#simant — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #simant, aggregated by home.social.
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Behold, a digital love letter to the bygone era of #Maxis, because reminiscing about #SimAnt is clearly the pinnacle of enlightenment 🐜💾. Apparently, when you're not busy building cities, you nostalgically gush over continental drift, because why not? Wright's revelations are more groundbreaking than tectonic plates themselves 🌍.
https://www.filfre.net/2026/07/the-life-and-times-of-maxis-part-1-simeverything/ #digitalnostalgia #gaminghistory #continentaldrift #techrevolution #HackerNews #ngated -
Behold, a digital love letter to the bygone era of #Maxis, because reminiscing about #SimAnt is clearly the pinnacle of enlightenment 🐜💾. Apparently, when you're not busy building cities, you nostalgically gush over continental drift, because why not? Wright's revelations are more groundbreaking than tectonic plates themselves 🌍.
https://www.filfre.net/2026/07/the-life-and-times-of-maxis-part-1-simeverything/ #digitalnostalgia #gaminghistory #continentaldrift #techrevolution #HackerNews #ngated -
Behold, a digital love letter to the bygone era of #Maxis, because reminiscing about #SimAnt is clearly the pinnacle of enlightenment 🐜💾. Apparently, when you're not busy building cities, you nostalgically gush over continental drift, because why not? Wright's revelations are more groundbreaking than tectonic plates themselves 🌍.
https://www.filfre.net/2026/07/the-life-and-times-of-maxis-part-1-simeverything/ #digitalnostalgia #gaminghistory #continentaldrift #techrevolution #HackerNews #ngated -
Behold, a digital love letter to the bygone era of #Maxis, because reminiscing about #SimAnt is clearly the pinnacle of enlightenment 🐜💾. Apparently, when you're not busy building cities, you nostalgically gush over continental drift, because why not? Wright's revelations are more groundbreaking than tectonic plates themselves 🌍.
https://www.filfre.net/2026/07/the-life-and-times-of-maxis-part-1-simeverything/ #digitalnostalgia #gaminghistory #continentaldrift #techrevolution #HackerNews #ngated -
Behold, a digital love letter to the bygone era of #Maxis, because reminiscing about #SimAnt is clearly the pinnacle of enlightenment 🐜💾. Apparently, when you're not busy building cities, you nostalgically gush over continental drift, because why not? Wright's revelations are more groundbreaking than tectonic plates themselves 🌍.
https://www.filfre.net/2026/07/the-life-and-times-of-maxis-part-1-simeverything/ #digitalnostalgia #gaminghistory #continentaldrift #techrevolution #HackerNews #ngated -
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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just for @scott : SimAnt running in Hercules 720x350 mode
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just for @scott : SimAnt running in Hercules 720x350 mode
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just for @scott : SimAnt running in Hercules 720x350 mode
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just for @scott : SimAnt running in Hercules 720x350 mode
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just for @scott : SimAnt running in Hercules 720x350 mode
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I can't sleep tonight.. playing around with a fresh disk set of SimAnt for the Amiga....
P. S. The floppy disk images are already available at the Internet Archive!
Link: https://archive.org/details/amiga_simclassics_simant_de_kfx
#Commodore #Amiga #SimAnt #Maxis #Insomnia #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #90s
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I can't sleep tonight.. playing around with a fresh disk set of SimAnt for the Amiga....
P. S. The floppy disk images are already available at the Internet Archive!
Link: https://archive.org/details/amiga_simclassics_simant_de_kfx
#Commodore #Amiga #SimAnt #Maxis #Insomnia #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #90s
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The other day I played a little #SimAnt in experimental mode, anticipating a future stream. It really made me curious as to how accurate the ant #AI is (probably not very). The interplay between the pheromone trails and the random-walk behaviour just led to clumps of stuck ants when i built a maze for them to step through. The urge is growing to decompile the whole thing and examine the code. #RetroGaming
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The other day I played a little #SimAnt in experimental mode, anticipating a future stream. It really made me curious as to how accurate the ant #AI is (probably not very). The interplay between the pheromone trails and the random-walk behaviour just led to clumps of stuck ants when i built a maze for them to step through. The urge is growing to decompile the whole thing and examine the code. #RetroGaming
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The other day I played a little #SimAnt in experimental mode, anticipating a future stream. It really made me curious as to how accurate the ant #AI is (probably not very). The interplay between the pheromone trails and the random-walk behaviour just led to clumps of stuck ants when i built a maze for them to step through. The urge is growing to decompile the whole thing and examine the code. #RetroGaming
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The other day I played a little #SimAnt in experimental mode, anticipating a future stream. It really made me curious as to how accurate the ant #AI is (probably not very). The interplay between the pheromone trails and the random-walk behaviour just led to clumps of stuck ants when i built a maze for them to step through. The urge is growing to decompile the whole thing and examine the code. #RetroGaming
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The other day I played a little #SimAnt in experimental mode, anticipating a future stream. It really made me curious as to how accurate the ant #AI is (probably not very). The interplay between the pheromone trails and the random-walk behaviour just led to clumps of stuck ants when i built a maze for them to step through. The urge is growing to decompile the whole thing and examine the code. #RetroGaming
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SimAnt, Episode 3: Get out of our house!
https://makertube.net/videos/watch/022667fe-b477-4767-92d2-1fd6e1c277b3
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SimAnt, Episode 2: A Fighting Chance
https://makertube.net/videos/watch/88b37495-b39a-4782-a2b2-4202c01a0323
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SimAnt, Episode 1: Full game!
https://makertube.net/videos/watch/c9dfcdfb-73e2-4576-9733-4f1d8ecd8bae
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Another quick SimAnt game
https://makertube.net/videos/watch/8ed44a1b-7d73-409b-be2a-70c0af617322
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How long will it take to drive the humans (and their pets) out of the house? 🤔🐜
CW: You should skip this series if you have a fear or phobia of ants or spiders.
