NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE About. NFGworld has been many things. If you go back far enough, it was a BBS running on an Atari Mega 4 ST, though it was called the Wombat’s Den at the time. Since then it has changed and evolved. For a while it was a hand-edited pile of HTML pages, and most recently a forum of steadily decreasing popularity. Since the first day, however, it has been a soapbox of sorts, a place for NFG to NFGWORLD: INTERNAL SECTION Less a game than a graphical miasma, a visual trip far smoother and detailed than either Rez or Jeff Minter’s amazing Visual Light Machines. As a game it’s a failure. it’s basically Gyruss, with weapons very loosely based on the Chinese zodiac. All the weapons suck, the bosses are too hard, the game too boring. But what a visual

adventure!

NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE Gamecube Review: P. N. 03. P. N. 03 is an unusal game, a methodical, tactical shooter with a hefty dose of action and time-based progression. I like it. NFGWORLD: 3D CONTROLLERS: THE NEW ERA Wombat's Retro Future. Sega. Where Nintendo broke way out of the standard controller mold, Sega seemed to be more conservative.It seems as if their 3D pad was designed in a hurry, looking for all the world like a flat disc with handles on the bottom.. Most of the features matched their regular Saturn pad: the same six buttons on the right, the same d-pad on the left and NFGWORLD: GEOMETRY WARS 2 Games Geometry Wars 2 | #review | #robotron | #videogames | #xbox360 | It’s no secret I’m an old-school gamer. I like games that have simple rules and a difficulty ramp. I’m not interested in games with a billion rules, massive guidebooks divided into volumes, and a game

world so

NFGWORLD: NFG AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE! A long time ago I was asked to write for a game magazine, and they hired an Actual Artist to draw 'NFG'. NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE Wonder Boy – A Sprite History. There are six Wonder Boy games. There are two number threes. There is no number two, four, or six. . And it gets a little weird from there. What started as a fairly solid skateboard simulator (with a fruit-gathering side-quest) became a platform action-RPG, a shooter, and. Many other things. NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE Case Insensitive Last Resort 404 Page. I’ve been running my webserver on Windows for a long time, and moving to Linux meant that a whole lot of files were coming up 404 because they had upper or lower case filenames and the page that referenced them didn’t match. This 404 script for nginx fixes that.

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At the start of the covid-19 lockdown I decided to finally put my new computer together. I had an old NeXT Cube into which I really wanted to put a blazing fast system, so I ordered all the parts, including an AMD 3800X 8-core CPU.

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403 Error Page - You're not supposed to be here NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE About. NFGworld has been many things. If you go back far enough, it was a BBS running on an Atari Mega 4 ST, though it was called the Wombat’s Den at the time. Since then it has changed and evolved. For a while it was a hand-edited pile of HTML pages, and most recently a forum of steadily decreasing popularity. Since the first day, however, it has been a soapbox of sorts, a place for NFG to NFGWORLD: INTERNAL SECTION Less a game than a graphical miasma, a visual trip far smoother and detailed than either Rez or Jeff Minter’s amazing Visual Light Machines. As a game it’s a failure. it’s basically Gyruss, with weapons very loosely based on the Chinese zodiac. All the weapons suck, the bosses are too hard, the game too boring. But what a visual

adventure!

NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE Gamecube Review: P. N. 03. P. N. 03 is an unusal game, a methodical, tactical shooter with a hefty dose of action and time-based progression. I like it. NFGWORLD: 3D CONTROLLERS: THE NEW ERA Wombat's Retro Future. Sega. Where Nintendo broke way out of the standard controller mold, Sega seemed to be more conservative.It seems as if their 3D pad was designed in a hurry, looking for all the world like a flat disc with handles on the bottom.. Most of the features matched their regular Saturn pad: the same six buttons on the right, the same d-pad on the left and NFGWORLD: GEOMETRY WARS 2 Games Geometry Wars 2 | #review | #robotron | #videogames | #xbox360 | It’s no secret I’m an old-school gamer. I like games that have simple rules and a difficulty ramp. I’m not interested in games with a billion rules, massive guidebooks divided into volumes, and a game

