Hacker News: gxd

New comment by gxd in "Tim Curry has died"

gxd — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:11:04 +0000

Did you know some company made a Rocky Horror Show videogame in the 80s?

https://www.hardcoregaming101.net/the-rocky-horror-show/

New comment by gxd in "Starbase, LA"

gxd — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:02:30 +0000

If you don't mind the shameless plug, you may want to check my optimistic sci-fi visual novel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/

It's on sale now :).

New comment by gxd in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"

gxd — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:32:05 +0000

> You could get a PC for a thousand bucks back then

In the United States... In a lot of countries, computers cost a lot more than that in the local currency which, together with lower salaries, made computers inaccessible to most people.

I remember seeing people playing GORILLA.BAS in computer stores...

New comment by gxd in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"

gxd — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:06:02 +0000

For those who don't know why GORILLA.BAS is so cool... Back in the day, computers were expensive and games weren't readily available. Sometimes a parent would buy a computer for word processing or spreadsheets or take kids to the office which also had business computers. Children were curious about the computers but there wasn't really anything fun to do with them besides banging on the keyboard...

...Until you found the BASIC dialect that came with MS-DOS, that is! GORILLA.BAS was bundled with DOS and was a fun little game you could play in those computers. It's not like you could access web games on the Internet - there was no Internet!

New comment by gxd in "Everything I Know (1975)"

gxd — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:03:44 +0000

Shameless plug: Buckminster Fuller has a (not so small) cameo in my game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/

New comment by gxd in "Fermi Paradox"

gxd — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:23:15 +0000

There is no paradox because they are here already. Here she is:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/

Made for the HN crowd :)

New comment by gxd in "Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time"

gxd — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:59:49 +0000

One of my game's main characters is an Amiga fan and the Amiga vs ST rivalry has small cameo in it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/

That said, I've never owned an Amiga. I couldn't afford it. By the time I could, the world was already moving on to PCs and VGA...

New comment by gxd in "Cursed Gemstones – The Koh-I-Noor Diamond"

gxd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:12:19 +0000

Shameless plug... The Koh-I-Noor has an important cameo on my science fiction narrative game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/

(on sale now :))

New comment by gxd in "How the ZX80 Works (2019)"

gxd — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:32:38 +0000

Despite quickly becoming obsolete, the early ZX computers (ZX80 and ZX81) were a marvel of cost-benefit at the time. Most people had no access to computing of any kind... The difference between no computing and a machine that can perform thousands of operations per second is massive.

New comment by gxd in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

gxd — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:46:06 +0000

THANK YOU!

Can we now have all the Infocom games owned by Activision (which is yours) now? Pretty please? I know the source is available, but we'd like them with a MIT license (including the manuals, artwork etc).

PS: a couple of them could be harder, like Shogun, but it's okay to skip these.

New comment by gxd in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

gxd — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:45:29 +0000

It's because of the artists. The Amiga was a much more affordable art-making machine, so many artists made graphics ON the Amiga FOR the Amiga. There were even some good-looking VGA games that under utilized the PC's capabilities because they were essentially converted Amiga games.

Now for the shameless plug... My game's protagonist is an Amiga fan and the Amiga has a little cameo in it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/

New comment by gxd in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

gxd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:35:33 +0000

Believe it or not, but the answer is revealed in this videogame: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/

Spoiler: it's not Adam Back!

New comment by gxd in "Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation"

gxd — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:02:03 +0000

This reminded me of when people used to transfer games over the radio: https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/40-years-later-a-game-f...

New comment by gxd in "The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not (2024)"

gxd — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:06:38 +0000

I banned the Oxford comma in all writing within my individual business. In fact, I released an entire 100K+ word narrative game without using Oxford commas (I consider it a bug if I left any behind).

New comment by gxd in "An old photo of a large BBS (2022)"

gxd — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:45:24 +0000

Those were the days. I still believe nothing replaces the camraderie of the small, local BBSs. The large ones were good too, but these tended to resemble the modern Internet forums a bit more.

I miss BBSs and that's why I featured them in the story of my sci-fi game! If you are interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/

New comment by gxd in "SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection"

gxd — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:50:12 +0000

Not a movie per se, but one of the protagonists in my game is a veteran from the warez scene. He mentions BlueBeep, BBSs and Demoscene in the game :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/

New comment by gxd in "PC-Man and the spark of childhood wonder"

gxd — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:51:06 +0000

One word: SOPWITH

New comment by gxd in "Ask HN: Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth?"

gxd — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:23:52 +0000

My company's answer to your question: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/

New comment by gxd in "The sixtyforgan: a Commodore 64 with a spring reverb; chiptunes like a church or"

gxd — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:14:36 +0000

Some acoustic music instruments have fairly simple base waveforms which are "colored" by their shape and acoustics. I've once spent a few hours passing basic sound through modern effect VSTs with interesting results. I loved the video.

I left my Big Tech job at 50 to build a game

gxd — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:40:39 +0000

Article URL: https://galantrix.com/blog/20251112/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900034

Points: 5

# Comments: 0