Victim of Success
a Customer Success Manager's Notes to Self
A long-standing QuakeSpasm bug, an AI-assisted fix and a dispute that overshadowed both. Vittorio Romeo’s contribution raises an awkward question: when the technical solution holds up, why are we still arguing about the tool that helped find it?
The Amiga has no intention of retiring quietly. Amelinium and Tachyon are opening new doors to the modern web, bringing ambitious features and fresh possibilities to a much-loved platform. From YouTube playback to hardware demands and security caveats, here’s what these browsers offer.
Steam purchases, GOG favourites and Amiga classics need not live in separate worlds. Playnite brings scattered games into one customisable library, with controller-friendly browsing and tools to tame your backlog. Just don’t spend the whole evening choosing cover art.
AROS.games brings the Amiga spirit to a PC desktop built for play, demos and discovery. We explore its appeal, hardware requirements and Portable edition.
Saving Discord chats takes more than clicking Export. Explore the available tools, understand their privacy and account risks, and learn how to preserve messages and attachments in an archive you can still read years later.
TrackMania becomes an AI testing ground in TMNF-C, a simulator where trained agents chase medals and a fruit-fly-inspired neural circuit learns to drive, with fascinating, imperfect results.
An NES Doom prototype, a musical second life for the PS Vita, and new tools for familiar machines. Alterego Finds #003 explores homebrew games, ambitious ports, hardware experiments and preservation projects, celebrating the people who keep finding fresh possibilities in old technology.
Cancelled games do not always stay lost. Games That Weren’t tracks down forgotten projects, preserves their stories and sometimes brings them back to life. From disks hidden behind a radiator to painstakingly rebuilt adventures, this is gaming history with unfinished business.
Cooperative knights, unlikely ports and new adventures for classic machines. Alterego Finds #002 brings together 41 discoveries spanning homebrew games, practical tools, hardware projects and forgotten gems, because the past still has plenty left to play.
One Amiga, one screen, fewer cables to negotiate. RGB2RTG brings native games and demos to the same HDMI display as your RTG desktop, giving a PiStorm-equipped Amiga 1200 another useful trick, with a few experimental wrinkles still to iron out.
Lemmings invade modern Macs, classic games get fresh engines, and vintage computers refuse to retire. Alterego Finds #001 rounds up retro revivals, clever tools and new hardware, with enough floppy disks to postpone tidying up indefinitely.
The web moved on, but your Amiga can still come along. AmiFox lets a modern browser do the heavy lifting elsewhere, bringing contemporary websites, useful downloads and a little everyday convenience back to the machine you actually wanted to use.
That Commodore 64 game you always wanted to make might finally have a starting point. C64 Dev Machine combines visual programming, graphics editors and music tools in one workspace, offering an approachable way to explore assembly language and turn an old idea into something playable.
A grey window, a button and an idea: sometimes that is enough to lose an evening in the best possible way. VB6 Studio Web brings the familiar pleasures of Visual Basic into your browser, inviting returning tinkerers and curious newcomers to make something small, useful and entirely their own.
Vampire V4 or V4+ refusing to boot, ignoring your CF card or misbehaving after an update? This practical troubleshooting guide covers storage, display, peripherals, graphics, software compatibility, firmware updates and recovery, starting with the safest checks first.
Leisure Suit Larry on the NES, Halo on the Atari and Portal on the Apple II: meet the unlikely ports, ingenious demakes and peculiar adaptations that sent familiar games to unfamiliar homes.
Three retro projects prove old games still have new tricks: Mega Drive VR gives classic 16-bit worlds fresh depth, Monster World RPG turns Wonder Boy nostalgia into a fan-made adventure, and BBC Micro reverse-engineering opens the code behind the magic.
GentleOS/16 and GentleOS/32 give vintage PCs a fresh reason to boot, with lightweight interfaces, classic games, simple utilities and an open-source spirit built for retro hardware enthusiasts.
Fix the ten most common QEMU problems, from KVM permissions and slow VMs to networking, GPU passthrough, storage and clipboard issues.
Remote Desktop greyed out in Windows? This guide ranks common causes, from Group Policy and Intune to Windows edition, services and firewall issues, and shows Microsoft-recommended fixes and accepted support solutions.
