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asie's blog
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asie's blog is a personal blog at blog.asie.pl about games and hardware. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “ZZT Stories: The Reconstruction”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its writing about ZZT, the text-mode DOS game, and the reverse-engineering of its lost source code by Adrian Siekierka. One commenter recalls playing it as a teenager.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- ZZT Stories: The Reconstruction3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-08-04
- Browsing the Web with a WonderSwan in 20232 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-19
What Hacker News says?
ZZT holds a special place in my heart. I played the shareware "Town of ZZT" as a teenager, made my own (very incomplete) worlds, and had fun with the programming language, ZZT-OOP -- a very quirky beast. Every few years I have a silly notion I want to write a similar game but with a real programming language like Lua (or one of my own creation). Then I sketch up the easy stuff for a bit, but give up as soon as it ge…
Comment linking /2020/08/reconstructing-zzt/
on “ZZT: Epic’s First Game”Submitted Browsing the Web with a WonderSwan in 2023 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOne of my favourite computer games was written in Turbo Pascal: ZZT, written by Tim Sweeney of Epic Megagames. It was a quircky text-mode game with puzzles, shooting, and so on. It had a built-in game editor that came even with the free shareware version, and it even had a little programming language called ZZT-OOP. ZZT's original source code was lost. Years later, Adrian Siekierka painstakingly reverse-engineered t…
Comment linking /2020/08/reconstructing-zzt/
on “Turbo Pascal Turns 40”Submitted Browsing the Web with a WonderSwan in 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ZZT Stories: The Reconstruction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ZZT Stories: The Reconstruction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ZZT Stories: The Reconstruction as a story · 1 points
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