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2013.1-2015.3 (English)

This is a translated list of Finnish articles that have been published in Skrolli, issues 2013.1 to 2015.3. The links lead to the Finnish versions. We also have an up-to-date Finnish list of Skrolli articles for the latest information.

The purpose of this translated list is to give our international audience a glimpse into the Finnish edition. We also published English issues in 2016 and 2017 – for information on the English magazine, please see Skrolli International Edition.

Hacking

Unlock your ThinkPad (2013.1, p. 48)
Hidden bursts (hacking a wireless keyboard) (2013.2, p. 12)
SQL-injections – attack & defence (2013.2, p. 28)
The cost of security (certificates) (2015.2, p. 57)

History

60 years of Finnish computers (2014.1, p. 26)
Altair 8800 – the pioneer of a new age (2015.1, p. 64)
Fail! – Commodore (2014.4, p. 49)
The history of system files (2014.4, p. 70)
Internets before the Internet – the rise and fall of BBSs (2013.4, p. 34)
The telegraph – The Internet of the 19th century (2013.4, p. 38)
Memories of computer use (study) (2014.3, p. 3)
The C64 was not alone (2014.2, p. 24)
History of Soviet and Eastern Bloc computers (2013.1, p. 40)
To the Moon and back with computers (2015.3, p. 36)
Doomsday machines (Cold War computers) (2013.1, p. 12)

Far out

Build a super AI, conquer the world (2014.2, p. 32)
Building a computer in the past (2013.2, p. 8)
How a computer can model reality (2014.2, p. 20)

Book reviews

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (web only)
Bit Bang (2014.1, p. 44)
Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium (2015.3, p. 55)
Commodore Amiga: a visual Commpendium (2015.3, p. 56)
Koululaisen pelinteko-opas (Game programming for school children) (2014.2, p. 55)
Matkailua pelialalla (a comic about the history of the Finnish game industry) (2014.2, p. 11)
Ocean The History (2014.2, p. 11)
Sinivalkoinen pelikirja (Anthology of Finnish games) (2014.2, p. 11)
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (2014.2, p. 66)
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (2014.2, p. 66)
Verkko suljettu (The web is closed) (2015.1, p. 3)
Virtual Unreality (2014.4, p. 6)

Columns, editorials and opinions

Column – Henrik Kärkkäinen: Should I start a computing magazine? (2013.4, p. 7)
Column – Janne Sirén: Nokia returns (2015.3, p. 49)
Column – Janne Sirén (electric cars) (2015.2, p. 9)
Column – Janne Sirén (tablet computers) (2014.3, p. 7)
Column – Janne Sirén: An ecosystem for a computer magazine (2014.4, p. 15)
Column – Jukka O. Kauppinen (Amiga) (2014.4, p. 55)
Column – Jukka O. Kauppinen (joysticks) (2014.3, p. 39)
Column – Jukka O. Kauppinen: The best console never wins (2014.4, p. 65)
Column – Jukka O. Kauppinen (adventure games) (2014.2, p. 31)
Column – Jyrki J.J. Kasvi (The Commodore of the 2010s) (2014.2, p. 7)
Column – Markku Alanen: MikroBITTI in memoriam (2013.2, p. 7)
Column – Mikko Heinonen: No real improvement (2013.4, p. 17)
Column – Mikko Heinonen: We upgraded your device, it’s ruined! (2015.3, p. 15)
Column – Mikko Heinonen (Sailfish) (2014.4, p. 19)
Column – Ninnu Koskenalho: Coding for the kids (2013.3, p. 11)
Column – Ronja Koistinen: Everything is awesome (web only)
Column – Ronja Koistinen: How to translate computing? (web only)
Column – Tapio Berschewsky (Dwarf Fortress) (2013.2, p. 31)
Column – Tapio Berschewsky: Not playable (2013.4, p. 53)
Column – Tapio Berschewsky (spying on the Internet) (2013.3, p. 47)
Column – Tapio Berschewsky (Nintendo) (2014.1, p. 7)
Column – Tapio Berschewsky: A message to the readers of the future (2013.1, p. 33)
Column – Tapio Berschwesky: Break everything down (web only)
Column – A Senior Engineer and a CD-R drive (2015.1, p. 57)
Column – Ville Oksanen (2014.1, p. 31)
30 years of the “Mikrokivikausi” comic (2015.2, p. 64)
Letters to the editor (2014.4, p. 79)
Letters to the editor (2015.1, p. 66)
Editorial: Help the net addicts! (2015.2, p. 3)
Editorial: Enslaved by the electronic brain (2015.1, p. 3)
Editorial: Not only nostalgia (2014.4, p. 3)
Editorial: The search for the lost grassroots bit (2014.1, p. 3)
Editorial: The big picture (2013.1, p. 3)
Editorial: Games could be so much more (2014.3, p. 3)
Editorial: Half a century of Basic (2014.2, p. 3)
Editorial: Skrolli for the people! (2015.3, p. 3)
Editorial: Skrolli grows a backbone (2013.2, p. 3)
Editorial: Winning and winning (2013.4, p. 3)
Editorial: Because it’s worth it (2013.3, p. 3)
How a meme became a magazine (two years of Skrolli) (2015.1, p. 72)

