History of T (2001)(paulgraham.com)

64 points by swatson741 3 years ago | 19 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.

Quake related work logs (1996)(gamers.org)

135 points by waihtis 3 years ago | 87 comments

Why WinQuake exists and how it works(fabiensanglard.net)

133 points by wicket 10 months ago | 27 comments

The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021)(geoffchappell.com)

213 points by lproven 3 years ago | 122 comments

The xz attack shell script(research.swtch.com)

553 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 279 comments

Russ Cox blog post analyzing the shell script portion of the 2024 xz/liblzma backdoor, explaining how it injected malicious code into the build.