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Weihnachten steht vor der Tür und was gibt's Besseres, als in die Nostalgie des Retro-Linux-Gamings einzutauchen?

Mach dich bereit für epische Gaming-Momente voller klassischer Open-Source-Juwelen und den besten Shareware-Spielen wie Jazzy Jackrabbit, Descent und Quake!

Hol dir jetzt deine Kopie der TuxWiz Christmas Edition 2024 und puste den Staub von deinem Gamepad – es ist Zeit für die nächste Runde!

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Working on Cell Sword I have been on a modest dive into what makes Descent (1995) tick.

Being of the 90s it has its own file formats for levels and resources and also a format for grouping those all together. The extensions are porcine themed - .HOG, .HAM, .PIG.

Impenetrable to me of course but there is a healthy scene to decode them. Interesting in an anthropological way -- not the clean patterns we have developed around data exchange, serialisation and streaming today.

Enjoy the void..

Embrace the serenity
of glorious monotony..

For the final destination
of our restless
and never satisfied species
on this Earthly trip
through the indifferent galaxy
ends at a common exit
with a shared dust to dust destiny..

This oft difficult life to death transition
from warm to cold blooded stiff
can be made a little less severe
if we lessen our angle of #descent
and take the flat line glide path out of here