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When Playdate Stopped Being Fun ⌘I Get Info
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For almost six years, Playdate (a little handheld gaming device with a crank input and 1-bit screen) was a space where I did some of my most creative and per...
15h ago
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Amazfit activity tracker and watch face asset generation ⌘I Get Info
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I recently wanted to track my heart rate and sleeping patterns, but do not want an Apple Watch. So I ended up buying a cheap Amazfit Band 7 from Decathlon sp...
on Fri, 10PM
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Automating the cleaning of macOS-specific files on Eject ⌘I Get Info
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Dot underscore ._ and .DS_Store files are macOS-specific metadata cruft generated for foreign filesystems (like FAT32 or exFAT) that are not usually needed f...
on Feb 12
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MaciGame user created graphics ⌘I Get Info
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I recently collected over 250(!) sets of user created graphics for MaciGame the classic Macintosh tile-matching puzzle game by Takeshi “KEN” Takahashi.
on Apr 1
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Station: Travel Through the Four Seasons (1994) ⌘I Get Info
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After reaching 1 million files in my Macintosh Magazine Media project, I thought it would be cool to post about something I found recently in those discs. I ...
on Mar 30
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Macintosh Magazine Media: 1 million files ⌘I Get Info
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I am proud to announce that my Macintosh Magazine Media project has surpassed my self-imposed goal of 1 million files, an achievement that fills me with both...
on Mar 28
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The menu bar items I use on macOS ⌘I Get Info
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This is an expanded version of a post I made to the MPU Talk forum.
on Mar 21
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Digging up the past with DiscMaster ⌘I Get Info
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DiscMaster is an alternative interface for collections of software that have been uploaded to Internet Archive. It allows you to drill into disk images at th...
on Mar 15
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Enhanced sfxr for Love2D ⌘I Get Info
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Yesterday I made a bunch of usability and quality of life changes to the sfxr.lua demo app.
on Mar 12
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The making of MaBoShi ⌘I Get Info
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It’s no secret that I’m a fan of an almost forgotten WiiWare game called MaBoShi. I’ve posted a review, the staff roll/credits (for the first time in English...
on Mar 6
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Back In Time: Vintage Maps of Akihabara (1976–2001) ⌘I Get Info
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I often browse old Japanese console and computer magazines. I’m mainly searching for old Hanafuda Koi-Koi video games, but sometimes I stumble across somethi...
on Feb 17
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Two Old Llamasoft iPhone & iPad games ⌘I Get Info
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Back in 2017 a large number of games and apps were rendered obsolete when iOS 11 removed 32-bit compatibility. At that time I was still downloading app into ...
on Feb 10
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TETRIS: 1984 is the date of conception (1989) ⌘I Get Info
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Given the ongoing discussion about whether or not TETRIS turns 40 years old in 2024 or 2025, I keep my eye out for early mentions of the game. As a bonus, th...
on Feb 3
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Blog of independent video game developer and digital media artist Matt Sephton. Featuring vintage Macintosh, game development, digital artwork, Japanese esoterica, video game reviews, hacks and tips, and much more.
on Jan 23
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Slugs on a Cube: interactive animation ⌘I Get Info
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Japhy Riddle makes art, music, films, and animations. He’s also a retro technology enthusiast. Naturally, he combines all these skills and interests into won...
on Jan 16
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DREAM RIDE for Sega Dreamcast (and emulators) ⌘I Get Info
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Over the Christmas break I had a spare week after a trip to Ireland was cancelled. What should I do with the time? I was already aware of the upcoming DreamD...
on Jan 6
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My most popular posts of 2024 ⌘I Get Info
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2024 was a bit of meh year for me. A lot of time away from working, which was necessary but a process that I find difficult as I’m at my best when I’m creati...
on Jan 6
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Music recommendations (2024) ⌘I Get Info
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Initially I had thought this year wasn’t as good as last year in terms of music, but litening again to the best tracks from 40-something weeks proved otherwi...
on Jan 6
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New 3D Golf Simulation (video game series) ⌘I Get Info
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Golf video games are one of my passions, ever since World Class Leader Board and Microprose Golf on Atari ST. These days my favourite golf games are still th...
on Nov 9
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Macro extension for Nova editor ⌘I Get Info
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After creating a bunch of smaller Nova Extensions quite quickly I wondered how far I could push things, just as a personal challenge. I had the idea of imple...
on Oct 24
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Automating the most annoying aspects of blogging ⌘I Get Info
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Back in 2021 I had a look around and decided to base this incarnation of my blog on an open-source Jekyll theme called “Type”, though I’ve changed and added ...
on Oct 17
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Bender 2: Bend Harder for Playdate ⌘I Get Info
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Back in 2012 I wanted to make a quick game for the AGBIC game jam (A Game By Its Cover; make a game inspired by the imaginary cover art from the Famicase exh...
on Oct 9
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A haze of inspiration ⌘I Get Info
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A long, long time ago in a galaxy far away I had to give an impromptu presentation about something I didn’t know much about. The goal of the task was to see ...
