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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 03:38:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I love the idea of fantasy consoles but I can't handle the whole "you edit them from inside the 256x160 pixel fantasy OS!"

   I did my time with coding on 640x480, I can't go back, I get claustrophobic.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 03:42:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I have nostalgia for a lot of things, but I can't manage it for this.

     WHY WOULD I WANT TO GO BACK TO THIS?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 03:44:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     for bonus points, imagine this is being displayed on a 12" CRT, and you can see every single pixel

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 03:46:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the OS is wrong though. Shamefully I don't currently have MSVS6 installed on a win9x VM, just XP. I know, I'm sorry.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:12:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • pancake :verified:

     @pancake fun fact: I compiled TIC80 last night.

   • pancake :verified: (pancake@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:12:12 JST pancake :verified:

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     @foone there's vim and vscode integration :< at least for tic80 which is free. But only it you compile it iirc. I'm sad that the pico8 thing is privative and closed source and everyone makes amazing things there instead of the free clone

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:17:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jernej Simončič �

     @jernej__s the computer I got around 1997 could do 1024x768, but I was stuck with a VGA monitor (from our 486 packard bell) that couldn't do more than 640x480 until about 1998 or 1999.

   • Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:17:08 JST Jernej Simončič �

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     @foone The VGA monitor my father bought in '91 or '92 was already 14″, and could do 800x600, same with the monitor bought in '95 (this one actually was set to 800x600).

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:20:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Patrick (he/him) 🥑:android:

     @pux0r3 if you really something like it, TIC80 is an open source fantasy console inspired by pico-8, and since it's open source you could just swap out the font.

     It's still 240x136 though.

   • Patrick (he/him) 🥑:android: (pux0r3@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:20:30 JST Patrick (he/him) 🥑:android:

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     @foone I want to like Pico-8 so bad, but I'm too old for whatever that font is.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:22:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     also I just realized that while this thread was vaguely-subtooting TIC-80, my joke resolution is STILL higher than its actual resolution of 240x136

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:23:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     like I understand that a key part of fantasy consoles is the limitations, but I have an IBM CGA card here from 1981.

     It's got more pixels than that.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:53:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Kawaoneechan

     @kawa that's my favorite TV show!

   • Kawaoneechan (kawa@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:53:10 JST Kawaoneechan

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     @foone Have I got news for you.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:56:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Terra Field

     @RainofTerra I did the same! it had a graphical interface, so you could browse fserves like they were FTP sites

   • Terra Field (rainofterra@terra.incognita.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:56:47 JST Terra Field

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     @foone VB4 on Win95 is giving me flashbacks to writing an IRC client with it in my misspent youth