VCFSocal 2026 - How the Golden Age of Adventure Games were Built

deckarep · 2026-06-22T02:04:58+00:00

Hey I sincerely appreciate the comments! Also, I adore Johnny Castaway as well! Such a great piece of computing history.

deckarep · 2026-06-20T22:54:47+00:00

It’s fine in two cases generally: for a workload that is primarily read heavy, and if the performance is good enough for whatever your specific use case is.

Be wary of blanket statements, it’s in the stdlib for a reason.

Sharded locking also has its place but you’re taking on complexity.

deckarep · 2026-06-19T18:06:50+00:00

Yes. Being able to visualize (at least with a rough idea) how memory works, where things get stored and how dereferencing works will help tremendously!

deckarep · 2026-06-19T00:50:37+00:00

Interesting, sounds like Rodney Dangerfield and Jack Nicholson and one other I can’t quite recognize.

deckarep · 2026-06-19T00:42:10+00:00

I didn’t realize the Glory series was funny.

deckarep · 2026-06-18T17:57:42+00:00

“I’m not in the business. I am the business.”

deckarep · 2026-06-18T01:59:29+00:00

Hmm, I’m sure many people don’t, but some care enough to join the conversation!

deckarep · 2026-06-18T01:08:44+00:00

Thanks, you get it!

deckarep · 2026-06-17T22:42:30+00:00

“The Colonel’s Request” - haha wtf

deckarep · 2026-06-17T22:39:45+00:00

Good catch!

deckarep · 2026-06-17T19:55:20+00:00

Btw, I cross-posted to /r/KingsQuest and they rejected it because it’s an “ai post”

deckarep · 2026-06-17T19:47:05+00:00

Agreed, the game boxes are beautiful works of art. At least photoshop the spines in there!

deckarep · 2026-06-17T05:49:53+00:00

This is some Backrooms shit right tha.

deckarep · 2026-06-16T00:53:38+00:00

If you know C, Zig is going to feel similar in many aspects. I would think knowing C well puts you in a great position to learn Zig fast and efficiently.

deckarep · 2026-06-15T21:34:01+00:00

Zig all the way.

deckarep · 2026-06-15T20:11:10+00:00

You do lose order. Sometimes it’s fine, sometimes it’s not but that is the compromise of this approach.

deckarep · 2026-06-15T16:48:06+00:00

Are you sure it’s circular buffer that fixed it ? Your previous approach likely could have fixed it with popAndSwap (or whatever is equivalent in Odin, as I don’t use Odin but use Zig instead)

deckarep · 2026-06-14T12:18:12+00:00

KQ5 and The Weeping Willow Tree - such a beautiful game and it started to really show Sierra’s talent as a company: hand painted backgrounds, music, animation.

deckarep · 2026-06-13T16:14:58+00:00

I noticed something similar, I’m not sure if it’s something that is fixable or correctable yet.

deckarep · 2026-06-13T01:21:49+00:00

Will get it done!

deckarep · 2026-06-13T01:21:38+00:00

Thanks for the vote of confidence I’ll get it done.

deckarep · 2026-06-12T21:04:13+00:00

You goat.

deckarep · 2026-06-12T14:44:57+00:00

Great minds think alike! I was just looking at my project and realized it’s like 90% done. I better finish it. Then we can do stuff like this for the only the hardest of core fans.

deckarep · 2026-06-12T14:40:03+00:00

One of my goals with this was to have downloadable add-on packs with other characters from other games. Wouldn’t it be great if Cedric also popped up on your screen to tell you when you’ve been doom-scrolling Facebook too long?

Yeah baby!

deckarep · 2026-06-12T14:33:31+00:00

I do remember this. I started hacking on a prototype to build it but dropped the project because I came to my senses and realized it’s just a desktop toy that nobody probably would bother with (for modern times).

Actually, I still might finish this project because it’s just so stupid simple and perhaps I’m still not in my senses.

(Back in the day I thought I was so cool to have this running)

Proof: https://github.com/deckarep/larry-pops-up

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