Misty @misty@digipres.club

Even more than Sorcerian, I’m excited about Sepas Channel. It’s an original, mobile/DSi-exclusive RPG with a look that’s kind of halfway between Earthbound and The World Ends With You. This game is great, give it a try when it comes out. http://www.gmodecorp.com/gmodearchives/sepaschannel/

Good Switch import news - G-mode are bringing their old mobile port of Sorcerian to the Switch! These pre-smartphone mobile ports are pretty historically significant but basically impossible for anyone to play, even in Japan - so the rerelease is very welcome. http://www.gmodecorp.com/gmodearchives/sorcerian/

The whole G-Mode Archives line is really interesting and there are some forgotten gems in there. Even the mediocre stuff is interesting in its own right. Grateful they’re being made available.

There’s a lot of really dangerous misfeatures in Windows 98, but this has to be one of my favourites. “I found an executable you might like. Is this good. Would you like to run it” is so obviously harmful in the era of the internet, but at the time seemed maybe vaguely helpful.

https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/the-clash-of-mobile-platforms-j2me-exen-moph-r1944/#a4

Preview of what I’m writing about in my next blog post…

Autoconf 2.70 has all the wonky patch notes you expect from a system that’s been around forever. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autotools-announce/2020-12/msg00001.html

I love the, “web”

Book mail day!

The Curse of Rabenstein (Puddle Software, Atari ST, 2020) https://8bitgames.itch.io/rabenstein

My humble proposal for a new flavour of JavaScript

One of my favourite things: apps that publish changelogs, but don’t seem to get why they’re doing it.

Obsessed with figuring out how Woot ended up with these debranded Pixelbooks that are labelled “ProductName” with some weird fake logo where the Google logo should go. https://sellout.woot.com/offers/debranded-13-pixelbook-go-chromebooks

Come join me on @shadsy’s stream right now - we’re playing Moon, a strange and fascinating Mac adventure game from 1995! https://www.twitch.tv/obscuritory

I never used either service, but this whole migration sounds like such a mess. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/10/google-music-shuts-down-smart-speaker-support-and-music-store/

Decided a Slack I’m on needed a Monty on the Run emoji

After spending months tearing my hair out, I’ve finally figured out the source of an iOS Music issue I’ve had. All songs in an album were displaying this string instead of titles. Turns out that’s the TIT1 ID3 tag - which Music/iTunes on macOS can’t display or edit.

Not being able to remove or even *see* that tag in iTunes meant that I was having trouble figuring out where it was even getting that from. Had to strip it using eyeD3 or FFmpeg. Mystified why iOS can display this when Mac can’t.

Manpages that tell a story

Tech prose is really something else

Nginx, are you okay

Does Docker Desktop work for anyone else since they switched to the new UI? It just sits here with the loading spinner forever.