wingi's comments

On: Archaeolinguistics and language deciphering in action-adventure video games

[wingi]

Missing the alien language used in the Commander Keen series is known as the Standard Galactic Alphabet (SGA).

On: A DOOM -based CAPTCHA for the web

[wingi]

Doom captcha is also not new

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

On: Beebdoom: Port of Doom to the BBC Microcomputer

[wingi]

This old news https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/doom-runs-on-acorns-bbc-ma... and a extra PI running doom with display on the bbc micro

On: Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF

[wingi]

This is just awesome!

On: Protect Your Site with a Doom Captcha

[wingi]

There are since 4 years

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

On: DOOM64: Doom on Contributions Graph

[wingi]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42190632

On: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Cassette Vision

[wingi]

You should mention that you mean the japan console market, not US.

In 1983 the US console market collapsed because of the many low-quality atari games and not-licenced consoles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

The NES was released in US test markets as the redesigned NES in October 1985.

[zetx → wingi]

"Epoch went from dominating the cartridge-based game market in Japan to a distant third practically overnight." is the third sentence.

[Gormo → wingi]

The entire article is so thoroughly Japan-centric that if this isn't being said explicitly, it doesn't need to be. None of these products were ever on the US market.

On: Ask HN: What makes the game Doom that special in a Software Engineering context?

[wingi]

It was the first famous 3d game and the renderer was so easy to adapt to any other system.

On: DOOM on a Business VoIP Telephone

[wingi]

Simply great!

On: Show HN: Resurrecting DOS – Bringing Classic Gaming to the Web

[wingi]

Funny, Disney owns the LucasArts adventures and used their license to let produce collectors editions by LimitedRunGames. So you will get a letter from disney.

These games are active sold and you offering orirated software.

https://limitedrungames.com/collections/lucasarts-classics