Code

A short history of 3D APIs (2013.1, p. 20)
Homebrew development on consoles and home computers (2013.2, p. 20)
Coding on the Jolla phone, part 1: basics (2014.2, p. 40)
Coding on the Jolla phone, part 2: the probes (2015.2, p. 22)
Hacking the digital brain – Unlock the mysteries of neural networks (2015.3, p. 20)
Mastering machine code (2015.2, p. 36)
How to learn to program (2014.2, p. 12)
Landscapes with Perlin noise (2015.1, p. 46)
Programming language: Common Lisp (2013.4, p. 18)
Programming language: Forth (2014.3, p. 18)
Programming language: Haskell (2014.2, p. 62)
Programming language: Prolog (2014.2, p. 16)
Programming language: Pure Data (2014.1, p. 22)
Programming language: Rust (2015.1, p. 35)
Programming paradigms (2013.4, p. 12)
Programming for the Oculus Rift (2015.2, p. 60)
OpenGL programming, part 1: basics (2013.2, p. 34)
OpenGL programming, part 2: buffers and shaders (2013.3, p. 35)
OpenGL programming, part 3: textures & lighting (2013.4, p. 24)
OpenGL programming, part 4: your own graphics engine (2014.1, p. 48)
OpenGL programming, part 5: post-processing (2014.2, p. 52)
Panic code, the bane of a new programmer (web only)
A better binary search (2014.1, p. 20)
PDP-1 – an emulated trip to the roots of hacker culture (2013.3, p. 26)
A revolution in game design: professional tools for free (2015.3, p. 50)
Puzzle corner (2013.3, p. 19)
Puzzle corner (2013.4, p. 83)
QML, part 1: Basics of declarative user interfaces (2013.1, p. 28)
QML, part 2: Connecting to C++ (2013.2, p. 14)
Turning the Rasperry Pi into an old school home computer (RISC OS Pico and BBC BASIC) (2015.2, p. 52)
Sitting in the segment tree (2014.2, p. 36)
Shader programming – a form of occultism? (2013.2, p. 38)
An AI that ports MSX games (2014.4, p. 12)
Tunnel effects (2014.3, p. 60)
The outer limits of programming (2014.4, p. 58)
Unity 3D (2015.2, p. 48)
The building blocks of 3D mathematics (2013.3, p. 32)
Code formatting (2014.1, p. 12)

