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How a basement hacker transformed Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600
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atari
donkeykong
2600
hacker
graphics
gameplay
historical
)
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arstechnica.com
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
2 days ago
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discuss
From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction
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infocom
historical
interactive
fiction
text
adventure
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
5 points
by
bmonkey325
36 days ago
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discuss
Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89
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dec
vax
pdp
uart
microsoft
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
6 points
by
splorp
65 days ago
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discuss
Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console
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virtualboy
nintendo
console
history
gaming
failure
3d
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
72 days ago
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discuss
Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game
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tetris
hack
mod
anticrash
highscore
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
81 days ago
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discuss
Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective
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palm
palmos
palmpilot
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
8 points
by
amoroso
92 days ago
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3 comments
Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store—but with big caveats
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apple
iphone
emulator
retrogaming
appstore
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
2 points
by
bmonkey325
110 days ago
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discuss
A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time
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pdp11
dec
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
2 points
by
jgrahamc
112 days ago
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discuss
Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console
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vectrex
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
4 points
by
jgrahamc
112 days ago
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discuss
The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss
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super
mario
maker
community
endgame
challenges
content
collaboration
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
125 days ago
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3 comments
Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken
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microsoft
ms
os2
preview
historical
obscure
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
6 points
by
bmonkey325
135 days ago
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discuss
Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued
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emulation
emulator
nintendo
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
6 points
by
brandrick
135 days ago
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discuss
Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer”
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sega
ai
comptuer
preservation
historical
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
6 points
by
bmonkey325
170 days ago
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discuss
Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made
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apple
mac
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
2 points
by
bmonkey325
182 days ago
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discuss
Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds
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gba
nintendo
modding
crash
sounds
recreation
in
)
(
arstechnica.com
)
2 points
by
bmonkey325
186 days ago
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discuss
Dave Mills, Inventor of NTP Protocol, Dies at Age 85
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ntp
time
protocol
internet
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
8 points
by
splorp
187 days ago
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discuss
Twin Galaxies restore Billy Mitchell’s scores following legal settlement
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donkey
kong
score
twingalaxies
billy
mitchel
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
192 days ago
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3 comments
After 30 years, the world can now play the lost Marble Madness II
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atari
marble
madness
arcade
lost
classic
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
6 points
by
bmonkey325
228 days ago
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discuss
Infocom’s ingenious code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found
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infocom
zork
games
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
5 points
by
ivolimmen
233 days ago
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2 comments
My long quest to revive a ’90s Windows gaming cult classic
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abandonware
90s
windows
gaming
)
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arstechnica.com
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ia
)
2 points
by
bmonkey325
234 days ago
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discuss
Apple, Atari, and Commodore, oh my! Explore a deluxe home vintage computer den
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atari
apple
commodore
vintage
gear
collector
)
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arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
250 days ago
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5 comments