More in-depth reads this week.

• Introducing Precursor.  This is neat.
• The unrealized potential of federation.
• 250M hard drive, 1979.
• X-COM, an in-depth history.
• Bergling’s Art Alphabets.
• The 20 greatest home computers – ranked!  Your opinion on this is probably already set.  (via)
• Software, maintenance, and me.
• Computer graphics circa 1981, a film.  (via)
• “I’ve narrowed down my open application list, and only half are editors!“
• The mystery of the malformed command-line flags.
• Behind the Scenes Footage of Mortal Kombat.  Nostalgia factor for some readers, I bet.
• Oleg Dolya Uses This.  Linked cause I didn’t realize the person behind Medieval Fantasy City Generator  and Pixel Dungeon was the same guy.
• Vintage Is The New Old.  New things for old computers.  I love the concentrated markets for very specific generations of hardware.  (via)

Your unrelated musical link of the week: The best Electronic music on Bandcamp, August 2020.