BSD Cafe Billboard

https://cylog.ai/

These are games I originally wrote from the DOS/Turbo Pascal era through the Win32/Delphi era — running on everything from DOS prompts to Windows NT, 95, XP, 2000, you name it. Chunky dialogs, raw GDI graphics, text-mode screens, and all the charm of a beige tower PC.

Now, powered by Gemini CLI and Claude Code, each title has been faithfully re-engineered to run natively in your browser. No plugins. No emulation. Just the games, reborn. …

I'm not a game-player. This is serendipity. https://bsd.network/@dvl/117172923405570692 led me to:

• UTF-8 to HTML Converter - atopon.org

– thanks to @dvl@bsd.network. Seeing "atopon", I assumed Aaron Toponce.

I was wrong, of course! atopon.org is a division of CyLog Software:

… a software house specializing in Win32 utilities and games. Our programs are free for non-commercial use. We believe that people should be able to try and use computer software freely. This is how ideas become popular and better computer software is built.

Jolly

Linux 35th Anniversary - Linux.com

I'm three days late, oops:

• On August 25th, 1991, 35 years ago, Linus Torvalds announced Linux on Usenet as "just a hobby” : r/technology
• Happy 35th Birthday Linux : r/linux
• Today, Linux marks its 35th birthday! : r/linux

No 35th birthday celebrations in El Reg or Phoronix

Instead, I found something from its 12th birthday week:

Linux user and self-described cyber-conceptualist “Free” Lance Kaegle explained his absence in an instant message from his studio.

“I was organizing this boss techno-art project called ’Off The Grid,’” Kaegle wrote. “We were going to set up computer terminals in various parts of the playa and have people use them. Then we’d feed the binary data from those terminals into this fractals program that [Silver Lake, CA software designer] Ricky [Thomas-Slater] wrote. Those fractals would be sent, on the fly, to a group of exiled Buddhist monks I befriended online. The monks would transform the fractals into a temporal sand painting, the making of which we would webcast live to everyone on the playa.”

Added Kaegle: “But I had to stop working on the monk thing to finish up this Pam’s Country Crafts web site I’m working on. …” …

― No One Makes It To Burning Man Festival (2003-08-27)

Image: cropped from a Linux Foundation promotion (in the Wayback Machine)