world so

NFGWORLD: NFG AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE! A long time ago I was asked to write for a game magazine, and they hired an Actual Artist to draw 'NFG'. NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE Wonder Boy – A Sprite History. There are six Wonder Boy games. There are two number threes. There is no number two, four, or six. . And it gets a little weird from there. What started as a fairly solid skateboard simulator (with a fruit-gathering side-quest) became a platform action-RPG, a shooter, and. Many other things. NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE Case Insensitive Last Resort 404 Page. I’ve been running my webserver on Windows for a long time, and moving to Linux meant that a whole lot of files were coming up 404 because they had upper or lower case filenames and the page that referenced them didn’t match. This 404 script for nginx fixes that.

NFGWORLD

At the start of the covid-19 lockdown I decided to finally put my new computer together. I had an old NeXT Cube into which I really wanted to put a blazing fast system, so I ordered all the parts, including an AMD 3800X 8-core CPU.

403 ERROR PAGE

403 Error Page - You're not supposed to be here NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE Book Review: Influx, by Daniel Suarez. I’m a very fussy reader. I require my stories to be smart, and the characters in them to be relatable. When a story’s premise is daft, I can ignore it for the sake of a rollicking good yarn, but if the people are stupid I can’t

continue for long.

NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE Resurrecting the Dreamcast with GDEMU. The Dreamcast has long been one of my top-5 consoles, and the GDEMU is an amazing multi-game loader that makes the Dreamcast even more awesome. NFGWORLD: REPAIRING ROBOTRON Further Reading . lomont.org has a techy but very interesting writeup of the Robotron sound algorithms.. sharebrained has an incredibly intricate Robotron Autopsy, breaking down many functions of the arcade board in a clear, step by step fashion.It’s not for the uninitiated, but if you like working shit out, here is much shit with which you can

work.

NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE Wonder Boy – A Sprite History. There are six Wonder Boy games. There are two number threes. There is no number two, four, or six. . And it gets a little weird from there. What started as a fairly solid skateboard simulator (with a fruit-gathering side-quest) became a platform action-RPG, a shooter, and. Many other things. NFGWORLD: RELEASE CANDIDATE Case Insensitive Last Resort 404 Page. I’ve been running my webserver on Windows for a long time, and moving to Linux meant that a whole lot of files were coming up 404 because they had upper or lower case filenames and the page that referenced them didn’t match. This 404 script for nginx fixes that. NFGWORLD: PC ENGINE CD ROM MOD: DONE! PC Engine CD ROM Mod: Done! | #hack | #Hard Hackin | #hardware | #pcengine | #rgb | I spent the greater part of my evening putting together a PC Engine CD system that I could call my own.I pulled out all the stops, with a white (not yellow!) PC Engine system, the

cleanest CD ROM I

NFGWORLD: MY OLD DAY JOB: FINAL UPDATE Personal My Old Day Job: Final Update | #dayjob | #Kafkaesque | Part Five: The End. This is the last entry in a series, detailing the last year at my old software job. I was a front-line guy, I answered the phone, did most of the tech support, as well as sales, implementation, and commiserating when it all went wrong and the customer had no one else who really understood their pain. NFGWORLD: MY OLD DAY JOB Personal My Old Day Job – Part Four | #dayjob | #Kafkaesque | #ora | This is part four of a four-part series, detailing the last year at my old software job. I was a front-line guy, I answered the phone, did most of the tech support, as well as sales, implementation, and commiserating when it all went wrong and the customer had no one else who really understood their pain. NFGWORLD: CAR STEREO HACKING (AGAIN) Wombat's Retro Future. Hardware Car Stereo Hacking (again) | #hacking | #Hard Hackin | #honda | #minidisc | #pioneer | #sony | #stereo | You might remember I hacked up the stereo in my car a while back (but you probably don’t). Long story short, my new-to-me Honda CR-V had a steering-wheel stereo control that used two wires to communicate with the stock head unit. NFGWORLD: DONKEY KONG AND SPRITE HACKING Games Donkey Kong and Sprite Hacking | #Social Studies | I could just as well have titled this post Historical Revisionism in Video Games. I used to play devil’s

