Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)(keithburgun.net)

96 points by vector_spaces 10 months ago | 46 comments

Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024(linuxjedi.co.uk)

93 points by susam 2 years ago | 66 comments

Looking Back at a Pandemic Simulator(raphkoster.com)

11 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 1 comments

Frank Gasking on preserving «lost» games(spillhistorie.no)

76 points by doener 1 year ago | 15 comments

UgBASIC – An isomorphic BASIC language compiler for retrocomputers(ugbasic.iwashere.eu)

49 points by reaperducer 3 years ago | 13 comments

In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio(newslttrs.com)

262 points by spzb 1 year ago | 142 comments

The early days of Linux(lwn.net)

1199 points by Paul-Craft 3 years ago | 198 comments

LWN article by Lars Wirzenius recounting his memories of the earliest days of Linux and his time with Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki.

The early days of Linux (2023)(lwn.net)

422 points by stmw 1 year ago | 125 comments

LWN article by Lars Wirzenius recalling his memories of the earliest days of Linux, its creation by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki, and its early growth.

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc(birchtree.me)

669 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 703 comments

Birchtree blog link post commenting on an extended Xbox outage that blocked players from launching even disc-based games, raising game ownership concerns.

I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)

337 points by speckx 10 days ago | 212 comments

A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.

End of Japanese community(support.mozilla.org)

876 points by phantomathkg 11 months ago | 688 comments

Mozilla Support contributor forum thread in which the longtime locale leader of the SUMO Japanese community announces its end.

The April Fools joke that might have got me fired(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

461 points by goldenskye 1 year ago | 226 comments

A blog post on Old Vintage Computing Research recounting an April Fools prank the author played at his first university database programming job.