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They also had two Vectrex consoles there, and these look better in person than I expected. The controllers feel a bit peculiar, though.
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They also had two Vectrex consoles there, and these look better in person than I expected. The controllers feel a bit peculiar, though.
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They also had two Vectrex consoles there, and these look better in person than I expected. The controllers feel a bit peculiar, though.
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They also had two Vectrex consoles there, and these look better in person than I expected. The controllers feel a bit peculiar, though.
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I've played fewer games in 2025 than in 2024, but I've most likely played for more time overall. 🕹️
I've certainly completed more games than in the previous year. So, here's my top four (in no particular order):
• Aliens: Neoplasma (2023, ZX Spectrum);
• Gley Lancer (1992, Mega Drive);
• Crash Bandicoot (1996, PlayStation);
• Commander Keen 5 (1991, MS-DOS).More in the alt texts for each of the screenshots and... see you in 2026! 👋 🎉
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L'Abbaye des Morts appeared in 2010 as a PC game that looked like a ZX Spectrum game. It has since been ported to a bunch of old systems, including the Spectrum itself, C64, Mega Drive, Amiga, etc.
I'm playing the NES version, from 2021. Looks good and has nice music. I like the medieval setting.
The mechanic is simple: move and jump, avoiding hazards and collecting crosses. There are no weapons. It's not easy but not very hard either.
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L'Abbaye des Morts appeared in 2010 as a PC game that looked like a ZX Spectrum game. It has since been ported to a bunch of old systems, including the Spectrum itself, C64, Mega Drive, Amiga, etc.
I'm playing the NES version, from 2021. Looks good and has nice music. I like the medieval setting.
The mechanic is simple: move and jump, avoiding hazards and collecting crosses. There are no weapons. It's not easy but not very hard either.
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L'Abbaye des Morts appeared in 2010 as a PC game that looked like a ZX Spectrum game. It has since been ported to a bunch of old systems, including the Spectrum itself, C64, Mega Drive, Amiga, etc.
I'm playing the NES version, from 2021. Looks good and has nice music. I like the medieval setting.
The mechanic is simple: move and jump, avoiding hazards and collecting crosses. There are no weapons. It's not easy but not very hard either.
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L'Abbaye des Morts appeared in 2010 as a PC game that looked like a ZX Spectrum game. It has since been ported to a bunch of old systems, including the Spectrum itself, C64, Mega Drive, Amiga, etc.
I'm playing the NES version, from 2021. Looks good and has nice music. I like the medieval setting.
The mechanic is simple: move and jump, avoiding hazards and collecting crosses. There are no weapons. It's not easy but not very hard either.
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L'Abbaye des Morts appeared in 2010 as a PC game that looked like a ZX Spectrum game. It has since been ported to a bunch of old systems, including the Spectrum itself, C64, Mega Drive, Amiga, etc.
I'm playing the NES version, from 2021. Looks good and has nice music. I like the medieval setting.
The mechanic is simple: move and jump, avoiding hazards and collecting crosses. There are no weapons. It's not easy but not very hard either.
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What retro-enthusiast doesn't regret throwing (some) old computers away, not knowing they would have sentimental value?
My first computer survived as a home router/print server at least until 2005, according to these photos.
It was upgraded to what would have been an obnoxious amount of RAM in 1995: 96 MB. It also got a Pentium 133, a pair of ethernet cards, and an USB card. All but the network cards were trashed components from elsewhere.
R.I.P.
🧵 7/7
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To wrap things up, a printer... 🖨️
Nobody seems to print things at home anymore, but a printer was essential back then: you didn't submit your school assignments by e-mail or something, you printed them on paper.
Sometime in the early 2000's a plastic cog broke somewhere inside it and the only thing that remains of it now are a couple of stepper motors. Also, it was becoming hard to find a parallel port to connect it to.
🧵 6/7
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So far, no sound. That's because there was no budget left for a sound card. 😢
See, while many still looked for a 14-inch monitor with a small dot-pitch, and some were going for 15-inch, I chose a MAG Innovision DX17F, betting it would outlive this machine (it did).
Also, sound was mostly for games, I thought, and I didn't care much about games. The PC speaker would do. 🙄
I finally got a Sound Blaster 32 one or two years later, along with a CD-ROM drive. 🔊 📀
🧵 5/7
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For graphics I chose a Genoa Phantom Pro Video: a PCI card with the S3 Vision968 2D accelerator chip.
With 2 MB of VRAM you could have either 24-bit colour at 800x600, or 16-bit colour at 1024x768. I mostly used the latter, because 65,536 colours were more than enough, and screen space was more important.
I didn't care about its MPEG-1 acceleration, but why not a 3D card instead?
Well... there was none. The Voodoo Graphics would only appear in late 1996.
