound pack again, go to settings > notifications > sounds to turn off this tedious setting yet again
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
how is it using character numbers to index the VGA palette! I don't understand at all!!!
smzxtest running on a video adapter based on the Alliance Semiconductor ProMotion AT24 chipset. The displayed text is completely incomprehensible because, while it's technically displaying a 256-color text mode, it's using characters to index the VGA palette instead of the usual combined 4-bit color indices. The result is effectively an 80x25 pixel 256-color graphics mode and the strangest SMZX failure mode I've seen yet.
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
it was not innocent but it was 100% true
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Bastard Angela @werewolf.pizza · 01/10/2026
Somebody graduated from puppy training class yesterday! Everyone say "good job, Keiko!"
A keeshond puppy wearing a tiny mortarboard
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
good job Keiko 🥺
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unsettlingly come-hither tezuka animal @tezukaanimal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
browser.nova.enabled = false
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they are aware and it's reason #327 why they are trying to wreck the software engineering field by flooding it with slop
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💜Peach💜 @pinkpeaches0214.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just for laughs, can you try running this thing? github.com/AliceLR/smzx...
A screen capture of smzxtest displaying a 256-color text mode in DOSBox-X. The primary feature is a large 16x16 grid in the center of the image, displaying 256 colors, with shades increasing in cyan from left-to-right, and increasing in red from top-to-bottom. Various diagnostic text includes:

smzxtest Copyright (C) 2024-2026 Lachesis. (GPLv2-or-later)
256 colors, cyan top-right, red bottom-left: works.
256 colors, red top-right, cyan bottom-left: works (wrong endian or shift).
256 colors, alternating bars: not 8 pixel text mode (laptops: try Fn+F8).
16 colors, interleaved bars: doesn't work, no doubling.
16 colors, horizontal bars: doesn't work, doubled left pixel.
16 colors, vertical bars: doesn't work, doubled right pixel.

A second image to the right displays a "zoomed" diagram of the text mode character used to generate this palette, with alternating disabled and enabled pixels. The diagnostic text reads "the four bars should be solid white (pixel shift)."
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
i was just thinking about how relatively few current and former MegaZeuxers have drank the AI bleach so far. shows what i know
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
unrelated to any recent news, I recommend missing every SaaS password manager and instead using a local one. You can mostly just copy the database file between devices and it will work. The database file is encrypted, so just copy it somewhere to back it up. Also, they are free of charge
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
afaik Kolourpaint (basic image editing) and GrafX2 (Deluxe Paint clone) also haven't been slopped, but they're more niche and I didn't see any statements from them on the subject
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
unrelated to any recent news, Krita has an active AI moratorium and in April its maintainer made a forum post about how they don't want LLM code in Krita github.com/KDE/krita#ai... krita-artists.org/t/policy-on-...
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GitHub - KDE/krita: Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks. - KDE/krita
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Worlds of ZZT @worldsofzzt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
museumofzzt.com/file/view/forelise/… “For Elise” by Lancer X (2019) Published by: 妹Soft [FORELISE.ZZT] - “$For Elise” museumofzzt.com/file/play/forelise
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Weasel ⛳🏌️ @wildweasel486.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
there's not one thing that AI can do that I have any use for. i can no longer be sure what things even look like, whether a story is true, whether a translation means what its original writer said. because AI exists, I am forced to investigate everything I read, look at, and interact with. fuck AI.
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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026
"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."
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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 16/08/2026
9/11 should have happened to hogwarts
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
somehow, the LPT DAC audio drivers I wrote for MegaZeux actually work* *only tested in DOSBox
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
sounds like some kind of gender neutral toilet
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
we had a bill to ban surveillance pricing here but our shitty governor vetoed it
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
if it really is in the GPU they might not want to increase the precision due to HW compatibility and due to the list of GPUs that are any good at FP64 being so small that you can list them in a single reddit comment. if not, who knows www.reddit.com/r/CUDA/comme...
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Melirius's comment on "Is there a list of GPUs ranked by FP64?"
Explore this conversation and more from the CUDA community
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
At elevation 116800 the exponent is going to be floor(log2(116800)) = 16 and the precision limit 2^(16-23) = ~0.01, plenty of room for jitter like in that first video to accumulate on individual vertices from error. slightly higher (131072) will bump the exponent up again and make it worse
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
it is single precision floating point rounding error, if I had to guess in GPU mesh vertex calculations where it isn't easily fixable by switching to doubles. why is it using values offset from the origin there? who knows..
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authorblues @authorblu.es · 01/08/2026
Assuming any of this is real, I will burn my stream to the ground and bury the ashes if they want to start feeding my streams to the Gen AI machine. I'll stream somewhere else. Nowhere. I don't care. I'll go outside and setup a projector or something. I'm so fucking sick of this. No one wants this.
