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Strand Games
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Strand Games is the company blog at strandgames.com, writing about games and history. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Magnetic Scrolls Original Games Source Code Recovered”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Strand Games for its posts on the Magnetic Scrolls text adventures, including recovering source code from damaged reel-to-reel backup tapes by baking them, and its remastered versions of those classic games.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Magnetic Scrolls Original Games Source Code Recovered3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-29
What Hacker News says?
While I've always loved the Infocom games, I was partial to Magnetic Scrolls: The Pawn, Guild of Thieves, Jinxter and so on. Magnetic Scrolls games came with a little bit of graphics (or, in the case of the later Wonderland game, a whole graphics environment, including a visual inventory you could drag stuff around in), and also had a more sophisticated parser. For example, if you had a green bottle and a brown bott…
Comment linking /games/thePawn
on “Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading”Submitted First attempt at restoring Magnetic Scrolls backup tapes as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSomeone just pointed out to me that some source code was recovered from an old tape using a baking method. Interesting! https://strandgames.com/blog/magnetic-scrolls-games-source-c...
Comment linking /blog/magnetic-scrolls-games-source-code-recovered
on ““Baking” damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again”Submitted Magnetic Scrolls Original Games Source Code Recovered as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHi everyone, Strand here; We're BAKING the tapes now. check it out. https://strandgames.com/blog/tk50-tape-baking
Comment linking /blog/tk50-tape-baking
on “First attempt at restoring Magnetic Scrolls backup tapes”Submitted Magnetic Scrolls Original Games Source Code Recovered as a story · 2 points
HN discussionStrand Games have remastered some of the original Magnetic Scrolls games (The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter so far) for modern PCs. https://strandgames.com/
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on “Ask HN: Great text based games to play?”Submitted The Pawn Remastered from Original Source Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Magnetic Scrolls TK50 Tape Baking as a story · 1 points
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