We collect literally hundreds of links in compiling stuff to you, far more to give everything its own post. Here’s a scattershot collection of some of it, we hope that one or two of them might strike your discriminating fancy.
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1. Seminal official D&D blobber Eye of The Beholder got a C64 port three years ago. That’s how long this link’s been laying at the bottom of our barrel. Here’s a demonstration video. (37 minutes) If you play it on a C128 in C128 mode, it uses the 80-column screen to display a map! Something to try out in VICE.
2. Also from around that time LowSpecGamer did a video exploring the origins of the ARM processor. (18 minutes) It was created by people new to processor construction for British Acorn microcomputers, and from there expanded and grew until now it’s the most popular processor style in the whole world, backing both Apple and Android devices, by a long shot. It’s beginning to make inroads into desktop use even; I’m currently writing this on an ARM-powered Raspberry Pi 500+.
3. onaretrotip shows off cancelled arcade games in two videos, Part 1 (18 minutes) and Part 2 (32 minutes).
4. I’ve been having a distracting amount of fun on a kind of public Unix/Linux machine called a tilde lately. I plan on writing a lot more on my experiences, but in the meantime you can find out what they’re about, including finding one to sign up for yourself, at tildeverse.org.
5. It’s been hanging out among my tabs for a few days, a memory of days when I referred to it frequently, Ali Harlow’s Nethack spoiler site. Not that the Nethack Wiki isn’t great, but the Wiki-style organization of information is not always the perfect mechanism for information delivery, and the decline of this style of fansite has weighed down on my soul, a whole species of site preyed upon by Fandom and its horde of highly SEO’d corporate wikis. Here’s some more surviving Nethack info sites, though you should note much of the information is a little outdated: the venerable Steelypips, Stan’s Nethack site, some miscellaneous related files most from 1997, and a few more files scattered about this directory at www.chiark.greenend.org.uk: an identification spoiler and item sheet, a musing about Nethack bots, a brief discussion about combat, a discussion comparing Dungeon Crawl with Nethack, and this cake:
6. A late-breaking development, the 25-year-old forums of classic gaming site Digital Press have been destroyed, apparently due to miscommunication between owners, in order to save a little bit of cash every month. As Time Extension reports, this is a gigantic blow to the retro gaming community, there was a huge amount of information that was contained there, and the Wayback Machine’s preservation of these forums is scattershot.
7. To throw in another last-second inclusion, Nintendo’s “My Nintendo” store is changing its name to just the “Nintendo Store.” This is their web shop, not their console-based digital game sales service called eShop, although you can buy downloadable games from the site too. I’d link to the announcement, but they stupidly only made it via Twitter. Get with the times, Nintendo!
