Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a well-researched piece of computing history on Amiga FPS games and Doom's impact.
What it is
A documentary by Stuart Brown (XboxAhoy) on the history of first-person shooters on the Amiga and how Doom's arrival affected the platform.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2015 to 2017.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec jewbacca · 2015-04 · on “A Brief History of Graphics [video]”
Highly recommended related video by the same person (XboxAhoy / Stuart Brown): "Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS" [this video]
Strong rec qwertyuiop924 · 2016-10 · on “Surprise Amiga Workbench 3.1 Update, 20 Years Later”
Amiga was a pretty cool system, and the fanbase had a devotion matched perhaps only by the lispm people. By the way, if you're interested in the Amiga, go watch Stuart Brown (aka XboxAhoy)'s excellent documentary on FPS on the Amiga: [this video] Actually, just go watch his whole backlog if you have any interest in computer history whatsoever: It's all quality work (and I do mean quality: well researched, and polished enough to go on television), and absolutely fascinating.
Recommends Gracana · 2015-04 · on “The 68000 Wars, Part 3: We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up”
If anyone is interested, Stuart Brown's "Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS" is a nice little documentary of the history mentioned above. [this video]
Recommends qwertyuiop924 · 2016-05 · on “Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source”
Fair 'nuff. And no, I haven't used commercial UNIXes all that much, but I have experienced plenty of Linux's warts. I do agree with a lot of those points, but containers on Linux just aren't there, systemd is a mess that's going to get pushed in no matter what we say, and there are plenty of issues to be had, although the ladder is true of any UNIX. If you want to know what the rest of the issues are, just start googling. And while you're at it, listen to some of Bryan Cantrill's talks. They are biased (obviously), but they're entertaining, and they do point out some things that I think are real problems (posix conformance (MADV_DONTNEED), and epoll semantics, mainly). Oh, and don't flame me
Recommends technomalogical · 2017-02 · on “Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished [video]”
Indeed, it has been argued. A great YouTube look at Doom's impact on the Amiga can be found here: [this video]