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The Saturday Morning Podcast 🎙️ @satmornpod.bsky.social · 22h

Super sad to hear that #80s icon and artist Drew Struzan has passed away at the age of 78. Super talented. He was the illustrator of our childhood dreams! RIP Drew!

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 1d

KDE/Plasma can use the "kscreen-doctor" tool to do the same. Complete command line controls over brightness, colour, gamma, SDR and HDR settings.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when we have plenty of viable, royalty-free HDR image formats that would work for this. There's no excuse for it in 2025.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately Sony do an awful job of exporting HDR captures. PNG just crushes everything, and JPG weirdly looks different (seems to do some sort of tone mapping), although it's still bad (and their compression is horrendous).

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Thomas Cherryhomes @tschak909.bsky.social · 3d

The FujiNet 5 Card Stud networked game continues to be ported to every available #FujiNet target. This one being the #Commodore TED machines (#Plus4 and #C16). Still to be done, double buffering to remove the flicker.

youtu.be/Z6XujyeTUF0

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

FujiNet 5 Card Stud for Commodore Plus/4 and Commodore 16: WIP Status

YouTube video by tschak909

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 3d

I got cited by Frank. Swoon! 💛

Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 3d

The reasons for purple vs blue are complicated and fun, basically the system pumps out illegal colors www.retrorgb.com/hdr-and-the-...

HDR and the Naughty NES - a technical deep dive

Recently Bob tried out the new RetroTink4K feature announced by Mike Chi where illegal NES colours could be displayed in HDR: https://www.retrorgb.com/retrotink-4k-real-nes-composite-colors.html This...

www.retrorgb.com

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Eddie Deezenuts @32mbit.bsky.social · 4d

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Eddie Deezenuts @32mbit.bsky.social · 3d

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 8d

Aspect ratio of the gods.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 10d

I am forever cursed to love survival horror, but hate puzzles.

Signalis is a properly awesome game. But my ADHD makes some of these puzzles pure tedium. This particular letter/number switch up was fine. But the water level puzzle - nope.

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𝕍𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕒 𝕍𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕤𝕤 @veensaw.net · 14d

Yay! Let's start a new #MODtober fest thread and share your love for tracked music, one track a day!

Old and new stuff, and yes, not just .MOD: SID, SND, XM, and so on as long as it's tracked music

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 14d

I've spent 25 years babysitting humans who are awful at Excel. Quite honestly, this changes little for me, other than the emotional state of the entity I'm babysitting.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 14d

As a tall, broad shouldered fellow, I never enjoyed the cramped ergonomics of the compact computer nook. I was very happy to leave this behind for a spacious desk.

pfc. italian beef @realbillhicks.bsky.social · Feb 22

we used to respect the computer

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 15d

the youtube vs yt-dlp arms race is hilarious, because of how lopsided it is.

on the one hand, you've got a company with the GDP of Denmark who has about a manhattan-project's worth of developers they can assign to this.

but on the other end, you've got every bored or annoyed javascript hacker.

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Time Extension @timeextension.com · 15d

Anniversary: Mean Machines, The UK's Greatest Console Magazine, Turns 35 Today. (Repost)

Anniversary: Mean Machines, The UK's Greatest Console Magazine, Turns 35 Today

"Brutally honest reviews, top-class tips, and close-to-the-knuckle humour"

www.timeextension.com

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Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social · 16d

35 years ago, I was playing US Gold's top class SMS port of Gauntlet. More interestingly, YOB's Gossip page had some VERY interesting info. Considering it was written in Sept 1990, there are some really juicy nuggets about forthcoming systems years ahead of their release!

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filoppi.bsky.social @filoppi.bsky.social · 21d

The state of HDR in the game industry right now is catastrophic.
Silent Hill F, AAA game, shipped w/out color grading in HDR, on top of the raised blacks that come with all UE HDR games

It doesn't look as it's supposed to in HDR, atmospehre is completely gone, devs either didn't know or care for it

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 19d

I remember getting a fold-out comic of this with a different toy, and being fascinated by the characters. I lived in a small country town at the time (late 80s I think?), and had no way of finding out what they were, or getting access to the toys. Thank you for covering this.

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Retroist @retroist.com · 19d

Knight Rider is 43 years old today. Still one one of my favorite star cars and the theme song still sounds amazing decades later. I still want to a car that can drive itself while I play Atari.

www.retroist.com/p/retroist-k...

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 19d

I'm a big horror gaming fan, but yeah, I cannot deal with the infighting in that sub. There's a whole other sub called "silentchill" that exists purely as a way for sane people to have a nicer time talking about those games.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you for doing this in HDR. There's really not enough focus on it lately, and some really poor public understandings and opinions as a result. The visual benefits to gaming are enormous when it's done well.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah it's a fun little game. Changes the way you think about enemies and projectiles, as well as risk aversion.

Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 20d

In Ikaruga you want to run into the matching coloured enemy bullets to absorb them. In Psyvariar you have a field around your ship, and you want the bullets to touch that, but not the ship itself. You "scrape" past the bullets to level up.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 20d

Aww yiss bullet scraping is back in fashion!

youtu.be/Fy8vEi6CiDA?...

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 21d

Windows HDR continues to be a mess. It's quite incredible that the Linux desktop, streaming media, phones and console gaming are all pushing further ahead. It's so rare to see PCMR holding so tightly on to 1990s technology.

Tim Henderson @pretendbeard.bsky.social · 22d

A bit random, but the skies in Death Strandimg 2 are frequently just gobsmacking. It doesn't matter what graphics card you have; unless Windows gets its shit together with HDR, the inevitable PC version will never be the best-looking one.

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