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Retrocomputing

Point-and-Click Adventure Engine Family Tree: From Mystery House, MacVenture, AGI/SCI, SCUMM, ScummVM, AGS, and Beyond

A deep dive into the history and technical lineage of point-and-click adventure engines, from early graphic adventures and Sierra’s AGI/SCI systems to LucasArts SCUMM, ScummVM, AGS, Wintermute, Visionaire, Unity, Godot, and modern narrative-game frameworks. This family tree separates true engine lineage from influence, reimplementations, tools, and parallel adventure-game ecosystems.

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Projects

AE Find WebLinks

Discover and extract web links effortlessly with AE-Find-WebLinks — a powerful pure PowerShell crawler and link extractor that requires no browser.

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Retrocomputing

Apollo Vampire Lair and the Many Lives of the Amiga

The Amiga never really died – it fractured into many futures. From Commodore’s collapse to today’s emulators, FPGA projects, PowerPC systems, and Apollo Vampire machines, this article follows the strange afterlife of a beloved platform and the community still trying to move it forward.

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Gaming

The Secret of Monkey Island – Walkthrough

A spoiler-friendly golden walkthrough for The Secret of Monkey Island, covering the fastest path, optional jokes, full insult sword-fighting answers, strange curiosities, fake deaths, root beer ghosts, rubber trees, and the legendary T-shirt treasure.

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Social Media

Halupedia: The Fake Wikipedia That Knows It Is Lying

Halupedia is a fake AI-generated encyclopedia that turns hallucinations into entertainment. It looks serious, sounds academic, and invents entire worlds with fake confidence; funny, clever, and slightly terrifying in the age of AI-written rubbish.