qbasic_forever

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Check out the gzdoom map series Knee Deep in Gzdoom, or the original 'de-make' of it 'Knee Deep in Knee Deep in Zdoom'. It's a remake of episode one but using all new advanced features of zdoom, and hugely expanded maps. It's a ton of fun and you'll instantly recognize all the old areas and then explore new stuff added to them. It's a ton of fun.

qbasic_forever

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Sadly it was really on the down swing after the 2019 firings. I had been going to the museum for years ever since it opened. In 2017 and 2018 they started experimenting with live events and parties, like a Blade Runner 2049 release party with actors dressed up as blade runner characters, a full bar making futuristic mixed drinks, etc.--it was awesome. There was a tech themed burlesque show with performers covered in LEDs and such. They did other fun stuff like a retro 80s party night to celebrate opening a new 70s/80s themed wing of the museum. They would host local events like the retro game meetup, mechanical keyboard meetup, etc. It was really growing and turning into a fun geeky social space.

And then in 2019 Vulcan fired everyone responsible for making it great. No more after hour parties/events. Just as things were starting to take off they ruined it, and then the pandemic hit and it was done for good.

It's a real shame and I hope someone who appreciates the museum can take control of it and rescue it from Vulcan.

qbasic_forever

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Very cool. I was just listening to a podcast recently from one of the Heroku founders who is working on an iOS (for now) infinite canvas app too.

I'd love to hear from anyone that has used infinite canvas in their workflow and found good use cases. Does it work well for teams collaborating on projects? I worry it could just turn into a more difficult to navigate wiki that's organized in a scatterbrained way--like it only makes sense to the person who made the most stuff in it.

qbasic_forever

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Most apps aren't built to use it, especially on mobile. Think of the use case of your grocery list--you want one tap, open the list, type type type, and done. Anything else--having to tap save, sync, write a commit message, etc... anything, is a fail in my opinion. Git is great to use behind the scenes but I don't want to see it in the UI or slow down my workflow.

qbasic_forever

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Exactly, the sublist newline stuff is a total nonstarter for me. Sorry, I guess I'll run a markdown parser that takes an extra second or whatever to run.

qbasic_forever

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I wish Windows ran systemd--seriously. Windows services and low level functionality is just a hot mess of cruft, decade plus old UI and configs, etc. Please jettison it all and give a consistent declarative way to manage it all like systemd does for Linux.

qbasic_forever

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Yeah this could be anything from "wow cool" to "holy smokes, how is THAT possible???". If all of the game state, output pixels etc were turned into time series data and reassembled in a dashboard in real time--THAT is pretty cool!

qbasic_forever

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

WAD files like this don't contain any original doom assets and are free to distribute. The files are created by completely independent tools (typically Doom Builder) and only contain binary and text lumps created in whole by the editor. There's no executable code in WAD files that's linked in or becomes a part of the game engine either. You have to have a commercial version of doom 2 to use this level in particular (it cannot run on its own or without the original doom 2 assets). Think of this like a .doc file you're loading in MS Word, but it's new levels for the game.

Some total conversions and such could be in a legal grey area or bad place if they take the original assets of the game (sprites, sounds, music, etc) and include them in their WAD files to distribute. There are some projects like Freedoom that recreated the entire asset pack of the original doom games so that someone could use it freely if there are legal concerns.

qbasic_forever

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

There are dozens of Doom engine ports going back to the late 90s when the code was open sourced. Most of them support modern high resolutions graphics.

qbasic_forever

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

There's a whole new wave of retro FPS shooters that you might enjoy. Heck, we might even be on the third wave or so of them now (they started to come back ~2010). 'Boomer shooter' is the term to search for: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/boomer-shooter-definition-ori...

Also check out advanced gzdoom mods. The gzdoom engine never stopped innovating and now supports near full 3D environments with slopes, room over room, dynamic lighting, etc. but still has the same core frenetic and fast gameplay of the core engine. Here's a good taste of what's out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Db5O5-xk0

qbasic_forever

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

There's a benefit to reduce stress on your hand in my experience too. Constantly switching from keyboard to mouse and back again, or even worse keyboard to trackpad, can really get aggravating after a while for some folks. I sometimes like a happy medium of VS code or other fancy editor with a VIM key mapping plugin.

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