Allan Christophersen

@duffadash

Your local towel-wearing game preservationist librarian. Autisticly obsess over #dkgame, terrible horror movies, adventure games and weeb shit. He/They. Banner and avatar by @vati.bsky.social.

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Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Jul 9

Oh no, there's also a Danish game in the prize pool. Might have to cut into this month's food budget to see if I can get it for preservation, unlikely as that might be... tracker.gamesdonequick.com/tracker/ui/e...

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Jul 8

I am always reminded of The Story of Mel: users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklor...

You can learn a lot about an individual just by reading through his code, even in hexadecimal. Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
Perhaps my greatest shock came when I found an innocent loop that had no test in it. No test. *None*. Common sense said it had to be a closed loop, where the program would circle, forever, endlessly. Program control passed right through it, however, and safely out the other side. It took me two weeks to figure it out.
The RPC-4000 computer had a really modern facility called an index register. It allowed the programmer to write a program loop that used an indexed instruction inside; each time through, the number in the index register was added to the address of that instruction, so it would refer to the next datum in a series. He had only to increment the index register each time through. Mel never used it.
Instead, he would pull the instruction into a machine register, add one to its address, and store it back. He would then execute the modified instruction right from the register. The loop was written so this additional execution time was taken into account just as this instruction finished, the next one was right under the drum's read head, ready to go. But the loop had no test in it.
The vital clue came when I noticed the index register bit, the bit that lay between the address and the operation code in the instruction word, was turned on, yet Mel never used the index register, leaving it zero all the time. When the light went on it nearly blinded me.
He had located the data he was working on near the top of memory, the largest locations the instructions could address, so, after the last datum was handled, incrementing the instruction address would make it overflow. The carry would add one to the operation code, changing it to the next one in the instruction set: a jump instruction. Sure enough, the next program instruction was in address location zero, and the program went happily on its way.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Jun 12

My #LastFourWatched shows that I am 1: A man of fine taste and culture, and 2: Allergic to movies made in the last 20 years.

Uwe Boll's Alone in the Dark.
Pamela Lee Anderson's Barb Wire.
Ken Russel's Altered States.
David Cronenberg's Scanners.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Jun 12

Shit! I might be a child!

Bluesky is telling me that they're unable to verify that I'm an adult and thus cannot access my chats.
Also they cannot load the age verification system for where I live.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Jun 7

Is Adventure Game bluesky familiar with this thing?

Cover for the wrestling DVD titled The Curse of Guerilla Island, featuring four mostly naked wrestlers looking tough, with the title in the exact style of The Curse of Monkey Island. The tagline reads: "Live from Somewhere Deep in the Caribbean on October 9, 2010"

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Jun 5

Cat relaxing under flower bouquet while I am trying to watch a Finnish werewolf movie on the TV behind her.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Jun 5

At hyre en skurk til at spille Skeletor er nok lige i overkanten af realisme for min smag.

Jenny Nicholson tweet med teksten: How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto let have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· May 29

Did Miguel get into the Discworld or something?

The cover of Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals, showing a librarian during in front of a football team considering mostly of old wizards

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· May 25

Glorious 25th of May everyone! Wear the towel, wear the lilac and GNU Sir Terry and GNU Douglas Addams

Towel around my neck and lilac flower in my hair

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· May 20

You sure about that? xD

Screenshot of Discord chat with person going "As a Californien, that's not a small one! The mermaid awakens...", followed by a map view of the earthquake in Copenhagen

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· May 20

🤔

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· May 16

Fun date idea: Arguing placements on the smart fella / fart smella grid for the characters of Ed, Edd & Eddy

Empty graph labelled "FART SMELLA" on the left of the x-axis, and "SMART FELLA" on the top of the y-axis.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· May 15

An embroidery reading "It's not hoarding if your shit is cool" set against a backdrop of shelves filled with horror movies.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· May 12

Imagine the cursed ghost pirate dream adventures you'll have!

