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The Roohr Way
Personal blog · blog.eamonnmr.com · on HN as EamonnMRgamesculture
The Roohr Way is a personal blog at blog.eamonnmr.com about games and culture. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The only comment is a reader's nostalgia for the Escape Velocity and EV Nova space games and their mods, with a link to the blog. It does not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I've written probably one interesting thing: http://blog.eamonnmr.com/2020/04/dont-remake-an-old-game/ A dire warning against fan remakes.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted The Cybergypsies (Indra Sinha, 1999) as a story · 43 points
HN discussionMy project was a 3d in-browser escape velocity clone (think Endless Sky.) It ended up with an impressive feature set, mediocre graphics, not nearly enough world, no real game loop, and no players: http://flythrough.space My mistake was building it totally in secret for most of its life. I worked on it for years focusing on adding features that maybe nobody wanted without validating the product/market fit or generati…
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on “Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned”Submitted Don't remake an old game (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was obsessed with EV growing up, and then found EV:Nova during college. Such awesome games! And the mods.. oh god, the mods rocked! Full Star Wars clone... it was crazy awesome. I'll never forget that red alien blob craft (IIRC, it was in the original EV), it slow slow to turn but very powerful, allowing configurations with ridiculous amounts of weapons. And then the stunningly gorgeous Kestrel ( http://blog.eamon…
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on “Endless Sky: GPL Licensed Escape Velocity Successor”Submitted Fandom Wiki Considered Harmful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWrote a sheepshaver how-to recently because I always have trouble finding links to everything: http://blog.eamonnmr.com/2018/10/os9-on-ubuntu/
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on “Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU”Submitted Flythrough.space Retrospective (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI got one of these as an emulation box because a retropi couldn't handle the N64 games I wanted to run, and for that purpose it's worked brilliantly. It's pretty cool that it's x86-I plan to try and do some WINE gaming on it as well which isn't possible on, say, a retropi. I haven't tried the official images, but it runs fine with the standard Ubuntu image. Setup notes: http://blog.eamonnmr.com/2019/04/atomic-pi-emu…
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on “$35 Atomic Pi Cherry Trail Linux SBC”Submitted Don't Remake an Old Game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBefore flash came to dominate browser games, there where Applets. The tooling wasn't there in the same way it was for flash, so it wasn't the same explosion of creativity. But there was some fun stuff out there, arcade clones, etc. I did a writeup of how to go and relive some of that fun: http://blog.eamonnmr.com/2020/03/playing-a-90s-web-game-in-t...
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on “The End of Applets”The Kestrel in Nova is a copy of the Kestrel from the original EV, which itself was a copy of the Estes 'Corsair' model rocket kit, see: https://blog.eamonnmr.com/2018/02/estes-rockets-and-escape-v...
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on “Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat”
