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  1. People don't often email me through the attached email address on my personal website, so this one actually came as a surprise.

    Someone is apparently working on a way to get Hexis, a clone of osu! I archived years back, working on Linux. :blobcatcoffee:

    #linux #linuxgaming #osugame

  2. Bomberman clone: Demo version 1.1 of Kaboomania for AGA Amigas

    The demo version 1.1 of Axel Friedrich's Bomberman-style game Kaboomania is now available. It includes the first ten levels of the single-player campaign and, with the update, has received a new piece of music by Chris Hülsbeck for the game over screen.

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

    #Amiga #games #bomberman #retrogaming

  3. Bomberman clone: Demo version 1.1 of Kaboomania for AGA Amigas

    The demo version 1.1 of Axel Friedrich's Bomberman-style game Kaboomania is now available. It includes the first ten levels of the single-player campaign and, with the update, has received a new piece of music by Chris Hülsbeck for the game over screen.

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

  4. Bomberman clone: Demo version 1.1 of Kaboomania for AGA Amigas

    The demo version 1.1 of Axel Friedrich's Bomberman-style game Kaboomania is now available. It includes the first ten levels of the single-player campaign and, with the update, has received a new piece of music by Chris Hülsbeck for the game over screen.

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

    #Amiga #games #bomberman #retrogaming

  5. Bomberman clone: Demo version 1.1 of Kaboomania for AGA Amigas

    The demo version 1.1 of Axel Friedrich's Bomberman-style game Kaboomania is now available. It includes the first ten levels of the single-player campaign and, with the update, has received a new piece of music by Chris Hülsbeck for the game over screen.

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

    #Amiga #games #bomberman #retrogaming

  6. Bomberman clone: Demo version 1.1 of Kaboomania for AGA Amigas

    The demo version 1.1 of Axel Friedrich's Bomberman-style game Kaboomania is now available. It includes the first ten levels of the single-player campaign and, with the update, has received a new piece of music by Chris Hülsbeck for the game over screen.

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

    #Amiga #games #bomberman #retrogaming

  7. Okay, so I've been seeing that AsumSaus #SmashBros Icons: Combat Arena video "How (not) to clone a classic" making the rounds. Yeah sure, Icons was pretty infamous, but it actually reminded me of an earlier attempt at the same thing from 4 (!!!) years before that. Anybody remember Air Dash Online?

  8. 🇭🇰🚸📮 #HongKong Post will issue a set of special stamps and related philatelic products themed 'Road Safety' on 28 May, with official first day covers available from 13 May. The collection includes four stamps, a stamp sheetlet and associated items promoting safer road use, under the vision of 'Zero Accidents on the Road, Hong Kong's Goal'. The designs highlight key messages for #pedestrians, drivers, passengers and #cyclists, such as obeying #traffic signals, avoiding drink-driving, wearing seat belts and using child restraints, and using protective equipment while #cycling. Hongkong Post said the issue aims to raise public awareness and encourage responsible behaviour among all road users. First day covers will be sold at post offices and online via ShopThruPost, while serviced covers will be available at philatelic offices. A hand-back date-stamping service will also be offered at post offices on 28 May.
    info.gov.hk/gia/general/202605

  9. 🇭🇰🚸📮 #HongKong Post will issue a set of special stamps and related philatelic products themed 'Road Safety' on 28 May, with official first day covers available from 13 May. The collection includes four stamps, a stamp sheetlet and associated items promoting safer road use, under the vision of 'Zero Accidents on the Road, Hong Kong's Goal'. The designs highlight key messages for #pedestrians, drivers, passengers and #cyclists, such as obeying #traffic signals, avoiding drink-driving, wearing seat belts and using child restraints, and using protective equipment while #cycling. Hongkong Post said the issue aims to raise public awareness and encourage responsible behaviour among all road users. First day covers will be sold at post offices and online via ShopThruPost, while serviced covers will be available at philatelic offices. A hand-back date-stamping service will also be offered at post offices on 28 May.
    info.gov.hk/gia/general/202605

