indigenous canadian, recovering academic → game dev & interactive media artist with a penchant for dial-up modems, the 4o3 bbs scene, 1-bit art, trackers/mods, classic macs, and 80s and 90s gaming. curator of internet, canadian & gaming obscura.
game development: tomodashi studio
https://tomodashi.com
current major project: tomo, a decentralized discussion group network that’s better than reddit https://tomo.city
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(profile pic: a 1988 red fox 6¢ canada stamp)
@kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place totally agree!
@billgoats@bitbang.social i fear that most of the civilized world has forgotten too. i found them dirt cheap at thrift shops. i doubt they’re still in print, but thankfully they are dirt cheap from used book sellers
how could i forget these two absolutely hilarious and informative illustrated texts on medieval and 18th century life.
i’ve had them sitting on the shelves for years, and realized they make a compelling visual reference
#bookstodon #illustration #books
adding two incredible finds to this medieval technology reading/research bibliography: Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel by Frances and Joseph Gies. The bookseller immediately recognized it and exclaimed “I appreciate a writer with the common touch!”
The second book - Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon by HPR Finberg was an accidental find. While it does not speak to technological change in the late middle ages, it speaks to the social and cultural life of an abbey and its surrounding village.
#books #bookstodon
adding to the aforementioned bibliography of books concerning the intersection of the 15th-19th centuries and technological change. found them at a local used bookstore.
web searches for broad topics like this are often fruitless. a good library or academic bookstore already has this presorted by topic.
#bookstodon #books
@pixel@social.pixels.pizza now that i look at it, it kinda makes sense. almost all of the boards are running TBBS or wildcat or something else that is built for multi-node. i bet the only reason these mega-boards got a lot of votes is because they had a ton of readers/users.
@foone@digipres.club i’m fascinated that the Pleasure Dome shares the same name as an austrian hacker board which was famous as well https://demozoo.org/bbs/2949/
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org 😎
@ve3qbz@mastodon.radio it’s a very different kind of game, but boy does it feel great - it really nails the experience of creating a transportation network
@ve3qbz@mastodon.radio :\ frustrating. same thing happened with chris sawyer’s Transport Tycoon series.
@ve3qbz@mastodon.radio 2 was a travesty. iirc, it was developed by a third party company. most of the game was completing “missions” and it completely lost the joy of just building on the landscape
answering my own question yesterday re: heideggerian technological change and the first industrial revolution:
there does not seem to be any specific agreed upon text that covers the above historical question - however, i’ve cobbled together a patchwork of related readings:
Miller, Adam. (Dissertation). Enframing and Enlightenment:
A Phenomenological History of Eighteenth-Century British Science, Technology, and Literature. https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/bitstream/handle/1803/13807/miller_adam.pdf?sequence=1
Finberg, H.P.R. Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon.
Gies, Frances and Joseph. Life in a Medieval Village.
Gies, Frances and Joseph. Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages.
Gimpel, J. Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages.
Landes, David S. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.
Mantoux, Paul. The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century.
McNeil, Ian. An Encyclopaedia of the history of technolology.
Toynbee, Arnold. Lectures on the industrial revolution of the 18th century in england. https://archive.org/details/LecturesOnTheIndustrialRevolutionOfThe18thCenturyInEngland
@ve3qbz@mastodon.radio couldn’t agree more.
@mugraph@chaos.social yeah, i know what you mean - and i think that strays beyond my immediate historical needs. i’m basically looking for someone to fill in a lot of the historical gaps that heidegger leaves wide open with his historical examples (grist mills, hydroelectric dams, etc). foucault is his own wilderness anyway 😅
@mayasynth@eldritch.cafe very welcome. i only wish i could have paid john broomhall for FLACs instead
@starfiend 😆 amazing. i ended up building a single player game using UOSphere just for fun
@OtterMatic@woof.group huh? that compression method appears to have nothing to do with Radius’ Cinepak codec used on the sega cd
@gamedevjeff@mastodon.gamedev.place adorable! :D
@jefklak@dosgame.club yup. i’m much more excited about @congusbongus@mastodon.gamedev.place’s efforts at reverse engineering and re-implementing the engine as it originally was however :)
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@congusbongus/113015894748362122
@timixretroplays@digipres.club 😂