Culture

Chiptunes are alive and well (interview with Ultrasyd) (2013.2, p. 48)
The Amiga after Commodore (2014.3, p. 48)
How eSports became a thing (2014.3, p. 62)
Hackerspaces and the thrill of DIY (2013.2, p. 4)
How to set up a hackerspace (2013.2, p. 4)
IRC rules OK – 25 years of text messaging (2013.3, p. 51)
Ideological OS choices (2014.4, p. 68)
Kickstarter – a revolution or a pyramid scheme? (web only)
Roll your own cloud storage (2014.3, p. 14)
Three decades of ugly UIs (web only)
From the disk to the cloud (2015.1, p. 6)
Micropost – a pre-historic computing magazine (web only)
Why demos suck (2013.2, p. 14)
What’s up with classic computers? (2013.1, p. 22)
MODs are still playing (2014.3, p. 34)
The perils of translating software (2013.4, p. 8)
Programming for the kids (Linkki) (2014.4, p. 4)
Otaniemi pop up living room (2015.3, p. 16)
Gold for the best code (competitive programming) (2013.3, p. 24)
Game music professional: Mikko Tarmia (2015.3, p. 4)
Games as part of our cultural heritage – interview with the disaster planner for a video game archive (2015.3, p. 58)
A basically cool community (CoolBasic) (2013.2, p. 41)
Game music as an art form (2015.1, p. 30)
Skrolli in Silicon Valley (2013.4, p. 4)
The fight for the Internet: Liberators vs. restrictors (2013.1, p. 8)
The battle for IRC – from channel to channel with an army of bots (2015.1, p. 26)
The Finnish Museum of Games is a collaborative effort (2015.2, p. 70)
Stories from the BBS underground (capture files) (2015.1, p. 10)
Computer culture and gender (2013.2, p. 44)
From stick men to pixel boobs – the early years of digital erotica (2013.3, p. 44)
The future that we were promised (retrofuturism) (2014.1, p. 62)
The Unscii font (2015.2, p. 10)
Usenet – The legend is still alive (2013.4, p. 30)
Saving digital history (2013.1, p. 16)
A look back on 90s smut stories (web only)

Games

Abandonware (2014.3, p. 40)
Batmud: the veteran of MMOs (2014.1, p. 4)
Dwarf Fortress (2013.2, p. 24)
Fail! – Apple Pippin (2013.3, p. 30)
Fail! – Atari Jaguar (2013.1, p. 15)
Fail! – CD-i, 3DO and Nuon (web only)
Fail! – Interactive movies (2013.4, p. 69)
Fail! – Konix Multi-System (2013.2, p. 32)
Fail! – Console software formats (2014.3, p. 66)
Fail! – From computer to console (2014.1, p. 60)
Fail! – The sad story of movie licences (2015.1, p. 54)
Fail! – Neo Geo (2015.2, p. 12)
Fail! – Sega (2014.2, p. 58)
The first Star Wars game (2013.3, p. 40)
Everdrive – expand your classic console (2015.3, p. 46)
Fan translations (2013.4, p. 54)
FreeCiv Longturn (2013.4, p. 44)
The start of a FreeCiv Longturn game (web only)
Jumping kicks and shurikens (fighting games) (2014.3, p. 52)
Illuminatus – the best game in the world is still alive (web only)
The finest indie adventures (2015.1, p. 22)
A look at Amiga classics (2014.4, p. 45)
Heroes of the final frontier (space simulators) (2014.4, p. 26)
The legends return: The heirs of Ultima and Wasteland (2013.4, p. 48)
To the Moon and maybe even back (2015.3, p. 32)
The best of the roguelikes (2013.3, p. 48)
The armchair emperor’s new clothes (2013.1, p. 4)
How Division Cell was made (2013.4, p. 66)
Saviours of the arcade machines (pinball technician Toni Caven) (2014.3, p. 22)
Game showcase: Aikaetsivä (2014.1, p. 57)
Game showcase: Covert Action (2014.4, p. 4)
Game showcase: Flowstorm – cave racing (web only)
Game showcase: Hidden Agenda – playing politics (web only)
Game showcase: Mari0: Portal brothers (web only)
Game showcase: MIT Game Lab: A Slower Speed of Light (http:, p. )
Game showcase: Will You Ever Return: Greetings from Hell (web only)
Game design philosophy, part 1 (2014.2, p. 50)
Game design philosophy, part 2 (2014.3, p. 58)
Game design philosophy, part 3 (2014.4, p. 66)
Politics in games: Liberal Crime Squad (web only)
Porno games (2015.1, p. 16)
Ritman’s Batman and the rest of the Bat-games (2014.1, p. 52)
A random ranger, part 1 (Nordic the Incurable) (2015.2, p. 66)
A random ranger, part 2 (Nordic the Incurable) (2015.3, p. 64 )
Adventure games in the present day (web only)
A more challenging Mario (modding Super Mario World) (2013.4, p. 62)
The thrill of the speedruns (2015.2, p. 20)
Text adventures – from puzzles to interactive fiction (2013.4, p. 58)
LAN gaming – a renaissance in the making (web only)