  10. 🇭🇰🚸📮 #HongKong Post will issue a set of special stamps and related philatelic products themed 'Road Safety' on 28 May, with official first day covers available from 13 May. The collection includes four stamps, a stamp sheetlet and associated items promoting safer road use, under the vision of 'Zero Accidents on the Road, Hong Kong's Goal'. The designs highlight key messages for #pedestrians, drivers, passengers and #cyclists, such as obeying #traffic signals, avoiding drink-driving, wearing seat belts and using child restraints, and using protective equipment while #cycling. Hongkong Post said the issue aims to raise public awareness and encourage responsible behaviour among all road users. First day covers will be sold at post offices and online via ShopThruPost, while serviced covers will be available at philatelic offices. A hand-back date-stamping service will also be offered at post offices on 28 May.
    info.gov.hk/gia/general/202605

  11. 🇭🇰🚸📮 #HongKong Post will issue a set of special stamps and related philatelic products themed 'Road Safety' on 28 May, with official first day covers available from 13 May. The collection includes four stamps, a stamp sheetlet and associated items promoting safer road use, under the vision of 'Zero Accidents on the Road, Hong Kong's Goal'. The designs highlight key messages for #pedestrians, drivers, passengers and #cyclists, such as obeying #traffic signals, avoiding drink-driving, wearing seat belts and using child restraints, and using protective equipment while #cycling. Hongkong Post said the issue aims to raise public awareness and encourage responsible behaviour among all road users. First day covers will be sold at post offices and online via ShopThruPost, while serviced covers will be available at philatelic offices. A hand-back date-stamping service will also be offered at post offices on 28 May.
    info.gov.hk/gia/general/202605

  12. 🇭🇰🚸📮 #HongKong Post will issue a set of special stamps and related philatelic products themed 'Road Safety' on 28 May, with official first day covers available from 13 May. The collection includes four stamps, a stamp sheetlet and associated items promoting safer road use, under the vision of 'Zero Accidents on the Road, Hong Kong's Goal'. The designs highlight key messages for #pedestrians, drivers, passengers and #cyclists, such as obeying #traffic signals, avoiding drink-driving, wearing seat belts and using child restraints, and using protective equipment while #cycling. Hongkong Post said the issue aims to raise public awareness and encourage responsible behaviour among all road users. First day covers will be sold at post offices and online via ShopThruPost, while serviced covers will be available at philatelic offices. A hand-back date-stamping service will also be offered at post offices on 28 May.
    info.gov.hk/gia/general/202605

  13. In the 90s and Aughts, #GNUlinux took over the infrastructure of the Internet.

    I have no experience with non-Gnu HTML servers, but I can only assume it worked as well as whatever was on the market, besides being Free. If it didn't have performance equity, or possibly an edge, it probably would not have happened, though it might still have, given the price.

    But in the end, it was a rout; now we choose between Nginx and Apache and S3 and some fringe exotics, there are no commercial players in HTML server software. People still make money by selling expertise of course, or renting out hardware, and they all use Free software.

    We are approaching the same being true for databases, but for whatever reasons, mersh players like Oracle still exist, primarily due to the way corporate brains work. I think C-levels see the continued existence of Gnu, let alone in their server rooms, as a mark of shame, and they will pay any amount to stop that pinko communish from spreading further.

    In the end, it will also be a rout, and it might even be a much quicker and more dramatic endgame than HTML was. Lovely day. Perhaps soon, given how stretched out Larry Ellison is at the moment, what with demolishing the media and so forth.

    What I'm seeing is a pattern that could be graphed with [X=time] and [Y=perceived usefulness of software], and it has two lines on it, one for [Free software] and one for [Commercial software].

    Very near the start, the Mersh line looks like a steep staircase, or just a cliff: It shoots straight up, holds position, maybe spikes upward again a few times as developers add features. Massive off the line advantage, because it has money paying skilled people to make it amazing. The line soars like that for a long while, but eventually, it starts to arc downwards, and eventually it craters. Exhibit A: Windows.

