I love both the MT-32 and CMS versions of Ultima VI's soundtrack, particularly Todd Porter's contributions.

You can hear them all at the Video Game Music Preservation Foundation

Steve Ince, writer of the Broken Sword franchise, has announced his retirement.

I'm off sick, and was overcome by the urge to try to play Prince of Persia - the 2D cinematic platformer from 1989, that is.

In a remarkable moment of injustice and incomprehensible profit-avoidance by rightsholder Ubisoft, you can't buy it for modern desktop operating systems and the last port was in 2012.

Anyway, here's 2014 Dávid Nagy's unofficial SDLPoP port. The readme could be a bit more streamlines, but version 1.23 from the 4th of February built fine for me on Pop!_OS thus:

Download an archive from https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/releases/tag/v1.23
Extract it and cd to that directory.
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-image-dev
cd src
make all
[optional] sudo make install

"A look at several hidden gems for the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine, Game Boy Advance, Amiga and Ms-Dos PCs."

Games showcased include Legend of Kyrandia 2, Dungeons & Dragons: Order of the Griffon, Lady Sia, and a couple of Shadowrunss, among a much longer selection.

The whale's tongue in KQ4 is apparently... a great deal easier to overcome than one might have assumed.

(H/T @dosnostalgic)

A 1993 Sierra On-Line demo CD, including rolling and playable demos, information, and videos about the company's current game and software catalogue.