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I made a little Tron: Uprising thing in Twine!

Right now, there's just the Proof of Concept Version, but I've got some ideas for a potential expanded version.

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Which Marvel character fits my character the most?

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If your character had access to one miracle/wish that had no limits and did exactly as they asked, what would they use it on?

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In honor of Tron Day, here's my project for my Tron OC Ark that I've been working on or a while now!

I used this base with some modifications to it for everything:

Iyzel Reaar's F2U Female Ref Base

The main modifications I did were to mirror half of it so I didn't have to figure out how to draw the circuits twice, erase certain features I'm not sure Basic programs have, and make the lines solid.

I used Windows 11 Paint's line and shape tools to draw the circuits, with adding a few pixels here and there when needed.

I used the GNU Image Manipulation Program for a lot of the color editing I did and for layering the textures.

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The first two are Ark's base circuits, along with the red rectified version of them for Mars.

I used my friend @quesadillawizard's art and design for Ark - Ark's circuits are based off ones from the DS version of Evolution and Wolfy added more features to them.

I used the reference he made for me to make the circuits and referenced this sketch as well.

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The next two are the Tron/Renegade circuits from Uprising, in both gray and black, as seen in the show.

@tucatalog was super helpful for references!

I mainly used two posts of theirs:

I looked at a few others as well, but I have a list of 50+ of their posts and were flipping between them, so I'm not entirely sure which others I used.

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The next two are Grid scar versions of the Tron/Renegade circuits.

In Ark's backstory, she was captured and tortured by the Occupation. I've played around with different scar configurations for her and I love the idea of them literally carving the Tron circuits out/off of her.

I decided to do a little something different for the scars, I've tried another technique that wasn't much fun, and I'm not sure how to mimic the scars from Uprising.

So, I took some textures I got from Etsy and layered them over each other to try to make something interesting.

Textures I used:

Gemstone Crush

Iridescent Textures

Glassy Textures

Iridescent Glass

Sparkly Glitter

Fake Glitter Particles

I'm not sure if most of these came through, I figured out the glitter ones did a lot of the heavy lifting I wanted, so they're the most visible ones and the ones on top.

Anyway, one is just the Renegade scars and the other is the scars overlaid on Ark's circuits.

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The last two are the circuits and scars over a skintone for circumstances when Ark ends up in the User world.

I like the thought of program circuits being barely visible in the User world, with just a hint of faint iridescence when the light hits them just right.

One of the textures from this pack fit my idea fairly well, so that's what I used:

Iridescent Textures

The scars are the ones I made earlier with a skin tone color overlay to make them blend in.

This is what I started this project for, as I wanted a visual for an RP and a potential fic.

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I've done a smaller scale version of this before, that time I made the scars by repeatedly scribbling over the circuits with multiple different colors, which hurt my hand, lol:

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Anyway, that's my project! It's not perfect, but I'm pretty pleased with how it came out!

A big thanks to @quesadillawizard and @proto-actual for looking them over!

Happy Tron Day!

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I’ve got a couple of old Windows games I’ve been trying to get to run lately, but to no avail. Unfortunately, both games are fairly obscure and there’s little to no information about them, so I’m unable to find much help or advice on getting them running.

The two games are Rex! Your Interactive Pet Dinosaur and Crayons Color and Paint Studio.

Here are my Dropbox links for both games, each zipped folder has the files that were on the CD, an ISO of those files, and a BIN and CUE made from the ISO file.

Crayons Color and Paint Studio

Rex! Your Interactive Pet Dinosaur

I’m not super knowledgeable about getting old games to run, so I haven’t been able to do much, but I wanted to document what I was able to try, just in case.

Also, both games are fairly old, so there’s a chance that something is wrong with the CDs that I’m not aware of.

I’ve also uploaded both games to archive.org: Crayons Color & Paint Studio

REX! Your Interactive Pet Dinosaur

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Here’s a rundown of what I’ve done that's relevant to both games.

For both games, I’ve tried PCem versions of both Windows 95 and Windows 98.