DIY

Control your Arduino – Editable UI for a microcontroller (2013.3, p. 16)
An Arduino to control your sauna (2013.1, p. 46)
Exactum greenhouse (2014.1, p. 15)
Entry-level soldering (2014.2, p. 46)
Reader project: Nintoaster (2015.1, p. 65)
Reader project: my own laptop (2014.4, p. 25)
A student project in space (Aalto-1) (2014.4, p. 16)
Visual simulation (2014.1, p. 32)
One-night project: Joystick tester (2015.3, p. 68)

Hardware

Dust off your Amiga 500 (2014.4, p. 36)
An introduction to the Framemeister scandoubler (web only)
A short introduction to Japanese home computers (web only)
Tune up your C64 (2015.1, p. 12)
Using floppy disks with modern PCs (2014.2, p. 38)
More storage space in your Amiga (2015.3, p. 38)
Micrometer precision (laser cutter) (2014.2, p. 4)
The history of programmable LEGO (2013.2, p. 22)
Putting blocks on the screen (video chips) (2014.4, p. 72)
Supercomputers (2014.1, p. 38)
The rivals of the C64: MSX (web only)
Testing the Oculus Rift – your ticket to the world of VR (2013.3, p. 4)
Beautiful, forgotten Unix hardware (2015.2, p. 16)
Vampire 600 (Accelerator card for the Amiga) (2014.1, p. 58)
Salvaging viable hardware (2014.1, p. 8)
The craziest gadgets (2014.3, p. 44)
Pushing the extreme limits (Atari 2600) (2013.3, p. 42)

Comics

Mikrokivikausi (2014.1, p. 67)
Mikrokivikausi (2014.2, p. 61)
Mikrokivikausi (2014.3, p. 65)
Mikrokivikausi (2014.4, p. 2)
Mikrokivikausi (2015.1, p. 75)
Mikrokivikausi (30th anniversary) (2015.2, p. 64)
Mikrokivikausi (2015.3, p. 71)
My youth with games (2013.4, p. 74)

Software

Blender (2014.1, p. 46)
Enhance your Chromebook with Crouton (2015.2, p. 25)
GNU Emacs (2014.3, p. 28)
Deus ex machina (TempleOS) (2014.2, p. 58)
How to shake off Big Brother (2014.1, p. 16)
MenuetOS – machine code for the win (2015.3, p. 8)
Software easter eggs (2014.4, p. 62)
Vim (2015.3, p. 26)
Voikko proofreading software (2014.2, p. 8)

Art pages

256-byte programs as QR codes (2013.2, p. 50)
Bytebeat music (2013.1, p. 45)
Character art (2013.4, p. 11)
Multi-colour C64 art (2014.1, p. 51)

Events

Alternative Party 2013 (web only)
Assembly 2013 (2013.3, p. 8)
Assembly 2015 (web only)
Assembly Winter 2015 (2015.1, p. 70)
Graffathon 2014 (demoscene) (2014.3, p. 8)
Hacklab Summit 15½ (web only)
Game Jam – an insider’s look (2015.1, p. 58)
OHM2013 (2013.3, p. 12)
Payback (demo party) (2015.1, p. 68)
Skrolli on TV (2015.2, p. 71)
WÄRK:Fest 2013 (web only)

Technology

3D printers, the duct tape of the new age (2013.4, p. 70)
Improve your memory with spaced repetition (2015.2, p. 44)
How to start Android Wear development (2014.4, p. 8)
Bitcoin and its rivals (2015.1, p. 48)
The basics of computer biology (modelling life) (2013.4, p. 40)
Fail! – SAM Coupé (2015.3, p. 62)
The new age of emojis (2015.2, p. 4)
Mandelbrot’s 3D successors (2013.1, p. 34)
Building the Assembly network (2014.3, p. 54)
The new foundation for game graphics (2014.3, p. 10)
50 years of broken character sets (2015.1, p. 40)
Artificial intelligence (2014.4, p. 20)
How computers are destroying typography (2015.3, p. 10)
The technology of cyber espionage (2015.2, p. 28)
The roots of understanding – how to explain reality to a computer (AI) (2013.3, p. 20)