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Hi HN, blog post author here. Rather than just posting the end result that worked, this is my trial-and-error "walthrough" of building a container from start t

Hi HN, blog post author here. Rather than just posting the end result that worked, this is my trial-and-error "walthrough" of building a container from start to finish, in order to run several games from a while back. Hopefully, this can get you started with playing these and other games again, or discovering them for the first time! Let me know what you think and if you'd like to see more of this in the future.

Widdershin 6y ago
I think this is an excellent post, because you demonstrate an applied use of a bunch of excellent *nix tools, combined with a presentation of the mental model that helped you put it all together. I am largely self taught, and I didn't touch C/C++ for a long time, so there's a lot of stuff people might take for granted (like the use of ldd), which for a long time I had never encountered.
- mbrukman 6y ago
  Thank you for the kind words! Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
readwind 6y ago
Your email is nowhere to be found, so it's impossible to email you about typos or bugs. Typos in this case. Anyways search for: Thus, it is imperative to avoid giving these containers running old software no access to the network and remove the "no" I suppose? I might be wrong. Only one 'no' there, so it should be gone, afaik.
- mbrukman 6y ago
  > Your email is nowhere to be found, so it's impossible to email you about typos or bugs. Typos in this case. You're right, I don't post my email address on my blog, and yet it's widely available and discoverable (which leads to spam, so...). That said, you can find me on Twitter and LinkedIn, and send me a private message there. Public comments on HN also work. :-) Back to your original point: > Anyways search for: > Thus, it is imperative to avoid giving these containers running old software no access to the network > and remove the "no" I suppose? I might be wrong. Only one 'no' there, so it should be gone, afaik. You're absolutely right; that's a double negative—that "no" should either be dropped or replaced with "any". I'll fix that in a bit. Thanks again for your careful reading and letting me know!
  - readwind 6y ago
    :) glad to be of help. Keep on producing great things.
    - mbrukman 6y ago
      Just wanted to let you know that I fixed this (and a few other issues I found upon re-reading my post for the Nth time). Thanks again for your help!

Widdershin 6y ago

I think this is an excellent post, because you demonstrate an applied use of a bunch of excellent *nix tools, combined with a presentation of the mental model that helped you put it all together. I am largely self taught, and I didn't touch C/C++ for a long time, so there's a lot of stuff people might take for granted (like the use of ldd), which for a long time I had never encountered.

mbrukman 6y ago
Thank you for the kind words! Glad to hear you enjoyed it.

readwind 6y ago

Your email is nowhere to be found, so it's impossible to email you about typos or bugs. Typos in this case. Anyways search for: Thus, it is imperative to avoid giving these containers running old software no access to the network and remove the "no" I suppose? I might be wrong. Only one 'no' there, so it should be gone, afaik.

mbrukman 6y ago
> Your email is nowhere to be found, so it's impossible to email you about typos or bugs. Typos in this case. You're right, I don't post my email address on my blog, and yet it's widely available and discoverable (which leads to spam, so...). That said, you can find me on Twitter and LinkedIn, and send me a private message there. Public comments on HN also work. :-) Back to your original point: > Anyways search for: > Thus, it is imperative to avoid giving these containers running old software no access to the network > and remove the "no" I suppose? I might be wrong. Only one 'no' there, so it should be gone, afaik. You're absolutely right; that's a double negative—that "no" should either be dropped or replaced with "any". I'll fix that in a bit. Thanks again for your careful reading and letting me know!
- readwind 6y ago
  :) glad to be of help. Keep on producing great things.
  - mbrukman 6y ago
    Just wanted to let you know that I fixed this (and a few other issues I found upon re-reading my post for the Nth time). Thanks again for your help!