One of the advantages of cataloging your software collection is that you can plot distributions like this.

Many people are surprised when they see how early my collection skews. Well, I started collecting early, and find+archive stuff that hasn't been archived yet. And that's mostly early titles.

I'm not seeing what you're seeing. Are you at the right URL?

New video in the works. 8 hours of editing (and counting) for a subject I've been wanting to make a video on for a few years now.

Protip: Learn Premiere shortcuts. It is much faster to cut/insert/overwrite/ripple/etc with the keyboard. You can go minutes at a time without having to touch the mouse.

While I wait for #VCFMW video proxy generation, thought I would touch actual vintage hardware for a change. With the help of @necroware.bsky.social nwX287 RTC module, one of my Dell 316sx's has functional CMOS again. Found 2 more 1mb simms and an old version of memtest86 to verify the configuration.

Here's a quick example: The first image is the full UHD frame, the second is a 1280x720 1:1 pixel crop of the light cycles. Their film stock had more resolution than the source frames; scanned at 4K, you can now finally see the fine detail of individual pixels. Had no idea that detail was there!

Space Racer (1988)! One of many PC titles that inspired my hobby path.

3 TB of #VCFMW 2025 presentation footage copying over. This may take a while to edit and upload.

Performing final equipment check for #VCFMW 2025

Inventorying, formatting, verifying, and organizing all of the media required for this year's #VCFMW

Discord added "server tags", custom 4-character labels + icon, for allowing members of a server to represent that server everywhere on Discord.

Almost everyone I have seen on Discord doing this have tags that redirect to *private* servers. Trying to view them shows nothing.

"YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG"

I can't remember the last time I had absolutely nothing scheduled for a day.

Maybe today is the day I finally spend some time working on myself, envisioning how I want the rest of my life to play out.

Did not expect to get nerd-sniped this hard catching a glimpse of this Dua Lipa music video ("Dance the night"). Those aren't just random squares in the background: They're standard calibration color charts -- but Barbie-themed in color and lettering. Kudos to the creative team for this inside joke!

Does anyone like my videos, and would like to see more of them after a year-long hiatus?

I hope so, because I'm finishing up a documentary I've been working on for the past 6 months about one of the rarest PC sound cards.

A passion project; I'll be okay if nobody sees it. But I have to finish it.

Was finally able to acquire a sealed copy. Start of a long history of desktop video production (and dabbling in writing codecs) for me that continues to this day.

Gratuitous nerd-sniping: MS Video 1, Indeo, Cinepak

If I hadn't been successful in Unix, I would have loved being in video production.

Despite these, I have caught COVID-19 three times.

Fluxing some rare PC games tonight. The stack with Arcticfox contains what we hope are several variants of the same game for Bruce Lee. World Karate Championship and The Quest Have no known pristine Kryoflux dumps.

This is considered "exciting" by PC software archivists.

Not sure if this qualifies, but a promo sheet for TRON 2.0 signed by Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, Steve Lisberger, and Richard Taylor (computer effects supervisor on the first film).

Need more space on my 30MB IBM PS/2 Model 30-286.