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Ernst Krogtoft
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Ernst Krogtoft writes Retro365, a personal blog at retro365.blog about games, hardware and history. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, 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 these retro-computing posts as sources for details about old games. One cites them for the language of Lunar Lander (FOCAL), another for the Sabotage and Paratrooper clone history.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
I needed to know what language that is written in. Turns out it's something called FOCAL, as mentioned in this article about the game: https://retro365.blog/2021/12/02/bits-from-my-personal-colle... Wikipedia on FOCAL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCAL_(programming_language)
on “I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game”Submitted A Saga of Galactic proportions, the birth of Brøderbund as a story · 3 points
HN discussionParatrooper is effectively a clone of Sabotage, it looks like https://retro365.blog/2021/04/07/bits-from-my-personal-colle... It's interesting how much depth you get out of the additional mechanics, unsurprising the game itself was copied a great deal but coming up with engaging twists on seemingly trivial gameplay seems to have been a lot harder to replicate consistently.
Comment linking /2021/04/07/bits-from-my-personal-collection-sabotage-an-original-idea-in-a-time-of-clones/
on “Show HN: Not My Cows – Save your cows. Blast the meteors. Giddy up”Submitted MegaRace, CD-ROM, FMV, and the Multimedia Dream of the 1990s as a story · 2 points
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