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ATARI 7800 PROLINE CONTROLLER REVIEW

March 17, 2020

by NFG

From my old dead website, NFGcontrols: The Atari 7800 had, when designed, an unusually powerful graphics chip. Or something, it doesn’t matter anymore. Atari, in a state of ownership flux as Warner sought to dump it and the ex-Commodore Tramiels tried to wring every penny from it, sat on the 7800 console for years before finally releasing it, outdated and Continue reading…Atari 7800 Proline Controller Review 3D CONTROLLERS: THE NEW ERA March 16, 2020March 16, 2020

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This is an old article from my old site, nfgcontrols dot com. Reposted for posterity (and because I wondered where it had gone…) Analogue controllers actually predate digital ones: the Magnavox Odyssey was the first console ever made, and it used an analogue paddle. The Apple II used analogue sticks, as did Atari’s 5200, and until the mid

1990s Windows

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LINUX USB BACKUP

March 9, 2020 by NFG My entire webserver, all the databases and files and, well, everything, is not a huge amount of data. It fits with a whole lot of room to spare on a 64GB USB stick. I had the idea to get a super-tiny USB device and hang it on my keyring, so that whenever I leave the house I have my entire Continue reading…Linux USB Backup REDISCOVERING: DEMON’S CREST October 13, 2019March 16, 2020

by NFG

From the old dead forum, Demon’s Crest! When the SNES was still king there were popular games and there were good games, and they weren’t always the same. Sometimes a game would slip through the cracks, and those in the know would talk about how awesome it was while the majority of players didn’t know it existed. Demon’s Crest is Continue reading…Rediscovering: Demon’s Crest MY OLD DAY JOB: FINAL UPDATE July 2, 2019July 2, 2019

by NFG

This is the last entry in a series, detailing the last year at my old software job. I was a front-line guy, I answered the phone, did most of the tech support, as well as sales, implementation, and commiserating when it all went wrong and the customer had no one else who really understood their pain. We did good software, Continue reading…My Old Day Job: Final Update

FACE BLINDNESS

March 17, 2019March 18, 2019

by NFG

I know a girl, she’s twenty six years old, and she was complaining recently about the movie The Departed. She was annoyed that Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon looked so similar, and she was having trouble telling them apart. And this struck me as a little bit odd, because… I mean: They don’t really look the same. With broad strokes, Continue reading…Face Blindness MULTIPLE MASTODON INSTANCES ON A SINGLE SERVER July 10, 2018August 24, 2018

by NFG

Two Mastodons, One Server I run a Mastodon instance, and for several reasons it didn’t really take off. I was going to shut it down but I sort of like having my own outpost in the fediverse. When I decided the domain name it was hogging was better used for a new project, I wanted to move the instance to Continue reading…Multiple Mastodon Instances on a Single Server BEAUTIFUL RANT: MY LIFE April 10, 2018April 10, 2018

by NFG

I found this on Twitter. It’s perfect. It puts to word the chaotic thoughts and feelings and suspicions I’ve harboured since forever. I didn’t write this. I didn’t even collate the tweets myself. Gravis McElroy and the TinySubversions Spooler did, respectively. Buckle up. The thing that really kills me about the silicon valley hypercapitalist hell spiral is how many good, Continue reading…Beautiful Rant: My Life IMPORTING ILLEGAL FIREARMS

April 5, 2018 by

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So, this is an old blog post from several blogs ago. August 25, 2008. A friend of mine in Korea had sent me a box of goodies, including one toy plastic pistol and a bag of 2000 plastic balls. It was just a spring-loaded toy gun, so I’m told. I wouldn’t know, because… I’ve been abused in the past for Continue reading…Importing Illegal Firearms CASE INSENSITIVE LAST RESORT 404 PAGE March 18, 2018March 19, 2018

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I’ve been running my own webserver for a very long time, using Aprelium’s Abyss webserver on a Windows box. Recently I started making the transition to a Linux server, and while most of the changeover has been relatively painless, suddenly having to deal with twenty years of links that didn’t care about upper or lower case in

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