Oversimplified History of Retro Game Consoles for Programmers(pikuma.com)

51 points by atan2 3 years ago | 3 comments

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX(pikuma.com)

134 points by ibobev 2 months ago | 58 comments

NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation(heise.de)

40 points by doener 6 months ago | 25 comments

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full(fabiensanglard.net)

459 points by shdon 2 months ago | 200 comments

Fabien Sanglard blog post about the 1996 Quake shareware CD-ROM, how id Software distributed it, and why the disc was nearly too full.

Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future(arstechnica.com)

99 points by rbanffy 2 months ago | 93 comments

Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld(eli.lipsitz.net)

241 points by elipsitz 1 year ago | 58 comments

VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)

385 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.

Making video games (without an engine) in 2025(noelberry.ca)

482 points by selvan 1 year ago | 210 comments

Blog post by indie developer Noel Berry describing how he makes video games in 2025 without using a commercial game engine.

Fuck it, make it anyway(joelotter.com)

504 points by JayOtter 1 month ago | 495 comments

A personal blog essay by indie game developer Joel Auterson encouraging people to make their creative projects anyway despite doubts.

I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it(edw.is)

599 points by eliasdaler 2 years ago | 240 comments

Elias Daler's blog post on learning Vulkan and building a small game engine with two demo games in three months, with code on GitHub.

It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership(popcar.bearblog.dev)

594 points by popcar2 3 months ago | 452 comments

A blog post arguing that the debate over physical versus digital games is really about ownership, prompted by PlayStation ending disc production for new games.

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary(popcar.bearblog.dev)

64 points by popcar2 12 days ago | 54 comments

A personal blog post arguing that AI tools are enabling mass decompilation of video games, which the author sees as both exciting and worrying.