For Windows 95, I’ve used Windows 95 set up by someone else and I’ve also set it up myself.

With Windows 95 set up by somebody else, I used The Collection Chamber’s setups for Chaos Island: The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Disney’s Active Play: The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride, as I also had both of those games and hoped that the setup was similar enough to my old computer. They didn’t work for Crayons or Rex, but there could’ve been something that I missed. (Collection Chamber does excellent work and has gotten quite a few of my old favorites working.)

For Windows 95 set up by me, I mainly used a tutorial done by theoligopolist at olistutorials, and when that didn’t work for Crayons or Rex, I also partially used leonardo’s Windows 95 setup guide at vogons, which also didn’t work for Crayons or Rex, either. (Both guides are very well done and include all the links and everything you need, however, Rex and Crayons both seem to be quite difficult and these setups didn’t work for either of them.)

Windows 98 was much easier, as someone on archive.org uploaded a fully put together version that’s ready to go. However, I also couldn’t get Crayons or Rex to work on it, either.

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Rex! Your Interactive Pet Dinosaur

Problem: Rex appears to install, but when you try to run it, it says that it didn’t install properly and to install it again.

It’s been a long time, but I seem to remember that Rex was hard to get running, I think there’s only been one computer that we’ve had that it ever worked on. I believe that it worked on a Windows 98 computer that had been upgraded from Windows 95.

There’s not a lot out there about Rex, so here’s a few links that I was able to find:

The archive of the first version of Expert Software’s Rex page

The archive of the second version of Expert Software’s Rex page

VirtualPet.com’s summary of the unofficial Rex website

A brief article on GameSpot about Rex coming out

NeverDieMedia’s shop listing that tells more about Rex

Spooky799kil’s YouTube video of Rex working in an emulator

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Good news! I installed Rex in order to get the error message for when I posted it to archive.org, and for some reason, the game started working!

The only thing I did differently was install Crayons to double check that it was still locking up on the menu, then uninstalled it. After that, I installed Rex and it worked!

The virtual machine that it works on is The Collection Chamber’s Disney’s Active Play: The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride, which is running PCem.

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Crayons Color and Paint Studio

Problem: Crayons installs just fine, but when you go to pick between the coloring book or the paint program, the program hangs up and freezes, locking up the entire emulator.

The readme says:

"- If you are using this program in Windows 3.1, you must have a printer attached and a printer driver installed.  If you do not, you may receive an error message that will than lock you out of the program."

I haven’t tried to install it in Windows 3.1, but since the game locked up on both Windows 95 and Windows 98, I thought that maybe the lack of a printer was the problem, so that’s the route I took for trying to get it to work. (I haven’t gotten an error message, though, just the program freezing up.)

I looked for a virtual printer, and landed on Doro PDF Writer. There’s some others out there, but they required more steps, so I decided to try the easy one first.

I kept running into a problem with getting it to install on Windows 95 (I had a missing file that was being very stubborn about being fixed), so I pivoted to Windows 98 and it installed nicely. However, this didn’t fix the problem, and Crayons keeps locking up.

I believe that Crayons worked on a Windows 98 computer that was upgraded from Windows 95 and I think that I was able to get it installed on a Windows XP computer later.

There’s even less information about Crayons then Rex out there, there’s been a couple of Reddit threads of people trying to find the name of the program.

The archived version of Expert Software’s page on Crayons is bafflingly wrong, only mentioning the coloring book part and also a screensaver that doesn’t seem to come with the version of the program I have

geogeo222 posted the soundtrack to Crayons on YouTube

KHInsider uploaded the soundtrack to their website and opened up a forum thread for it

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Thanks for reading all of this! I hope that one day these programs will be playable again. If anybody has any luck or advice for getting them running, I’d love to hear about it! Thanks!

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What kind of dinosaur would my character be?