    The Free line, on the other hand, is just a gentle upward slope. And right as the Mersh line starts to taper off, the Free devs have been working on this code for years, and are really hitting their stride. At some point they hit feature parity, or in some cases surpass it. There might be a late spike, I guess, on the Free line, right where the general public starts to notice the rot in the Mersh, how it no longer seems to perform at levels that justify the price, which itself has steadily climbed and climbed.

    I wish I was informed enough to get that graph for HTML Servers, cause I think the pattern we would see there would be quite predictive.

    Anything you get from hard work instead of money, you keep. Nothing can take away something earned through work. This is true for an individual who stays home to play their music scales or study her math instead of going out to galavant. It's also true for a society that creates Free software. They will never enshittify Blender, because they can never disable its features to force anyone to pay to get them back.

    There is a running joke in our various outlets: The Year Of The Linux Desktop. It is a kind of all-in-one bit of Linux humour, functional as a setup, as a punchline, as a pwn, as an analogy for a fool's grand ambitions.

    I say, though, we've already hit a much more important year: The Year Of The Linux Gaming Console That Runs Your Windows Games, And Which Is Also A Full-On Linux Computer. You know what I'm talking about. Or maybe you don't, because you are not a gamer.

    Gamers have had a rough time of it lately, and hey, if you haven't, watch This Is England cause it's directly applicable to their situation.

    Ok did you watch it? You know what I'm gonna say if you did: #Skinheads had nothing to do with Fascism, until right wing political interests noticed that they were a good target for propagandization, because every other group was ignoring or reviling them already. After all, they (checks notes) hung out with West Indians and listened to that "Reggae" music. Filthy.

    Gamers were the same group in a whole other kind of world; ignored or reviled, seen as nothing but adolescent wastoids at best, but in possession of their own subculture that nobody who was not into games cared to really look at. They were all kinds of unattractive things that humans always are, but they were not particularly interested in politics, one way or another. Just like the pre-NF skins.

    But meanwhile, a lot of people still like games, and the Steam hardware products are delivering Linux into their lives via the very thing that had been keeping them anchored into Windows, seemingly permanently, with only locked-up consoles from IP trolls like Nintendo as their alternatives. Much as PCs in general have subsisted on Micoshit or that rotten fruit.

    The Linux Desktop absolutely is coming, and I'm thinking this is as good a year for me to call it as any. Not replacing Windows, but gaining a two-digit share of the "market". That Hare is looking pretty Sloppy and overworked, but those Tortoises keep coming.

    (as an aside, going all the way back to my C64, I have never understood the allure of cartridge consoles. Yes, the Nintendo kids could play Super Mario anytime they wanted, and that was... something. Super Mario Bros was a major, major thing in the arcade days, and putting it in their console was a deathblow to other game platforms. It is fascinating to me that just a few years ago, people managed to code a perfect clone of it for the 64 - I would never have believed that possible, but again, that steady upward line on the graph....)

  14. In the 90s and Aughts, #GNUlinux took over the infrastructure of the Internet.

    I have no experience with non-Gnu HTML servers, but I can only assume it worked as well as whatever was on the market, besides being Free. If it didn't have performance equity, or possibly an edge, it probably would not have happened, though it might still have, given the price.

    But in the end, it was a rout; now we choose between Nginx and Apache and S3 and some fringe exotics, there are no commercial players in HTML server software. People still make money by selling expertise of course, or renting out hardware, and they all use Free software.

    We are approaching the same being true for databases, but for whatever reasons, mersh players like Oracle still exist, primarily due to the way corporate brains work. I think C-levels see the continued existence of Gnu, let alone in their server rooms, as a mark of shame, and they will pay any amount to stop that pinko communish from spreading further.

    In the end, it will also be a rout, and it might even be a much quicker and more dramatic endgame than HTML was. Lovely day. Perhaps soon, given how stretched out Larry Ellison is at the moment, what with demolishing the media and so forth.

    What I'm seeing is a pattern that could be graphed with [X=time] and [Y=perceived usefulness of software], and it has two lines on it, one for [Free software] and one for [Commercial software].

