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The Computer Magazine Archives : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive edit / delete

For AG0700 students researching old games: archive.org now has a reasonable selection of British computer magazines, as well as American ones.

to ag0700 history magazines retrocomputing ... on 13 October 2012

Amiga Shopper Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive edit / delete

All of my favourite 90s Amiga magazine (although no coverdisks -- but I've got most of them anyway). They also have CU Amiga now.

to ag0700 amiga history magazines retrocomputing ... on 13 October 2012

Gamer/Law edit / delete

Lots of interesting articles on the legalities of game development.

to ag0700 games law ... on 07 October 2012

Bruce Eckel's MindView, Inc: Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel edit / delete

This C++ book comes highly recommended, and is now freely available. AG0700/AG0803 students may find this useful.

to ag0700 books c++ etext programming ... on 16 September 2012

The Hacker Shelf | Community-curated collection of free books for the intellectually curious. edit / delete

Links to online books -- generally pretty good (better than collections of cheap ebooks I've seen!).

to ag0700 ag0803 books etext programming ... on 16 September 2012

An Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation edit / delete

By Oscar Xavier Chavarro -- very comprehensive, with screenshots.

to ag0700 graphics history retrocomputing ... on 01 September 2012

Internet Archive Search: collection:getlamp-interviews edit / delete

Jason Scott's raw interviews for GET LAMP -- lots of well-known IF and 80s gaming people here.

to ag0700 games history if retrocomputing ... on 28 July 2012

A CS Professor's blog: Podcast assignments edit / delete

I like "Just read it aloud to me." as a way of getting academic writing right -- AG0700 students will probably get this next year...

to ag0700 marking teaching ... on 27 May 2012

How To Make Text Adventures edit / delete

Now, if only someone'd do a Python version of the Usborne text adventures book...

to adventure ag0700 games programming python teaching ... on 27 May 2012

Basics of the Unix Philosophy edit / delete

Some useful general programming advice.

to ag0700 programming style unix ... on 24 May 2012