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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Episode List (Production Order)

List taken from the Wiki here: https://blosc.fandom.com/wiki/Episodes_by_Production_Number

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All of the episodes can be found on archive.org here

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Movie WatchCartoonOnline | wcofun

TV Version of Movie Part 1 WatchCartoonOnline | wcofun Part 2 WatchCartoonOnline | wcofun Part 3  archive.org | Alternate archive.org upload

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NOS-4-A2 DailyMotion | wcofun

Lost in Time DailyMotion | wcofun

The Torque Armada YouTube | wcofun

Gravitina WatchCartoonOnline | wcofun

The Planet Destroyer YouTube | wcofun

XL DailyMotion | wcofun

The Return of XL YouTube | wcofun

Star Smasher YouTube | wcofun

The Beasts of Karn YouTube | wcofun

Wirewolf YouTube | wcofun

The Plasma Monster YouTube | wcofun

Rescue Mission DailyMotion | wcofun

Shiv Katall DailyMotion | wcofun

Tag Team YouTube | wcofun

Mindwarp YouTube | wcofun

The Taking of PC-7 WatchCartoonOnline | wcofun

The Main Event YouTube | wcofun

Little Secrets WatchCartoonOnline | wcofun

The Starthought YouTube | wcofun

Good Ol' Buzz YouTube | wcofun

Dirty Work DailyMotion | wcofun

Mira's Wedding YouTube | wcofun

42 DailyMotion | wcofun

Inside Job YouTube | wcofun

Strange Invasion YouTube | wcofun

Root of Evil YouTube | wcofun

Speed Trap YouTube | wcofun

Enemy Without a Face DailyMotion | wcofun

Panic on Bathyos YouTube | wcofun

Clone Rangers DailyMotion | wcofun

Conspiracy YouTube | wcofun

Eye of the Tempest YouTube | wcofun

Head Case DailyMotion | wcofun

The Crawling Flesh DailyMotion | wcofun

Return to Karn YouTube | wcofun

The Yukari Imprint DailyMotion | wcofun

Downloaded YouTube | wcofun

The Shape Stealer YouTube | wcofun

Opposites Attract YouTube | wcofun

Star Crossed WatchCartoonOnline | wcofun

Devolutionaries YouTube | wcofun

Bunzel Fever DailyMotion | wcofun

Revenge of the Monsters YouTube | wcofun

Large Target YouTube | wcofun

A Zoo Out There YouTube | wcofun

Stress Test DailyMotion | wcofun

Ancient Evil YouTube | wcofun

Stranger Invasion YouTube | wcofun

The Slayer YouTube | wcofun

Rookie of the Year YouTube | wcofun

Super Nova YouTube | wcofun

Lone Wolf DailyMotion | wcofun

The Lightyear Factor YouTube | wcofun

Sunquake YouTube | wcofun

At Large on a Small Planet YouTube | wcofun

First Missions DailyMotion | wcofun

Haunted Moon YouTube | wcofun

Planet of the Lost DailyMotion | wcofun

Holiday Time YouTube | wcofun

Millennial Bugs YouTube | wcofun

War and Peace and War YouTube | wcofun

Revenge of the Raenoks YouTube | wcofun

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Send “Nice and Toasty” to give my character a comfy sweater.

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Send “Warm and Cozy” to give my character a blanket.

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If my character was a mythical creature, what would they be?

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If my character was in the Star Wars universe, what role would they have there?

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If My Character Was a My Little Pony, What Would Their Cutie Mark/Symbol Be?

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The four parts of Spaceship Earth from the Test Track level of Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour, pulled from the Playstation version of the game using epsxe and PVV.

Here it is, with all four pieces put together:

Under the Keep Reading is a bunch of pictures and explanations about what this is and how I got it.

Keep reading

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Out of Eevee and its Evolutions, which one fits my character the most?

There’s: Eevee, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glaceon, and Sylveon.

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What accessories should my character add to their wardrobe?

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Power, Courage, Wisdom: Which Piece of the Triforce Suits My Character the Most?

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If my character had a partner Digimon, what Digimon would they be paired with?

Wikimon's visual list of Digimon