Partial overflow this week, which means probably even more next week. We all benefit!
- OUIGO – Let’s Play. Pinball in your browser. Good pinball. (via)
- shlide—a slide deck presentation tool written in pure bash. (via)
- Under Armour Dumped Its App, and Consumers Feel the Heartbreak. As the article mentions, companies will dump cheap services – and your data and invested time – at a moment’s notice. The article might be paywalled.
- How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86? Begs the question, but still interesting to ask. (via)
- Apple 2 connecting via acoustic coupler modem and rotary phone. (via)
- Hard Drive Stats for 2019. Backblaze. (via)
- Blackwing Pencils: A Comprehensive Guide.
- Rotary Cellphone. (via)
- noclip.website, game floor plans. (via)
- Genres evolve and so does language. Roguelike arguments.
- The Burroughs Memoirs. I briefly worked at a child company of Burroughs. (via)
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education. Open source teaches exactly this; most schools do not. Guess which makes you a better programmer? (via)
- A Bit of History Regarding “Tunnels of Armageddon” for the Apple IIgs.
- Building a Note-taking System with Vanilla Vim. (via)
- Vintage Computer Festival East 2020. (via)
Thanks for the shout-out!
I couldn’t get the pinball thing to work at all. The flippers seemed to work but I couldn’t figure out how to launch a ball. Was it supposed to be fully playable?
Enter key, I think it was, to launch the ball. I didn’t see it at first either and just slapped the keyboard until something happened; a time-tested approach.