    Very near the start, the Mersh line looks like a steep staircase, or just a cliff: It shoots straight up, holds position, maybe spikes upward again a few times as developers add features. Massive off the line advantage, because it has money paying skilled people to make it amazing. The line soars like that for a long while, but eventually, it starts to arc downwards, and eventually it craters. Exhibit A: Windows.

    The Free line, on the other hand, is just a gentle upward slope. And right as the Mersh line starts to taper off, the Free devs have been working on this code for years, and are really hitting their stride. At some point they hit feature parity, or in some cases surpass it. There might be a late spike, I guess, on the Free line, right where the general public starts to notice the rot in the Mersh, how it no longer seems to perform at levels that justify the price, which itself has steadily climbed and climbed.

    I wish I was informed enough to get that graph for HTML Servers, cause I think the pattern we would see there would be quite predictive.

    Anything you get from hard work instead of money, you keep. Nothing can take away something earned through work. This is true for an individual who stays home to play their music scales or study her math instead of going out to galavant. It's also true for a society that creates Free software. They will never enshittify Blender, because they can never disable its features to force anyone to pay to get them back.

    There is a running joke in our various outlets: The Year Of The Linux Desktop. It is a kind of all-in-one bit of Linux humour, functional as a setup, as a punchline, as a pwn, as an analogy for a fool's grand ambitions.

    I say, though, we've already hit a much more important year: The Year Of The Linux Gaming Console That Runs Your Windows Games, And Which Is Also A Full-On Linux Computer. You know what I'm talking about. Or maybe you don't, because you are not a gamer.

    Gamers have had a rough time of it lately, and hey, if you haven't, watch This Is England cause it's directly applicable to their situation.

    Ok did you watch it? You know what I'm gonna say if you did: #Skinheads had nothing to do with Fascism, until right wing political interests noticed that they were a good target for propagandization, because every other group was ignoring or reviling them already. After all, they (checks notes) hung out with West Indians and listened to that "Reggae" music. Filthy.

    Gamers were the same group in a whole other kind of world; ignored or reviled, seen as nothing but adolescent wastoids at best, but in possession of their own subculture that nobody who was not into games cared to really look at. They were all kinds of unattractive things that humans always are, but they were not particularly interested in politics, one way or another. Just like the pre-NF skins.

    But meanwhile, a lot of people still like games, and the Steam hardware products are delivering Linux into their lives via the very thing that had been keeping them anchored into Windows, seemingly permanently, with only locked-up consoles from IP trolls like Nintendo as their alternatives. Much as PCs in general have subsisted on Micoshit or that rotten fruit.

    The Linux Desktop absolutely is coming, and I'm thinking this is as good a year for me to call it as any. Not replacing Windows, but gaining a two-digit share of the "market". That Hare is looking pretty Sloppy and overworked, but those Tortoises keep coming.

    (as an aside, going all the way back to my C64, I have never understood the allure of cartridge consoles. Yes, the Nintendo kids could play Super Mario anytime they wanted, and that was... something. Super Mario Bros was a major, major thing in the arcade days, and putting it in their console was a deathblow to other game platforms. It is fascinating to me that just a few years ago, people managed to code a perfect clone of it for the 64 - I would never have believed that possible, but again, that steady upward line on the graph....)

  15. In the 90s and Aughts, #GNUlinux took over the infrastructure of the Internet.

    I have no experience with non-Gnu HTML servers, but I can only assume it worked as well as whatever was on the market, besides being Free. If it didn't have performance equity, or possibly an edge, it probably would not have happened, though it might still have, given the price.

    But in the end, it was a rout; now we choose between Nginx and Apache and S3 and some fringe exotics, there are no commercial players in HTML server software. People still make money by selling expertise of course, or renting out hardware, and they all use Free software.

    We are approaching the same being true for databases, but for whatever reasons, mersh players like Oracle still exist, primarily due to the way corporate brains work. I think C-levels see the continued existence of Gnu, let alone in their server rooms, as a mark of shame, and they will pay any amount to stop that pinko communish from spreading further.

