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Let's Adventure! A Journey into Adventure Games (1980-1999)

When I was growing up in the 80’s my favourite games to play were adventure games. I’ve always found myself going back to this genre, and as I grew up and moved into software development the ScummV...

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Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes - The "Equality - Sort - Range" (ESR) Rule

UPDATE DOCS-11790 has finally been implemented and as a result the MongoDB public documentation now contains a tutorial for The ESR (Equality, Sort, Range) Rule! Working in Technical Servic...

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Recovering a WiredTiger collection from a corrupt MongoDB installation

April, 1 2019: I’ve received a LOT of feedback on this article since it was published. I would like to point out that although the methods described here may still work, MongoDB introduced a --r...

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Frederik Pohl's Gateway (Legend Entertainment) - 1992

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Frederik Pohl’s Gateway is a 1992 interactive fiction video game released by Legend Entertai...

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The Legend of Kyrandia: Fables and Fiends (Westwood Studios) - 1992

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. The Legend of Kyrandia: Fables and Fiends (or The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One) is a 2D poin...

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Dark Seed (Cyberdreams) - 1992

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Dark Seed is a psychological horror point-and-click adventure game developed and published b...

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The Black Cauldron (Sierra On-Line) - 1986

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. The Black Cauldron is an adventure game designed by Al Lowe of Sierra On-Line and published ...

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querySrv errors when connecting to MongoDB Atlas

If your application uses MongoDB’s Node.js driver or Mongoose ODM, occasionally you may observe errors such as querySrv ECONNREFUSED _mongodb._tcp.cluster0.abcde.mongodb.net or Error: querySrv ETIM...

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Lost in Time (Coktel Vision) - 1993

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Lost in Time is a computer adventure game developed and published by Coktel Vision in 1993. ...

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Adventureland (Adventure International) - 1982

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Adventureland is a text adventure video game for microcomputers released by Scott Adams in 1...

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Rendezvous with Rama (Telarium) - 1984

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Rendezvous with Rama is an interactive fiction game with graphics published by Telarium, a s...

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Blade Runner (Westwood Studios) - 1997

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Blade Runner is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Westwood Studios and published...

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Ripper (Take-Two Interactive) - 1996

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Ripper is a 1996 interactive movie point-and-click adventure game developed and published by...

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Manhunter 2: San Francisco (Evryware) - 1989

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Picking up immediately where Manhunter: New York left off, Manhunter 2: San Francisco has th...

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Improving the Node.js Driver’s SCRAM-SHA-256 Support

Cross posted from the MongoDB Blog MongoDB always strives to offer best-in-class features, functionality, and security. A number of authentication mechanisms currently exist to verify the iden...

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Uninvited (ICOM Simulations) - 1986

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Uninvited is a black-and-white horror-themed point-and-click adventure game. It was original...

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Changes to findOneAnd* APIs in Node.js Driver 6.0.0

Cross posted from the MongoDB Blog One exciting change that is coming in release 6.0.0 of the Node.js Driver is that the modified (or original) document targeted by a findOneAnd* operation wil...

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Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths (Nayma Software, Prograph Research S.r.l.) - 1999

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. This game is available for free from the developers at https://www.tony-tough.com/en/shop...

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How Many Connections is My Application Establishing to My MongoDB Cluster?

MongoDB Atlas is the best way to host your MongoDB data, but it’s important to be aware that like any other managed service there can be limitations. For example, MongoDB Atlas - depending on the s...

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Snatcher (Konami) - 1988

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Snatcher is a cyberpunk graphic adventure game developed and published by Konami. It was wri...