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How long will it take to drive the humans (and their pets) out of the house? 🤔🐜
CW: You should skip this series if you have a fear or phobia of ants or spiders.
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How long will it take to drive the humans (and their pets) out of the house? 🤔🐜
CW: You should skip this series if you have a fear or phobia of ants or spiders.
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How long will it take to drive the humans (and their pets) out of the house? 🤔🐜
CW: You should skip this series if you have a fear or phobia of ants or spiders.
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How long will it take to drive the humans (and their pets) out of the house? 🤔🐜
CW: You should skip this series if you have a fear or phobia of ants or spiders.
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I was going to play some #SimAnt or #SimCity this weekend to celebrate #MARCHintosh, but now I'm thinking I may just do an evening #HyperCard dev stream to show off the #zine I've been working on (slowly).
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I was going to play some #SimAnt or #SimCity this weekend to celebrate #MARCHintosh, but now I'm thinking I may just do an evening #HyperCard dev stream to show off the #zine I've been working on (slowly).
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I was going to play some #SimAnt or #SimCity this weekend to celebrate #MARCHintosh, but now I'm thinking I may just do an evening #HyperCard dev stream to show off the #zine I've been working on (slowly).
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I was going to play some #SimAnt or #SimCity this weekend to celebrate #MARCHintosh, but now I'm thinking I may just do an evening #HyperCard dev stream to show off the #zine I've been working on (slowly).
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I was going to play some #SimAnt or #SimCity this weekend to celebrate #MARCHintosh, but now I'm thinking I may just do an evening #HyperCard dev stream to show off the #zine I've been working on (slowly).
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I have a few more games to try on Deck, too. #simcity2000 #redalert2 #rollercoastertycoon #simant
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I have a few more games to try on Deck, too. #simcity2000 #redalert2 #rollercoastertycoon #simant
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I have a few more games to try on Deck, too. #simcity2000 #redalert2 #rollercoastertycoon #simant
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I have a few more games to try on Deck, too. #simcity2000 #redalert2 #rollercoastertycoon #simant
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I have a few more games to try on Deck, too. #simcity2000 #redalert2 #rollercoastertycoon #simant
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Another playthrough of #SimAnt's Full Game to mark #MyrmecologyMonday, in which we give the red ants five minutes' grace to start the game—making things much more interesting.
CW: You should skip this series if you have a fear or phobia of ants or spiders.
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Another playthrough of #SimAnt's Full Game to mark #MyrmecologyMonday, in which we give the red ants five minutes' grace to start the game—making things much more interesting.
CW: You should skip this series if you have a fear or phobia of ants or spiders.
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Another playthrough of #SimAnt's Full Game to mark #MyrmecologyMonday, in which we give the red ants five minutes' grace to start the game—making things much more interesting.
CW: You should skip this series if you have a fear or phobia of ants or spiders.
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Another playthrough of #SimAnt's Full Game to mark #MyrmecologyMonday, in which we give the red ants five minutes' grace to start the game—making things much more interesting.
CW: You should skip this series if you have a fear or phobia of ants or spiders.
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Another playthrough of #SimAnt's Full Game to mark #MyrmecologyMonday, in which we give the red ants five minutes' grace to start the game—making things much more interesting.
CW: You should skip this series if you have a fear or phobia of ants or spiders.
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On this note, I had an idea this morning about using #CellularAutomata to simulate ant behaviour. It seems like you could track the levels of ant pheromones (specifically, the nest and trace pheromones as modelled in #SimAnt) through setting the value of a cell to be an RGB value; for instance, more blue would mean a stronger nest scent, more red, a stronger food scent, and so on. (You could represent this more compactly than 256x256x256, but the idea seems sound.) #cs
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On this note, I had an idea this morning about using #CellularAutomata to simulate ant behaviour. It seems like you could track the levels of ant pheromones (specifically, the nest and trace pheromones as modelled in #SimAnt) through setting the value of a cell to be an RGB value; for instance, more blue would mean a stronger nest scent, more red, a stronger food scent, and so on. (You could represent this more compactly than 256x256x256, but the idea seems sound.) #cs
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On this note, I had an idea this morning about using #CellularAutomata to simulate ant behaviour. It seems like you could track the levels of ant pheromones (specifically, the nest and trace pheromones as modelled in #SimAnt) through setting the value of a cell to be an RGB value; for instance, more blue would mean a stronger nest scent, more red, a stronger food scent, and so on. (You could represent this more compactly than 256x256x256, but the idea seems sound.) #cs
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On this note, I had an idea this morning about using #CellularAutomata to simulate ant behaviour. It seems like you could track the levels of ant pheromones (specifically, the nest and trace pheromones as modelled in #SimAnt) through setting the value of a cell to be an RGB value; for instance, more blue would mean a stronger nest scent, more red, a stronger food scent, and so on. (You could represent this more compactly than 256x256x256, but the idea seems sound.) #cs
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On this note, I had an idea this morning about using #CellularAutomata to simulate ant behaviour. It seems like you could track the levels of ant pheromones (specifically, the nest and trace pheromones as modelled in #SimAnt) through setting the value of a cell to be an RGB value; for instance, more blue would mean a stronger nest scent, more red, a stronger food scent, and so on. (You could represent this more compactly than 256x256x256, but the idea seems sound.) #cs