Little Nemo navigating Slumberland by ship rather than bed for once.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· May 10

Audacious supports Winamp skins :3

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Apr 30

...the hero drills a hole clean through the rapist with her cyborg chest drill. (Watch Steel and Lace (1990))

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Apr 28

How cute! I've been in a gnomish recently myself and picked up these three movies based on The Secret Book of Gnomes just the other day. <:)

Three DVDs laid out on a couch next to a curious blurry cat. The three movies are Gnomes (1980), The Gnomes' Great Adventure (1987) and The Gnomes: Adventures in the Snow (1997). Behind them is The Secret Book of Gnomes.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Apr 16

Positive Steam game review:

Only Danish cars can run this fast.

I see a couple of prominent review on here are comparing WHAT THE CAR? disfavorably to the studio's previous outing WHAT THE GOLF?. I don't think that's quite fair; no only is Car significantly cheaper while containing even more content and no fewer laughs, but it's a more focused and specialised game than Golf.
Now I love WHAT THE GOLF?, it's one of my favourite games of all time, but I appreciate that Triband continues trying new and novel ideas and iterating on those. There's definitely fewer parodies in Car, but there's so many jokes crammed into every tiny bit of the game, and the core gameplay loop is extremely solid, while still constantly introducing new variations on it.
I also really enjoy the ability for the community to build their own levels - it's fun trying to grind the leaderboards, and at the release I spent many hours watching various streamers compete against each other first in the demo and then in the final game. I'm really hoping to see the speedrun community latch unto the game.

I should mention that my playtime is low here because I've previously spent a lot of time playing this on the tablet.
Anyways, buy this and enjoy it for what it is: An expertly crafted comedy game, in which the comedy consistently lands - which is really hard to do with video games where you often cannot control the timing.

Okay, maybe the Flintstone car can run pretty fast as well....

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Apr 16

Well I guess you're right...

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Apr 16

Oh no! Not their reginos!

Bluesky server down message stating that they are "investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos"

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Apr 14

Oh yeah, definitely Danish. They were working on a building near me a couple of years ago.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Apr 3

I'm not personally too into more action-y or minigame-y parts of the genre, but I do know that the games we get the most requests about at the Royal Danish Library are Matematik i Måneby by Bitfrost and various Gili Soft games such as Gys på Regneslottet.

Screenshot from Matematik i Måneby, which shows the overworld view of the planet of the Gullops, and how it is developing as you've completed a bunch of math-based mini-games to help them build new structures.

Screenshot from Gys på Regneslottet (Quantum Castle) showing some numbered potions being mixed together in a cauldron by a witch, with a numbered bubble rising from the ensuing soup - and also there's a band of skeletons on the back wall of the dungeon that the scene is set in.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Apr 3

I was quite into Age of Empires and Age of Mythology back in the day, which allowed the player to read up on every unit's real world history, which is neat when you're doing mythology.

Screenshot from Age of Mythology showing the "History" screen, which explains that you can use it to gain knowledge about different aspects of the game, including historical context.

Screenshot from Age of Mythlogy: The Titans, showing the context screen for the unit Prometheus, including a text description of the myth of Prometheus.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Apr 3

I think a lot of people really enjoyed the 1990s-style edutainment adventure games that could also have a bit of a story and do characters and gags. You'll see a lot of people be nostalgic for the Humongous games, or your Miljøstrup-types or whatever.

Screenshot from Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning aren't so Frightening showing Sam in front of the World Wide Weather building on top of a cloud.

Screenshot from Miljøstrup, showing Mads in front of some sort of industrial production machine, about to "use hole".

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Mar 20

No. There's TWO Oneechanbara movies. They are both fully within the so-bad-it's-good end of the scale.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Mar 14

How romantic <3

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Mar 8

For the record I also grew up on Infinity Engine, SCUMM and (Heroes of) Might and Magic games, so my own list looks quite a bit like yours, hence my very genuine curiosity at what to me looks like an outlier.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Mar 6

On stream just now looked at a slide I did for last year's Vejle Retro Game Days highlighting a timeline of Danish visual novel game releases. The early years are dominated mainly by @vati.bsky.social and @combatplayer.bandcamp.com, then @galdra.com swoops in after Daniel finished his Master on VNs.

Timeline of Danish visual novel releases

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Mar 6

Congraturation
This story is happy end.
Thank you.

Allan Christophersen@duffadash· Mar 1

Oh, I just saved it to my Jellyfin server in case copyright claim bullshit happens. I have both of your movies on there ;-)