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Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer
(
atarino
atari
pico
fpga
8bit
)
(
arstechnica.com
)
7 points
by
bmonkey325
21 days ago
|
1 comment
Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament
(
mac
3dprinting
filament
plan9
)
(
arstechnica.com
)
8 points
by
nickt
26 days ago
|
4 comments
Sierra made the games of my childhood. Are they still fun to play?
(
sierra
)
(
arstechnica.com
)
6 points
by
ohjeez
43 days ago
|
discuss
The Golden Age of computer user groups
(
2020
)
(
community
)
(
arstechnica.com
)
7 points
by
ohjeez
48 days ago
|
4 comments
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective
(
historical
beos
filesystem
retrospective
deepdive
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
9 points
by
bmonkey325
64 days ago
|
1 comment
Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
7 points
by
starac
87 days ago
|
1 comment
CrystalMark Retro benchmark extends support all the way back to Windows 95
(
2025
)
(
cyrstalmark
legacy
windows
benchmark
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
91 days ago
|
discuss
Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected—and why it’s a problem
(
snes
timing
speedrunning
hardware
variations
fairness
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
107 days ago
|
discuss
New FPGA-powered retro console re-creates the PlayStation, CD-ROM drive optional
(
playstation
ps1
fpga
superstation1
)
(
arstechnica.com
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
153 days ago
|
discuss
PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future
(
communication
plato
cbt
education
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
7 points
by
bmonkey325
197 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
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
213 days ago
|
discuss
F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI
(
nintendo
satellaview
satellite
video
restoration
ai
vhs
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
213 days ago
|
discuss
War Stories: Diablo’s loot lottery was almost a turn-based affair
(
historical
diablo
game
whatif
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
214 days ago
|
discuss
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
235 days ago
|
discuss
IPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games
(
game
apple
ipod
drm
preservation
collective
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
9 points
by
bmonkey325
240 days ago
|
discuss
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
259 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
267 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
277 days ago
|
5 comments
A truly graphic adventure: the 25-year rise and fall of a beloved genre
(
historical
graphic
adventure
retrospective
review
survey
nostalgia
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
314 days ago
|
discuss
How a basement hacker transformed Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600
(
historical
atari
donkeykong
2600
hacker
graphics
gameplay
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
341 days ago
|
discuss
From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction
(
historical
infocom
interactive
fiction
text
adventure
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
5 points
by
bmonkey325
375 days ago
|
discuss
Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89
(
dec
vax
pdp
uart
microsoft
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
6 points
by
splorp
404 days ago
|
discuss
Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console
(
historical
game
virtualboy
nintendo
console
failure
3d
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
411 days ago
|
discuss
Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game
(
tetris
hack
mod
anticrash
highscore
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
420 days ago
|
discuss
Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective
(
palm
palmos
palmpilot
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
8 points
by
amoroso
431 days ago
|
3 comments
Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store—but with big caveats
(
emulation
apple
iphone
retrogaming
appstore
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
2 points
by
bmonkey325
449 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
451 days ago
|
discuss
Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console
(
vectrex
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
4 points
by
jgrahamc
451 days ago
|
discuss
The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss
(
challenge
super
mario
maker
community
endgame
content
collaboration
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
464 days ago
|
3 comments
Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken
(
historical
microsoft
ms
os2
preview
obscure
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
6 points
by
bmonkey325
474 days ago
|
discuss
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