The Dossier

Writings by Chris Pressey. May be curational in nature (whatever that means.) May pertain to Cat's Eye Technologies, or may not. Articles marked (U) are under construction. Articles with a published-date are "frozen". All other articles are subject to change.

Articles Contained Herein

Meta

• A Note on Items of Note

Programming Languages

• Retrospective on Language Design (Jul 2010)
• Programming Languages as an Artistic Medium (Apr 2013)
• The Aesthetics of Esolangs (Jun 2013)
• An Esolang Reading List (15) (U)
• Production Programming Languages (11)

Games

• A Basic Theory of Video Games (May 2017)

• Perspective on Text Adventures (Aug 2017)

• Games of Note

  • Video Games of Note (9)
  • Commodore 64 Games of Note (8)
  • Apple II Games of Note (7)
  • Role-Playing Games of Note (9)
  • Text Adventures of Note (6)

• Classics

  • Classic Computer Games (6)
  • Classic Text Adventures (5)

• Lost Games (9)

• Recollected Games (36) (U)
• Some Modern Retrogames (4)

Retrocomputing

• Blurry Memories of DOS Programming (May 2017)

Music

• Computer Music Formats (U)

Art

• 20th-Century Visual Artists of Note (U)
• Some Notes on Drawing (U)

External Articles

• Interview with Daniel Temkin (May 2015)
• Bootstrap Zero (RetroChallenge 2015/07)
• Overview of a Story Compiler (NaNoGenMo 2015)

Implementation Notes

Articles are written in Feedmark format, which is a subset of Markdown for embedding curational information. Just as a Markdown file is still a readable text file, which is nice, a Feedmark file is still a readable Markdown file, which is still a readable text file, which is nice.

There are some scripts for managing these files in the script directory.

These articles will probably eventually have prettier HTML versions of them hosted somewhere like github.io or catseye.tc someday, but for now, being Markdown, they are readable directly on github.com.

There will eventually be a "master index" to be used when linking to entries.