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kinda amazing to see lots of homebrew games for retro consoles, like the atari vcs / 2600.
i learned how to program assembly in 2017 by going on the atariage forums.
but i see people, completely unrelated and unorganised into any kind of forum of community that i recognise, coming up with amazing games and software all the time.
not sure what to take away from all of this, but i hope somehow that all #retrocomputing people come into contact in some way and share their spark of joy for this.
@dirtycommo Sometimes I make the mistake of asking a forum, like I wanted some thoughts on Pascal or C compilers for Atari 8-bit, explicitly said "I already know about every kind of BASIC, that's not my question". All I got was infodumping about Fastbasic. SIGH.
AND YET MY INVENTION OF MURDER ASSHOLES OVER THE INTERNET IS CONSIDERED UNETHICAL!!!1!
So yeah, fedi's fine for now.
@mdhughes true. I suppose you could say I lurked mostly. "Went on" is a fairly vague phrase. I found really cool mailing lists from decades past there. I think my general strategy is to start a project thread and pretty much never talk outside of that.
I just love hate mail / forum wars. I crack open the popcorn.
My favourite kind of hate is people frothing at all my campaign photos and propaganda I fart out onto Facebook. Sometimes it is so, so funny.
@dirtycommo I don't particularly like large forums, you end up with either a Nazi bar thing, or now an AI bar, or some creep who's butthurt about something innocent you said, & now there's a flame war that goes on for 3 generations. Fuck no.
I came up with BBS-scale (& we had bad flame wars!), & self-publishing on your Gopher or WWW or later "blog". Someone wants a piece of me, they know what ICB/IRC/fedi channel I'm on, but I'll just block their ass if they're annoying.