It's so cold!!!!! 🥶

@eugene

Creating Music with ProTracker?

Anyone able to point me to some good resources on creating music with ProTracker? I haven't really found much as far as not having any prior music knowledge, and using that particular Amiga program.

@amiga

Where could I find a CRT Monitor in Eugene?

I picked up an old Amiga 500 recently and unfortunately no display that I currently have works with it. If any of you know where I could pick up a CRT locally, ideally one that's around 14", that would be great.

@eugene

#Eugene

Is it just me or do a LOT of cats seem to go missing in Eugene?

I just feel bad for all the poor cats 🥺

@eugene

Awesome Grindcore Show at Sam Bond's Garage Tomorrow!

Heyy it's been a while since I posted to the @eugene community!

I just wanted to let you all know about a show I'm excited for! It's at Sam Bond's Garage tomorrow (Tuesday, March 26th) at 6 PM, with $10 admission. For more info, check out their calendar.

New Post on my Personal Website: Scoping out the Eugene-Springfield Fediverse

I recently wrote up a new post for my personal website about the Fediverse in relation to the Eugene-Springfield area, and figured I'd share it. Let me know what you think!

@eugene

#Eugene #EugeneOR #EugeneOregon #Springfield #SpringfieldOregon #Oregon

Stop The Presses, Literally — The Eugene Weekly Falls Victim to Financial Crime

A new article from @doublesidedmedia provides a pretty good summary of the embezzling of funds at @eugeneweekly

@eugene

#Eugene

Tabletop Gaming Event here in Eugene!

So tomorrow (as of when I'm posting this) there's going to be a tabletop gaming and fantasy focused holiday market over at Funagain Games. Figured I'd bring it up here since I only found out about it when I saw a poster around town.

EDIT: It's from noon to 6 PM
EDIT 2: It already happened, so don't get your hopes up

@eugene

#ttrpgs #eugene #miniatures

Anyone know when the High Street Protected Bikeway might open?

I've been highly anticipating it ever since construction began, and it looks nearly finished to me. This would make so many trips much easier!

@eugene
#Eugene #Bikes #BikeTooter

Free Voice Training Workshop in Eugene!

Seems like it might be a good idea for any fellow trans people in #Eugene who are interested in voice training to attend.

@eugene

[META] Should we have a separate sister community for discussing the University of Oregon?

I kinda feel like the university is a bit different, and it would be a great way to get more people who might be involved in campus life onto the fediverse as well as being a good place to discuss campus-specific topics without clogging the Eugene community. I'd be down to make one myself for that if that would be of interest.

@eugene

Sad to hear that @doublesidedmedia is ending.

They were my favorite source of local news, especially since most local news outlets are just pushing copaganda all the time.

https://doublesidedmedia.com/2023/08/30/the-end/

@eugene

We're finally getting some rain tomorrow!

Huzzah!

@eugene

Is this your cat? Missing cat found at The Vintage Café

A five month old kitten was found at The Vintage Café, by 8th and Lincoln street. If you have any information about the cat's owner or are yourself the cat's owner, please contact Stefaney at (206) 960-3844. Figured it would be a good idea to post it here since getting the word out would likely make the search for the owner go faster ❤️

@eugene

[Now Released] Here have a little preview of The Sun Gem

an upcoming choose your own adventure game I'm working on for the #Commodore64 as part of a game jam

Some things I learned when making this:

1. It's better to make smaller games, as my last game was a more complex one that I couldn't finish
2. Developing for a retro computer is easier when you don't use a game engine (luckily I don't really like working with game engines anyways)

Edit: I released the game! Check it out here!

#GameDev #RetroGames #Commodore @[email protected] @[email protected]

Help make transit better in Lane County!

Lane Transit District is asking for your help in reimagining our transit system for the future. Personally I'm really excited because I've had some ideas for ways in which we could improve transit, and now there's an opportunity to communicate them!

Applications are available online and can be submitted until the 1st of August.

@eugene

Any good place to get kebabs in Eugene?

I miss Caspian a lot.

@eugene

I made a horrible mistake with my first game

So for context: I'm a programmer and I like the idea of not using a game engine, but I have no real prior experience with game development specifically.

I thought it was a good idea to make a text adventure game (think Zork) in C, since the language offers great portability, including the ability to run code on the 6502. Also a text adventure game made sense because I can't make art and idk anyone else who wanted to work on a game with me.

This was a terrible idea for a few reasons:

1. A text adventure game is impossible to make with a small scope
2. My from-scratch engine wasn't really designed with modifying the game data mid-development in mind
3. I have no clue what I'm doing.

I just don't know what to do now. Any ideas? @gamedev

New Update for @calyxos released a few days ago.

Make sure to update!

@privacy

Waiting for @futurama to return 🥺​