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weph @weph.dev · 22/06/2026

Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen came in the mail today... and now the GitHub repo is gone and you can't order it on Amazon anymore. And then I saw this: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855... Looks like it was more than just a nod to Fabien Sanglard's books after all... #retroprogramming

Cover of Bas Smits' book "Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen"

Chapter 4.10 "Smooth scrolling on EGA" of Bas Smits' book "Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen"

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weph @weph.dev · 19/06/2026

Turns out, taking a month‑long break in the middle of rewriting an assembly routine wasn't my brightest idea. The code kinda works, but also not quite. There are breakpoints set in the IDE, but no comments. What the hell was I thinking? Stupid is as stupid does, I guess #gamedev #retroprogramming

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weph @weph.dev · 13/06/2026

New Bookshelf version just came out. I decided to add Bases layouts instead of extending the built-in views. This article explains why I chose that direction weph.dev/bookshelf-ba... #Obsidian #ObsidianMD #BookSky

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Introducing Bases Layouts in Bookshelf

Bookshelf now includes two Bases layouts. This post explains why they exist alongside the built-in views.

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weph @weph.dev · 01/05/2026

PS: I wasn't almost done. It took another three hours or so to finish it 😂

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weph @weph.dev · 28/04/2026

I forgot how long it takes to edit those videos... but I'm almost done 😅

Screenshot of my upcoming video in Final Cut Pro

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weph @weph.dev · 22/04/2026

Dang, that seems to be a popular one. Can't wait til somebody turns it into a TV show and let's a bunch of d-list celebs play it...

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weph @weph.dev · 12/04/2026

That's gonna take a while 💀

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weph @weph.dev · 11/04/2026

I released a new version of my Bookshelf plugin for Obsidian If you're into reading, managing your books, tracking your reading progress and checking stats, why not give it a try? obsidian.md/plugins?id=b... Docs: weph.github.io/obsidian-boo... Code: github.com/weph/obsidia... #Obsidian #BookSky

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Glenn F. Henriksen @henriksen.no · 16/12/2025

When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hey, look. It's a decent scan of this legendary image!

Cover page of The Learning Company Software Catalog from Fall of 1991 with a group of children who are waaaay too excited to be playing "Super Solvers: OutNumbered!"

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weph @weph.dev · 27/03/2026

Air - Moon Safari

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weph @weph.dev · 25/03/2026

hey, hey, hey, hey smoke vite every day

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weph @weph.dev · 23/03/2026

Best place to set up a breadbin? In the kitchen of course 😄

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weph @weph.dev · 16/03/2026

Sorry for your loss 🖤🌈

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weph @weph.dev · 03/02/2026

Finally dug into Mode X. It can do some neat tricks 13h can't, but it's got some challenges as well... so I had to dust off my very rusty assembly skills www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc0x... #gamedev #retrogamedev #retrocomputing #retrogaming #msdos #indiedev #devlog #pascal #turbopascal

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Mode X Exploration & Assembly Optimization - Back to the Pascal Ep. 8

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I made a tool that makes retro anime sound effects. Meet AnimeVox! I made it for a game, but it's free to use. I'm using the forgotten (but popular in 80s japan) Schroeder reverb algo, and some wobble. If you find it useful consider supporting me on itch :) castpixel.itch.io/animevox

the anime sfx-making tool!
It's called ANIMEVOX, in big letters up top.
Then there's the controls:

In vertical pairs:
Left:
Pitch Rise
Rise speed

Reverb
Room size

On the right:
Wobble Speed
Wobble Amount

Tone Brightness
Volume

Next is a row of keys:
Randomize - randomizes the sound parameters
UNDO/ REDO - go back to parameters you liked
Export Wav - self explanatory, it saves a copy of the latest sound to your hard drive.

Then the fun buttons, with cute art styles:

IMPACT, sparkle, beam, powerUP, PON, BOOM, slash, woosh

Each produces a preset sound, which then goes through the fx chain.

Hope you enjoy it!

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weph @weph.dev · 26/12/2025

*sigh* okay, the hype machine got me... ordered a Commodore 64 Ultimate. I probably don't *really* need it, but my 1702 could use a friend

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weph @weph.dev · 25/12/2025

Cleaned up the office for the holidays #desksetup #retrocomputing

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

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weph @weph.dev · 20/12/2025

Someone suggested 4 but it didn't work either. I couldn't find 3, so I tried 2 and that one does the job.

