Author: Jack Slater
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TempleOS and Bubsy 3D
Richard Mitton on Terry A. Davis’ TempleOS: TempleOS is somewhat of a legend in the operating system community. It’s sole author, Terry A. Davis, has spent the past 12 years attempting to create a new operating from scratch. Terry explains that God has instructed him to construct a temple, a 640×480 covenant of perfection. Unfortunately Terry…
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Steam Machines, Controller, Link up for Order
In addition to refunds, we have pre-orders available for the first three pieces of Valve’s Steam-appointed hardware. Steam Machines. They’re from third parties like Alienware, they run Valve’s SteamOS variant of Linux and play games on Linux via Steam or can stream games from a Windows desktop in another part of your home. If you pre-order…
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Steam Refunds
Valve just added refunds to Steam. CD Projekt’s Gog and Electronic Arts’ Origin already had similar policies. If you’ve played a game for two or fewer hours, and want your money back within the first two weeks of your purchase? You can get your money back. It’s great. Got an incomplete game in Steam’s Early…
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Tweetbot for Mac 2.0
Mike Beasley on the beautiful new version of Tweetbot for Mac: Tweetbot 2 fully embraces the Yosemite aesthetic that was introduced in OS X last year while still maintaining much of the same functionality and layout with which users are already familiar. Everything has been flattened, and timelines that previously sported a light gray tone…
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Two Game Developers One Premise
Patrick Klepek has this fascinating article covering two developers who come to find they’re working on almost the same premise for a game: Perception, where you play a blind person who taps a cane to see around them, was revealed last week. Soon, an email went around indie studio Tiny Bull. “Panic started to spread…