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After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip (2024) (zilog z80 production discontinued eol cpm spectrum) (arstechnica.com)
9 points by bmonkey325 15 days ago | 7 comments
Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer (atarino atari pico fpga 8bit) (arstechnica.com)
7 points by bmonkey325 37 days ago | 1 comment
Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament (mac 3dprinting filament plan9) (arstechnica.com)
8 points by nickt 42 days ago | 4 comments
Sierra made the games of my childhood. Are they still fun to play? (sierra) (arstechnica.com)
6 points by ohjeez 59 days ago | discuss
The Golden Age of computer user groups (2020) (community) (arstechnica.com | ia)
7 points by ohjeez 64 days ago | 4 comments
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (historical beos filesystem retrospective deepdive) (arstechnica.com | ia)
9 points by bmonkey325 80 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 103 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 107 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 123 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 169 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 213 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 229 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 229 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 230 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 251 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 256 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 275 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 283 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 293 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 330 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 357 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 391 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 420 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 427 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 436 days ago | discuss
Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective (palm palmos palmpilot) (arstechnica.com | ia)
8 points by amoroso 447 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 465 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 467 days ago | discuss
Vectrex reborn: How a chance encounter gave new life to a dead console (vectrex) (arstechnica.com | ia)
4 points by jgrahamc 467 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 480 days ago | 3 comments
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