Adam Gashlin

@hcs64.bsky.social

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Programmer, aspiring game designer, CD+G enthusiast. https://gashlin.net https://hcs64.itch.io https://extended.graphics

Rewrite Machine CD-ROM, January 1998, contains 104 Super Famicom games for Nintendo Power game writers in Lawson convenience stores. Label side of a mostly silver CD-ROM, major text says: ゲーム書き換え　システム ニンテンドウパワー 書き換え機専用ＣＤ－ＲＯＭ １９９８　１月号
CD booklet cover NHK効果音集 - 8 - SL・船・飛行機 Blue background, a rectangle in the lower 2/3 is divided diagnonally and 4 patterns in black, white, and yellow are aligned with the main diagonal line: wavy lines, concentric circles, thick lines, and bricks. DCI 85798
Label side of a CD-ROM, major text says: ゲーム書き換え　システム ニンテンドウパワー 書き換え機専用ＣＤ－ＲＯＭ １９９８　１月号
Capt. Barbossa from with a broad-brimmed neon-rimmed hat and neon glasses/HUD, captioned: You Best Start Believing In Cyberpunk Dystopias You're In One I don't know much about the origin of this image, discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeRestoration/comments/rbcr01/any_takers_on_this_one/
A grey coin with the fork from Stephen's Sausage Roll, text says "LEARNED PEOPLE CAST GREAT SHADOWS". Background is the brown paper envelope it traveled in, across the flap is a stamp of the fork.
Screenshot of a game in a web browser. At the top is a collapsed details block "Click for instructions". There are two collapsed drop-down lists showing: - Sheep must all be connected - Pig must not be 3 in line Below this, two puzzles with circles arranged in grids, each with an animal symbol on it. Under the first text says "ok!", under the second "non-unique solution".
Screenshot of the arcade game Mr. Do! from Wikipedia
Binding of a very thick book labeled Vol. 66, but it looks sort of like VOL. ∞
"Say the line, Bart" Simpsons meme via imgflip.com "Dispense the Brand, Bart!" "Tylenol® with codeine"
CD cover, titled NHK効果音集 - 7 - オートバイ・自動車・ブルドーザー Turquoise background, lower 2/3 divided into 4 vertical strips with simple patterns in black and white, or black and pink. The largest strip in the middle is black and white horizontal lines. DCI 85797
A blue enameled carabiner labeled "THINK SAFETY"
Foreground: Delicate tree branches with the first buds of spring growth Background: Discarded KFC bucket sign behind a warehouse
The Demigod says: "Free at last from my vegetable prison! Your poor, sad, insignificant brains cannot conceive of the horror that is coming now!" Photo of a panel from the The Amazing Screw-On Head, by Mike Mignola.
Cover of NHK CD-G 日本の野鳥　第1巻　森の野鳥編1 - Polydor VOG-YC1 Shows the pitta from track 29. Rendered here as a short bird with a mostly orange and cream body, black stripe on the head, wings of green, blue, and brown, bright red lower belly. It is listed as a fairy pitta (ヤイロチョウ), but the orange coloring may be more appropriate for another species such as the Indian pitta. The cover has the distinctive style of this series: The bird illustration is prominently pixelated, duplicated with the two copies crossing tails in the middle, overlapped by the vertical disc title banner.
Cover of NHK CD-G 日本の野鳥 第3巻 草原の野鳥編 - Polydor VOG-YC3 Shows the grey-headed lapwing (ケリ) from track 13, a yellow-legged bird standing in water (indicated by blue ripples), white underbody, orange-brown upper body and wings, grey head. Eye is yellow with a distinct pixelated red ring. As with all covers in this series the image is doubled, facing left and right, with tails crossed in the middle.
Virtual Boy Wario Land gif loop with red/green anaglyph 3D, Waro idling between two swinging spike ball obstacles
Short clip of Virtual Boy Wario Land, with Wario standing between two swinging spike ball hazards. The anaglyph 3D left and right eye images are combined here, red and green, mostly blending into yellow except when the spike balls swing away from the screen.
