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This Week on The Analog Antiquarian
https://www.filfre.net/2026/01/this-week-on-the-analog-antiquarian/
Published: January 9, 2026 16:57
Chapter 11: An Instrumental Truth On the Digital side, there will go an extra week before the next article, folks. Bear with me, please!
Homeworld
https://www.filfre.net/2026/01/homeworld/
Published: January 2, 2026 16:49
This article tells part of the story of real-time strategy. The first-person shooter and the real-time-strategy game, those two genres that had come to absolutely dominate mainstream computer gaming by the end of the 1990s, were surprisingly different in…
This Week on The Analog Antiquarian
https://www.filfre.net/2025/12/this-week-on-the-analog-antiquarian/
Published: December 26, 2025 14:52
Chapter 10: The Starry Messenger
Huge for the Holidays: Epic Interactive Fiction of the Millennial Period
Published: December 19, 2025 16:46
This article tells part of the story of post-commercial interactive fiction. After fighting the tendency for decades, I’ve finally learned to accept that I’m a bit of a conservative, if not a downright Luddite, when it comes to my interactive fiction — or…
This Week on The Analog Antiquarian
https://www.filfre.net/2025/12/this-week-on-the-analog-antiquarian/
Published: December 12, 2025 16:58
Chapter 9: A Late Bloomer
Mr. Roberts Goes to Hollywood, Part 2: The Producer
https://www.filfre.net/2025/12/mr-roberts-goes-to-hollywood-part-2-the-producer/
Published: December 5, 2025 17:42
This article tells part of the story of Chris Roberts. With the Wing Commander movie having gone down in flames, there was nothing left for Chris Roberts and the rest of Digital Anvil to do but go back to making games. This undoubtedly pleased Microsoft,…
This Week on The Analog Antiquarian
https://www.filfre.net/2025/11/this-week-on-the-analog-antiquarian/
Published: November 28, 2025 16:51
Chapter 8: An Elliptical Universe
Mr Roberts Goes to Hollywood, Part 1: A Digital Anvil
https://www.filfre.net/2025/11/mr-roberts-goes-to-hollywood-part-1-a-digital-anvil/
Published: November 21, 2025 16:42
This article tells part of the story of Chris Roberts. What I’d really like to do is a game where you could travel from planet to planet — and there would be hundreds of planets — with full 3D action. You could go down and explore each planet in detail and…
This Week on The Analog Antiquarian
https://www.filfre.net/2025/11/this-week-on-the-analog-antiquarian/
Published: November 14, 2025 16:46
Chapter 7: The Changing of the Guard
The Space Sim’s Last Hurrah
https://www.filfre.net/2025/11/the-space-sims-last-hurrah/
Published: November 7, 2025 16:44
This article tells part of the story of space sims. Amidst so much else, the 1990s saw the rise and fall of the narrative-driven space sim. The sub-genre was effectively invented in 1990, when Wing Commander dared to add a set-piece story line to the…