on Sep 28
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Daily Driver: Channelling RGB into 1-bit ⌘I Get Info
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After successfully splitting out dark and light elements of the sprites and rendering them in a HDR style, I figured: why stop there? Maybe I could squeeze a...
on Sep 20
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This behavior is by design ⌘I Get Info
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Back in the mid-1990s I was using Windows 95/98 and running up against bugs, problems, driver issues, unexpected things happening. I would often end up on th...
on Aug 28
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Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app ⌘I Get Info
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A couple of days ago I was reading on Hacker News about a feature in some Linux window managers where they allow collections of tabs from different apps.
on Aug 10
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TETRIS for Sharp Electronic Notebook (1989) ⌘I Get Info
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Sharp’s Denshi Techō (電子手帳) were a range of electronic notebooks or organisers, marketed as Bware in Japan and Wizard or IQ elsewhere. In Japan they won a pr...
on Aug 4
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Search Moby Games using Alfred app ⌘I Get Info
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Earlier this year I made a workflow for Alfred app to allow easy searching of Moby Games. Earlier this week it was released on Alfred Gallery.
on Aug 4
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PSA: Internet Archive “glitch” deletes years of user data & accounts ⌘I Get Info
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Recently at Internet Archive a “glitch” (their choice of word) deleted a great many accounts, including my account that had been at https://archive.org/detai...
on Aug 1
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Taking command of the Context Menu in macOS ⌘I Get Info
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Yesterday on Twitter the inimitable Morten Just posted a preview of a tool he’s created that wrap ffmpeg to allow movies, such screen recordings but pretty m...
on Jul 31
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Shibuya Pixel Art Contest 2024 ⌘I Get Info
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For June and July of 2024 the Shibuya Pixel Art Contest has been running, a welcome return after it not happening in 2023. Entries are open all over the worl...
on Jul 14
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TETRIS: Heavenly Scrolls (1989) ⌘I Get Info
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Given the ongoing discussion about whether or not TETRIS is 40 years old this year (I say not), I thought it would be cool to add something interesting and r...
on Jun 26
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Using RSS to create saved searches for any website ⌘I Get Info
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I’ve recently started using RSS again, with a couple of goals in mind.
on Jun 25
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Emoji history: the missing years ⌘I Get Info
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During my research into vintage Japanese drawing software, I came across some devices that had built in sketch or handwritten memo functions. I bought a coup...
on Jun 5
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Pitching a game based on the CICLOPE 2016 Opening Film ⌘I Get Info
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A little over a year ago I wrote a screenplay/pitch for a video game based on an animated short film created by THE LINE Animation Studio: the opening film f...
on Jun 1
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FRP bypass and unlock on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 ⌘I Get Info
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I use an Android tablet for reading ebooks. My favourite ebook reader is the Sony PRS-650 which was ahead of its time in a lot of ways. But these days I like...
on May 30
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Blog of independent video game developer and digital media artist Matt Sephton. Featuring vintage Macintosh, game development, digital artwork, Japanese esoterica, video game reviews, hacks and tips, and much more.
on May 28
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Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005) ⌘I Get Info
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Emigre magazine was a highly influential graphic design publication. It was known for its innovative and experimental approach to typography and graphic desi...
on May 24
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Band-kun バンドくん musician simulator (1990, KOEI) ⌘I Get Info
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I’ve been playing an old (1990, KOEI Co Ltd) Japanese NEC PC-9801 game バンドくん [Band-kun; Mr. Band; Band Man] where you start a band and have to recruit member...
on May 22
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Mouse Support for Playdate ⌘I Get Info
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Since some of my first prototypes with Playdate I’ve wanted there to be a way to interact with the device using a mouse. Well, today is that day!
on May 11
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Adding your own multi-channel audio to Music app ⌘I Get Info
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I’m really enjoying Dolby Atmos, “spatial audio”, or “surround sound” as we used to call it. There is so much music in this format on streaming platforms, bo...
on May 9
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Per-game skins in the Delta classic video game emulator for iOS ⌘I Get Info
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Apple recently changed the App Store rules to allow emulators, which means we’re now seeing emulators for classic video game consoles available for download!...
on Apr 18
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Adding the “Move to Trash” function to System 7.1 ⌘I Get Info
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First, a little bit of Macintosh History. You probably know that on modern macOS you can select a file in Finder, on your Desktop, or in an app, and send it ...
on Apr 12, 2024
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Remote monitoring a web server job queue ⌘I Get Info
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I use some software called Huginn to do various automated web searching and scraping. One use case is checking the status of all the institutions where The G...
on Apr 10, 2024
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I'm preserving vintage Macintosh magazine media ⌘I Get Info
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For a while now I’ve been collecting CD-ROMs and Floppy Disks that came with Japanese Macintosh magazines for the sake of preservation of classic Macintosh s...
on Mar 25, 2024
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A year in the life of a Playdate game developer ⌘I Get Info
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This week sees the first Anniversary Sale of Catalog, the official store for Playdate games. This means it’s also the anniversary of the launch of Sparrow So...
on Mar 7, 2024
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The Blue Nile “A Walk Across The Rooftops” (5.1) ⌘I Get Info
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on Mar 1, 2024