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Check out my favorites. I favorite comments about programming languages, operating systems, databases, and computer history and other interesting and amusing comments.

I have a website/personal wiki with a collection of links on various subjects: https://dbohdan.com/.

I edit my comments a lot (sorry).

My username means "connected to a network", not "network Ed". :-)

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Comment · 20 minutes ago
Thanks. No, I haven't played Sword Quest. The comments on the blog point out how it resembles Dragon Quest and Ultima IV for the NES, while Mark Hughes' page for the original Python 2.1 Umbra (https://mdhughes.tech/software/umbra/) says it's influenced by dungeon crawlers and console RPGs. I think that's the clearest visual connection. If Sword Quest uses drawing primitives to create its enemy graphics in vector, that's another.
Comment · 3 days ago
Neat. Shufflepuck Café has sound and seems to be fully playable. Its one problem is that Executor doesn't capture the cursor, so a rapid mouse movement causes the cursor to leave the screen and stop moving the paddle.

If you want to add more games, consider The Yukon Trail. Thanks to the magic of bootleg CD-ROMs, it's the Trail game I had as a child in Europe. It is probably weaker than Oregon, but it's worth a playthrough. Collections generally ignore it in favor of the more famous sibling.

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Thanks. Please check again; it should be fixed.
Comment · 4 days ago
Thanks! Glider 4.0 was one of my favorite games growing up. Hearing this made my day.
Comment · 13 days ago
I am. My desktop computing has shifted towards fish + vidir, but I use Total Commander for Android on my phone all the time. I have wondered why. What is the difference? Is it just the input method (easier to type shell commands on a physical keyboard)? Well, I don't think so.

The orthodox file manager was created for copying files between two disks. File management on my phone still follows the same pattern: copy or move something between the phone's storage and, for example, an SFTP remote. The remote directories are pretty stable; it makes sense to bookmark them.

Meanwhile, on my computer one-off mass copying has become rare compared to the era of removable media. Most of my mass file operations are moving files to or from a subdirectory in a code project or renaming them. This is an awkward fit for an OFM: you need to go to directory A, duplicate its path to the other pane, switch to the other pane, and then navigate up or down a level to directory B. A dynamic "parent directory" or "../foo/" second pane might help.

Comment · 14 days ago

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