Great #70s lisp #ITS / #DDT / #TECO / #EMACS / #LISP #demo by kent last week in which I was using a bad microphone: https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/116509365146222450 if anyone missed it.
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Attached: 1 image Hey everyone, we are going to do the livestream around now #archive https://toobnix.org/w/c7AV5CfaYYJaX1gqV4B9L1 #lispyGopherClimate @[email protected] #demo of #teco , #ITS #emacs #peertube #live ! Going live in a few minutes, for some number of minutes. Retoots welcome. Will make the regular toot post ex facto at 8UTC Sunday (one hour from now).
a repost from sachac emacs summary, golden nuggets of vintage computing:
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Hey everyone, we are going to do the livestream around now
#archive
https://toobnix.org/w/c7AV5CfaYYJaX1gqV4B9L1
@kentpitman #demo of #teco , #ITS #emacs #peertube #live !
Going live in a few minutes, for some number of minutes. Retoots welcome.
Will make the regular toot post ex facto at 8UTC Sunday (one hour from now).
🤨 Thick As Thieves is arriving on Steam and Epic as a paid intro campaign for $4.99 on May 20, 2026. It's advertised as "at least four hours", 16 missions across two dynamic maps and six gear items, but console versions were dropped and there's no full game yet. SMH.
The publisher says this lets the team get the world in players' hands faster and keep flexibility to expand the project based on how people actually play.
🦖 Wilderdark, a first‑person stealth‑horror from Team Junkfish with survival mechanics. It's set on a mysterious island where strange ectoparasites take over dinosaurs and even plants; you play an agent sent by an organization chasing immortality, investigating vanished expeditions, including your parents'.
The game launches this year; a demo drops on May 7 and it's exclusive to PC on Steam. Expect stealth, careful exploration, sample...
I ran across and scanned an old document recently that describes the command set for TECO-based Emacs on the MIT ITS operating system in the very early 1980s, probably, although the document is not dated.
I think I either produced it, or had a hand in how it was produced. But in any case, the grouping and layout suits me in terms of describing why certain commands are related to one another, and making it easier to see why particular letters were chosen as mnemonics.
TECO was the language Emacs was originally implemented in, before it was ported to gnu. ITS was an MIT-written operating system for the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-10, a main frame processor whose architecture also spanned the TOPS-20 operating system (though I'm blurring some details).
http://nhplace.com/kent/History/emacs/Emacs-Command-Index.pdf
This is part of an ongoing project where I'm sifting some things in boxes at my house, trying to get rid of stuff I don't need. Some of it is getting scanned, other things just going to the trash.
#emacs #ComputerHistory #ITS #TECO #Lisp #KentsHistoryProject
⚡️Star Wars: Galactic Racer may launch without Denuvo, the Steam page's DRM mention has vanished.
The Steam description no longer lists the protection; devs Fuse Games and publisher Secret Mode haven't confirmed whether it's a mistake or a deliberate move. It's the second high-profile case after Bandai Namco. Analysts point to a wave of hypervisor-level cracks that shook publishers' faith in Denuvo. Launch is set for 6 October 2026, and NO...
🔥 Daniel Vávra picked the 2026 action‑platformer Replaced as his Game of the Year, and it's mostly about the visuals, not flawless mechanics.
Raised on Amiga classics, he gushed over the look of Belarusian studio Sad Cat: "There are so many animations and everything is hand‑painted... It's insane!", he told founder Igor Gritsay. Vávra did point out gameplay flaws: the hero feels a bit slow and jumps lack precision. Still, the stunning...
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