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Robb Sherwin

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Text adventure / CRPG creator. 🕹️ WISHLIST Cyberganked on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/880930/Cyberganked/ https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@icecreamjonsey

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · Jan 24

Here is a link to the Steam store for my upcoming CRPG / text adventure game called Cyberganked. I am told wishlisting helps with visibility, so if you are interested, please feel free to do so!

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Cyberganked on Steam

Cyberganked is a six-character CRPG blobber and text adventure, all using a CGA graphics palette.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 1d

My weekend project was trying out #PicoIDE on my Amiga 1200. It mostly works, just needs a few tweaks. Thanks to the Amiga community who knows this machine way better than I do!

An Amiga 1200 opened up on a pretty messy workbench. Wires and ribbon cables are strewn about.

The screen showing the Amiga detecting a PicoIDE virtual CD-ROM drive

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 18h

#picoide !! And for Amigas! I missed news of this, catching up on Discord. So exciting, Ian!

Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 3d

It will take me a sec, but I will do this - my computer with @polpo.org 's PicoGUS doesn't have a case, so it is just assembled in a cardboard box right now. But I have a synthesizer I really want to accept MIDI from that card and your program. Just for the pure nerd points of it!

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 4d

Passing out Toblerone "Oops! All Gaps!" tonight. Disappointed, Leonardo?? Welcome to the real world, jackass

Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 6d

One awesome thing about Ernie Clement being in the World Series is hearing that Rochester accent for interviews, which is pretty rare for us, I love it. Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Lithgow kind of dropped it and they waited until after Susan B. Anthony died to invent the microphone. #bluejays

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Caltrops @caltrops.bsky.social · 8d

New movie review!

TRON: Ares is Officially the best TRON Movie by @commodork.bsky.social

www.caltrops.com/2025/10/27/t...

Check it out! #tron #tronares

Screenshot of TRON: Ares from the official trailer.

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1Bit Fever Dreams @1bit.bsky.social · 11d

I made a new MSDOS utility, the MIDI Sniffer:

* takes in MIDI in
* reroutes to: MIDI out, PC Speaker, or OPL2
* supports polyphony

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 11d

This is truly awesome and something I hope to get working on my DOS system of my own soon. And I love the heads-up on the MIDI port of the Rock Band controller! 😀

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 11d

I ❤️ Grungus

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whitaker8088.bsky.social @whitaker8088.bsky.social · 27d

Here’s my second installment describing a few details of how I created the assets for the PCjr’s 40th animation.
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IBM PCjr 40th Anniversary Animation (Part 2)

Introduction In the previous post, I tried to illustrate the mechanism I used to produce smooth vertical and horizontal scrolling. In this post, I want to describe the steps I used to create the ac…

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 21d

Hahaha

Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 22d

Ugh. Sorry, man. I think we talked about this on your BBS, the fail condition of water heaters being "dump it all out" is so unacceptable. Two years! The designer for this trash should be legally obligated to fly out and man a bucket.

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 22d

Game 30: BuGS (Rand-Emonium Software, 2021)

An awesome recreation of the arcade game Centipede for your Apple IIGS. Having been squashed once by the full-size arcade cabinet, I found this version to be pleasant and painless.

#arcade #Apple #atari #appleiigs

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Game 30: BuGS (Rand-Emonium Software, 2021) | Jolt Country

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 24d

Love it. I'm reading your posts and thinking that as a remote worker manager in IT, this game is like helping people get unstuck over Slack. This is the game that's aged the best as far as I'm concerned. Berlyn was 40 years ahead of his time.

Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 25d

Game 29: My Friend Pedro (DeadToast Entertainment, 2019)

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Game 29: My Friend Pedro (DeadToast Entertainment, 2019) | Jolt Country

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 29d

I'll also give my regular shoutouts to DOS Game Club for talking about DOS games (they're playing Halloween Harry right now)
www.dosgameclub.com

intfiction.org for interactive fiction

And Adventure Game Hotspot just launched a forum now that Adventure Gamers is dead
adventuregamehotspot.com

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · 29d

You make good points (about a lot of things, really), but I'm also really glad you are on Mastodon.

If this place was a forum and I saw the admin post like this one's CEO did, I'd leave and delete the bookmark.

Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · Sep 26

I am bad with directions. I use Waze every day. I appreciate it. For me, it's a miracle.

An "I got it from here" toggle where it shuts up when you're within 5 miles of home, instead of it dutifully announcing the turns I do know, would be wonderful.

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · Sep 26

It's great, I have been playing it on a real Apple // and it's so good - the sense of "flow" is perfected between running around and fighting bad guys. I did have to get the guide/hint book though, as the game world was so big I was getting lost!

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · Sep 24

I missed Timberborn completely - thanks! I'm checking it out!

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · Sep 24

I uploaded Dinosaur Jr. vs the 1960s by Devi Ever to the Internet Archive.

archive.org/details/dinojr

Screenshot of Dinosaur Jr. vs the 1960s, a 10 second game where you are a dinosaur and you are stomping and eating concert goers!

Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · Sep 23

Right, my favorite team already can't win in whatever stadium they use, I'm half-expecting to now see a future headline of "Varsho out tonight with a drown"

Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · Sep 22

Game 28: Banished (Shining Rock Software, 2014)

While well-reviewed, Banished made more reviewers angry than I would have expected. I went in on the easiest level, clicked around my little forest and enjoyed my time. The world created anger, Banished didn't.

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Screenshot of the game Banished, available on Steam.

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Al's Geek Lab @alsgeeklab.bsky.social · Sep 17

If you're a fan of the movie Sneakers, the late Robert Redford (RIP) or just geeky things, you can ssh into [email protected] and watch the movie in glorious 24-bit colour ANSI :) Enjoy!

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Robb Sherwin @icecreamjonsey.bsky.social · Sep 13

Likewise! Your game looks freaking great, and the sort of thing I love playing 😀

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