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The Ancient Gaming Noob
Personal blog · tagn.wordpress.comgamesculture
The Ancient Gaming Noob is a personal blog at tagn.wordpress.com about games and culture. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this retro-computing blog for posts on vintage hardware and old software, such as a 1990s tech-support anecdote and a write-up of the game Spaceship Warlock.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Veni, Vidi, Scripsi
What Hacker News says?
From the screenshot after the picture of the battery and a picture of a circuit diagram, we can see that the fax software is from Global Village ("GlobalFax PowerPort/Mercury Duo", probably v2.5) GlobalFax had a terminal emulator app included, most likely ZTerm, in this case. from https://tagn.wordpress.com/2023/09/10/tech-support-at-the-vi... : " the absolute garbage terminal emulator software we were including in…
Comment linking /2023/09/10/tech-support-at-the-village/
on “How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop”Submitted Jenny and the FCC (2023) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI do not mind the minecraft aesthetic, but it feels a bit weird if all voxels evolved into was that. Most promising showcase (for its time) that I know of was Delta Force from 1998 in which the landscape geometry was vastly more detailed. But then again I haven't been paying attention and might be missing many obvious examples. I'm guessing graphics hardware decided against it but are there more modern showcases? Or…
Comment linking /2013/08/07/delta-force-a-memory-of-voxels/
on “Minetest: An open source voxel game engine”Submitted The End of Electronic Arts Is at Hand as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSpaceship Warlock! Thank you for reminding me of this title. Sometimes I think about it but couldn’t remember the name. It’s hard to explain today why it felt so advanced in 1991. The fact that it ran from CD on the expensive, exotic Macintosh II while other games were low-res and loaded from floppies on MS-DOS or Amiga was a big factor. Here’s a nice blog post about the game: https://tagn.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/r…
Comment linking /2012/09/10/remembering-spaceship-warlock/
on “Spycraft: The Great Game, Part 2”Submitted Remembering Spaceship Warlock (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memories of a Checkstand Lifestyle (2021) as a story · 1 points
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