McCheeseBob
@mccheesebob.com
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I love many old things - technology, photography, games, anime etc. I'm mostly here to enjoy art and maybe post an occasional cat photo. Occasionally make things for retro game jams or Ludum Dare.
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Most of my other socials/streaming/retro game dev stuff can be reached through my stupid (under works) website. mccheesebob.com
Yo wassup cheeseheads
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Already did! For some reason I kept thinking the submission date was October 8th instead of November so I submitted some photos (from these rolls but not from this selection) a few hours before that post.
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Haven't used UXF 100 (Kentmere 100 iirc) before and it feels a bit grainier than expected for a 100 iso film. That could be down to my developing or of course general expectations of the format. Used my Olympus Pen D3 for everything. Scanning was a pain - my Canoscan blew a lot of negatives out.
Plant with textured leaves sitting on porch. Fire hydrant in front of sidewalk. Man on horse in medieval garb holding a lance. Assortment of city buildings with American flag slim in upper middle left of the image.
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All 3 of my rolls from early September for half-frame day are developed and scanned. A lot of images were lost due to bigger leaders than expected with bulk rolling and accidentally exposing part of one. It definitely made me go out and shoot more film than usual.
Low angle view of tall glass building with a tree in the top right of frame. Long haired man kneeling in a gallows wearing a pirate hat. Asphalt road with bricks popping through. Man walking on a wire with another man holding the wire.
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big fan of the post-ufo 50 turn of classic freeware devs putting together gorgeous anthology releases, really hope it continues www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxtf...
Good Things Vol 1 - Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by John Cooney
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Nanoraptor is known for her wonderful retro Photoshops so I'd say this isn't real. Would love to have a 68k Mac in this form factor though! The closest thing to this I've seen in reality is EmuTOS running on an Alphasmart Dana.
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First roll developed for @halfframephotoday.bsky.social. I'm rusty at developing anything outside sheet film, but it's good to be back at it.
A developed roll of film hangs in a shower.
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Bump combat for life!
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Absolutely crazy tiny.
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What a tiny little thing! Makes the Pentax look medium format. Wonder how close it is to a Hit-type camera in size.
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I could slap the old SB logo on an office chair and it'd have about the same connection to the original brand.
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Patterned blue with the Kodak DC120.
United Steelworkers Building in Pittsburgh - a patterned tall building with a dark indigo sky.
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Here's the Kodak itself.
A black old digicam Kodak DC120 Zoom sitting on top of an eyepiece adapter that looks like a bottle opener - which is sitting on top of some Dell laptops.
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In the world outside my film work I recently got a Kodak DC120 circa 1998. A chunky horizontal 1.3mp digicam. Had it out last night for the sunset.
Kodak DC120 image facing a sunset - orange and pink clouds sit across the sky with black silhouettes of pine trees. Kodak DC120 image of a dead tree at sunset - the tree is lit with a light pink glow. A bat is barely visible overhead. Kodak DC120 image of a big pink cloud at sunset - with big pine silhouettes in the corners.
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Speaking of PLATO mainframes, the 50th anniversary of CRPGs passed by completely ignored.

We don't know the exact date the 1st Computer RPG was released, but by late August people were already writing letters about them.

Happy birthday to my favorite video game genre! ❤️🎉
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2024 was the 50th anniversary of D&D, this year is the 50th anniversary of Computer RPGs🥳

In summer of 1975, Rusty Rutherford began playing D&D and decided to adapt it to PLATO, a cutting-edge educational computer system used at the University of Illinois.

Thus 'The Dungeon' (aka pedit5) was born.
Black and white photo of a woman using a PLATO terminal, circa 1972–1974, at the University of Illinois. The terminal is very bulky, has an plasma display (which made images orange) and a touch screen. A screenshot of The Dungeon, the 1975 CRPG. It looks like an old-school roguelike, with step-based movement, simple graphics, permadeath and deadly battles, but its dungeon was fixed.
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Welcome to the club!
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This essay by Arnold Genthe isn't available online in an easily accessible form, so I've transcribed it. If you like photo history this might be of interest.
benrains.substack.com/p/rebellion-...

#photohistory #arnoldgenthe #vintagephotography #portraitphotography
Rebellion in Photography
by Arnold Genthe
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Weather is finally looking better tomorrow and I'm hoping to be out and about more so hopefully the frame number will go down for the final day. I've misplaced my developing tank somewhere so it'll probably be at least a couple days until things get developed.
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Happy #worldwidehalfframephotoday! I'm still only about halfway through the ~60 frames I rolled a few days back - but still a lot for how slow I shoot film rolls. It's fun to appreciate all these little and sometimes quirky cameras. I've shot a lot more 35mm over the past couple months on these.
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Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki didn't start as the artists they became. Surviving the brutal world of TV anime in the '70s changed them and their style.

They made classics like Heidi and Anne of Green Gables and found their own paths, as we explore:
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First time bulk rolling - had a roll of Ultrafine Extreme 100 arrive yesterday. These tiny 12 exp rolls are really convenient for half-frame day, but still learning the process. Clearly I need to get better tape as I have a roll stuck in my Pen D3 until I can get to my dark bag this evening.
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Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles.

Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.
"This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive
In April 2009, a Sega fan decided to look into emulating the Mega LD, a quirky and little-known hybrid of Genesis and LaserDisc. This week he finished the job.
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Got an Olympus Pen D3 and Konica Autorex from Japan a couple days before this shipping madness began and in time for @halfframephotoday.bsky.social. The Autorex's finder is badly hazed and my other Pens are barely into full rolls, so the D3 gets its test run during the competition.
Two silver and black half frame cameras sit on a coffee table - an Olympus Pen D3 and a Konica Autorex. The middle part of a tabby cat stands over both of them - his face and tail hidden from view.