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16 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is not a good deal at all, but I feel it's fair to people who paid me money a few years back for a remaining run of BBS Documentary.

I found a very small pile of original BBS Documentary packages. I'm selling them for $500. DM me if you want to pay that ridiculous amount.
Remember, you can download all the ISOs of these DVDs for free here:

archive.org/details/bbsdoc…

And watch it here:

I get asked all the time if I have any left. Now you know: I do but you don't want to pay this for them.
Update: No takers

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Played 25 minutes of NARITA BOY which was enough to remind me why, even though you think they're designed for people like me, I don't play games like NARITA BOY
From the garbage-truck level of dumping of backstory on your head, followed by slippery platforming, requirement to find zelda-level enemies without zelda-level avoidance, and a sense that THIS is a platform or door NO WAIT JUST DECORATION wait THIS is a platform endlessly.
It's 2021. You can't just pixel-art your way out of this. Make a patreon and send me screensavers. nice big complicated ones.
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When I really put my head in my hands and realize it was RMS' specific and overarching influence that said "Not only should software licenses be considered important, they should be considered important enough that any new announcement should be accompanied by you screaming"
"If a person, company, or group happily announces or displays any effort, creative or otherwise, your very first response should not be thanks for the effort or questions on its approach and function, but a yelling demand it be licensed a specific way"
"Now, there will be others will who also mention, after a few other questions, about a license, but they might suggest a version of the license that functions slightly different from you. You should commence screaming at them and also the original party. Switching fast."
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The greatest love story in videogames is Michael and Muffy Berlyn
Infocom wouldn't hire Muffy, a collaborator on Suspended and Infidel, because apparently you can't get your team partner hired because you're married to each other. Berlyn left Infocom sooner than most of the Imps to start a company with Muffy and get hired as consultants.
Every time I've hung out with them, this world very obviously just a place they are visiting, and their world is each other
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1 Apr
PITCH DARK, the top-flight way to experience Infocom games on the Apple II, has gotten yet another upgrade. And, as always, it's emulated at Internet Archive. This is years of work to provide the ultimate Zorkifier to you.

archive.org/details/PitchD…
Need more info?

Besides holding essentially every Infocom Game from Zork onwards, it also has cover art (!), Invisiclues, and is open-source, living happily on Github: github.com/a2-4am/pitch-d… - it's meant to be loaded into a CFFA card, or hard drive, as it contains multitudes.
Do you remember a specific version of an Infocom game and any other won't do? Don't worry - the interface of Pitch Dark lets you choose which version you want. Of any of them.
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Ok, not in a mood for ebay. DM me offers for GET LAMP coin 0096 (out of 4000). I'll announce high bids in a thread. I'll do this until tomorrow evening (so all timezones get a chance). Good luck. Payment by paypal and venmo, all raised funds go to a tax bill. ImageImageImage
I own #0002 for my personal one, by the way. I gave #0001 to Don Woods. (And #0042 to Steve Meretzky)
High bid is now $333.
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Someone is uploading a 1970s newspaper, and that happens a lot. What isn't normally the case is they're uploading the ORIGINAL SHEETS THEY MADE THE PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES FROM.

There's a LOT going on here lost to people born after, let's say... 2000.
You're gluing pre-printed squares of articles, sometimes done by an outside organization, onto paper. The different colors (yellowing vs. white) is due to the glue, or the paper being of a different composition.

You can see the scribbled notes of layout people to each other.
Sometimes, the companies who promote bands send along photos, or produce pre-printed squares to be moved around and the rest of the content maintained.

Imagine what it was like when electronic layouts came out for personal computers/microcomputers and you could move things!
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