gamedevjeff

@gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com

indie dev. working on multiple games with @pixelturkey.com. C/Scheme/Haskell/Haxe. Interested in narrative design/storytelling. Learning 3D modelling and Godot. Co-creator of The Zen of Kayaking, a Z-Machine adventure game. Not interested in AI.

This is a historic moment for the Video Game Soda Machine Project. Across 37 years and 50+ games, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles battled through sewers and streets without encountering a single soda machine. Until now. Feast your eyes on the Pond Cola machine from TMNT: Shredder's Revenge.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

This is a historic moment for The Video Game Soda Machine Project, folks. Across 37 years and 50+ games, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have battled through sewers, streets, and even the space-time ...

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For over a decade I've been wondering what this freaking font is, because I kept constantly seeing it in Japanese gaming media from the 80s and 90s. It wasn't until in recent years when I discovered that the font is called Tankoin AL-KL (淡古印 AL-KL) and it was made by Shaken (写研) in 1979.

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The YM2151 is similar enough to the Megadrive's YM2612 that I was able to copy the patches and get a fairly accurate Desert Strike theme tune cover going. Not quite nailed the pitch bends but the automation editing in this thing sucks r.n.

This is a big one: We brought on *three!* of the key players in the Sega Channel to reminisce about what it was like to build one of the first major game streaming platforms We went so long that we broke it out into a bonus episode, exclusive to Patreon supporters!

Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Before Xbox Game Pass, we had Sega Channel: a visionary service sending games into homes via cable TV lines. For the VGHH podcast, host Phil Salvador is joined by key Sega Channel staffers: Michael Shorrock, Ray McFadden, and Willard Stanback: https://gamehistory.org/episode-153-sega-channel/

macOS Mojave (the last 32-bit one) runs fine in qemu on linux, if you can suffer through the installation and updates for a few hours. Reaper audio playback seems to work fine, not even doing any hardware passthrough for video or audio. Resurrecting some old music projects from a 2014 macbook.