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qingcharles 740 days ago | parent | on: The development of GTA3 (1999-2001)
I wonder who this is? When I was a game dev in the UK I used to keep in touch with all the GTA guys.
- Lammy 739 days ago
  I won't write it out here in case they decide they want to unperson their blog entirely, but click the Hamburger Butan on the left of the site and all will be revealed to you.
qingcharles 744 days ago | parent | on: Using my Minitel 1B over the phone network in 2023
I used to love visiting friends in France as a kid just so I could sit and play on their Minitel. It was always more interesting than British Teletext because of the interactivity.
qingcharles 748 days ago | parent | on: New feature: Internet Archive links
Wikipedia needs this built-in.
qingcharles 751 days ago | parent | on: RECOIL - Retro Computer Image Library
To clarify the title, this isn't a library of images of retro computers. It is a code library (and executables) to read retro image formats of various computers.
qingcharles 752 days ago | parent | on: On the Design of Display Processors - 1968 paper o...
Ivan Sutherland is definitely the father of computer graphics.
qingcharles 754 days ago | parent | on: Recovering "lost" treasure-filled floppy discs wit...
Unreal! I have some archiving to do in the near future, so I'm feasting on all these recently posted articles related to reading floppies.
qingcharles 754 days ago | parent | on: Most Video Game Artwork Will Never Be Seen
I remember when I was in the game biz and I was interviewing artists and one guy had a reel of Virtua Hamster in his portfolio.. and nobody had seen anything of the game at that point, and wouldn't for another decade.
https://segaretro.org/Virtua_Hamster
I can tell you that a lot of us in the biz have seen a lot more than those outside. I don't want to say there isn't a video game "Illuminati", but if you know what the initials on the back of this sign stand for, then you know what I'm talking about :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3ylmm4/comment/cyet.../
qingcharles 757 days ago | parent | on: Second Reality demo ported to the Apple II
Madness!
Video here too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNOqu4vcDto
qingcharles 757 days ago | parent | on: Galaga – 30th Anniversary Developer Interview
Great interview. Nothing in the interview about the cheat mode, though :)
- bmonkey325 757 days ago
  First rule of cheat mode. Don’t talk about cheat mode.
  https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/the-galaga-no-fire-chea.../
qingcharles 759 days ago | parent | on: Why is the Internet so popular? The answer accordi...
In the early days of the public Internet, 1993-1994, my job in the "warez" crew I joined was to spend my days grinding through public FTP sites finding folders that had accidentally been left write-enabled and then create hidden folders using escape characters, e.g. ^H^H^H^H that you could only open if you knew they were there. Then my buddies could store all their MEGABYTES of warez in them.
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