I imagine plenty of us had an idea for a videogame when we were kids and maybe got as far as drawing some characters or maps in a notebook. Mike Brixius went a bit further. Beginning in 1984, he started coding an RPG on a Commodore 64 with the working title Digital Dungeon Master, inspired by a couple of his favorites. He wanted to combine the limited-line-of-sight dungeoneering of 1982’s Telengard with the party of adventurers and overworld map of Ultima 4, and to set it in the fantasy world created for his homebrew Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

Now, decades later, he’s dug up the floppy disks as well as pages of both handwritten notes and printed listings with handwritten comments he abandoned some time around 1989. Some of the disks were corrupted, but others proved retrievable, and you can see footage from what he’s got working on YouTube. “I have bits and pieces of the project from various points in its creation,” Brixius says, “but they don’t all work together as you …

As the Diwali celebrations wind down and market holidays conclude, Indian investors are bracing for a dynamic week ahead with the launch of four significant initial public offerings (IPOs). The featured IPOs include Gandhar Oil Refinery India, Fedbank Financial Services, Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA), and the much-anticipated Tata Technologies IPO.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the capital markets regulator, has granted approval to Fedbank Financial Services, IREDA, EPACK Durable, and Suraj Estate Developers for IPO capital raising. These companies, which submitted preliminary IPO papers between July and September, received observation letters from SEBI between October 30 and November 10, indicating a green light for their IPO launches.

This year has witnessed a surge in IPO activity, keeping investors engaged with continuous listings and subscriptions. Analysts anticipate a bustling IPO market post-Diwali for two mai…