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Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) (filfre.net)
41 points by dpivchik 732 days ago
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Oh hey, I was the one who cracked the encryption scheme on Agrippa. A fun afternoon diversion! My writeup is here: https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/agrippa/
Nice work. Homebrew crypto and Lisp, sure a product of it's time.
Oh wow! I'd obviously heard about this (in the context of Gibson's bibliography) but didn't know about the packaging aspect or different editions. Also had never seen a recording.

Didn't realize it's so...spartan? Just a black-and-white window of scrolling text. In my mind it always had some VGA-style background graphics, and music, like a demoscene PC diskmag. But I guess 1992 might be a little early for that, and especially if you're putting something out for the New York art crowd, yeah do it for Macintosh.

It was partially created as a meditation on the death of Gibson's father who had died when Gibson was a child so I can see why it would have a very sparse, somber aesthetic.