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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’vd actually been using a copy of this book from @archive.org to teach myself Pascal (no dragons coded yet).

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Cyningstan @cyningstan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A new tactical combat game for #msdos has been released! #StarCadre Team Command puts you in charge of a squad of elite operatives in the far future, conducting special missions on behalf of an interstellar civilisation. Get it from cyningstan.itch.io/star-cadre-t... #ibmpc #cga

A collage of screenshots of Star Cadre: Team Command against a background image. The background images shows the K-53 modified fighter craft in the foreground, that takes the away team on their missions, on a landing pad beside its hangar, with planting around, a city scape behind, mountains in the far distance. The screenshots are all in 4-colour CGA. They include: the title screen which is a 4-colour version of the background image, a mission taking place in an industrial complex, and the personnel screen where a new recruit is being added to the team.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I'm Paul Page, from Papyrus, this is IndyCar Racing" (I'm not Paul Page, he just introduces this game)

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The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🎮 Help us map the UK’s videogame heritage We’ve launched the UK’s first nationwide survey of videogame-related collections, and we want to hear from developers, publishers, studios, collectors and industry professionals. Take part: forms.gle/z9a1qhVopYMT...

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Behind the Screens: UK Videogame Preservation Survey

The Behind the Screens survey intends to establish a general picture of what videogame related collections already exist in the UK, and to assess levels of awareness towards videogame preservation and...

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I really need journalists to learn that every time OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI says that their model has broken containment and could destroy humanity that it’s a marketing pitch by companies running out of cash with high overheads and no profitable business model wanting more investment.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I haven’t owned many consoles, but the GameCube was my favourite. Played Resident Evil 4 and ended up working my way backwards through the rest, and so many hours on SSX3 (what a soundtrack). Still regret selling it (although I kept the games to play on the Wii).

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh, Hi new follower, I’m a Senior non-AI Engineer and you’re welcome to stick around and learn how the real professionals do things. Could be useful now the bubble’s about to burst.

A Bluesky bio of a “Senior AI-first software engineer”

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

LLMs can only look back at the dataset they were trained on. They cannot create anything new, that requires actual human creativity.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Absolutely spot on with this: “To forego the absurd amount of resources that people have built up over the past couple of decades, and shared openly with the public, and instead sing the praises of systems owned and controlled by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google? And to call that democratizing?”

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Finding out the Zork plagiarist is an actual professor, who would be the first to cry foul if someone took his work and failed to cite him…

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 03/09/2026

It is interesting to consider that in our digital age our physical goods have become the simulacra; copies that represent something that was once real, now without function, that we buy to experience the feeling of owning something outright

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RPG towns @rpgtowns.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I love this website. You could be paying $70 for a game, or you could be playing games so obscure nobody even bothers to sell them to you anymore.

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Sean Jordan | Sharing Great Games You Probably Never Played! @greatestgames.substack.com · 02/09/2026

I not only refuse to believe business must be done this way, but I'd argue we as gamers need to develop strong, unified principles to say, "I will not support publishers that treat their game devs this way." Microsoft is among the worst and most abusive when it comes to layoffs.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Doom has been a toxic franchise to work on over the years. These messages are hidden "Easter Eggs" from Doom 3, of workers apologising to their families. It's tragic, seeing all those personal moments lost, just for a game...

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A very interesting read, featuring the anti-US sentiment of the 80s, fueled by acts of US terrorism, and over the top censorship in Europe. Thank goodness we’ve all moved on from those times…

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

4.6 million scabs. No wonder the game industry’s in such a state…

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I've been trying to teach myself Turbo Pascal, so this looks like a chance to show off my (lack of) skills. Maybe you could join too?

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cole Dröws, with permission from the rights holder, released the unpublished UK English version of Blackout. Blackout is a 1997 non-linear point-and-click psychological horror game filmed on Beta with hand crafted sets and stop motion puppets. coledrows.itch.io/blackout

coledrows.itch.io

Blackout 97 by Cole Dröws

Escape your fate - if you can

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Not dunking on the OP here, but Mirror's Edge is a timeless masterpiece that could never be remastered.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just got an email from GOG offering me a special discount.... on some of these over inflated prices. I'll pass, thanks.

Descent, Descent 2, Descent 3, Freespace 2 and Redneck Rampage, with a discount of 25-35% which still makes them significantly more expensive than they were a few months ago before a huge price increase.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

On a similar note, if the page on itch.io for your indie game contains AI-generated images I'm going to assume the code isn't yours either. Saw a text adventure game that did this, FFS, just describe your game with text as well... Wof3D on C64, sounds too good to be true, it is....

