If you sorta squint and tilt your head, it’s a games theme this week.
- Roguelike vs. Roguelite: What’s the Difference? (via)
- Awesome-Selfhosted. (also via)
- rigg 1.0 released – a new way to run indie games on OpenBSD.
- SEthernet: Modern, low-cost 10/100 Ethernet for the Macintosh SE and SE/30.
- Mastodon for Apple II (][+, //c, IIe, and IIgs)
- Hex marks the spot. (via)
- pkgsrc-2024Q1 branch released, and NetBSD 10.0.
- Further Explorations, the companion volume to 50 Years of Text Games, is available for standalone purchase. Related: merchandise.
- The Greenwich prime meridian isn’t where it used to be.
- FreeBSD Speedrun.
- Terminal status bar with only stock tools.
Your unrelated music for the week: New Strategies for Modern Crime Vol 1. (via)
Awesome Self-Hosted is a good list! One of the most interesting. As for roguelikes, no… nope. Actually not. The Berlin Interpretation is widely considered worse than obsolete: ancient, rotten and clinging to the genre like a dead weight. It’s only of historical interest at best, a mistake to learn from. That real-time twin-stick shooters with procedural generation and permadeath are a distinct subgenre is another story. There’s no confusion, barring kids who discover the older turn-based games to hilarious effect. What mummy crawled out of a tomb to write that article?