Zork. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Planetfall. A Mind Forever Wandering. Leather Goddess of Phobos. Sorcerer. Deadline. All the source code is there, as is a link to a manual that explains how the Lisp-like Zork Implementation Language, ZIL, works (scroll down to download it in PDF, epub, Kindle, and other formats). There's ( Read more... )

Very interesting story. This game, Glitch, was a browser-based (Flash) 2-D scroller that had a good fan base but never made a lot of money. According to comments, it required a lot of hands-on work from the programmers, that's probably one of the reasons for its downfall. It shut down last December. Well, the owners of all of the code have ( Read more... )

A couple of things in the news about the HP TouchPad, the WebOS tablet device that was blown-out in August for $99. The OS and the tablet got pretty good reviews, up until the point that HP decided to abandon all WebOS development at a cost to them of a billion dollars or so. It's the operating system that they acquired when they bought out Palm ( Read more... )