    In the end, it will also be a rout, and it might even be a much quicker and more dramatic endgame than HTML was. Lovely day. Perhaps soon, given how stretched out Larry Ellison is at the moment, what with demolishing the media and so forth.

    What I'm seeing is a pattern that could be graphed with [X=time] and [Y=perceived usefulness of software], and it has two lines on it, one for [Free software] and one for [Commercial software].

    Very near the start, the Mersh line looks like a steep staircase, or just a cliff: It shoots straight up, holds position, maybe spikes upward again a few times as developers add features. Massive off the line advantage, because it has money paying skilled people to make it amazing. The line soars like that for a long while, but eventually, it starts to arc downwards, and eventually it craters. Exhibit A: Windows.

    The Free line, on the other hand, is just a gentle upward slope. And right as the Mersh line starts to taper off, the Free devs have been working on this code for years, and are really hitting their stride. At some point they hit feature parity, or in some cases surpass it. There might be a late spike, I guess, on the Free line, right where the general public starts to notice the rot in the Mersh, how it no longer seems to perform at levels that justify the price, which itself has steadily climbed and climbed.

    I wish I was informed enough to get that graph for HTML Servers, cause I think the pattern we would see there would be quite predictive.

    Anything you get from hard work instead of money, you keep. Nothing can take away something earned through work. This is true for an individual who stays home to play their music scales or study her math instead of going out to galavant. It's also true for a society that creates Free software. They will never enshittify Blender, because they can never disable its features to force anyone to pay to get them back.

    There is a running joke in our various outlets: The Year Of The Linux Desktop. It is a kind of all-in-one bit of Linux humour, functional as a setup, as a punchline, as a pwn, as an analogy for a fool's grand ambitions.

    I say, though, we've already hit a much more important year: The Year Of The Linux Gaming Console That Runs Your Windows Games, And Which Is Also A Full-On Linux Computer. You know what I'm talking about. Or maybe you don't, because you are not a gamer.

    Gamers have had a rough time of it lately, and hey, if you haven't, watch This Is England cause it's directly applicable to their situation.

    Ok did you watch it? You know what I'm gonna say if you did: #Skinheads had nothing to do with Fascism, until right wing political interests noticed that they were a good target for propagandization, because every other group was ignoring or reviling them already. After all, they (checks notes) hung out with West Indians and listened to that "Reggae" music. Filthy.

    Gamers were the same group in a whole other kind of world; ignored or reviled, seen as nothing but adolescent wastoids at best, but in possession of their own subculture that nobody who was not into games cared to really look at. They were all kinds of unattractive things that humans always are, but they were not particularly interested in politics, one way or another. Just like the pre-NF skins.

    But meanwhile, a lot of people still like games, and the Steam hardware products are delivering Linux into their lives via the very thing that had been keeping them anchored into Windows, seemingly permanently, with only locked-up consoles from IP trolls like Nintendo as their alternatives. Much as PCs in general have subsisted on Micoshit or that rotten fruit.

    The Linux Desktop absolutely is coming, and I'm thinking this is as good a year for me to call it as any. Not replacing Windows, but gaining a two-digit share of the "market". That Hare is looking pretty Sloppy and overworked, but those Tortoises keep coming.

    (as an aside, going all the way back to my C64, I have never understood the allure of cartridge consoles. Yes, the Nintendo kids could play Super Mario anytime they wanted, and that was... something. Super Mario Bros was a major, major thing in the arcade days, and putting it in their console was a deathblow to other game platforms. It is fascinating to me that just a few years ago, people managed to code a perfect clone of it for the 64 - I would never have believed that possible, but again, that steady upward line on the graph....)

  16. In the 90s and Aughts, #GNUlinux took over the infrastructure of the Internet.

    I have no experience with non-Gnu HTML servers, but I can only assume it worked as well as whatever was on the market, besides being Free. If it didn't have performance equity, or possibly an edge, it probably would not have happened, though it might still have, given the price.

