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I never really played HHGG as a kid but started it up on my Apple //e using this wonderful disk image, which has a great front end for Infocom games, in case anyone hasn't seen it:…

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Mike also runs the best PCjr forum! It's been invaluable for help as I got my recently purchased PCjr running with mods and flash media. https://www.brutman.com/forums/index.php

Exact thing happened to me when I first started collecting arcade games. I was ready to sell a Xenophobe cabinet, which is a massive, awkward monstrosity. Took a huge "loss" on it …

More info, including a direct download link to the .crt file here: https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=226060

I make text adventure games in a language called Hugo. It was released in the late 90s and has not changed much. I have enjoyed being able to code with some stability for fun as I'…

The fact that "Click to expand" / auto-collapse is the default for almost all conversations and there is no way to toggle it off is inexplicable to me.

Yeah! And Warlords for the Atari 800 (or "Castle Crisis," which is a homebrew / arcade-perfect port of the arcade version of Warlords) with some friends and real paddle controllers…

If you're used to exclusively programming with line numbers and you're a kid, sure, it might take a little bit of time and instruction to comprehend that line numbers aren't necess…

For a lot of the text adventure systems that it now supports, this site will let you search by language - https://ifdb.tads.org/

Coincidence for me to see this here, as a book by Dr. Stuart Ritchie was just published about this very thing. https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fictions-Negligence-Undermine...

Seriously. I'm all for lightweight text editors, but the ability to open a folder and a way to start a new text file is minimum viable product.

I learned about quiche long before I ever encountered it in real life. http://www.textfiles.com/humor/COMPUTER/quiche.txt