Smiling Savage Kiosk #7

A list of related, tangental, or inspirational links shared from this week's browser history

106 years after it sank in the Antarctic, Endurance has been found — Credit Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic

Photography

• Beautiful grain in this shot…

jay_lou2

A post shared by Jen (@jay_lou2)

• I’m checking out the subscription-based photo-sharing app Glass, but it’s too early to share opinions.

Music

• The Tipping Point from Tears For Fears is their seventh album, and their first in 18 years. Here they are playing the third single, Break the Man, live…

• The Atari Music Video was “the earliest commercial electronic music visualizer” and here it is in action…

• This week’s earworm: Faithless by The Airborne Toxic Event…

Retro Computing

• The Callisto II looks like a wonderful 3D print project. Make sure to check out the retro-themed “product” website too…

• Take a look at the pure retro joy of bbs.retrocampus.com. You can also build your own BBS. Looks like lots of fun to load on an old computer…

Retro Tech or Die @RetroTechorDie

I don’t wanna sound pretentious, but if your not reading your news from your Commodore 64 what are you even doing with your life.

• People are putting the Raspberry Pi Pico into a Commodore 64 cartridge…

Kevin Vance @kvance

I've taken another crack at putting a raspberry pi pico into a C64 cartridge, and it's exceeded my expectations

• Here’s a song written for the Commodore 64 in 256 bytes. The drivers are here.

Matt Simmonds @4mat_scenemusic

Quick entry for the c64 Tiny SID competition. (256 bytes category) My focus was more on driver features than the music so it's only about 10 seconds looping with variations. Some of that extra raster time is from calculating pitch on the fly.

Games

• The Open Lara project (Facebook group) is an open source engine for the classic Tomb Raider game. So, of course there are ports for all kinds of things like a version you can play in your web browser, Game Boy Advance, and the Sega 32X…

XProger @XProger_san

I'm working on Sega 32X port, a lot of work needs to be done to optimize the code and achieve the second SH-2 CPU benefits #SEGA #32X #openlara #tombraider

• Is this the smallest portable Doom yet? Probably not for long…

• Okay, I guess I’ll be playing my Switch on it’s side soon…

Abram Buehner @AbramBuehner

Donkey Kong on Switch OLED via vertical mode is just perfect

• Grand Tour Legends looks like a great use for the Playdate’s crank…

iorama @ioramastudio

Hop on that bike and start crankinggg! coming soon to @playdate iorama.studio #grandtourlegends #playdate

• This D&D game with voice actors is so entertaining…

Writing

• What Makes a Great Opening Line? by Allegra Hyde is a great read. (Spotted from Arts & Letters Daily)

• Soon you’ll be able to make your own “Bread Pirate Roberts” from The Princess Bride Cookbook: The Official Cookbook! (Spotted from The Retro)

• The Making of Nox Archaist, written by the designer of the first commercial role-playing game released for the Apple II in almost 30 years, is an insider’s account of the creation of a modern game on a classic computing platform.

• Here’s a joke so old that no one really understands it…

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwiki

• I wish a movie of this series could be written with as much fan love as this commercial…

Electric Transportation

• The new electric version of the VW bus looks fun, but about the name ID.Buzz…

• There is a new MG Marvel R coming to Europe…

• And a new electric MG ZS coming to India…

• And there’s still another new electric MG4 coming from China…