r/cassettefuturism

The environment in ROUTINE is pretty unique. It's retro ,it's cassettes everywhere , also very minimalist at the same time.

I didn't come across any personal computers but mostly shared shelf-like big consoles or huge grid-like terminals for the inhabitants to record data across the rooms in those lunar bases.

An all-in-one device to interface with all the terminals, consoles and doors called Cosmonaut Assistance Tool or C.A.T. which can also double down as a self-defense kit (rather than a full blown weapon)

Interestingly, there's more to it. There's this subtle difference in how the game developers created a 1990s retro-futuristic aesthetics (comparatively modern) to a 1970s retro-futuristic aesthetics within the same game; that is evident, when the protagonist of the game, who is from 1990s goes on to visit a 1970s lunar base as the story progresses.

Definitely visit the artists website and view their artwork. Is it beautiful? is it madness? https://coca11272000.wixsite.com/manabukosaka/works

I’ve been lurking in this sub long enough to know my baby belongs here: The AH-64 Apache. I was a 68X Armament, Electronics, Avionics Tech in the 1-101st Aviation Regt. 101st Airborne Division in the 90s. We still had the A models back then. My MOS was qualified as Gunner if the need arose and I spent my formative years in the cockpit of these birds. Every switch, exquisitely analog. Everything glowed green at night. Every screen shitty by today’s standards and yet could be used to pick off targets at 10-11 kilos out.

I could do a 15 minute TED Talk just on the flight helmet and retical alone that sounds so cyberpunk you wouldn’t believe it. And this bird was rolled out in 1975.

Thought you’d appreciate some functional, battle-tested cassette futurism.

Bonus Fact: there is, in fact, a cassette in each bird. In the tail of each is a fat VHS-looking tape that records everything the pilots say and see. I can’t tell you how many of those tapes end with “hey, watch this!”

I wish the switches were metal, but even still they have a satisfying “thnick” that still scratches that itch.

Literal perfection.

I absolutely love the amber phosphor color and the built in style that is computer has.

An absolute genius ‘nuff said. The world of sci-fi is worse without him

This is is a modified Furuno marine radar that I stripped the guts out of and turned into a raspi PC.

Some background; I received this as scrap as part of an old project yacht I bought some time ago. It was originally a CRT display marine radar used for tracking landmasses and other bodies in the ocean.

I decided to totally strip it, install a raspi with a 7-inch LCD and repurpose the buttons and dials with the intention of turning into an FX box for my synthesizers (think reverbs, phasers, distortion, etc).

The entire process was quite simple as I had heaps of room to work with. I'd never done any kind of electronic work before such as building my own circuit boards of even soldering for that matter.

All in all I learned a lot and the next one will be a lot easier (as I have a second one!). There's still a few things to fix on this v1 machine , such as 2 push buttons not firing, and the entire 3D-printed buttons needed to be redesigned from scratch, but the entire experience was a lot of fun and I feel satisfied repurposing something that likely otherwise would have ended up in landfill.

Repost from a screenshot of a post in another sub. Not mine originally.

Portable, battery-powered modem that could run for up to 10 hours on two AA batteries.

Wishlist on Steam here via this link.

I’m learning an awful lot while making this game, and honestly, I’m very aware that I still have a long way to go. I’m sorry if some of the influences feel obvious at this stage, but I’m trying to absorb, learn from, and honour the things that first made me fall in love with this kind of work.

The story takes huge inspiration from the sparks of William Gibson’s 80s imagination, the social paranoia running through Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, the brilliant design thinking of Zachtronics, and old-school favourites like Uplink, alongside more recent games such as Grey Hack and Hacknet.

I’m trying to take those influences with humility, learn as much as I can, and slowly shape them into something that feels personal and new.

Just bought it in Italy 🇮🇹

Thing breaths CASS-Futurism

Liftoff!!!

The Moscow Transport Museum has completed the restoration of a unique, experimental 1964 VNIITE-PT taxi, the only one of its kind, designed by Yuri Dolmatovsky.

The car featured a railcar-style layout, an electric side door, and a 1.4-liter engine from the “Moskvich-408,” mounted in the rear.

Despite its compact size, the interior could accommodate up to four passengers and offered excellent visibility thanks to its large glass area.

In the mid-1960s, the prototype was tested at a Moscow taxi fleet, where passengers gave it positive reviews; however, the car never went into mass production.

The only surviving example has now been restored and will become part of the permanent exhibition at the Moscow Transport Museum.

Another obsolete format from my Blade Runner collection, and probably one of the more unusual.

This is Blade Runner on CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc), released by Embassy Home Entertainment in 1983.

CED was RCA’s unusual answer to home video. The film is stored on a large grooved disc inside the plastic caddy, but unlike LaserDisc, there’s no laser. It’s actually read using a physical stylus. The whole caddy is inserted into the player, which takes the disc inside while you remove the empty case.

RCA launched the format commercially in 1981 after years of development, but VHS and Betamax were already taking hold. Player production was discontinued in 1984, making CED a fascinatingly short-lived piece of home-video history.

Blade Runner was released on CED in March 1983, less than a year after its original cinema release.

There’s also a great little detail on the back. It describes the film as “A futuristic tale set in the Los Angeles of 2020”, despite Blade Runner actually taking place in 2019. It also lists the running time as 117 minutes.

The synopsis on the back is interesting too, mainly because of how much of the plot it gives away. It’s remarkably spoiler-heavy by modern standards, casually revealing story details that would probably be kept out of the packaging today.

There’s something wonderfully appropriate about a film that imagined the technology of the future being watched at home on a grooved plastic disc read by a stylus.

The future didn’t quite go that way.

More Blade Runner formats from the collection to come.