indigenous canadian, recovering academic → writer, gamedev & interactive toolsmith, the 4o3 bbs scene, 1-bit art, classic macs, and 80s/90s gaming. curator of internet, canadian & gaming historical obscura. → mages & modems: memoir of growing up with computers in the 80s & 90s https://tomotama.com/books → exigy: love2d shareware creation kit https://exigy.org → cd-rom safari podcast: https://cd-rom.ca/podcast I do not read or reply to Private Messages.
vga256
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really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.
it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.
as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:
https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal
originally from robyn's site:
http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films
#digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan
Adrian Seidelman
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Teacher (English Literature) Meridiana High School Meridiana, 🇦🇷 Follow Requests by Students get denied. Profile Picture: Adrian Seidelman in a dark alley, smiling whilst holding a book in his hand Header: A panoramic Shot of Meridiana in the Afternoon, with a Hill and the old town alongside Harbour and Giant Angel Statue. #CyberSix #Meridiana #AdrianSeidelman #サイバーシックス
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In case anyone wounders where to watch CyberSix:
Some Archivist made it available somewhere easy to find...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cybersix/comments/1snp69v/full_episodes_now_on_internet_archive/
https://archive.org/details/cybersix-full-episodes-1080p_202604
#CyberSix #InternetArchive #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic #MediaPreservation #Archival #Series #Show
DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder’s identity in 2023. […] A Tumblr blog post apparently written by the Archive.today founder seems to generally confirm the emails’ veracity, but says the original version threatened to create “a patokallio.gay dating app,” not “a gyrovague.gay dating app.”
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-Operator-uses-users-for-DDoS-attack-11171455.html
By having Archive.today unknowingly let users access the Finnish blogger’s URL, their IP addresses are transmitted to him. This could be a point of attack for prosecuting copyright infringements.
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