CD cover, titled NHK効果音集 6 (劇場・野球・チャルメラ) Pale orange background, lower 2/3 has a dizzying pattern of yellow concentric circles, interspersed with two other patterns in black and white. DCI 85796
Dogs under a tree during a sudden shower, at a park in downtown Austin, Texas, 2007
Foreground: tree branches budding with first leaves of spring Background: KFC bucket sign, discarded behind a warehouse
CD cover with yellow background, lower 2/3 has repeating patterns of diamonds, bricks, and green stripes. DCI 85795
Booklet cover, title in black, background a light orange or pink, grey border. Lower 2/3 has black lined repeating patterns in blue/green and white, divided horizontally into sections with bricks, 4 pointed diamonds/stars, and nested off-center squares (in two narrow strips). DCI 85794
CD cover, light blue background, lower 2/3 has some strange patterns in black, white, and light orange. DCI 85793
By *reading by execution* we mean a style of program appreciation in which the reader can look at the various pieces of a program and by "touching" them can actually see them in operation. Only through such an interface can all aspects of the program be easily observed. What distinguishes this from simple program animation is the locality. Reading by execution means that any program piece can be picked up and looked at and executed in a purely local context. We also note that, since reading is the inverse of writing, we can expect to see much the same pictures as those we created when specifying the program. That is, the graphical structures we used to show how the data got connected can be used here, too, to indicate how data are obtained.
Pink CD cover, title NHK 効果音集 - 2 - 波・川・小鳥 Bottom 2/3 is tiled patterns separated by diagonal lines: top is a 4-pointed star/diamonds, bottom is mostly vertical lines , separated in the middle by concentric circles and near-concentric squares. The effect is that the whole cover feel like it's tilting. Catalog number DCI 85792
CD cover, lime green background, title NHK効果音集 - 1 - 風・雨・雪崩 Lower 2/3 is several simple tiled patterns in black and teal/white, divided into 4 sections separated by haphazardly placed diagonal lines: bricks, wavy lines, concentric circles, and a curved grid. Catalog number DCI 85791
A tree graphic growing from left to right, red and yellow CDs showing the descent of different CD formats with their year of appearance, starting from CD-DA (1981). In particular the rare CD-MIDI (1990) and CD-EG (1991) spring from the CD-G (1985) branch along the top of the graphic.
A CD, mostly mirrored grey, text and graphics in black and olive. A large block at the top reads: "CD Plus is the latest breakthrough in multimedia technology. Put this disc in a CD player and it will play like a regular Compact Disc. Put this disc in a CD-ROM drive of a computer and a new world of interactive adventure is yours to enjoy, including graphics, text, and video!" Track list: 1. Mariah Carey - Miss You Most (At Christmas Time) 2. Bob Dylan - Dignity 3. Toad The Wet Sprocket - Inside 4. Alice In Chains - Nutshell 5. Wynton Marsalis - Little Red-Haired Girl 6. Mary Chapin Carpenter - This Is Love A slew of logos is present: Compact Disc Digital Audio +, CD Plus, Columbia, Microsoft Windows Compatible. Labeled "Demonstration - Not For Sale", serial numbers XXR 68100 and CPDP000010.
Cover, featuring the blue rock thrush (イソヒヨドリ) from track 14, blue head and wings, red underbelly. Polydor VOG-YC4
Two columns of text from a technical article, transcription follows: Now, as shown in Fig. 1 (e) and Fig. 2, there is a COMMAND symbol at the top of the pack indicating the pack data property, which consists of a 3-bit MODE switch and a 3-bit item to subdivide the mode. The codes allotted now and the application modes are shown in Table 2. The MODE = 1 is a graphics mode, for which ITEMS of LINE-GRAPHICS (ITEM = 0) and TV-GRAPHICS (ITEM = 1) are specified. For the former, display on monochrome/color liquid crystal display or electroluminescent display are assumed and for the latter, display on a TV receiver is assumed. Liquid crystal, EL or other flat-panel displays have become Higher in performance, smaller in thickness, and lower in price and, in the future, LINE-GRAPHICS display will become possible by attaching them to CD players. For the time being, however, TV graphics with TV receiver will be the main application. With the graphics mode, drawing and shifting of pictures on display can be made by the INSTRUCTION and DATA FIELD data. The ZERO mode is used when no data is transmitted through the R - W channels and keeps interchangeability with the CD that is not using the R - W channels. For the USER mode, users can define the INSTRUCTION and DATA FIELD but it is limited for professional use.
