If you look hard enough, most of the projects we feature on these pages have some practical value. They may seem frivolous, but there’s usually something that compelled the hacker to commit time and ...

Here at the Vintage Computer Festival, we’ve found oodles of odds and ends from the past. Some, however, have gotten a modern twist like [bitfixer’s] recent Commodore PET project upgrades. First off ...

Dwarf Fortress can now be played in real-time isometric 3D, thanks to a host of mods for a game designed to be rendered ASCII text format. Released in 2006, developer Bay 12 Games' Slaves to Armok: ...

Notoriously known as one of the harder games on the Internet due in part to its hard-to-read ASCII art style, Dwarf Fortress has now been given a 3D makeover thanks to the daisy-chained modders ...

Time to brutalise some @ symbols. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Brut@l is a modern rogue-like, which is by no means a rarity.