mark crowe deserves so much more credit for his animations

pro move: add yourself as an npc in your own game

dick move: make yourself the hardest npc in your own game

warren schwader: why choose

(a classic interview with schwader from halcyon days: https://dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/SCHWADER.HTM)

#EAS #WEA for Dona Ana, #NM; #Luna, #NM; #Sierra, #NM: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 3:30 PM MDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM #Dona Ana, #NM; #Luna, #NM; #Sierra, #NMwx** DO

#EAS #WEA for Dona Ana, #NM; #Luna, #NM; #Sierra, #NM: Dust Storm Warning issued April 1 at 1:27PM MDT until April 1 at 3:30PM MDT by NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM Source: NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM #Dona Ana, #NM; #Luna, #NM; #Sierra, #NMwx** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

#EAS #WEA for Dona Ana, #NM; #Luna, #NM; #Sierra, #NM: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 3:30 PM MDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SE

Pay $12.95 (in 1993 dollars) for “up to 30 hours of great, multi-player games. That’s less than 50¢ an hour!” This is from an ad for “the nation’s premier, on-line, multi-player game service,” The Sierra Network, in the Galactic Enquirer mock-tabloid that came with _Space Quest V: The Next Mutation_. #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #RetroGames #RetroGaming #Sierra #VideoGames #VideoGaming

finally discovered the nature of sierra's Gold Rush! timer bug after 25+ years of being softlocked by it, and unable to finish the game. afaik, this hasn't been documented anywhere. (edit - ha, it was - over at uhs https://www.uhs-hints.com/uhsweb/hints/goldrush/92.php)

the game relies heavily upon its internal timer to trigger specific events. the first - and most important one - is getting a letter from your brother in the mail. if you don't get the letter, you get stuck 3/4 through the game.

the letter is supposed to arrive after 8 minutes. every time i've played the game, the letter never arrives. the same goes for selling your home to the real estate agent, or waiting for the rains to stop (and fields to dry out) later in the game. the events never happen.

today i discovered that you can type 'time' and it will show you the amount of actual time that has passed. on a hunch, i toggled the game between Fastest mode and Normal mode. the video shows you exactly what has happened: the internal timer never runs in Fast or Fastest mode, and the game is convinced that the clock is stuck at 04:29 forever.

i *suspect* this is probably a cpu clock speed problem, as was often the case for sierra games - many of them have buggy or nonexistent timer code that couldn't anticipate a world faster than 4mhz.

anyway, i'm just glad to have figured this out. it has plagued my dosbox playthroughs for two decades, and i can finally finish the game.

Screenshots of a press build of Sierra's Police Quest 3, from Game Player's PC Entertainment Magazine vol. 5 #1 (Jan/Feb 1992).

In these screenshots, the dialogue speech bubbles have an extra line of blank space at the top and bottom, a visually distracting feature that was removed in the final game.

Drei Drachen kriechen in meinen Schlaf
Die Seele woll'n sie lebendig zum Fraß
Feurigen Atems, gespaltener Zunge
Genießen sie jedes Mahl

I finally started playing Gabriel Knight for the first time!

I love the way how Tim Curry (Gabriel Knight) reads this German poetry!

Worth a try. #sierra #kqiv #kingsquestiv

#PhotoOfTheDay is another of Yosemite Valley, with Liberty Cap and Nevada Fall at the center.