There’s a toy/game mini-theme this week.

• Optimizing the Nethack 4.3 Save System.  (via)
• Plua revisited: Lua for PalmOS (and resurrecting plua2c).  Niche but neat.
• The Commodore Plus/4, 3-Plus-1 and computer literacy.
• Being sure about things.
• Venn diagrams and humor.
• “The Good Games“, a playlist showing influential 1980s games.  I’ve played almost every one, and the mechanisms hold up today.  (Thanks, Sasha)
• The Dance Music Archive.  If you were at a particular age at a particular place, you will like this.  I was neither but it’s still fun.  (via)
• Systems Thinking.  (via)
• TZExplorer, for exploring the time zone file.  (via)
• Raspberry Pi glasses and Sidekick.
• All the computer history and science books you should read.
• Herbie Hancock demonstrates a synthesizer on Sesame Street in 1983.  (via)
• Roguelike Celebration 2021 – the speakers.  Tickets available.
• Remaking Vintage Computer Toys.