Dolly Parton was honestly a saint. Just a real GOOD person. Not someone we have to make excuses for post-mortem or justify their politics. She was a cut above the rest, earned every bit of praise she ever received and her legacy lives on in every book, dollar and song she gave us.
Tursilion
@tursilion.bsky.social
Canadian, tinker, 8-bitter, you-got-it-i-code-it, SL storyteller. He/Him. Though it should be obvious nothing I say reflects my employer or anyone else but me. Primary feed: https://furries.club/@tursilion
If a rich person hates a marginalized group and spends loads of money on efforts to hurt that group, you can't really say that their hatred is "just their opinion." You can only say that if they're not doing anything to hurt those people.
She's running! Lots of little glitches but it's running. Performance is an issue at the higher difficulty levels... hopefully I can get it going. The Vectrex CPU isn't slow, but it's spending a lot of time drawing vectors.
All the sprites are in (as vectors) and the player stuff at least seems to mostly work, except for Selena being too powerful for the hardware and causing some very odd crashes. I'll talk to her about that.
As I need to remember to promote myself more often, things are starting to move and render properly. Next step is to make them stop looking like things... Oh boy I have a lot of work left to do.. and none of it is really the game engine. ;)
Have released an update to my unofficial SLPW version of Firestorm. Check my Mastodon post (can write longer messages there) for details! furries.club/@tursilion/1...
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Have released an update to my unofficial SLPW version of Firestorm. New features: Pulled latest Firestorm patches as of July 29, 2026 - 7.2.5.81376, PLUS: - when setting a gesture hotkey, automatica...
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And both are playable in Classic99 along with my other recents... None of which are what I'm supposed to be working on... harmlesslion.com/software/cla...
Software from HarmlessLion.com!
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A port of Taipan from the Apple 2 to the TI-99/4A. forums.atariage.com/topic/391822...
Taipan port from Apple 2
This is one I started a good ten years ago... got the BASIC code ripped and documented, sorted out the assembly functions for the most part, but hand translating the BASIC code was tedious. So, yeah, ...
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A port of Minestorm from the Vectrex to the TI-99 and ColecoVision. The F18A ports run full 50hz. harmlesslion.com/software/min...
Software from HarmlessLion.com!
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I did a first release of my desktop app over at forums.atariage.com/topic/391558... It's functional, but needs a couple more features to be finished. But I need to sidetrack for an opportunity that came up.
Desktop-like App
Here's my work in progress desktop app for the TI. This is one of the last pieces I was dragging my feet on for MPD, now I have to decide whether to resurrect the rest! One nice thing about this is it...
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I released my Rick Dangerous port for the TI over at AtariAge - will put on my own site when I get to it: forums.atariage.com/topic/391292...
Rick Dangerous Port for F18A (and base)
I've spent a bit of time porting XRick over to the TI. It's reached a point now where I'm kind of tired of looking at it. Features 15 color F18A backgrounds with 8 color sprites (and 4 sprite palettes...
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Back from Japan! All I bought was a janku Famicom and some microswitches (nothing special about them, but this old guy had a booth of components and the price was good!) Will post pics when I try to power it up. But for now will clean up Rick and I started the arcade port of SSA. Happy Canada Day!
Apologies, we for got the alt text! Here it is.
So ... long story short, I was supposed to start a new job, and the project it was tied to got abruptly cancelled. I have to start commission work until a new project starts, but while I figure out how I would even price that, I'm adding new YCHs.
Crazy how this is one of the best most consistent mental health aides we've ever seen
Finally visited Beauty and the Beast Disneyland Tokyo as a guest. This was the last attraction I got to touch as an Imagineer It was surreal to stand in front of the staircase again. Made me sad and nostalgic I still think I made the right choice moving home, but I never wanted to stop doing that.
Most of Rick is working now, but I do want to add F18A graphics. I have gotten to like the pure white sprites for how they stand out on the background... not sure if I will change that. The F18A will approach the Atari ST graphics of course. youtu.be/TlqMuvXG_ks
Rick Dangerous for TI-99/4A Preview
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We raise over 50k Lens to night at FWF last blood we had ten great matches, Rocco Thank so much for making so many memories and helping to put stop to Parkinson. #TEAMFOX #FWF #UFW #DAW #RollerGirlMink
Sci-Fi con was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun! We want to thank everyone who came out to support the show and help us raise $340,000 lindens for Team Fox! Thank you all!
So this Friday, 8pm SLT, SL Sci-Fi con, prepare youself for UFW: Close Encounters of the Furred Kind!
Oh, I bitched here. I thought that was over on my Mastodon. I wondered why it was so quiet ;)
I keep seeing "If you can't make 'xxx', FUCKING DON'T". You ever stop for two fucking seconds and think that maybe that exclusionist fucking attitude is WHY people are stealing everyone's work for machine creation? (also, fuck BSky's short fucking messages.. next post...)