Steve Wetherill / is on Nostr

Veteran game dev. Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy (CPC464), Nodes of Yesod, Projectyle, Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, etc. All views my own. #retrogames | #gamedev

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2025-03-07 17:33:26

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@nprofile…tmud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg

2024-10-22 07:21:53

I wrote this as response to a LinkedIn post which asked about things that make you disproportionately proud. Here’s my story, in 1996 I figured out a bug in the Microsoft DirectX installer that would brick certain Windows 95 machines with certain Creative Labs sound cards. It was the single remaining blocking issue preventing mastering and release of Command & Conquer Red Alert, and there was a lot of pressure to ship. It was a configuration issue in the official MSFT DirectX installer, I figured out the problem (empirically, lots of midnight hours), reported urgently to MSFT, with steps to repeat. They claimed they could not repeat the issue. I told them unless the issue was resolved we could not ship. They would not budge. I modified the installer and we shipped that version. They threatened various things, including sending any customer service calls related to this to me directly. A few weeks later, they wrote to apologize and told me they’d finally managed to repeat the issue, that my fix was correct, and that they would update the DirectX installer to include the change. All in all, it was a tense few weeks one way or another, but it turned out OK in the end and we did ship Red Alert on time. :)

2024-08-06 06:37:46

In 1993 I visited Las Vegas and interviewed at Westwood Studios. A new blog post detailing my experiences!
#WestwoodStudios #CommandAndConquer #LasVegas #Barnsley #ElectronicArts
https://blog.stevewetherill.com/2024/08/westwood-studios-part-1-1993-barnsley.html?m=1

2024-07-20 07:11:17

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@npub1qag…9gyn fab - thx for sharing! Love drumeo, hadn’t seen this one. Saw Rush on their final tour, rest in peace NP. ❤️

2024-07-20 07:11:17

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@npub1qag…9gyn fab - thx for sharing! Love drumeo, hadn’t seen this one. Saw Rush on their final tour, rest in peace NP. ❤️

2024-06-05 17:37:10

"according to our records ..."
Well, of course they would have a record of that.
I don't pay my Adobe subscription for nothing, y'know.
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/112/565/215/830/936/200/original/718be3c3f42842e6.jpg

2024-03-26 02:20:50

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@npub1qag…9gyn Abba vibes.

2024-03-26 02:20:50

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@npub1qag…9gyn Abba vibes.

2024-03-26 01:27:56

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@npub1qag…9gyn the cover images are so funny, lol.
I asked it for a song about debugging PHP.
https://app.suno.ai/song/d82eeb91-502c-4508-9e73-315d47b6a62e

2024-03-26 01:27:56

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@npub1qag…9gyn the cover images are so funny, lol.
I asked it for a song about debugging PHP.
https://app.suno.ai/song/d82eeb91-502c-4508-9e73-315d47b6a62e

2024-03-26 00:59:24

I gave Suno the AI music generator the first part of the Nodes of Yesod 'poem' about 'catch a mole, find a hole,' etc. Nothing else in the prompt.
It came up with this. IDK, quite catchy.
https://cdn1.suno.ai/27a03f45-546a-45a4-82bf-63cf669467fd.mp4
Suno is here: https://app.suno.ai/
#HomeTapingIsKillingMusic #AI #AIMusic

2024-03-12 05:38:05

Thinking about the FLOPS game I mentioned in my last blog post, ended up asking one of the GPT image generators to make me a loading screen.
[I’m just passing idle time, don’t read too much into these.]
Other than the spelling these are nice. Wonder what the source material is?
https://blog.stevewetherill.com/2024/03/eldritch-cat-mk-iii-1990-1991.html
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/112/081/087/386/125/813/original/af74ddac490763a6.png
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/112/081/088/236/822/836/original/fae5172233026547.png
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/112/081/088/964/559/900/original/dea2671a8b07bd75.png

2024-03-12 05:38:05

2024-03-04 03:24:53

Part 3 of the Eldritch The Cat story is up on my blog. In this article I talk about wrapping development of Projectyle and development of various other games, some completed, some incomplete, and some a mere twinkle in our collective catlike eyes.
I also discuss the demise of Eldritch.
#EldritchTheCat #GameDev #Amiga #AtariST #1990s
https://blog.stevewetherill.com/2024/03/eldritch-cat-mk-iii-1990-1991.html