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8 MB of RAM was still common in new PCs, but Windows 95 had just been released and I went straight for 16 MB — IIRC, I added another 16 MB later at half the price.
I also spent extra on a slightly bigger and faster hard-drive: a 1.2 GB Quantum Fireball, IDE at 5400 rpm.
1.2 GB might not sound like a lot, but it was as much as you could hope to get in consumer drives. Also, a couple years later it was still enough to dual-boot Linux with space to spare. 🤏
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In 1995 you could expect any PC you'd buy to be functionally obsolete in 4 years, and even that only with some upgrades.
So, I went for the 3rd fastest CPU available: an Intel Pentium 100 MHz (P54C).
The 133 version was much more expensive, while the 120 one had a slower front-side bus (60 vs. 66 MHz).
The Pentium Pro hadn't even come out. Plus, that turned out to be a lemon for 16-bit code, still very much a thing at the time (including within Windows 95).
🧵 2/7
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30 years ago, around this time of the year, I was eagerly awaiting for my first computer: a PC ordered to spec from a small shop in Lisbon. 🎉
It cost around 400,000 escudos, which converts to ~2,000€, but would probably be closer to 4,000€ when adjusted for cost of living.
Expensive, yet still required making some hard choices. One in particular perhaps quite strange in hindsight. 💸
So, what was it like back in 1995 if you were looking for a new computer?
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I played a lot of Destruction Derby (1995) back in the day — the DOS version. Crashing into cars while trying not to get fatally damaged was lots of fun. 💥 🚗
But approaching #retro from a #nostalgia angle is tricky. Once the brain chemicals wear off, things may feel less fun than they'd otherwise feel.
Now, Destruction Derby is still fun today, but I don't quite understand how I didn't get bored going back and forth in the same arena for hours.
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Raise your hand if you've never cheated in a game. 🫣
I don't judge – unless you're doing it to get an unfair advantage over someone else (multiplayer, beating highscores), that is.
Cheat codes aren't my thing, but I make frequent use of emulator savestates to balance fun and difficulty. Technically, that's cheating.
And I may have made use of walkthroughs for point-and-click adventures back in the day. I might still have those printouts.
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This weekend the Cloudflare Lisbon office hosted a 24h hackathon organized by high-schoolers called Scrapyard.
A couple of us volunteers thought it would be nice to also bring a hobby project to work on, so I brought one of my small CRTs that was suffering from significant jitter with 60Hz inputs (e.g. PAL60).
It wasn't as straightforward as replacing the main filter capacitor, but I got it working in the end. 😅
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Throwback Thursday with FUZZ! This lives once more rent-free in my head, and I may get to put together another 'zine. #illustration #Cthulhu #Gibson #Explorer #Deathmetal #Metal #Fuzz #art #Fanzine #pointyguitars #Lovecraft #BLEURGH
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Forever ago, the great Gema Moriarty and I put together a split fanzine called Fuzz. It just came to mind the other day. Hi!! #illutration #Cthulhu #Gibson #Explorer #Deathmetal #Metal #Fuzz #art #Fanzine #pointyguitars #Lovecraft #BLEURGH
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Algunos comentarios frente a los 3 primeros decretos motivados por el estado de conmoción interior en la región del #Catatumbo por la gravedad de la situación #campesina e #indigena https://x.com/UltimaHoraCR/status/1885034569390579739
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More studies. Of course, I had to put some deer skulls in there because metal. #deer #skull #pagan #celticknot #celtic #Wales #illustration #art #wildlife #metal #gameart #recordcover #gigposter #sketch #study
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Color studies for the deer and dogs! I'm still curious about other people's process: studies, or no studies?
#deer #mabinogion #artstudy #sketch #wildlife #illutration #illustrator #pencil #woodcritters #mastoart #art
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I've taken to doing lots more of studies for all my jobs, and I find I actually save time in the long run! So... some deer and a couple messy dogs.
Do you do lots of studies, or none at all? I'm curious.
#deer #mabinogion #artstudy #sketch #wildlife #illutration #illustrator #pencil #woodcritters #art #mastoart -
Goldfish are a good choice for beastronauts, don't you think? #sketch #ttrpg #gameart #goldfish #procreate #conceptart #astronaut #fish #illo #cosmonaut #mecha #scifi #kidlit #childrensillustration #art #mastoart
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Krampus is coming, folks! And he’s got his little helpers, too! #krampus #krampusnacht #krampuslauf #yule #yuletide #kitten #illustration #teaparty #saturnalia #solinvictus #pagan #art
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Krampus is coming, folks! And he’s got his little helpers, too! #krampus #krampusnacht #krampuslauf #yule #yuletide #kitten #illustration #teaparty #saturnalia #solinvictus #pagan #art