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Cake day: Jun 10, 2023

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What? Oh no, I had not written down the recipe for using gasoline to cook my spaghetti! Whatever shall I do?


Yeah, I guess I’ll end up doing that. I managed to get some other old games going under various versions of Proton or vanilla Wine but Myth seems really finicky. WinXP VM it is, I guess!


Now do Myth:TFL please! (And Soulblighter) These are painful to even barely get working on modern machines.


…until Google kills the feature, as they nearly always do.



Would you consider AntennaPod instead? It has been good for my podcast listening (audio only, no idea actually if it handles video ones).


I sincerely hope people are organizing to back this all up – datahoarders unite! These days it’s affordable to dedicate an 8TB disk to back up as much of these as possible… anyone have any tips on bulk-downloading the individual 78s from archive.org?


Edit: I found this tool, get archiving, people

https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive

Example:

ia download -a -i --format=“VBR MP3” --search collection:georgeblood


EDIT #2: I’ve submitted a patch adding options to specify start and end item indices, so one can more easily download parts of a collection and resume later – or coordinate with others so each can download non-overlapping parts of a huge collection, and put them together later. See this PR


Think about the ecological waste of these things going into the landfill when they could last 2-3x longer if they were just designed a bit better.




That banner just makes go “1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8 9 10… 11 12!” in my head :p