Various and Sundry: Now Everything But Photography

• The source code for Donkey Kong is now available.  One of the original coders even comments on it in the thread at the link.  Here’s some sample comments:

;;HISTORY: ;;
;;Nov ‘82 – IDS, initial coding ;;
;;Dec ‘82 – more coding, hair pulling, general cruftiness ;;
;;Jan ‘83 – schedule screaming, rampant insanity, accusations ;;
;;Feb ‘83 – semi-winnage, accompanied by cries of anguish and threats;;
;;Mar ‘83 – Lucifer announces a cooling trend

And here’s a quote from that aforementioned developer:

“I do remember that [Donkey Kong Jr.] was started in FORTH, and was an ego-driven disaster until that nonsense stopped.”

Somehow, that just shattered a bunch of naive childhood memories.

• Here’s another good reason the internet was created: so someone else could apply every Photoshop filter to one photo to see what it gives you.

• Your Flash Game for the Day: Split Words.  Given a playing board filled with word parts, match up two or three parts to form answers in the board’s theme. It’s timed.  It’s nerve-wracking .And it gets very hard very fast.