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~/Mr Abandonware
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I play and archive old games
PC, MS-DOS era to early 2000s Abandonware Enthusiast and Data Hoarder
Occasional C64, Amiga, SEGA & SNES gamer

Taking my first steps towards moving, permanently, to Linux.

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I’ve been wanting to write about SOMA and Philip K. Dick (in particular the opening quote of the game) for years now, but it would contain so many spoilers I wouldn’t want anyone to read it…
December 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Hope it runs nicely under Wine/Linux, it's been a real pain trying to install from an original disc.
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by ~/Mr Abandonware
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Is Zombeaver still around anywhere, it's been a while since their last upload? They were an inspiration for me to start packaging up games.

Collection Chamber on the hand, they seem unstoppable.
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I’m going to politely disagree, the way it plays and looks is all part of its charm*.

*Apart from the maze where you have to collect brains.
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We peaked with the 70s/80s Penguin sci-fi paperback covers.
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
30 years ago I was blissfully unaware of how poor the AI was, and loved it.

There is a patch to slightly improve it, but I don’t think I found it back then.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM