★ blue-caller ☆

- 📼 90s anime enjoyer
- 💿 classic tech enthusiast 
- 📖 non-religious bible nerd
- 🐊 student of 日本語 and العربية 
- 🦮 baby dev w/focus on accessibility 
- 💾 nothin this disk emoji is just neat

pronouns: they/them
fur: white
heartworm medication: 1x/6mos
tism: yes mam
mon peertube: https://spectra.video/c/blue_morpho/videos

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bluecaller_at_urusai.social@momostr.pink

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2025-03-25 03:27:54 UTC

Macintosh Powerbook 180c as seen in "You're Under Arrest."
It is rapidly pulling up GPS map data in a Tokyo traffic police car in 1994.
Given the 180c's 14.4k modem, this is not realistic.
Must suspend disbelief :frierendisappointed1:
#90sAnime #Marchintosh
https://files.urusai.social/media_attachments/files/114/220/920/817/818/538/original/492adee2c427c5ec.mp4
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2025-02-26 23:35:13 UTC

:tomo_MimimiSalute: Vote for me for new Firefox CEO. As your new overlord I promise to repurpose all AI resources to making Firefox available on more relevant platforms. Here are just a few of my ideas:
:neofox: - Firefox for Nintendo 64.
:ferncheer: - Firefox for PC-98
:Froppy: - Firefox for Casio Loopy

2025-02-18 20:49:38 UTC

what if we kissed at the lobotomist
#Sega #ValentinesDay #PhantasyStar #RetroGaming
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2025-02-12 00:14:44 UTC

I'm kind of fascinated by Korean box art for 1980s video games.
This one for Phantasy Star is very similar to the Japanese art and American art, all of which are great in their own right. But this one is unique, being the only illustration of Alis with dark hair like she appears in her overworld sprite.
Also, this is also the only RPG box I know of that chose NOT to show any dungeon or combat screens on the back. Just menus lol.
#sega #PhantasyStar #Fantasy #BoxArt #RPG #scifi
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2025-01-30 16:53:29 UTC

Someone who is a saint finally uploaded the defunct mihoyo games that eventually led to Genshin and HSR. You do need older 2010s era hardware to run them though. I hope there's a way to emulate 32-bit iOS.
https://archive.org/details/com.mihoyo.hsod-ios5.0-clutch-2.0.4

2024-12-17 05:48:50 UTC

Playing a lot of DS games I missed out on during my mid 2000s. Portrait of Ruin is such a great Castlevania game. I was not expecting it given what happened with Konami.
But I would say I like this one as much as SotN. Which is quite a lot. :HoloSmile:
#RetroGaming

2024-12-15 02:27:20 UTC

Just did a depression marathon of Castlevania Nocturn. Watched the whole series front to back.
It is so well done. If you’re trying to adapt an action game to screen, this is how you do it.
#castlevania

2024-12-10 17:55:05 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkarj5aBInA
#dreamcast #SoulCalibur #retrogaming

2024-12-10 03:58:32 UTC

:neocat_glasses: I'm looking for a Nintendo DS commercial I only vaguely have a memory of. It ran in the US shortly after launch. I remember two people at a restaurant I think, chatting with each other between their dinner tables to escape the conversation (maybe they were younger with parents)?
The closest thing I can find is this Japanese commercial. But nothing from America. Did I make it up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B741DOMwuqc
#NintendoDS #RetroGaming

2024-12-04 00:36:24 UTC

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here's a zip file with both the original MOV and a working AVI for reference. If the MOV plays on O2, we have a winner!
https://archive.org/details/ff6-siggraph-demo

2024-12-03 20:05:25 UTC

Re: psx, jrpg, fmv, .mov problems.
:HoloWave: It looks like IRIX workstations used to have an SGI proprietary movieplayer app. And they used a .mv extension. My best guess is these mislabeled .MOV files are some variant of that.
:HoloNani: Western consumer OSes just see that and think "Oh Quicktime!" But QT was not available for IRIX. So it would make sense in those early years for platforms without QT to simply use the same extension since it just means 'movie'.
:HoloHmmm: If I get some extra time, it will be interesting to get an IRIX environment running and see if those files play natively there. My guess is yes.
#RetroGaming #PSX #SGI

2024-12-03 01:03:13 UTC

Alright, giving up for the day.
Trying to extract the Final Fantasy 6 SGI demo video from the Square Prevew Extra disc for PSX.
Apparently the MOV files are not playable on their own. Something related to copy protection maybe?
In any case, nothing related on Zophar seems to be maintained any more. This is a tricky one.
There's a couple videos on Youtube, but they are probably just screen recordings. Trying to get the purest signal possible. We shall try again tomorrow.
#PSX #FinalFantasy #RetroGaming

2024-10-24 05:46:53 UTC

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:dance: the reverse might also be true:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Vd4fh1mkw&list=PLzBilTmG4m2T12S3XtJqXbqcmZfeQnN7V&index=8
#megaman #touhou #chiptune

2024-10-24 05:42:25 UTC

:dance: MegaMan music in 2hu style might fix me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrUzlU4j-k4
#touhou #megaman

2024-10-23 01:48:57 UTC

Does anyone have experience getting Touhou games to run on ReactOS?
I'm using React in a QEMU virtual machine. I have the language packs, DirectX 9 (I think) and an addon that is supposed to address Direct 3D issues.
But I keep getting an error about Direct3D, and the games won't run (6-9)
:cirnodance:
#touhou #RetroComputing #Windows9x #ReactOS

2024-10-18 17:00:03 UTC

me when i have a tasty nut
#Wark #RetroGaming
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2024-10-17 06:34:50 UTC

I want old games, with worse graphics, on defunct media formats and I'm not kidding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxij-1QBrWk&t=1258s

2024-10-14 05:43:21 UTC

#touhou #retrogaming #snes #pc98
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2024-10-05 21:14:24 UTC

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2024-10-03 19:32:31 UTC

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2024-09-11 16:24:20 UTC

I would rather spend $700 on a used Sharp X86000 to get bitmap graphics like this from a dual-disc drive than $700 for a PS5 Pro with no disc-drive. And I'm not kidding.
#ps5 #ps5pro #RetroGaming #PC98 #PixelArt
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2024-09-09 20:14:17 UTC

got'er
#CirnoDay #touhou #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #CRT
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2024-09-07 21:06:52 UTC

osx days of future past
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2024-09-03 01:03:37 UTC

Alright, some praise for the people making OpenMSX. The display options are very nice. Just the ability to replicate an RGB connection does wonders.
Both the pixel accurate and RGB colors have their own charm. But I really love how much more warm and realistic the blurred effect looks.
#Snatcher #MSX #RetorGaming
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2024-09-02 23:23:45 UTC

Learning to get OpenMSX to launch games on my Mac has been quite an ordeal.
Always feel pretty chuffed to figure out why nothing works over the course of a couple days and accomplish what felt impossible at the start.
But its another case of ‘Its 2024, your documentation needs pictures.’ I’ve never been able to read the documentation of a project and understand anything.
It only thanks to people asking dumb questions on obscure message boards that I figure anything out.
#RetroGaming #OpenSource #MSX

2024-09-02 21:39:55 UTC

Finally got an MSX emulator working on this Gateway tower. Doing a play of Snatcher.
I changed the name to Jillian in a feeble attempt at a yuri gender bend, but the receptionist reminds me that for the next several hours, I am a Mr. And any romantic advances I make are entirely hetero-normative. Just is what it is.
#Snatcher #Konami #Kojima #RetroGaming #MSX
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