Tom Kidd

Professional Mobile developer. My hobby is making game things run on Apple things. Latest project is

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I have now ported the game to Inform and released it online, thirty years to the day after the original intended release date. You can play it at the article below. https://t.co/Yuh5hYicMK

#jfkassassination #interactivefiction

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Back in the 90's when I was in high school I tried to write a text adventure about the JFK Assassination. I have since found it, and posted it along with the reconstructed source code and documented the process here:
https://t.co/Ak9NlfsRA0
#jfkassassination #interactivefiction

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I have updated the article to fix broken images as well as adding a featured image that might make you toss your cookies. https://t.co/Ak9NlfsRA0

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The build of DevilutionX for Diablo on https://t.co/B6rRq3dM7U has been updated to version 1.5.4 of the project. Mac Source Ports is also providing the official builds now

https://t.co/5zLnK54YyP

#macgaming #retrogaming #macOS #diablo #devilutionx #gaming #apple #m1 #m2 #m3

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@mrdoornbos I’m old enough to have been brought up on the C64 but I thought maybe this was a joke because the cover looks AI generated.

But no, it’s real and it’s glorious. I’m now convinced this 1984 book is how ChatGPT got started and no one will ever convince me otherwise

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@Jaku …and putting it in the middle of the screen for the Google Cardboard VR SDK. If you could take that, split it, then put half the image in each eye, lined up right, it would probably work just fine.

Assuming you can use an MFi controller or something with the thing. /fin

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So, uh, how soon do we get the visionOS SDK? No reason

https://t.co/Uzrm0F7ev2

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@Jaku lol I could take another look but I’m skeptical that I’d be able to do much without hardware. That said this or something from Provenance would be the best candidates to start with. Essentially, all that it’s really doing is taking the image from the VB core of Mednafen… 1/

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@flibitijibibo It’s especially annoying since… let’s just say it’s a known fact that Source engine games can run on 64-bit Intel and Apple Silicon. I get that Valve’s priorities are Windows and SteamOS, but you can’t tell me they don’t have the resources to have someone recompile the things.

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During QuakeCon I decided to mess with the Quake II Remastered game source. I was sort of successful.

https://t.co/HhEBF05Lia

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@Livid @MacSourcePorts I’ve had a few requests for it and it’s on the list, I’ll see if I can get to it soon.

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@NotABigJerk @TimeDoctor There is a nonzero chance that I’ve misunderstood what was causing it but all I know is once I turned these on, reruns of The West Wing stopped looking like a soap opera.

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@NotABigJerk @TimeDoctor Also, if you have an Apple TV 4K and a TV with Dolby Vision, turn on “Match Dynamic Range” and “Match Frame Rate” so that it doesn’t try and apply any sort of framerate smoothing to non-Dolby Vision content. https://t.co/IBqgmxY37O

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Every single time I go use Postman for something it’s like breaking out a board game I haven’t played in years and I have to relearn/remember all the goddamned rules again. And nothing works like you’d expect. It’s a great tool that’s absolutely excruciating to use.

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Mac Source Ports lets you play Myth II: Soulblighter on your Mac (thanks to Project Magma)

https://t.co/Xqce5Ssebn

#macOS #myth #myth2 #soulblighter #bungie #gaming #apple #m1 #applesilicon #retrogaming #macgaming

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@jtmuehlberg Because it comes free with the Office 365 subscription they already have.

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@9to5mac The period of time between unlocking the car and the lights turning off in the garage was interesting

It was actually pretty dark in there but night mode still came up with this.

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@edelmann_domi @hugmanrique @user670839245 @xkcdComic @spolsky has a neat story that’s adjacent to this quirk. He posted it right after Bill Gates retired https://t.co/RMkaS5gmRr

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Mac Source Ports lets you play Abuse on your Mac (thanks to Abuse_1996)

https://t.co/Tg16gg0e0D

#macOS #abuse #abuse_1996 #gaming #apple #m1 #applesilicon #retrogaming #macgaming

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@myownclone Wow nice. I know what I’m firing up when I get home…