The Superfish malware from 2015 was the one I was actually thinking of, but I couldn’t find it quickly because the more recent examples were flooding the search results.

Here’s a few more examples of Lenovo thinking they still own the laptop you paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents

Fuck them both. Lenovo is the company that keeps shipping their laptops with spyware in the firmware.

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/millions-of-lenovo-laptops-contain-firmware-level-vulnerabilities

Civvie 11 did a review of Chex Quest.

It’s quite.

It’s been decades since the last time I read it in full.

http://www.pacifict.com/story/

For anyone wanting a read.

“Broke in” is a bit of an exaggeration. Their cards simply weren’t turned off and they managed to fake it until the project was finished.

Not Assembly, but HROT was written in Pascal by one person and runs buttery smooth.

Lots of good, new stuff in the boomer shooters. If you want to try something like Duke 3D, check out Ion Fury, which was made in a fork of the original Build engine. Seleco and Hedon for modern GZDoom stuff.