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I remember the same from my childhood: being told off by my Mum for staring at something out of the window while she was doing the same. Mentioned it, got told off by my Dad. Did it affect me? I remember it 40 years later!

I have such fond memories of my time back in the day owning a MegaDrive. It wasn't my first or last games console, but it was my formative one. It was a time in my life when I was into video games (Sonic 2 being the only game I ever played to completion). It pleases me to realise there's still a community around the MegaDrive and - as others has said - this is so crazy but wonderful to see!

I do not and have never owned a C64, but Monkey Island is (in my opinion) one of the pinnacles of gaming so this effort to extend it to yet another platform is wonderful to see!

Fidonet was my thing from that era. I know it's nostalgia and I know it was a simpler time but I loved Fidonet and I've not come across any Usenet group, discussion email list or web forum that quite hits the same mark. Mind you, that was probably 30 years ago now...

NNW definitely restored my faith in RSS readers. Amazing software, I just use it and sync to iCloud, works flawlessly. Thank you NNW!

Sorry for an empty response but this, 100% this. As a person who is WELL over 6' tall, the very idea that the person in front of me might recline is enough to give me significant anxiety throughout a flight. I once saw a design for seats where the base slides forward if you want to recline - the idea being, if you're going to recline you're going to do so into your own space, not the person behind you. I'd be a big advocate of that change in seat design...

Oh that was way more fun than I expected! I feel I shall be playing this regularly!

Have you ever found anything which loads & plays *MED files properly? Specifically MMD2 format files from SoundStudio. I've also got loads I created back in the Amiga days, and I've still got SS itself running on an old laptop but would prefer something that could play/render them to WAV on macOS.

Haven't used this tool for many years, but when I needed to help a friend migrate his business email from the email services provided by a web host to Google Workspace (or whatever it was called at the time) this tool worked perfectly (admittedly, only about 3 fairly tame mailboxes).

That's amazing! My son is also 9 and while I haven't even attempted to teach him coding, he would probably enjoy playing this game more than writing one! My only comment is to join in with the rest of the comments here and say how wonderful it is to see this (genuinely fun!) game and to encourage him to do more!

I did a similar thing once (off my own back - I was young and naive) on a dead simple web app I wrote. I put a footer that said something like "all access is logged, unauthorised access will be investigated" with the current IP address to try to demonstrate that I had the data to do it. I didn't. And nothing of the sort was logged or investigated. I just hoped it would put people off!

Interesting (and cool) to see some support for tracker files in this. Probably a niche ask, but I would love to find a tool that can reliably convert files saved from MED/OctaMED/SoundStudio from the Amiga days. libopenmpt does support some older files of this type (and you can compile ffmpeg with libopenmpt support) but the stash I have of my own music from back in the day are newer and I have been unable to find anything to convert them short of getting OctaMED running again.

When I was about 16 and considering spending my hard-earned money on my first computer, I was drooling over the Falcon. I wanted to make music, so the built-in MIDI ports on the Atari computers was very compelling. However... my best friend at the time was big into the Amiga so in the end I got an A1200 (and never regretted it). But I still drool when I see the Falcon!