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weph @weph.dev · 20/12/2025

Apparently Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Turbo Debugger 5.0 aren't compatible. Does anyone know the latest TD version that can read TP binaries with a symbol table? #retrodev #retrocomputing #msdos #turbopascal

Screenshot of Turbo Debugger showing the error message "Program linked with wrong linker version"

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weph @weph.dev · 17/12/2025

It's also not the easiest to pull off on 35 year old hardware, but I like challenges. I'll definitely ask you for feedback once I'm done with the turnaround. Thanks for the offer!

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weph @weph.dev · 16/12/2025

Yeah, but that would be another rabbit hole. I've got enough of those already 😂 I'm gonna try hand-drawn pixel art first

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weph @weph.dev · 16/12/2025

Thanks! It'll probably take me forever to get a perfect turnaround... so I'm aiming for a good one instead 😅

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weph @weph.dev · 16/12/2025

Any tips for drawing isometric pixel art characters in multiple angles?

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weph @weph.dev · 16/12/2025

I took a first stab at isometric maps on a 386. The new direction definitely makes things more challenging... and I'm not sure yet if I can pull it off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JZ3... #gamedev #retrogamedev #retrocomputing #retrogaming #msdos #indiedev #devlog #pascal #turbopascal

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Isometric Struggles - Episode 7 of Back to the Pascal

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weph @weph.dev · 12/12/2025

Never played Theme Park World, but I really liked the first Theme Park back in the day

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weph @weph.dev · 11/12/2025

Ok, thanks for the explanation

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weph @weph.dev · 11/12/2025

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately (or fortunately... it's hard to judge without knowing the details), the statement has been edited and is now as vague as everything else I've seen so far.

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weph @weph.dev · 10/12/2025

Can someone fill me in on what's going on with #DOSember?

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

64x64 pixel dungeon crawler. Pac-quest. Featuring Pac🟡Girl

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weph @weph.dev · 05/12/2025

Also, there's this huge rectangle right in the center of the screen. I'm sure you're aware of both issues. I saw your latest devlog, so I assume it'll be gone in the next release. I definitely wanna see where you take this!

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weph @weph.dev · 05/12/2025

Unfortunately I couldn't test it on my 386 since I don't have a coprocessor. I have an AMD K6-2 sitting around, but it's not pluggin in and might be a little overpowered anyway. Looks good in dosbox. Movement is very smooth. I noticed several glitches (vertical lines appearing at certain positions)

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weph @weph.dev · 01/12/2025

This week's video is part Q&A, part devlog, and part "wait… what do I actually wanna build?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kDp... #gamedev #retrogamedev #retrocomputing #retrogaming #msdos #indiedev #devlog #pascal #turbopascal

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New Direction? - Week 6 of Back to the Pascal

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weph @weph.dev · 01/12/2025

Cool. I'll definitely check it out when I'm back home

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Novus Idea @expfunction.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

An early research build of Harmony Tree is now available on itch.io. This release presents CyberVGA, an original MS-DOS rendering engine built from the ground up, demonstrating classical raycasting with textured walls. #dosember #retro #indie #gamedev #cybervga

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Storm Chaser Patrick Makes Games @patrickpineda.net · 21/11/2025

Pixel art thread. Consider sharing and following, I need a job. Bookmark in case you ever need a pixel artist. #pixelart #indiedev

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19/11/2025

It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

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PicoIDE

An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers

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weph @weph.dev · 17/11/2025

Last week was mostly cleaning up a few weeks worth of sins... plus a healthy dose of overengineering. Not sure if I did myself a favor, but at least it was fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CtN... #gamedev #retrogamedev #retrocomputing #retrogaming #msdos #indiedev #devlog #pascal #turbopascal

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I Cleaned Up the Code and Created a Canvas - Week 4 of Back to the Pascal

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weph @weph.dev · 12/11/2025

Improve bug? Yeah, no thanks, Jira... It's already perfect in all its brokenness #jira #ai #SoftwareDevelopment

Screenshot showing Jira's new "Improve Bug" button

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weph @weph.dev · 10/11/2025

Yep... good ol' Pascal 😄

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DrSmey @drsmey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

#pixelart #aseprite Spell Practice (2022)

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weph @weph.dev · 04/11/2025

Data on CF card #1 is scrambled. Card #2 is not even readable anymore. Prepared card #3 with FreeDOS but I can't boot from it. Something about invalid VBR signature... oh and my floppy drive stopped working too 😫 #retrocomputing #msdos

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