Now is bad too, but my recollection is that the iPhone 3G-era task killer was EXTREMELY aggressive and required "tricks" to keep your state in the one app you could run

Maggot Brain begins with on-the-nose apocalyptic imagery, but ends with a release and rebirth. One day, the fighting stops.

I did this and considered it the easy way of installing an OS on a Mac circa 2011 vs. DVD then messing around updating that ...

> Plug USB stick into target Mac, copy installer to desktop, run it

Apple has a whole page on making a bootable USB, it can save you a step: https://support.apple.com/en-us/101578

If the bootable USB even works. Monterey won't, or any out of support OS.

Being good at driving doesn’t fix the huge blind spot you have behind your car

Valve updates HL1 every few years so it runs on contemporary platforms. DOS was ancient history by the time HL came out, you might be getting it mixed up with Quake1

a lot of the changes and updates to articles since Sheldon Brown died are controversial, I recommend checking out an old version on the Wayback machine

> Also happy to see this classic RTS is still being played and even developed by the community. I'd be curious to know what the age of people this invested into the game is, if it's all 30+ year old boomers with nostalgia and knee pain

There's enough of a community to support a yearly World Series with $25K cash awards in 2025!

IIRC 25k is not that much by major e-sports standard of today. Do you know if they're playing the original gold release of the game or some modded variant?

It’s not too shabby for an abandoned 20+ year old game

The source code release changes everything, but they used to play on a mod (GenTool) with the ruleset from the final retail release.

The current meta is almost balanced so most attempts to improve it generally fail

It was just called the Half-Life engine then. It was developed in parallel with Q2, and in general has feature parity with Q2, with a few huge features that they were able to add because of the extra year of development like skeletal animation.

Commonly known as the Su-Fami!

Compare Nintendo 64 = Roku-Yon (Six-Four) and PlayStation = Pure-Sute

I’m sure they are really hard to find for free on the internet

At that point you should just pirate the game, and in that case why are we even discussing source code availability?