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vga256's Bio
indigenous canadian, recovering academic → gamedev & interactive media artist with a penchant for dial-up modems, the 4o3 bbs scene, 1-bit art, classic macs, and 80s/90s gaming. curator of internet, canadian & gaming obscura.
current major projects:
→ tomo: a reddit-like decentralized discussion group network built on NNTP https://tomo.city
→ exigy: a VB/Hypercard-like shareware game creation kit https://exigy.org
#nobot #nobots #noindex
(profile pic: a 1988 red fox 6¢ canada stamp)
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i'm a recovering #academic and former #gamedev who worked primarily on #adventuregames. now working as a new media #artist producing #retrocomputing interactive installations. currently building 1992: The Simulation.
grew up in the 80s and 90s with a Tandy TRS-80 CoCo II -> Mattel Intellivision -> #Amstrad PC #XT -> IBM PS/1 -> Boring Beige Pentium 133, long before I fell in love with the iBook G4.
nowadays I spend most of my time building period-accurate interactive exhibits with retrocomputing hardware and software.
the rest of my time involves photography and (interactive) documentary filmmaking.
#introduction
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dear librarians of a certain vintage: one of the great missing treasures of today is a copy of Dynix ILS that dorks like me can toy around with at home on ancient servers and virtualized environments
did anyone happen to back up a copy of their local system before they were replaced or decommissioned in the 2000s?
#libraries
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In response to this post@octade that is the #1 reason why tomonet is not connected to rocksolid's network - it's full of weirdos and conspiracists
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a year and a half later, finally an update on tomo: sometimes it takes a year to think through a design problem, because it's a life problem
https://tomo.city/#2025-01-02
#tomo #bbs
I have done some theming for the Rocksolid Light portal, so anything connected to that is interesting to me.
Here is my demo mini theme: https://news.octade.net (username: 'guest', password 'guest123', chars in reversed order).
#tomo #BBS #Usenet #NNTP #RocksolidLight #retro #forums #OpenSource
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In response to this postnow the teenagers are playing a pencil and paper Ravenloft adventure together 🥲
@vga256 Library misfits are the best misfits
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working at my wife’s library and there are three high school kids sitting together. they have the look of misfits, and every fourth word is a curse. rebellious and taking their outloud musings overly seriously, as if the decisions they make sitting in their easy chairs is life or death. hard not to smirk.
i popped out an earbud to listen more closely. they’re arguing over whether Contra has the right kind of run and gun gameplay for the rpg they’re designing. or maybe Shovel Knight is a better model?
seriously, if this is the kind of misfits we’re producing in 2024, i have some major fucking hope for future civilization.
now the teenagers are playing a pencil and paper Ravenloft adventure together 🥲
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i'm a recovering #academic and former #gamedev who worked primarily on #adventuregames. now working as a new media #artist producing #retrocomputing interactive installations. currently building 1992: The Simulation.
grew up in the 80s and 90s with a Tandy TRS-80 CoCo II -> Mattel Intellivision -> #Amstrad PC #XT -> IBM PS/1 -> Boring Beige Pentium 133, long before I fell in love with the iBook G4.
nowadays I spend most of my time building period-accurate interactive exhibits with retrocomputing hardware and software.
the rest of my time involves photography and (interactive) documentary filmmaking.
#introduction
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