“Many sections have their own red Enter keys, and you realize that this keyboard is so big it enters the realm of information architecture — the various islands of keys are nothing more than a graphical user interface, small dialog boxes realized in an unusual medium.”
“This was miraculous. Messing with the FFT removed the [halftone] dots and nothing else — the image was still very sharp, especially if you compare it to the naïve blurring method.”
“It might be embarrassing today to admit that I learned my first bits of English from the three volumes of the adventures of Larry, a game series that even back then wasn’t particularly respectable. But this was the only such game I knew, school in 1989 was still exclusively into Russian.”