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A new era of computer gaming?

9 July 2026

One of the very first games that saw me glued to a computer for more than 8 hours was Adventure.

No fancy graphics, no multi-voice synthesized sound, no haptic feedback joysticks -- just man versus machine (and its programmer).

This was truly addictive stuff -- perhaps because all the visuals were created in your own mind by your own imagination and perhaps because this was in an era when home computers were still new and novel.

Whatever the reason, this was fascinating and addictive stuff.

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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