Misty @misty@digipres.club

Loving this story about the forgotten “Microsoft Coffee” April fools prank. https://microsoft-coffee.medium.com/microsoft-coffee-25545836a7e3

Considering proposing a new #rustlang unsafe syntax

Sen (Rafał Wójcik/L.K. Avalon, Amiga, 1995) https://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/sen

Getting the relevant spam today

Just thinking, as I often do, of the perfect frog resort in Ultra Resort Keroncuel (MediaCraft, Mac/Windows, 1997)

Not really the topic of the paper, but it’s fascinating how they’ve identified neurons that respond to specific abstract topics, associated with particular types of representations. Thus: we can find out, according to this AI, what constitutes teenage architecture. https://distill.pub/2021/multimodal-neurons/

Getting some real legit-looking spam today

Big fan of this can design.

This is the best email I’ve ever read http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos

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