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In January 2024, Nintendo announced the planned 2025 opening of another Super Nintendo World location at the Universal Epic Universe theme park at Universal Orlando Resort.

The announcement contained concept art for a shop at the theme park (top), which for an unknown reason featured a lineup of Casino Luigis in the bottom left corner (bottom), known from Luigi's appearance as the host of the casino minigames in Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros.

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New Jungle, PS2, Y2K album dropped with some Ape Escape & Phantasy Star Online vibes!

Only the best vibes allowed!

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Battle City ‘Kirby Air Ride’ Gamecube

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Paper Mario Intelligent Systems / Nintendo Nintendo 64 2001

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Masoud Yasami

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ig: kidd.gorgeous

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🇺🇸IBM WorkPad was a line of portable devices, produced by Palm Inc. and branded by IBM. This line contained personal digital assistants and one subnotebook model (WorkPad Z50).

👉This line was released in 1997 and discontinued in 2002. After discontinuation of its self-branded line, IBM still offers the main Palm line on its site.

⌨️This IBM-branded line of PDAs were rebranded PalmPilots, with only a few software improvements (easy sync for Lotus Notes, DB2 EveryPlace, and IBM Mobile Connect).

💾Early WorkPads were received positively, similar to parallel Palm models; but later this conservative business-oriented line lacked notability, and multimedia options of latest models were described as relatively poor.

⚙️Most WorkPads can use the same peripherals as the PalmPilot; for example, the external keyboard available for some models, and most WorkPads can be attached to a cradle for charging or connection to a PC; the WorkPad can be attached to a Palm cradle, and vice versa.

💻Some WorkPads can be attached to some ThinkPad laptops, using an Ultrabay cradle.

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Got a "new" laptop: Toshiba T4900CT!

Presumably this is the highest end machine they made in this color scheme before moving onto the gray plastic computers, like what @aperture-in-the-multiverse has. This machine is technically not a Satellite, but it's Satellite-adjacent.

Pentium I at 75MHz 40MB of RAM 8GB CF card for a hard drive VLB video chipset driving an SVGA 640x480, 64K color 10.4" active matrix TFT-LCD Analog Devices AD1848KP & Yamaha OPL3 audio Windows 95B (originally shipped with 3.11)

And a broken floppy drive!

Seriously, you have to disassemble the entire computer to get at the floppy drive itself, and I'm pretty sure the belt is busted. So far I've worked around it, but it's getting to be annoying. The good news is that the hard drive is accessible from a separate bay, unlike other contemporary Toshiba laptops that bury it just like the floppy drive.

Oh, and Toshiba was really intent on protecting their highly proprietary Toshiba Card Manager 3.0 software (which I'm sure this post will poison that search term for all others, it always happens when I talk about technical things here -- sorry). I'm betting that they only had it installed on machines from the factory, but if you needed to reinstall it, things got complicated. Turns out you had to get a passphrase from some convoluted bullshit on their website back in the mid 90s, and this only applied to a select handful of machines that were even compatible with it in the first place. I don't imagine I will be able to use that for PCMCIA hotswap management, which sucks.

Another fun bit is that despite being released in 1995, this machine is clearly intended to run Windows 3.1. None of the drivers I was able to locate for the hardware are the expected VXD or INF files.

For the moment, I've got a Backpack external floppy drive connected via the parallel port, but all other file transfers involve me removing the CF card from the hard drive bay. It's faster that way. Hopefully I can get this thing configured well enough to use it.

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VHS Ocean V2

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Model comparison of Sonic from ‘Sonic R’. On the left - the Saturn version, on the right, the PC & Gamecube version.

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So soothing ‘Manta Ray Tech Demo’ PlayStation

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Art Gallery ‘Sonic Jam’ SEGA Saturn

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