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Less than an hour away from Marlow, NH, original home of PC Connection. Must be something in the water.


Changes that some applications made for Wayland definitely broke pasting for me. It seems Wayland added a separate clipboard so going between apps was a crapshoot if pasting would work. I haven't found a solution that covers everything at once.


Was there a fourth wife, or was she the Last?


>a simple and consistent experience

Has that not been Apple's entire marketing thrust since 1984?


For people who like LW for more than just nostalgia, Joe Dever's son is republishing all the LW books in a unified format, including a greatly expanded edition of Flight From the Dark using Joe's notes. They're also pursuing new projects, last year they published three new books set in the same world and a (non-game) anthology, and some other games through various partners.


>with isometric 2D graphics

I got excited because I thought I had missed something, but these are the same apps I've had for years. They're not isometric games, though some of the illustrations have a similar perspective.


Steam did in fact did remake a isometric 2D of "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain":

https://store.steampowered.com/app/324740/The_Warlock_of_Fir...

alongside the classic (static HTML images) book version:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/856960/The_Warlock_of_Fir...

Steam's marketing was seriously confusing; they bundled a lot of the SJG titles together ('Fighting Fantasy MEGA Bundle') and frontloaded the bundle listing with a 2D screenshot of Warlock so a casual read might assume all the titles had gotten that treatment. (Probably if they;d gotten more sales on the remade Warlock, they would have remade other titles too.)


The video for MC Frontalot's "It is Pitch Dark" has a cameo by Meretzky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE


Thanks for the trivia! I love Frontalot, and this is probably my favorite song by him.


The Internet Archive is your first port of call. For some reason I can't get any of them to load in the browser, but all of the systems are emulatable locally.

https://archive.org/search?query=infocom&and%5B%5D=mediatype...


Probably because JavaScript has been part of pdfs since Acrobat 4, way back in the last millennium.


Ads. Tracking scripts. Interface hijacks. Dynamics that change the page as I read it. A myriad of other poorly executed ideas that someone who considers themselves "very clever" thought were good at the time but only make my experience worse.


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