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There's a modern remix of Space Debris on the soundtrack of the 2011 game Rochard by Recoil Games. It was made by the original artist Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen. https://www.youtub…

The Quora link mentioned in the article seems to have a bit more in depth information about why the engine is so difficult to work with: https://qr.ae/TWNufs

I've started doing some maintenance on my old computers. I just finished recapping my Amiga 1200 earlier this week and this morning I ordered a long T15 torx driver so I can open u…

There was another bug in the original Transport Tycoon (not Deluxe) that gave an even easier way to make massive amounts of money. If you built a tunnel through the whole continent…

I think he meant to type "I have been following this as closely as I follow JS libraries".

Here's one in Helsinki, Finland: https://goo.gl/maps/NoWE44KLKukEeq4d9 I also disagree that it is simple while you're on it although I have to admit that I'm not a very confident d…

>UFO: Enemy Unknown (aka: X-Com outside North America). You got it backwards. The PC version was known as X-COM: UFO Defense in North America and UFO: Enemy Unknown outside North A…

Reminds me of https://0hh1.com/ & https://0hn0.com/

Calling this just a metro/subway map seems incorrect at least in Helsinki's case. Its map seems to also contain all tram, commuter train and even a couple of main bus lines.

LGR has a great video about General Magic, the company behind Magic Cap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opcuy-8VO64

Reminds me of this article about an old Amiga computer running the AC system for multiple schools: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...

Which is pretty much exactly how Android works as well.

I've noticed the same in Finland

Thanks, now I see it

I've been staring at the logo for a few minutes now and I cannot make head or tails of it. It just looks like a random squiggle to me.

"PC World magazine named Stretch one of the biggest project management failures in IT history." It would be interesting to know more about this. The Wikipedia article doesn't reall…

This is part of the new PowerToys utilities. There's already a post on Hacker News front page about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20890828

I hope this will allow me to finally ditch Chrome on Mac. On Windows I changed to Firefox when Quantum was released but on my old Macbook Air it has been too slow to use as my main…

This is what I used to learn vim https://vim-adventures.com/ Edit: Huh, looks like it doesn't work anymore. :/

LGR has a couple of related videos on YouTube. Regular old B&W TV connected via HDMI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMiMz1uGCXI A tiny 1/2 inch CRT used as a display: https://www…

Cool stuff. I wonder how long it will take until speech synthesis is at the point where it can be used to create dialogue for video games. Obviously it would (at least initially) r…

In my mind, "network play" refers to playing multiplayer games over a network, which this isn't? This is about playing a Game Boy game on an emulator that is running on a server so…

I've noticed a formulaic approach in Japanese video game development, where most games within a genre seem to have very similar mechanics as opposed to western made games. The RPG …

I have a kind of opposite problem on an old Lenovo laptop where Windows boots just fine every time but any Linux distro I try randomly fails to boot with an ACPI error. It's not a …