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I like the comment on the site about blockchains replacing HTML links (from 4 years ago).

I have all 4 volumes of Input.

I love how the Action Replay FLOPPY disk for Amiga 1200 loads into the high 1MB RAM space. No need for hardware. (note: Amiga 1200 has 2MB RAM by default).

I once played Ultima 6 from a RAM disk on an ST with 4MB RAM. Game install from 'Hard disk' to RAM disk - it didn't realise. And then I used bigger size floppy disks (940KB I think…

Or Paul Allen in Accidental Zillionaire.

Ted actually collaborated with Adams on Hyperland TV show.

Couple of anecdotes. I got in touch with American Steve Jackson for permission to scan his game novel 'Stonekeep'. He didn't give permission. Second, I got a Warlock of Firetop Mou…

Wow I found transcripts for Infocom games here (ClubFloyd) ! I've been looking for this for ages, thanks!

I used a VGA monitor with my Amiga 1200 (with an adapter). It was not flickery at all and was full resolution.

I just asked ChatGPT that and it seemed to come up with a good answer.

Didn't Peter Norvig used to be director of search quality? And now Head of research? Maybe they should bring him back to increase that search quality.

On Windows, A9T9 does a great job of OCR'ing scanned JPEG files (and any JPEG file). It's also free. I scanned about 100 A4 documents in just a couple of minutes.

I got £2000 for reverse engineering Psion 5 Word and Sheet file formats (for a Psion based company) in 1998. I tried to get a job with the same company but they didn't want me, whi…

The minimise button of the GUI is in green too, so I say green mode.

I use CinemaParadiso. I thought Lovefilm was the only game in town. But I searched Google for 'UK DVD rental' and found CinemaParadiso. I signed up. That was 6 months ago. Now I wa…

Loads of Ted stuff at https://archive.org/details/tednelsonarchive?page=2&sort=-we...

Collaborated with Ted on Zigzag. Gzz - the open source finnish-developed Zigzag port - had incredible views like MindSundew. It was brilliant. The project failed when Ted wouldn't …

Great on Android mobile as there are no decent SID apps for that platform.

In about 2005, I got the Lisp community to pick a Lisp logo on the newsgroup comp.lang.lisp. They came up with the 'Made with Lisp' lizard logo and I feel proud I got the ball roll…

Hi, if you could get it working on Android, I'd be willing to pay $5.

I have gone through several Psion 5's over the last few years. They all broke eventually - mainly the screen (ribbon cable). Because I couldn't justify spending yet another £60 for…

I tried that on the Acorn Archimedes. It resulted in, after a couple of days, a lot of lost data. Luckily just games.

I once hacked Zork so you can see what the thief is doing (swapped player character for thief) as if you were playing.

Spiritwrak has a transcript/walkthrough https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/solutions/Spirit-Transcript...