    But in the end, it was a rout; now we choose between Nginx and Apache and S3 and some fringe exotics, there are no commercial players in HTML server software. People still make money by selling expertise of course, or renting out hardware, and they all use Free software.

    We are approaching the same being true for databases, but for whatever reasons, mersh players like Oracle still exist, primarily due to the way corporate brains work. I think C-levels see the continued existence of Gnu, let alone in their server rooms, as a mark of shame, and they will pay any amount to stop that pinko communish from spreading further.

    In the end, it will also be a rout, and it might even be a much quicker and more dramatic endgame than HTML was. Lovely day. Perhaps soon, given how stretched out Larry Ellison is at the moment, what with demolishing the media and so forth.

    What I'm seeing is a pattern that could be graphed with [X=time] and [Y=perceived usefulness of software], and it has two lines on it, one for [Free software] and one for [Commercial software].

    Very near the start, the Mersh line looks like a steep staircase, or just a cliff: It shoots straight up, holds position, maybe spikes upward again a few times as developers add features. Massive off the line advantage, because it has money paying skilled people to make it amazing. The line soars like that for a long while, but eventually, it starts to arc downwards, and eventually it craters. Exhibit A: Windows.

    The Free line, on the other hand, is just a gentle upward slope. And right as the Mersh line starts to taper off, the Free devs have been working on this code for years, and are really hitting their stride. At some point they hit feature parity, or in some cases surpass it. There might be a late spike, I guess, on the Free line, right where the general public starts to notice the rot in the Mersh, how it no longer seems to perform at levels that justify the price, which itself has steadily climbed and climbed.

    I wish I was informed enough to get that graph for HTML Servers, cause I think the pattern we would see there would be quite predictive.

    Anything you get from hard work instead of money, you keep. Nothing can take away something earned through work. This is true for an individual who stays home to play their music scales or study her math instead of going out to galavant. It's also true for a society that creates Free software. They will never enshittify Blender, because they can never disable its features to force anyone to pay to get them back.

    There is a running joke in our various outlets: The Year Of The Linux Desktop. It is a kind of all-in-one bit of Linux humour, functional as a setup, as a punchline, as a pwn, as an analogy for a fool's grand ambitions.

    I say, though, we've already hit a much more important year: The Year Of The Linux Gaming Console That Runs Your Windows Games, And Which Is Also A Full-On Linux Computer. You know what I'm talking about. Or maybe you don't, because you are not a gamer.

    Gamers have had a rough time of it lately, and hey, if you haven't, watch This Is England cause it's directly applicable to their situation.

    Ok did you watch it? You know what I'm gonna say if you did: #Skinheads had nothing to do with Fascism, until right wing political interests noticed that they were a good target for propagandization, because every other group was ignoring or reviling them already. After all, they (checks notes) hung out with West Indians and listened to that "Reggae" music. Filthy.

    Gamers were the same group in a whole other kind of world; ignored or reviled, seen as nothing but adolescent wastoids at best, but in possession of their own subculture that nobody who was not into games cared to really look at. They were all kinds of unattractive things that humans always are, but they were not particularly interested in politics, one way or another. Just like the pre-NF skins.

    But meanwhile, a lot of people still like games, and the Steam hardware products are delivering Linux into their lives via the very thing that had been keeping them anchored into Windows, seemingly permanently, with only locked-up consoles from IP trolls like Nintendo as their alternatives. Much as PCs in general have subsisted on Micoshit or that rotten fruit.

    The Linux Desktop absolutely is coming, and I'm thinking this is as good a year for me to call it as any. Not replacing Windows, but gaining a two-digit share of the "market". That Hare is looking pretty Sloppy and overworked, but those Tortoises keep coming.

    (as an aside, going all the way back to my C64, I have never understood the allure of cartridge consoles. Yes, the Nintendo kids could play Super Mario anytime they wanted, and that was... something. Super Mario Bros was a major, major thing in the arcade days, and putting it in their console was a deathblow to other game platforms. It is fascinating to me that just a few years ago, people managed to code a perfect clone of it for the 64 - I would never have believed that possible, but again, that steady upward line on the graph....)