You’re right. It’s a great tool to have, and a much more efficient way to do lots of things than running a linux VM.

It’s real simple, see, just hold your passport up to your face…

If you strain hard enough, you can practically smell it already.

Beautiful!

Great post. The Internet Archive is a wonderful resource; I particularly enjoy browsing their vintage gaming magazine/fanzine collections, and reading old copies of High Times!

My experience with game development is fairly cursory, but I actually found Tic-80 to be a lot of fun, and a fantastic way to get used to game dev concepts without becoming too tied down learning about semantics (although, if you continue to pursue serious programming, taking semantics seriously and practicing them should definitely be part of your approach).

The main thing when learning any type of coding is that you’re learning to do things that interest you. After that, a lot of what you’ll learn is actually quite transferable.

So, my recommendation is Tic-80. Can I just ask, though: what passes for a “low end pc” these days? (I ask this as someone who was stuck using a Pentium 4 until September 2017, and so my current 2nd gen i5 still feels light it’s lightning-quick!)

It’ll be interesting to see if this changes the playing field for social networks in any significant way.