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Those are the ones that I learned, from the magic system in Ultima Underworld. I think that H and W are swapped, and that Tolkien's alphabet includes a few more letters. They're bo…

Outer Wilds is exactly what came to mind for me, too. Made a jump...missed. Thrown into a decaying orbit around the black hole. Absolutely terrifying, and panicking didn't help in …

> They all have DRM which make it essentially encrypted with no decryption service available. Not all do. Games for a lot of systems can be read directly from the storage media. > …

I had a few reasons, when I tried tackling RE of a DOS-era game a number of years ago. I wanted to document the file formats, look through the data and find unused media, identify …

A lot. Often a couple dozen for pages that are currently queued up to read, with pages further to the left being older and often forgotten (or they're pages that I would like to ha…

The aspect that I especially like is covering the 3-state aspect of the logic. Studying CS, it was kind of vaguely mentioned, and we skipped over to doing logic diagrams with gates…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1139580 (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10867791 (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697789 (2017) https://news.ycombinat…

I went from a 19" CRT capable of 1600x1200@75Hz to a 17" LCD capable of 1280x1024@60Hz, basically because that CRT would've taken up a huge chunk of desk real estate in my dorm. My…

Probably because they're advertising their product, and the comment also sounds like it was written/edited by AI itself.

I definitely only care about a handful. I've got categories like "beaten", "in-progress", "maybe someday", and "meh". You accumulate a lot of free stuff over the years, things you …

> ANYWAY, people have lost the ability to write in cursive, or even write in print neatly. By 2nd grade, I had good, clean print handwriting. Third grade is when they started teach…

Wow. Your old PC is more powerful than any computer I own. Faster version of my CPU, double the RAM, newer generation GPU. A fraction of the storage, though. I built it in 2020 to …

There was one "Walking through the graveyard at midnight" ("stitching up some zombies" ?) or something, with a necromancer collecting zombie parts. To the tune of "walking in a win…

Since friction in creating a new account is so low, the only real signal about the controller of the account is their behavior on the platform. Bots trying to sell things are rampa…

I think I found, and memorized, that about 25 years ago. There was a list of other songs in the file too.

I remember getting "The Complete Ultima VII" on CD and never figuring out how to get it running. I think I've still got the box, but I think the disc has been missing for years. I …

I went from Ubuntu to Mint around the same time on my laptop. I took my desktop from Ubuntu to Fedora. A later laptop followed it, because I was tired of the little differences. Ub…

My first thought was "How is this different from Exult?" (which is a relatively vanilla reimplementation of the game). Some of the video segments here make differences clearer: htt…

I'm not quite old enough to have needed to use this while writing my own software. But I've come back to it repeatedly while learning enough about the operation of DOS PCs to try m…

"Video card" was the more general word. "VGA" is one of the IBM video cards for PCs that later became a de facto standard, as its behavior was cloned by other companies. It's somet…

I've got a desktop that I built in 2008 that I only replaced in 2020 because I wanted to play newer games. That 2020 desktop is still going strong. My laptop was produced in 2016. …

I was recently working on some x86 emulation code. This is one of the best links that I found to summarize how it works, skipping the giant Intel instruction set references.

Algorithmically-generated remasters? No. That sort of thing (e.g. upscaling algorithms) was really cool when I was first getting into emulation, but I'm pretty much over it. Even h…

I've got a computer that I built in 2008 and upgraded in 2012. It's pretty solid for higher-requirement games up until about 2015, and can still handle lower-requirement indie stuf…

> If you ever exchanged messages on ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Hangouts, GChat, BlackBerry Messenger, or Campfire your messages are now gone. I've got…