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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 3d

Is Quentin Tarantino's 10th movie called Quentin Tarantino?

Son of a Gunfighter trivia on IMDb:
Russ Tamblyn appeared as the 'Son of a Gunfighter' again 46 years later in Quentin Tarantino's Quentin Tarantino.

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 5d

Start Elvira: The Arcade Game with the command line argument LAZYMENT for unlimited lives.

#DOSGaming

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 8d

Brats has an all-star cast.

bsky.app/profile/laur...

Laurel and Hardy @laurelandhardy.bsky.social · 9d

Early to Bed, the first of only two #laurelandhardy films to feature only Stan and Ollie (the second being Brats) was released on this day in 1928.

Doom for Sinclair QL running on Spectrum Next QL core

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 11d

Remember Googlewhack? There's a new game that you can play on Google:

Combine the search terms "trump" and "dementia" with other search terms in such a way that an AI response is generated.
For example: "home alone release date trump dementia"

Google blocks AI searches for "trump" in combination with "dementia". But the blocking can be circumvented by adding extra search terms like "home alone release date".

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 11d

Doom for Sinclair QL running on Spectrum Next QL core

youtu.be/LyAntMtfyDs

YouTube video by Federico Achaerandio

Doom8088: Sinclair QL Edition

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 15d

Spoiler alert!

Doom8088 made the top 100. It's at number 37.

Slope's Game Room AKA DJ Slope @slopesgameroom.bsky.social · 24d

Nobody has ever done a TOP 100 Weird thing that can run doom... until now / Buckle up, this is a seriously strange video youtu.be/srMPmfavTxE

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 17d

Doom8088: Sinclair QL Edition

Doom is really slow on a computer with a Motorola 68008 CPU @ 7.5 MHz.

Slow down the video for a more realistic speed.

youtu.be/128qVyAWIsg

YouTube video by DookNookim

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 17d

The 8 colors of the Sinclair QL.

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 18d

On a related note: He started the presentation with the remark that in this part of the world the term "film flop" is much more known than "box-office bomb".

Well, Naked Gun 33 1/3 taught me the meaning of the word "bomb". 😄

Doom8088: AT&T UNIX PC Edition

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 18d

I went to a talk yesterday about box-office bombs. The presenter claimed cinema would be very different now if the first feature film wasn't a financial success.

The first feature film according to him? 👇

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · May 23

BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) is sometimes called the 1st Feature Film (full stop), 1st US Feature & 1st American Epic.

The REAL earliest known features:

1st: CORBETT-FITZSIMMONS FIGHT (1897)
1st Narrative: KELLY GANG (1906)
1st US: OLIVER TWIST (1912)
1st US Epic: FROM THE MANGER TO THE CROSS (1912)

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · 20d

Nero! 🤓

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 30

Doom in FreeBee

youtu.be/4Spd7z-IE_k

YouTube video by DookNookim

Doom8088: AT&T UNIX PC Edition

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 30

Doom8088: AT&T UNIX PC Edition in FreeBee, an AT&T UNIX PC emulator.

youtu.be/4Spd7z-IE_k

YouTube video by DookNookim

Releases · FrenkelS/Doom8088ST

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 30

Doom8088: AT&T UNIX PC Edition.
Doom for the AT&T UNIX PC, a computer with a Motorola 68010 CPU @ 10 MHz, between 512 KB and 4 MB of RAM and a monochrome display of 720x348 pixels.

github.com/FrenkelS/Doo...

Doom for the Atari ST and AT&T UNIX PC. Contribute to FrenkelS/Doom8088ST development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 29

But how do I get files out of the emulator? Mounting the image is impossible in WSL.
And there's no s4 tool to extract a file.

Doom mapping on a 286! (part 27) - the final DEU stream

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 28

2 years ago the first version of Doom8088 was released.

A day later deatsaw tried it on a real 286.

youtu.be/gqHcUlHsV_g

YouTube video by DEAT

Releases · FrenkelS/Doom8088

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 28

2 years ago the first version of Doom8088 was released.

Today, I release a version that fixes a memory corruption bug that was introduced 10 months ago.
github.com/FrenkelS/Doo...

Doom for 16-bit DOS computers. Contribute to FrenkelS/Doom8088 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 23

To remember the command

tar xvf doom.tar

there's the memory aid
eXtract Vucking Files

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 23

To get the files on the emulated computer, I'm using a 360 KB floppy image.

Luckily there's tar and gzip on the AT&T UNIX PC to handle bigger files.

Frenkel @frenkel.bsky.social · Aug 23

I'm having problems with the linker of the cross compiler. To circumvent that, I'm generating object files in Ubuntu with GCC 3.3.6 and linking with GCC 2.5.8 in the FreeBee emulator.