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CrystalMark Retro benchmark extends support all the way back to Windows 95 (2025) (cyrstalmark legacy windows benchmark) (arstechnica.com)
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Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected—and why it’s a problem (snes timing speedrunning hardware variations fairness) (arstechnica.com)
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New FPGA-powered retro console re-creates the PlayStation, CD-ROM drive optional (playstation ps1 fpga superstation1) (arstechnica.com)
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PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future (plato cbt education communications) (arstechnica.com | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 107 days ago | 6 comments
The Atari 7800+ is a no-frills glimpse into a forgotten gaming era (atari 7800plus retro revival review) (arstechnica.com | ia)
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F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI (nintendo satellaview satellite video restoration ai vhs) (arstechnica.com | ia)
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War Stories: Diablo’s loot lottery was almost a turn-based affair (diablo game historical whatif) (arstechnica.com | ia)
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Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them (sega steam game delisting classic) (arstechnica.com | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 145 days ago | discuss
IPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games (apple ipod games drm preservation collective) (arstechnica.com | ia)
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Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78 (ward christensen bbs xmodem obituary) (arstechnica.com | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 169 days ago | discuss
34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen” (tetris rebirth nes scoring) (arstechnica.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 177 days ago | 1 comment
The Music Industry’s ’90s Hard Drives Are Dying (harddisk harddrive hdd hardware failure mtbf legacy data) (arstechnica.com | ia)
5 points by splorp 187 days ago | 5 comments
A truly graphic adventure: the 25-year rise and fall of a beloved genre (graphic adventure retrospective review survey historical nostalgia) (arstechnica.com | ia)
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How a basement hacker transformed Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 (atari donkeykong 2600 hacker graphics gameplay historical) (arstechnica.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 251 days ago | discuss
From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (infocom historical interactive fiction text adventure) (arstechnica.com | ia)
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Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89 (dec vax pdp uart microsoft) (arstechnica.com | ia)
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Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console (virtualboy nintendo console history gaming failure 3d) (arstechnica.com | ia)
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Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game (tetris hack mod anticrash highscore) (arstechnica.com | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 330 days ago | discuss
Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective (palm palmos palmpilot) (arstechnica.com | ia)
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Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store—but with big caveats (apple iphone emulator retrogaming appstore) (arstechnica.com | ia)
2 points by bmonkey325 359 days ago | discuss
A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (pdp11 dec) (arstechnica.com | ia)
2 points by jgrahamc 361 days ago | discuss
Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console (vectrex) (arstechnica.com | ia)
4 points by jgrahamc 361 days ago | discuss
The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss (super mario maker community endgame challenges content collaboration) (arstechnica.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 374 days ago | 3 comments
Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken (microsoft ms os2 preview historical obscure) (arstechnica.com | ia)
6 points by bmonkey325 384 days ago | discuss
Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued (emulation emulator nintendo) (arstechnica.com | ia)
6 points by brandrick 384 days ago | discuss
Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer” (sega ai comptuer preservation historical) (arstechnica.com | ia)
6 points by bmonkey325 419 days ago | discuss
Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made (apple mac) (arstechnica.com | ia)
2 points by bmonkey325 431 days ago | discuss
Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds (gba nintendo modding crash sounds recreation in) (arstechnica.com)
2 points by bmonkey325 435 days ago | discuss
Dave Mills, Inventor of NTP Protocol, Dies at Age 85 (ntp time protocol internet) (arstechnica.com | ia)
8 points by splorp 436 days ago | discuss
Twin Galaxies restore Billy Mitchell’s scores following legal settlement (donkey kong score twingalaxies billy mitchel) (arstechnica.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 441 days ago | 3 comments
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