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  A new blog entry of mine, where we dive into a mysterious comment at the beginning of the 46-year-old BASIC source for the game The Wizard's Castle. For fun. https://beej.us/blog/data/mystery-comment/ #programming #retrocomputing #retrogaming

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  @pheonix@hachyderm.io I'm totally on board. And it's a beautiful construct--IIRC Ken coded it up in a weekend (don't quote me). The fact that it was so easy to add just lends credence to the idea that Unix is *Right* from the ground up. 🙂

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  Binary wordle. Good luck--you won't need it. https://wordle.chengeric.com/

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  "IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display" https://www.righto.com/2019/11/ibm-sonic-delay-lines-and-history-of.html #programming #retrocomputing #graphics