{"id":1628,"date":"2007-10-15T23:36:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T02:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2007-10-19T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T13:02:50","slug":"what-salamander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"What, Salamander?"},"content":{"rendered":"

B<\/span>y coincidence, I ran into videos of a guy completing the MSX game ‘Salamander’ (Salamander at Wikipedia<\/a>). The video is in 4 parts and doesn’t include the very first stage: movies 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a> and the end stage, 4<\/a>. I discussed this game earlier: yesterday<\/a>, last year<\/a> and the year before that<\/a>. Do I see a recurring pattern here?\n<\/p>\n

There were a couple of things I recognized while watching those movies: I could identify most of the player’s actions. One of those actions is to spread out the ‘options’<\/em> [or clones as they were called too, so once in a while] as wide as possible so that every corner is covered by your firepower. I also recognized at what point ‘enemies’ would come from behind, a thought I find creepy and that only because it has been too many years ago.\n<\/p>\n

While I’m on this MSX topic: In the early 80s, the MSX was heavily pushed by Microsoft (the company wrote the operating system [MSX-DOS<\/a> at Wikipedia] and the BASIC programming language) under the slogan ‘one standard for computers’. I discovered this old video<\/a> in which a very young Bill Gates explains why the MSX computers (both hardware and software) were the ‘logical next step’ in home computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By coincidence, I ran into videos of a guy completing the MSX game ‘Salamander’ (Salamander at Wikipedia). The video is in 4 parts and doesn’t include the very first stage: movies 1, 2, 3 and the end stage, 4. I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[188,187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}