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Alberto Marnetto
Personal blog · marnetto.net · on HN as alberto-mprogramminggameshistory
Alberto Marnetto writes Annali da Samarcanda, a personal blog at marnetto.net about programming, games and history. Since 2025, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Reverse engineering "Hello World" in QuickBasic 3.0”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Reverse engineering "Hello World" in QuickBasic 3.03 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-01
- The making of Don Matrelli's Legacy, a mod for Grand Prix Circuit (part I)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-28
What Hacker News says?
the same guy that created (800% Detail: Tweaking Stunt Island’s 30-year-old 3D Engine): https://marnetto.net/2024/11/20/tweaking-stunt-island
Comment linking /2024/11/20/tweaking-stunt-island
on “Supersight: Mod for DOS game stunts that increasing the field of view”Submitted SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts" as a story · 189 points
HN discussionthe developer Alberto Marnetto is responsible for creating this crazy mod extending the sight of view in Stunts making it look like a different game Blog: https://marnetto.net/2026/01/27/camel Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3stJfcK8A Forum-Announcement: https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=4404.msg100046#msg10... former SuperSight Blogs: Part 1: https://marnetto.net/2025/02/20/broderbund-stunts-1.html…
Comment linking /2025/08/13/broderbund-stunts-3.html
on “Stunts DOS game mod SuperSight 2.00 released”Submitted Supersight: Mod for DOS game stunts that increasing the field of view as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse Engineering Stunt Island with LLM as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 95 and a Case of Font Drag and Drop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse engineering "Hello World" in QuickBasic 3.0 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stunts DOS game mod SuperSight 2.00 released as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A mod for Grand Prix Circuit (DSI/Accolade, 1988) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Making of Don Matrelli's Legacy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The making of Don Matrelli's Legacy, a mod for Grand Prix Circuit (part I) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aids Info Disk: a playthrough of the first-ever ransomware as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse engineering "Hello World" in QuickBASIC 3.0 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse engineering "Hello World" in QuickBASIC 3.0 as a story · 1 points
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