Label of a Philips BMS disc caddy, Soft Pop (231). Pink accent color. Professional Compact Disc Background Music Systems Soft Pop
Album cover featuring a 3D render of a B-Daman toy on a perspective grid. Title is スーパービーダマン バトルフェニックス 64 サウンドトラック(イディアバージョン)
A FoxTrot comic strip. In the first two frames Peter puts a CD into a CD player and presses play. Frame 3: He is covering his ears and grimacing as the background is full of 1s and 0s. Frame 4: Peter is talking with Jason: "Your 'Dark Forces' CD-ROM was in my Aerosmith case." Jason, sitting at his computer, says "That might explain why these aliens look so funny." by Bill Amend, from page 119 of the book "At Least This Place Sells T-shirts".
Avex Dance Vol. 1 CD graphics disc. The label is translucent red ink over a black and white wavy pattern that is fairly hard to read. Avex Trax AVCD-11240, labeled as a Sample edition.
A CD Graphics disc labeled CDG手相術 ズバリ!あなたを占う。(something like "CDG Palmistry: Exactly! Tell your fortune.") This is disc 1 of 3 and the track listing shows Explanation: What Is Palmistry? (解説「手相」とは , track 1), discussion of the Life Line (生命線 , tracks 2-30), and Sun Line (太陽線 , tracks 31-49). CTA Co., Ltd. cat. no. CD-GT1. I left out the cover because it has a weird cartoony model hand that I still find a bit disturbing.
Title screen of "A Gift from Nature, Told through Sound and Video" (Oto to Eizou de Tsuzuru Shizen Kara no Okurimono), featuring a waterwheel (Suisha), TSP-4006
Jesus, crowned with thorns, in blue monochrome, peeking in from the bottom left on an image scrolling off the top of the screen. A line of annotation reads "The return of the first trombone"
HungUp on Thread 4 RCP is HUNG UP!! Oh! MY GOD!
5 colored obelisks, pointing into the screen at different orientations, are floating over a pink and purple perspective grid. A comet streaks through the a starry sky over the horizon.
A quiz question in white text on a black background: "Which city is the capital of France?" Six city names are shown as possible answers, each with a number 1 to 6. A line of red arrows has filled the screen under the answers, indicating time is up. If you had set the channel to 3 (for Paris) when time ran out, then it will show "RIGHT! Answer is Paris"
A blue and silver CD, Kenwood Subcode (R-W) Test Disc, catalog number CD-T03. It lists 5 aspects: 1. Test Pattern, 2. Subcode Instruction, 3. Test Signal, 4. Graphics, 5. Listening Test. These aren't individual tests or tracks, so I'm not sure why they're enumerated like this.
Wavy blue and white cover with a design in black. Labeled: The Commemorative CD 10th Anniversary Memory-Tech Corporation
A CD player, with a prominent Extended Graphics logo, is displayed on top of two fancy stone slabs, next to a karaoke microphone and below the word KARAOKE. There is a simulated CD+EG image of a hibiscus flower on a TV in the background. To the right is a small ad for the Beethoven's 9th book and disc, titled "CD BOOKS DA·I·KU". The headline is the model, CDP-K2EG, below that is Japanese text describing the features. List price: 42,800 yen. From the '94.2 Sony CD Player catalog, top half of page 13.
A CD with a blue label. CD-Graphics Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D Minor op. 125 "Choral", GCDX-2, on Sansyusa's CD Books label. The book title, not seen here, is prominently "Daiku" (ninth).
Title screen of "A Gift from Nature, Told through Sound and Video" (Oto to Eizou de Tsuzuru Shizen Kara no Okurimono), featuring a small bird (Kotori), TSP-4001
Cover of "Kake World Cup Soccer e no Michi". On the left is a soccer scene, in the style used in the CD graphics. On the right is a cartoon announcer kicking a ball while holding a microphone.
Cover for "KT-90G Your Song" (ED-12G), showing a watercolor of a cool dude playing keyboard, and a pink toned photo of a car in front of a palm tree.
Cover, title translated as NHK CD-G Wild Birds of Japan Volume 2: Forest Birds Part 2. Shows a pixelated bird in the style used on the CD-G.
A CD cartridge labeled "Professional Compact Disc Background Music Systems: Soft Pop"
All caps yellow text on a blue background: CD-G Test Diac Ver. 2.0 Sega Enterprises, Ltd. CS QC Dept. 1994