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I'm really glad that obs-studio is in the FreeBSD ports tree (and that it's available as a compiled package). It's a great tool, opens up a lot of possibilities.

I beat Super Metroid on stream way faster than I expected so I spent a few minutes testing PSX emulation and then played about 90 minutes of the old dungeon crawl SNES game Arcana.

It seems like PSX emulation + live video encoding on my CPU will work if I lower the priority of some processes, particularly my web browser.

Playing some more Super Metroid today. Hoping to get past Ridley and beat the game. (I'm not very good at Metroid so it could take me a while).

Played up to the fight with Ridley in Lower Norfair on stream today. I'll come back tomorrow and finish the game.

Streaming Super Metroid was a good test to see if my computer can handle SNES emulation plus realtime video encoding on the CPU. It can, but just barely. There were occasional glitches that I might be able to solve with some scheduler tweaks.

I'm going to play through a bit of Super Metroid on #stream right now at https://twitch.tv/andreaen .

Nothing fancy here, no speedrunning or challenges, just a casual playthrough of the game.

Posting a bit early so I can go to sleep. Apologies for some sloppy beatmatching in this one; I hope it doesn't reflect poorly on the tracks.

MTT 283 / Nothing Down https://djcev.com/2022/07/mtt-283-nothing-down/

#electro , funk, and 2000s disco at 115. This #djmix features tracks by DMX Krew, Dominance Crushing Crew, Matt Whitehead, Newcleus, Nile Rodgers, Paul Hardcastle, and more.

I'm streaming some #quake1 again today at https://twitch.tv/andreaen . Playing through the Alkaline Jam maps/mod. My idea of a relaxing break.

Completed Alkaline 1.1. Really awesome mod. Visuals, gameplay, everything. I played it on normal difficulty this time; next I'll have to try hard.

The last map I played today in particular, "Overengineering Mania" by Mazu & Greenwood, was very creative. It was a bit like a Metroidvania in that there were several items that granted movement abilities that opened up new areas of the map. It took me around an hour to beat.

Starting up #quake1 again on #stream at https://twitch.tv/andreaen . Will try to finish the remaining Alkaline 1.1 maps today.

I played through about half of the Alkaline 1.1 mod for Quake today. It's really good! I got lost a few times but that's OK, it was an opportunity to look at the scenery. I think I'll finish the mod tomorrow.

Alkaline 1.1 at Quaddicted:

I'm playing some #quake1 on #twitch again, starting the Alkaline mod today.

This one's coming in about 12 hours late for health reasons. I had a bad/difficult day Wednesday, then needed time on Thursday to recover.

MTT 282 / Comforting Disguise https://djcev.com/2022/07/mtt-282-comforting-disguise/

#electro and IDM at ~120 for this week's show. This #djmix features tracks by Dagobert, Dynamix II, Imatran Voima, Mrs Jynx, Paul Hardcastle, Permutation, and more.

I'm #streaming some more #quake1 today, going to play through the 20th anniversary map pack Dimension Of The Past for the first time.

Finished Dissolution Of Eternity. It was good! I enjoyed playing it more than Scourge Of Armagon, I think, but Armagon was more visually impressive. I had definitely never completed Dissolution before, the final boss was a surprise to me.

Playing #quake1 again tonight, starting the second mission pack Dissolution Of Eternity.

Completed the first Quake expansion Scourge of Armagon in about four hours (without secret hunting or playing the hidden levels).

Was good, about the right length to play in one sitting. I've played through it once before but didn't remember much about it.

Latenight #quake1 #stream at https://twitch.tv/andreaen . I'm starting Scourge Of Armagon tonight, will play for a few hours, see how far I get.

FreeBSD + Mednafen + OBS on a 10 year old computer is not a good combination. It works but stutters occasionally.

"Working in my laboratory making mutant tests strange reactions came upon me while sitting at my desk. Clearance must be achieved before I can tell the rest the result is of the creation of the great Professor X"

So good

Lot of pretty quick & loose mixing in this hour so don't expect digital perfection. Just attacking the tracks & mashing 'em together. This is pretty close to what sets at the arcade were like.

MTT 281 / Across My Membranes https://djcev.com/2022/07/mtt-281-across-my-membranes/

More #electro, mostly old selections this week. This #djmix features music by Contactless, Dagobert, The Egyptian Lover, Go Nuclear, Kraftwerk, Professor X, Shawescape Renegade, and more.

There's one track in here (Dial-A-Freak) that's... not really raunchy but has some moaning in it. The Egyptian Lover doing his thing. Consider your environment when listening.

Mix is gonna be a few hours late. Finished recording at nine, doing the editing & writing now, expect it to be up at ~1 AM.

Meant to record before I went to sleep this morning at ~10 AM but didn't. Ah well, late is OK.

I'm playing some Quake 1 again tonight, picking up at the start of episode 3. Streaming it from my aging FreeBSD desktop PC at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. #stream #quake1

Finished episodes 1 & 2 of Quake tonight, will try to do 3 & 4 (the rest of the game) tomorrow.

Those Ogres and their aim. I took a lot of grenades to the face.

I'm streaming some latenight Quake singleplayer over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen . If anybody's interested.

Been a while since I've played through the original game.

15 or so years ago I happened across an upload of the album "I, Individual" by the band Gloria Mundi. I loved it at the time & still love it now. Existentialist punk, sarcastic and wry, cutting. I won't pretend and say that I understand it, I'll say instead that I love what it means to me, the message of dread & angst.

I've only heard their first album, "I, Individual", from 1978. It's incredible. An album out of time.

The title track: "I, Individual" by Gloria Mundi:

MTT 280 / Plastic Ears https://djcev.com/2022/07/mtt-280-plastic-ears/

Chunky, high-energy #electro today. Up in the 130s. This #djmix features music by Dj HasH, Espion, John Selway, NTHR1, Scape One, Señor Frio, Turk Turkelton, and more.

This one was mixed a bit different than previous sets so please pardon some sloppiness.

I forgot how much more work it is to beatmatch by ear. Been doing it the easy way too long.

I mixed today's set with xwax DVS running on a Raspberry Pi 400. (One 1200 and one old Denon CDJ as timecode sources). No tempo information on screen, waveforms too small to be useful for beatmatching, so all done by ear. (Expect some slop).

Fooling around with OBS & streaming on twitch. I'm surprised my 10 year old computer can handle realtime audio + video encoding. This Athlon II X4 setup was a good choice, I guess.