felsqualle / is on Nostr

Creator of https://fabulous.systems and https://fabulous.community

#ScummVM project co-lead and always looking for an #adventure. Interested in video game preservation for future generations. Official snapcrafter at https://snapcraft.io.

#GNU/Linux systems operator at manitu GmbH (npub1mwg…vxzg) by day and adventurer at ScummVM (npub1ssl…np63) at night.

Blog: https://fabulous.systems
Community: https://fabulous.community
Projects overview: https://felsqualle.com

Last Notes

2024-08-17 15:40:07

Okay, here are my first attempts to scan game boxart.
This was done on a really cheap printer from 2008 with a CIS sensor, so there is some slight distortion on the edge because the surface is not entirely flat.
No true calibration, just a bit manual color grading in GIMP.
Original was at 1200 DPI, this is scaled 50% to make it more web-friendly.
#retrogaming #preservation
https://manitu.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/978/109/521/452/340/original/a88a9f2089ac0339.jpg

2024-06-29 18:39:08

I don’t know what kind of animal this is, but happy #caturday.
https://manitu.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/701/364/310/331/124/original/0a4b4b5db35e5eb5.jpeg

2024-06-16 13:05:39

Today is the day I learned that Microsoft Bob includes a tutorial on how to buy a house.
https://manitu.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/626/442/929/913/653/original/4aefdbc7deff6666.png

2024-06-08 20:57:19

One day online and I already learned something new!
https://fabulous.community/forum/thread/11-about-improving-ms-dos-screenshots-with-calculated-distortion/?postID=24#post24

2024-05-30 15:11:26

If you ever saw a pixel-perfect screenshot from a virtual machine running MS-DOS in the default VGA text mode, you probably noticed that it looks slightly off.
The characters are too wide, and the whole image seems stretched.
But did you know that what you’re seeing is a perfect representation of the actual image, while your monitor from 1995 was deceiving you? Let’s have a closer look.
https://fabulous.systems/posts/2024/05/adding-aspect-ratio-correction-to-dos-screenshots/
#retrocomputing #msdos #retrogaming

2024-05-30 05:33:52

As someone who *heavily* relies on archive.org for research, all I can say is that sending them DDoS attacks is just stupid. REALLY stupid.
https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/28/internet-archive-and-the-wayback-machine-under-ddos-cyber-attack/

2024-05-27 19:09:42

3D Pinball for Windows: The Space Cadet's Mission Continues
Do you know what computer games and the Voyager space probes have in common? Clever engineering can extend their missions way beyond their intended lifetime.
3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet, the iconic game bundled with the Microsoft Plus! packs and included in Windows NT4 up to Windows XP, is preserved for decades to come thanks to a reverse engineering project by Andrey Muzychenko.
https://fabulous.systems/posts/2024/05/3d-pinball-for-windows-space-cadet-the-mission-continues/
#retrogaming
https://manitu.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/514/757/067/678/440/original/49ce8b0636b446fd.png

2024-05-25 16:03:07

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released the source code of MS-/PC-DOS 4.00 to the public.
Due to various bugs, DOS 4.00 was a relatively short-lived release, replaced by DOS 4.01 just a couple of months later.
Howard M. Harte (hharte), who already fixed various flaws in the official source code release of MS-DOS 4.00, managed to figure out the differences between DOS 4.00 and 4.01 — we now have access to the improved version as well!
https://fabulous.systems/posts/2024/05/a-minor-update-ms-dos-4-1-is-here/
#msdos #retrocomputing

2024-05-25 16:03:07

2024-05-01 16:25:46

The broken source code for MS-DOS 4.0 has been restored!
In less than a week after the initial release, on April 30, 2024, the community provided all necessary patches to restore the source code to its original state, matching the 1988 release of MS-DOS 4.00.
https://fabulous.systems/posts/2024/05/the-broken-source-code-for-ms-dos-4-has-been-restored/
#msdos #retrocomputing