Tonight I’m playing the first known LGBTQ game, Caper in the Castro by C.M. Ralph! It’s a point-and-click murder mystery made in HyperCard, released in 1989 via BBS. “It’s not just a game… it’s a Gayme!” #Twitch #MARCHintosh image
I’m continuing Myst tonight! Last week I solved a piano puzzle and took a rocket to a new Age! It’s quite misty here, and the sky is bright cyan 🤔 #Twitch #MARCHintosh image
Happy #MARCHintosh! I’m playing Myst tonight for the first time in 30 years! But first I want to talk about HyperCard, a wonderful program by Bill Atkinson that inspired not just Cyan and many other game devs, but also the web. We can still learn a lot from it! #Twitch image
The most important part of a video game manual is the page where there’s a cartoon of the main character playing their own video game Second most important part is where they are calling the hint line
AllTinker recently released a patch for Gabriel Knight 1 that fixes the worst of its unfortunate audio issues: You can download the patch here: https://alltinker.itch.io/gk-speech-fix Even better, they’ve worked with sluicebox to submit a patch to ScummVM: Just a checkbox to fix it! ✨ So excited to play this again now.
There are a lot of dumb things my computer does but this is like… really high up there #macOS #MacDev image
In macOS 15, Apple removed the option to right-click and choose “Open” to bypass Gatekeeper and run an unsigned app. Instead, you open the app, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, and click a button to allow it. This process doesn’t work in macOS 15.1. Given the notice above, this seems like an unintentional bug to me. There’s an easy workaround! Remove the quarantine bit in Terminal: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Example.app #macOS
I’m live now with unsecretcrush, continuing The Crimson Diamond in Chapter 3: Investigations! Don’t worry we brought plenty of Jordan almonds for everyone~ 🕵🏻‍♀️🕵🏻‍♂️🔎 #Twitch image
I finally ordered some of AnnK’s Dank Zines recently and they just showed up the other day. The quality is really nice and they came with a bunch of cute stickers! Had to get the issue with Mac Games and Swamp Witch obviously. Immediately after I ordered these there’s a new issue with The Crimson Diamond on the cover soo… time to place another order
Since I got my MacBook Air I keep having an issue where, as far as I can tell, some unknown app that doesn't have UI is activating and taking focus. It happens maybe 2-3 times a day. When it happens, the app I'm using is still the front-most visible app, but it's no longer active—so if I'm typing, or trying to use a keyboard command, it doesn't work. I've tried to track down the cause in Console, but there's so much data there I can't tell what's going on. Any idea now to track this down? #MacOS