GEOS had incredible aesthetics. I gotta do something with this.

• Flying Saucer Video - Remember your neighborhood video rental store? This an ongoing webcomic about the final year of one of those stores, and the employees who work there.
• Complete WordStar 7.0 Archive - A guide to using the legendary word processor WordStar on modern operating systems, with downloads.
• The Walnut Creek CD-ROM Collection (archive.org) - In the days of dialup, getting a CD-ROM in the mail from Walnut Creek was exciting. I still think fondly of their Linux and FreeBSD CDs.
• Living Worlds - Art by Mark Ferrari - Have you ever seen those old animated pixel art scenes that used palette cycling? If so, it was probably these.
• Last Call BBS - A game that's a little bit about BBSes, but even more about shareware, and the excitement of downloading it. I still boot this up regularly to enjoy the chill music and puzzle games. Edit: I completely misremembered. It's a game about warez, not shareware. There are even fake crack screens! But my favorite game in the pack is Dungeons & Diagrams, and that one doesn't have a crack screen, just a registration popup in the menus.

• Decker - The new HyperCard. Atkinson dithering is back and better than ever.
• The Crimson Diamond - A modern text parser graphical adventure in glorious EGA.
• After Dark CSS - Flying Toasters are somehow also back and butter than ever.
• CloudpilotEmu - Palm Pilot emulator that runs in your browser. Great as a PWA on a modern smartphone!
• Infinite Mac - A whole museum's worth of classic Mac and NeXT emulation entirely in your browser.

I never owned a Saturn growing up, but it’s endlessly fascinating to me because it was from just the right era to somehow have both

• really mediocre 3D graphics that I don’t care about at all, and
• amazing 2D graphics that make me want to yell this is it, this is the future of graphics!

If we switch to the old Palm/Mac epoch, we could buy another 2 years to solve the year 2038 problem:

PDB Datetimes

Many PDB format files used times counting in seconds from 1904-01-01T00:00:00. This is the base time used by the original Macintosh (up to Mac OS 9). It may be noted that there were close links between Palm OS and Mac OS during early development. Using an unsigned 32-bit integer and the 1904 epoch, integer overflow will overflow will occur sometime in 2040. 

Others may be observed to be counting from 1970-01-01T00:00:00 (the Unix epoch base time), and uses a signed 32-bit integer which will overflow sometime in 2038.

Do we even still have Multimedia Experiences these days, or has it all been subsumed into games and online video?

An actual demo video for BeOS! I remember reading a lot of magazine articles about it, and I tried their x86 downloadable version in the later era of BeOS when they were flailing around for an alternate market, but this is the first time I’ve seen video promotional material for it.

Some thoughts:

On some emotional level I’m still convinced that an Iomega Jaz drive would solve all my computing woes, and unfortunately there’s no amount of USB flash storage that will help with that.

Detailed image description

A screenshot of the online service Prodigy. There is vector art of an eye looking through a magnifying glass, and a spotlight graphic on the banner ad below.

Text reads:

Games: Where In The World Is CARMEN SANDIEGO?

1. THIS WEEK'S CAPER: The Case of the Missing Mummy
2. Last week's winners
3. The Acme Detective Agency Honor Roll
4. About Carmen Sandiego

© Borderbund Software 1986.

Banner ad: Don't miss this chance to test your knowledge of recent hit movies. Take the Showtime quiz. [LOOK]

PRESS ENTER TO CONTINUE OR M FOR MENU

Recently I've been thinking about how Prodigy used to have banner ads at the bottom of most pages. This was actually INCREDIBLY futuristic for the time. The web was just barely a thing. Most people would still have been using Prodigy's client for MS-DOS at the time. The only reason it even looks as good as it does in the screenshot above is because they were using clever vector graphics techniques to deliver as little information over dialup as possible -- the same techniques that made early Sierra games possible.