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
while you were partying, i studied
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
i have a D-5! they're really good synthesizers even if the factory patches are a little underwhelming
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
was this Nasir. i need to thank whoever did this for leaving Toad as the most powerful spell in the game
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Worlds of ZZT @worldsofzzt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
museumofzzt.com/file/view/cv_music/… “Caverns of Zeux Music Collection” by Nanobot (2001) Published by: Mystical Winds [CV_MUSIC.ZZT] - “CV_HEVEN.MOD” museumofzzt.com/file/play/cv_music
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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 08/07/2026
Have there been enough layoffs to convince enough game devs that we should just refuse to crunch because we have zero job security anyways? I left my dream job of 10+ years at WotC in part because the VP said crunch was baked into the schedule
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Coming in 2027 to a PragerU truck near you: Chris Pratt is Citizen Vigilante 2. This time, he's murdering trans women. Executive produced and funded by Elon Musk
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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 02/07/2026
DID YOU KNOW: My earliest game releases ('93!) were made using ZZT, a 1991 DOS ASCII GCS. Owing to a series of fortunate events and legendary efforts, ZZT still boasts an active community of game devs, level makers, and modders. One of those legendary efforts is the Museum of ZZT. museumofzzt.com
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Museum of ZZT
The Museum of ZZT is an online archive dedicated to the preservation and curation of ZZT worlds. Explore more than 4000 indie-made ZZT worlds spanning its 35+ year history
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"We need a stronger fascist party" isn't the... whatever that he thinks it is. 🤢 so excited for November
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Fix already submitted for Plasma 6.7.2: invent.kde.org/plasma/plasm...
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fix(overlay): allow clients to receive actual key events (!150) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Keyboard · GitLab
We were consuming key events and committing the text of the key directly, which breaks clients that expect or require actual key events. Instead, we still...
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Heads up KDE Plasma users: Plasma 6.7 broke SDL key events when text input is enabled, so MegaZeux is broken under Plasma 6.7 unless you go to System Settings > Virtual Keyboard and turn off Plasma Keyboard. This probably isn't an SDL bug so I don't know how this will go. github.com/libsdl-org/S...
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Plasma Keyboard 6.7 + SDL_StartTextInput breaks SDL_EVENT_KEY_DOWN for text keys. · Issue #15897 · libsdl-org/SDL
When the Plasma Keyboard (6.7) virtual keyboard is enabled in a freshly updated Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 44 install, using SDL_StartTextInput preempts all SDL_EVENT_KEY_DOWN and SDL_EVENT_KEY_UP e...
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Win98 SPOOKY support @win98tech.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you're wondering why Rockstar is going all out on the GTA 6 cover art reveal its the poisoning news results about them losing their union busting suit
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Worlds of ZZT @worldsofzzt.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
museumofzzt.com/file/view/forelise/… “For Elise” by Lancer X (2019) Published by: 妹Soft [FORELISE.ZZT] - “$For Elise” museumofzzt.com/file/play/forelise
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 14/06/2026
My side garden is like some kind of FOX HOLIDAY RESORT at the moment.
One sleeping foxAnother sleeping fox, this one absolutely k.o'ed on its side with its tail kind of draped in the shrubbery like a forgotten scarf at the beachBoth the foxes shown amid my hydrangeas
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
If it's your whole game engine? Not so easy, so if you're a game engine dev, maybe think about how your users will react first...?
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Do some of these contain slop code? Probably, yep. You can't really do much at the SDK or OS level but you absolutely can throw zlib in the garbage if 1.3.3 breaks multiple platforms you use AGAIN due to merging dubious patches.
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Guys c'maahn you shouldn't have to audit your whole dependency chain" is a little bit weak when the dependency in question is most likely the largest and only direct dependency for most software using it anyway, to the SDK level, it's not that difficult github.com/MegaZeux/meg...
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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
it sure is disappointing seeing a bunch of people i respect gradually coming out as pro-slopcode and/or slop-curious
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Worlds of ZZT @worldsofzzt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Check our schedule for this week below, and watch the stream at twitch.tv/worldsofzzt for our final May-gaZeux games! #stream_schedule
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Lord Fenrir 🔜 Howloween 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @lordfenrir.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Happy Quizno's Coyote Day to all who celebrate 🥪
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drajjon (Alexis) @alexisjanson.com · 02/04/2026
do you have a line of code that lives rent free in your mind is it better than "goto sailormoon"? my teenage self was an ARTIST github.com/AliceLR/mega...
lots of code with the highlighted line "goto sailormoon;" (and a "sailormoon:" label a bit lower)
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