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Shen Yun Battle Pass @shenyunbattlepass.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

i can't confirm for sure but i absolutely have a hunch that some asshat asked ChatGPT "list popular modern game mechanics" and it spat out skill trees and crafting

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Or you could just play the original using something like TRX - Tomb Raider Community Edition* and save yourself spending another £50 for features you don't really need. * other open source re-implementations are available, I just prefer this one github.com/LostArtefact...

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GitHub - LostArtefacts/TRX: Open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider I, Tomb Raider II and Tomb Raider III, along with additional enhancements and bugfixes

Open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider I, Tomb Raider II and Tomb Raider III, along with additional enhancements and bugfixes - LostArtefacts/TRX

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yes! See, this is what I'm talking about. Here's a presentation about Swiss computer game history in English. More stuff like this needs to come from places that aren't America or Japan. youtu.be/e6Krl2CE3eg

youtu.be

VCFSO25: Video games in Switzerland? Yes for over 50 years!

YouTube video by BBSindex

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Saber Interactive might, by strange coincidence, have a HR and payroll management system called Claude, where he looked up the details of an ex-employee. Or, he might be a complete and utter clown. I know which my money's on.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Another excellent video, hopefully reaching a few more eyeballs. I very much subscribe to the belief that we all have the agency to shape the computing landscape (not just gaming) and, to borrow the phrase, need to keep striking matches in the darkness whenever we can.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A recent thing I added is a Goodreads list of books on video games with a more global perspective: www.goodreads.com/list/show/42... I'll keep saying that "Gaming the Iron Curtain" is one of the most interesting books I've ever read. It really helps you see video games from a different perspective.

Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games
by Jaroslav Švelch

Ocho Quilates 2: Una historia de la Edad de Oro del software español

Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents Épopée - Tales from French Game Developers

Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations

Souvik Mukherjee

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My Abandonware @myabandonware.com · 08/08/2026

Yet another interesting game is on giveaway. Breathedge 2 enters Early Access soon, and on that occasion the developers give away for free the first Breathedge - space survival game with a lot of dark humor and chickens. Take it for free until August,9, 17:00 UTC store.steampowered.com/app/738520

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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026

You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Going off on a tangent, my favourite quiz question is about cheese, from You Don't Know Jack (1995), the one about which cheese would win a fight in a delicatessen. To this day, I still say "Parmesan, it's a hard, hard cheese" in the tone of Paul Kaye (the quizmaster in the UK version of the game).

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's always good to have this perspective, because not long ago EA declared they were a Blockchain company and heralded play to earn as the future of the industry, and that future quickly evaporated.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Cheat when they win (78 & 86), sore losers when they don't. #SPAARG

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The next time there's an NFL game in London we should make them play all the way through with only a 15-minute half-time break, that everyone spends queuing for a lukewarm pie/beer. 🙄 #WorldCup26 #WCfinal #SpaArg #EspArg

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My Abandonware @myabandonware.com · 18/07/2026

A narrative role-playing adventure game The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is currently free on Steam! Add it to your account until July, 23, 17:00 UTC to keep it forever store.steampowered.com/app/1272160/...

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I always felt like the long sprawling Thieves Guild level broke the flow the game, so this is good, even if the other 'Gold' missions were quite good. GOG doing exactly what they should be doing with old games.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thomas Tuchel at half time against Croatia, “if we lose we lose our way”. Well, tonight that was certainly the case. #ENGARG

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Seven men carry out a detailed risk assessment before having a fight in 16th century Japan.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Completely agree with this, can't go wrong with the venerable TXT file. HEIC on the other hand, Apple's way of making photos smaller and everything else more complicated than it needs to be.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The problem here is that the Western AAA industry isn't "the only world we've ever known or can conceptualise"... Most people have been living in a very different world for over a decade. It's games media that actively chose to stay in Geoff Keighley's PR Dreamland, where 2012 never ended...

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Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 07/07/2026

(PCDD) Silence is Free via GOG. #ad ow.ly/Oy6N50Zl6zb

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Skybox gave me space to talk about decoupling your enjoyment of video games from the release schedule, by looking backwards at what's new to you. Emulate, mod original hardware, borrow, pirate, I don't care how you do it. There's more to games than a future filled with $1,000 consoles.

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~/Mr Abandonware @mrabandonware.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

How am I supposed to get in 2 hours sleep after that!? #MEXENG

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We should just follow the same rules: if a game isn't commercially available for 36 months, it's abandonware.

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GOG.COM @gog.com · 03/07/2026

[GIVEAWAY] Nexus: The Jupiter Incident is now FREE ON GOG for 3 days. 🚀 No DRM, Yours to keep forever! 🫡 bit.ly/giveawayjupiter

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