#simant — Public Fediverse posts

thanks to @dosnostalgic for pointing this out: SimAnt has special support for the Covox Speech Thing, which is a pretty wild DAC that plugs into your parallel port.

if you played Sierra On-Line adventure games as a kid, you would have seen ads for the Disney Sound Source in most sierra game boxes - it was another clone of the Covox LPT-connected DAC

it's not easy to find recordings of real covox devices, and i've never owned one. @dreambyte recorded playing SimAnt on an amber monochrome monitor with a covox attached

the results are super interesting. it reminds me of the Macintosh DAC used in games like Dark Castle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBrYNfFUPz0

#dosGaming #msdos #simAnt #maxis #retroGaming

maxis artists' 1-bit monochrome art for the early educational titles is so underrated. zoom in for some incredibly crisp pixels. 😋

for anyone else curious: this is the extremely obscure 640x480 2-colour VGA/MCGA version of the game that you can only see by installing from diskette. the mac b+w version has the same 1-bit artwork.

#maxis #simAnt #dosGaming

SimAnt für Commodore Amiga! Es ist zwar nur ein einfacher Diskettensatz aus der SimClassics-Reihe, aber immerhin saubere und funktionierende KryoFlux-, CT RAW- und ADF-Images aller Datenträger inkl. schöner 300dpi JPG-Scans.

https://archive.org/details/simant_de_amiga_kryoflux

Viel Spaß! 😃

#Amiga #KryoFlux #SimAnt #Maxis #Simulation #RetroGaming #RetroGames #Commodore #90s #90er

Eigentlich habe ich das Spiel ja bereits und zwar mehrfach... für IBM PC 5.25" und 3.5" und für Amiga als Teil der SimClassics Collection. Aber trotzdem konnte ich diese noch komplett neue und ungeöffnete Retailbox von SimAnt für Amiga doch nicht einfach liegen lassen. Nicht für 20 Euro. Ging einfach nicht. 😉

#Commodore #Amiga #SimAnt #Maxis #Disketten #RetroGaming #RetroGames #Retro #90s #90er #Ameisen #Simulation #FloppyDisk

You know what time it is. It's #Maxis time!
Here's a beautiful release filled to the brim with manuals so thick they would make Tolkien blush.
Sadly the disks are 800K Mac formatted so I can't actually read them on my Macs as they are "too modern." I think it's ok if I fetch an image from the Garden in this case 😄️
This was apparently a limited edition, though I don't know how limited it was.
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #ClassicMac #Gaming #RetroGaming #MARCHintosh #SimCity #SimLife #SimAnt

Methinks @futurebird and the #MyrmecologyMonday crowd may enjoy this quick game of #SimAnt for the #ClassicMac.

https://diode.zone/w/t3xqQPT5NWvKCeV5yk532k

#PeerTubeDiscover #Macintosh #DiodeZone #RetroGaming

Trying out custom thumbnails on my Peertube Station #SimCity 2000 series on #DiodeZone, featuring @[email protected]'s lovely CC-BY art of #PeerTube's squiddly mascot Sepia!

Maybe I should commission an ant in the Peertube colours, so I can use it for a #SimAnt series 🤔 #RetroGaming

Let's play a little #SimAnt together on the #ClassicMac.

(CW: Don't watch if you don't want to see bugs and creepy-crawlies, incl. spiders.)

https://diode.zone/videos/watch/425ece89-45e4-4f74-a1dc-626c30c70795

#RetroGaming #Macintosh #PeerTube #DiodeZone

I'm not a fan of much sim stuff, but as a kid we played Sim City in school & I dug it (I also love Sim Ant). Figured I'd try out the free mobile version of City- it's called Sim City Buildit and it's pretty good.

#SimCity #SimAnt #SimCityBuildit #android #mobile #mobilegames #androidgames