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Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS

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4 HN users recommended this documentary4 months2015–2017 score 5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Recommended as a well-researched piece of computing history on Amiga FPS games and Doom's impact.

A documentary by Stuart Brown (XboxAhoy) on the history of first-person shooters on the Amiga and how Doom's arrival affected the platform.

“go watch Stuart Brown (aka XboxAhoy)'s excellent documentary on FPS on the Amiga” (HN, 2016)

2 strong recommendations · 3 recommendations · Documentaries

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@jewbacca Apr 2015 Strongly recommends
on HN thread 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]
Related documentary on Amiga FPS history
@qwertyuiop924 Oct 2016 Strongly recommends
on HN thread 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.
Excellent, well-researched documentary on Amiga FPS
@qwertyuiop924 May 2016 Recommends
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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 for speaking in ignorance. I've been a Linux user for half a decade at least now, and I CAN say I see problems with it. I can also say, as a person who is programmer, that some of the things that Cantrill pointed out are actually evil. Note, however, that I don't claim Solaris, or any other OS is better. Every UNIX is utterly fucked in some respect. I just know Linux's flaws the best. By the way, I've been trying to get Amiga emulation working for a while. It basically works at this point, but the *UAEs are a misery on UNIX systems. Without any kind of loader, you have to spend 10 minutes editing the config every time you want to play a game. But if you're in any way interested in the history you lived through, check out [this video]
For those interested in computing history

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