oh, your website is so great but it doesn't even render on servo or dillo or netsurf or w3c? fuck outta here

hi, bit of an odd thing for this account

my father has vaguely come across A Guy who has a supply of decommissioned retired solar panels but nowhere to offload them

how do i get him and/or The Guy in contact with some community-scale projects that can make use of them (e.g. small-scale backyard/balcony/etc systems, not a scrapper)?

location: Silicon Valley, California, USA

🔁 appreciated

edit: you can start by DMing me on fedi, or email r@arcanenibble.com

@ajroach42 unga bunga me pull lever

Leapfrog solitaire.

CAVEMAN SLOTS
(How fucking wild was it for this to be a kids game on an Educational CD)

I think I love Comet Busters.

I'll have to figure out how to map my USB gamepad into dosbox (or figure out how to get my gravis gamepad to connect to my laptop.)

It looks so good in 256 colors.

Alright, so one of the shovelware collections I had as a kid was 100 Action Arcade Games Vol. 4 from 2002 released by Global Star.

https://archive.org/details/100-action-arcade-games-vol.-4-2002-global-star-software-win-95-98-cd

This is probably where I got Adventure Blaster, and is also where I encountered Grand Theft Auto for the first time.

It had a horrible menu, and was mostly loaded with demos and stolen freeware.

But it was the first time I had GAME games on my computer, so I didn't mind.

this societal collapse could have been a precautionary tale for the simple price of a decent meal and a place to sleep for the night.

storytelling is teaching and teaching is storytelling.

we have to sing better songs to our children if we want to change the world over the long term. we have to tell them better stories.

We just watched Cody Rhodes on Last Meals, and I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he's incredible on the mic (he is Dusty's son, after all) but...

He's incredible polished, he's choosing his words very carefully, but he's also incredibly personable, and respectful.

I dunno, I was impressed.

@ajroach42 I would love to figure out one I played a lot of, a top-view racer around courses of desktop detritus - sewing table buttons and spools, crayons and pencils, that kind of thing.

@ajroach42 Gazillionaire. Weird little space trading game. I'm not sure how much the current Steam release differs from the win3.x shareware version my brothers and I played in the 90s. But it had hotseat multiplayer that we just lapped up. Super fun times.

@ajroach42 I have so many recommendations.
• "F. Godmom" is a _shockingly_ clever puzzle platformer where you can transform anything into anything else
• I have a real soft spot for Nels Anderson's "SuperFly", a mechanically unique game about killing swarms of houseflies without trapping yourself
• "The Last Eichoff" was already mentioned but it was a huge influence on me.
• Cheesy Software's "Megapede" makes delightful, extensive use of extremely copyrighted audio samples from TV and movies

@moopet @ajroach42 fun fact: the developers of Wacky Wheels (the superior DOS kart racer by far, I had so many great times with friends in the LAN mode) shopped their engine around to shareware publishers before going with Apogee. One of those publishers was Copysoft, who just directly ripped off the code to make Skunny Kart

Oh shit, I found the text adventure game collection that was my introduction to the form.

I thought I got it in 1999, but according to the internet it must have been 2001.

It was called Adventure Blaster, and was absolutely being illegally distributed on shovelware disks (which is where I got it)

I'm going to keep digging to see if I can find the CD I got it from.

(This is the opposite of how I usually feel about a movie.)

I finally got around to watching Buffet Infinity.

This was Too Many Cooks: The Motion Picture.

I don't know that I liked it, but I'd recommend it.

@ajroach42 OK; so I forgot this one was shareware. "Dare to Dream" is a windows 3.1 adventure game that I know still lives rent free in a few friends heads. https://advgamer.blogspot.com/2021/06/game-122-dare-to-dream-1993-introduction.html

My list of shareware games to discuss on my potential shareware livestream is already longer than I'd get through in 100 streams. 🙃