Hacker News
- Age of Empires (Or, How Microsoft Got in on Games) https://www.filfre.net/2024/03/age-of-empires-or-how-microsoft-got-in-on-games/ 0 comments
- Ultima (2012) https://www.filfre.net/2012/02/ultima-part-1/ 69 comments
- A Busy 1979 (2011) https://www.filfre.net/2011/07/a-busy-1979/ 5 comments
- A Digital Pornutopia, Part 1: The Seedy-ROM Revolution https://www.filfre.net/2023/10/a-digital-pornutopia-part-1-the-seedy-rom-revolution/ 4 comments
- The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 3: Software Meets Hardware https://www.filfre.net/2023/05/the-next-generation-in-graphics-part-3-software-meets-hardware/ 6 comments
- The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 1: Three Dimensions in Software https://www.filfre.net/2023/04/the-next-generation-in-graphics-part-1-three-dimensions-in-software-or-quake-and-its-discontents/ 71 comments
- Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars https://www.filfre.net/2022/07/broken-sword-the-shadow-of-the-templars/ 58 comments
- Tie Fighter: The Second Coming of Star Wars https://www.filfre.net/2021/02/the-second-coming-of-star-wars/ 3 comments
- Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step https://www.filfre.net/2021/02/ultima-viii-or-how-to-destroy-a-gaming-franchise-in-one-easy-step/ 215 comments
- Microsoft Space Simulator (Or, Charles Guy’s Galaxy in a Box) https://www.filfre.net/2021/01/microsoft-space-simulator-or-charles-guys-galaxy-in-a-box/ 26 comments
- Bullfrog After Populous https://www.filfre.net/2020/09/bullfrog-after-populous/ 163 comments
- Beneath a Steel Sky https://www.filfre.net/2020/07/beneath-a-steel-sky/ 17 comments
- Myst: the Drawbacks to Success https://www.filfre.net/2020/02/myst-or-the-drawbacks-to-success/ 67 comments
- Master of Orion https://www.filfre.net/2020/01/master-of-orion/ 159 comments
- New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches https://www.filfre.net/2019/10/new-tricks-for-an-old-z-machine-part-1-digging-the-trenches/ 3 comments
- Jobs and Woz (2011) https://www.filfre.net/2011/09/jobs-and-woz/ 38 comments
- Star Control II https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/star-control-ii/ 63 comments
- Doing Windows, Part 7: Third Time’s the Charm https://www.filfre.net/2018/08/doing-windows-part-7-third-times-the-charm/ 11 comments
- Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try https://www.filfre.net/2018/07/doing-windows-part-5-a-second-try/ 59 comments
- Doing Windows, Part 2: From Interface Manager to Windows https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-2-from-interface-manager-to-windows/ 12 comments
- Monkey Island (or, How Ron Gilbert Made an Adventure Game That Didn’t Suck) http://www.filfre.net/2017/03/monkey-island-or-how-ron-gilbert-made-an-adventure-game-that-didnt-suck/ 2 comments
- A Working-Class Hero, Part 1 http://www.filfre.net/2016/11/a-working-class-hero-part-1/ 4 comments
- SimCity: Will Wright's City in a Box http://www.filfre.net/2016/06/simcity-part-1-will-wrights-city-in-a-box/ 31 comments
- A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 3: Case Studies in Copy Protection http://www.filfre.net/2016/01/a-pirates-life-for-me-part-3-case-studies-in-copy-protection/ 17 comments
- A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 1: Don’t Copy That Floppy http://www.filfre.net/2015/12/a-pirates-life-for-me-part-1-dont-copy-that-floppy/ 9 comments
- Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards http://www.filfre.net/2015/08/leisure-suit-larry-in-the-land-of-the-lounge-lizards/ 3 comments
- The 68000 Wars, Part 3: We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up http://www.filfre.net/2015/04/the-68000-wars-part-3-we-made-amiga-they-fucked-it-up/ 85 comments
- The Hobbit by Melbourne House http://www.filfre.net/2012/11/the-hobbit/ 3 comments
Lobsters
- System Shock https://www.filfre.net/2021/03/system-shock/ 4 comments games , historical
- Pascal and the P-Machine https://www.filfre.net/2012/03/pascal-and-the-p-machine/ 3 comments historical , programming
- Life on the Grid https://www.filfre.net/2019/01/life-on-the-grid/ 2 comments games , historical
- TADS http://www.filfre.net/2017/02/tads/ 4 comments games , historical , programming
- The Freedom to Associate http://www.filfre.net/2016/09/the-freedom-to-associate/ 2 comments historical
- Beyond Zork http://www.filfre.net/2015/11/beyond-zork/ 2 comments games
- The Deal of the Century (or, The Alliance of Losers). How Apple adopted PowerPC architecture https://www.filfre.net/2020/02/the-deal-of-the-century-or-the-alliance-of-losers/ 7 comments hardware
- Interplay Takes on Star Trek: "Star Trek: 25th Anniversary" (1992) https://www.filfre.net/2019/04/interplay-takes-on-trek/ 12 comments linux_gaming
- Doing Windows, Part 4: The Rapprochement https://www.filfre.net/2018/07/doing-windows-part-4-the-rapprochement/ 3 comments programming
- Doing Windows, Part 1: MS-DOS and Its Discontents The Digital Antiquarian https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-and-its-discontents/ 29 comments programming
- The 640 K Barrier http://www.filfre.net/2017/04/the-640-k-barrier/#rf1-2788 39 comments programming
- The story of making Railroad Tycoon (Sid Meier, Bruce Shelley) http://www.filfre.net/2017/03/railroad-tycoon/ 11 comments gamedev
Linking pages
- Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement · Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Complement 323 comments
- How I Couldn’t Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images | by Christian Mund | Medium https://medium.com/@mpnet/trying-to-make-sense-of-compuserve-server-hard-disk-images-posted-on-archive-org-b1c62ce6012b 59 comments
- The Battle For The First Dune Game - by Steve Lord https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-dork-web-8 12 comments
- The End of a Journey - by Aaron A. Reed https://if50.substack.com/p/the-end-of-a-journey 5 comments
- Book Reviews · Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Book-reviews#cat-sense-bradshaw-2013-are-we-good-owners 0 comments