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by gxd 9d ago
Haven't thought about this game in ages. I remember seeing it in ads but never played it. It's odd that it became so obscure considering it was released by a major, even if then declining, game company.
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by gxd 10d ago
The Apple II+ was my first Apple. My second one was a Macbook Air M3! The Apple II has a very interesting and quirky software collection. Quite a few weird little games made by bedroom coders, along many of the earliest titles of the big na
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by gxd 12d ago
I had Slackware CDs in the nineties! They had a minimalist label and came with no jewel case (rubber band if I recall correctly). I've been meaning to rediscover the CICA and Simtel collections. Maybe that's what I needed!
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by gxd 18d ago
I created a program like that back in the day. In my case, I recorded my voice through the "MIC" input and played it back through the TV. A few seconds of sampled audio required the entire available memory. While I fully understoo
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by gxd 23d ago
I think a proper manual for a modern computer at the same detail level as the Commodore one would be much bigger than a car manual! It's not as much printing costs, but developing that documentation would cost a lot. I think that would
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by gxd 24d ago
I've wondered about whether modern computers should come with the comprehensive manuals of the era. The Raspberry Pi 400 attempted to do it. But the problem isn't as much that companies don't want to ship these big manuals, b
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by gxd 24d ago
The Speccy is mostly unknown in the US but in some ways it's more important than the mighty C64. It was way less capable but much more affordable. In many poor countries, as well in large portions of Europe, the Speccy dominated becaus
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by gxd 28d ago
A relative had a Mac running Racter back in the day. I was a child but I played with it quite a bit. I found it magical. I thought I was looking at ChatGPT, but obviously it was a trick. A few years later I realized that Racter wasn't
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by gxd 1mo ago
Did you know some company made a Rocky Horror Show videogame in the 80s? https://www.hardcoregaming101.net/the-rocky-horror-show/
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by gxd 1mo ago
If you don't mind the shameless plug, you may want to check my optimistic sci-fi visual novel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ It's on sale now :).
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by gxd 1mo ago
> You could get a PC for a thousand bucks back then In the United States ... In a lot of countries, computers cost a lot more than that in the local currency which, together with lower salaries, made computers inaccessible to most peopl
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by gxd 1mo ago
For those who don't know why GORILLA.BAS is so cool... Back in the day, computers were expensive and games weren't readily available. Sometimes a parent would buy a computer for word processing or spreadsheets or take kids to the
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by gxd 2mo ago
Shameless plug: Buckminster Fuller has a (not so small) cameo in my game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ :)
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by gxd 2mo ago
There is no paradox because they are here already. Here she is: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ Made for the HN crowd :)
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by gxd 2mo ago
One of my game's main characters is an Amiga fan and the Amiga vs ST rivalry has small cameo in it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ That said, I've never owned an Amiga. I could
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by gxd 3mo ago
Shameless plug... The Koh-I-Noor has an important cameo on my science fiction narrative game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ (on sale now :))
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by gxd 4mo ago
Despite quickly becoming obsolete, the early ZX computers (ZX80 and ZX81) were a marvel of cost-benefit at the time. Most people had no access to computing of any kind... The difference between no computing and a machine that can perform th
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by gxd 4mo ago
THANK YOU! Can we now have all the Infocom games owned by Activision (which is yours) now? Pretty please? I know the source is available, but we'd like them with a MIT license (including the manuals, artwork etc). PS: a couple of the
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by gxd 5mo ago
It's because of the artists. The Amiga was a much more affordable art-making machine, so many artists made graphics ON the Amiga FOR the Amiga. There were even some good-looking VGA games that under utilized the PC's capabilities
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by gxd 6mo ago
Believe it or not, but the answer is revealed in this videogame: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ Spoiler: it's not Adam Back!
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by gxd 6mo ago
This reminded me of when people used to transfer games over the radio: https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/40-years-later-a-game-f...
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by gxd 6mo ago
I banned the Oxford comma in all writing within my individual business. In fact, I released an entire 100K+ word narrative game without using Oxford commas (I consider it a bug if I left any behind).
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by gxd 7mo ago
Those were the days. I still believe nothing replaces the camraderie of the small, local BBSs. The large ones were good too, but these tended to resemble the modern Internet forums a bit more. I miss BBSs and that's why I featured them
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by gxd 9mo ago
Not a movie per se, but one of the protagonists in my game is a veteran from the warez scene. He mentions BlueBeep, BBSs and Demoscene in the game :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/
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by gxd 10mo ago
One word: SOPWITH
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by gxd 10mo ago
My company's answer to your question: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ :)
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by gxd 10mo ago
Some acoustic music instruments have fairly simple base waveforms which are "colored" by their shape and acoustics. I've once spent a few hours passing basic sound through modern effect VSTs with interesting results. I loved
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I left my Big Tech job at 50 to build a game(galantrix.com)
5 points by gxd 11mo ago|0 comments
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by gxd 11mo ago
This is an incredible find. It would be amazingly cool if we could create an emulated environment for compiling and running Unix v4 from these sources.
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Show HN: I left my FAANG job at 50 to build a sci-fi game
9 points by gxd 11mo ago|3 comments

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