Category: roguelike

I had to trim this down; there’s been a post-Christmas surge in material.

• Always good to start the year with new (to me) Mickens: Life as a Developer.  (via)
• Learn – Computer-Aided Instruction on Unix.  A UNIX tutorial program from 1979.  (via)
• Espple – Apple 1 Emulator with PAL RF Output.  (via)
• The History of Rogue: Have at You, You Deadly Zs (2009).  (via)
• From the previous link: Rog-O-Matic.
• Operating System Design Book Series.  (via)
• 30 Days of Stuff.  Some gems in there, like 140 issues of Maximum RockNRoll!  (via)
• ReCurta: Our goal is to build the first Curta calculator since 1972.  (via)
• The Story of the Gömböc.  (via)
• Productivity is Dangerous.  Fun for the line “LINKEDIN IS A DEATH CULT”.  (via)
• Inventing the Lisa User Interface.  (via)
• REMEMBER turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99.  The most eighties tumblog ever.  (via)
• A history of S_IFMT.  (via)
• V7/x86 – x86 port of Unix V7.  (via)

All over the map again, but that’s what Lazy Reading is for.

• OpenVMS: State of the Port to x86_64 – October 2017 Update.  PDF.  (via)
• The Roguelike Celebration – a festival about roguelike game design.  (via)
• More Taste: Less Greed? or: Sending UNIX to the Fat Farm.  (via)
• books chapter fifteen.
• A Net Before the Web, Part 1: The Establishment Man and the Magnificent Rogue.
• A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community.
• TAOS Operating System.  (via)
• The Physics of Bread.  I am not sure what to think of Modernist Bread.  (via)
• An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor.  (via)
• The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons.  (via)
  “tag: eyes, computers”, very much so.
• miniwebproxy.  A good idea.
• Tiny Wearable 8-bit VT100 Console.  This I would want to make.  (via)

Unofficial gaming theme this week.

• HyperRogue, the non-Euclidean roguelike, is a mind-melting masterpiece.
• A crapload of animation links.
• LANCER, a new mech RPG.  Wait, here’s an update.
• Quondam: Finished!   “The most difficult adventure game ever made.
• Unlocking Braden’s Potential.  (PDF, via)
• Parallel processing with unix tools.  (via)
• A 1979 War-Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete.  (via)
• The History of Email.  (via)
• PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer.  (via)
• Building the plasma.  (via)
• Gravitational Teleport, fancy ssh.  (via)
• Email: a lost relic of the before-before times.
• Finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it.
• The Beauty of Unix.  (via)

Unrelated images for the week:  this and this.

A little heavy on the history this week.  And no tea!

• Commodore 64: For the Love of a Machine.  (via)
• Fun at the UNIX Terminal Part 1.
• Exploring 3-Move – A LambdaMOO inspired environment.  More places named in the source link comments.
• A 1986 bulletin board system has brought the old Web back to life in 2017.  (via)
• A link at the same place brought me to the Telnet BBS Guide.
• Hottest Editors.
• Upgrading a Vectrex to 32 Bits.  (via)
• Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM.
• The secrets of password aging on Unix systems.
• on the title of “git commit murder”
• Dungeonfs: A FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine

Your unrelated food link of the week: Eating In Translation.  This person seeks out new places, eats there, and makes notes, and has been doing it for more than a decade.  The result is the most in-depth informal food guide I’ve ever seen.  It’s NYC focused, but not exclusively.

Technical details week for Lazy Reading.

• Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams talks about simulating the most complex magic system ever.  (via)
• mdp – A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
• "ffscreencast is a shell wrapper for ffmpeg that allows fool-proof screen recording via the command line.”  (via)
• 802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks.
• What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer.  (via)
• CIA’s vim user tips published by WikiLeaks.  (via)
• How Unexplored generates great roguelike dungeons.
• Today in OBEY.
• Windowmaker 0.95.8 released.  I still like it after all this time.  (via)
• A game where Character Creation is the Whole Game.
• Build your first PC in PC Building Simulator’s demo.  Bizarre, but somehow makes sense.
• Names that Make Computers Go Crazy.  (via)
• Discussion of analog timing sources on NANOG.  Interesting precisely because it’s not Internet-visible, not directly.

Your unrelated tea link of the week: Haha, one of the world’s best tea houses is in my town.  It’s Leaf Tea Bar, and Niraj is one of the nicest guys.  His prices are reasonable for the quality of the tea, too.

Your related bug link of the week: Teeth of the DragonFly.  (via)

 

You weren’t planning to do anything else today, right?  Find some headphones.

• The future of iOS is 64-bit only: Apple to stop support of 32-bit apps.  Following a trend.  (via)
• Four Column ASCII.  (via)
• From the previous link source’s comments: “The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968“, a PDF from this repo.
• A Quick Look at the SoftIron OverDrive 1000.  Multiprocessor ARM is starting to show up in non-Pi shapes.
• How computer terms came from physical parts of the Mark I.  Neat pictures, too!  I know I’ve seen the moth one before.  (via)
• How Linux got to be Linux: Test driving 1993-2003 distros.  Someone do this with BSD flavors.  (via)
• Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Molecular Tschunk Spheres.  Sounds mathematical, but actually related to Chaos Communication Congress and food.  Read the ‘small scale hack’ at the end.  (also via)
• Printer Security.  (via)
• Electrocuted CERN weasel joins McFlurry hedgehog at dead animal exhibit.  (via)
• From free software to liberal software.
• Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures. (via)
• CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim.  (via)
• The Enviable Pedigree of UNIX® and POSIX®.   (via)
• Dial-A-Grue
• Level Up Your Game: The Untapped Potential of Roguelikes.  (thanks, Brandon Gooch)

Your unrelated link of the week: Bandcamp Daily.  Curated daily presentations about a band or type of music, where the enthusiasm for any given esoteric sonic whatsit oozes through the writing and samples are there to back it up.  Of course I would like it.  Recent highlights from just the past few days: a history of doom metal; Kid Koala’s new album, and whatever this is.

Every third link is about old technology, and I swear it’s not on purpose.

• The creators of rogue talk about permadeath.  (via)
• IRCv3.  (via)
• Cyberdeck64.  (via)
• The oldest U.S. government computers.  (via)
• The Silmarillion Seminar.  (via)
• The MIT License, Line by Line.  (via)
• Network mapping.
• Unix tips: Saving time by repeating history.
• How to Capture Network Traffic using Tcpdump.
• Wander (1974) — a lost mainframe game is found!  (via)
• The Ice Cream eBook.  A comprehensive resource, free.
• Advanced Compilers Weeks 3-5.
• Debugging PostgreSQL performance the hard way.  (via)
• How Hollywood Gets Its Old-School Tech.  (via)
• Wot I think: Hackmud.
• What’s up with Windows developer tools being written in perl?  “Perl is a socially-acceptable form of Visual Basic.”
• Searching for “finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it” yields excellent results.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: DHARBIN.  I briefly met the artist at TCAF a few years ago; he looks exactly like how he draws himself.  Here’s an affecting strip about pets and loss.