Two Stop Bits | Stories tagged "historical"

Understanding LucasArts' iMUSE System: A Historical and Technical Analysis (lucasarts imuse historical music streaming analysis) (github.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 13 hours ago | discuss
Project Reality: Making the Nintendo 64 (historical nintendo n64 enginneering narrative) (steveshepard.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 13 hours ago | discuss
A brief history of fonts in Mac OS (2025) (historical typography font macos bitmap postscript truetype) (eclecticlight.co)
4 points by splorp 1 day ago | discuss
Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters (2020) (historical apple 2 typography lowecase wozniak p) (vintagecomputing.com)
3 points by bmonkey325 2 days ago | discuss
For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf] (1982) (1980s historical c64 introduction advertisement commodore) (computerhistory.org)
1 point by bmonkey325 2 days ago | discuss
16-bit Intel 8088 Chip by Charles Bukowski (historical kukowski poem) (kottke.org)
3 points by bmonkey325 3 days ago | discuss
Adventure – March 1980 (2025) (historical atari atari2600 game adventure robinett easteregg) (atariarchive.org)
4 points by bmonkey325 7 days ago | 2 comments
Classic GTA sites (historical game gta flash preservation) (classicgtasites.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 8 days ago | discuss
IBM Stretch: Building the World's Fastest Computer! (2025) (historical ibm 7030 stretch supercomouter transistor video) (youtu.be)
3 points by bmonkey325 12 days ago | 1 comment
Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story (2025) (historical c64 genesis retrospective engineering) (ieee.org)
4 points by bmonkey325 13 days ago | discuss
808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40 (2025) (bbc cpu historical arm architecture) (theregister.com)
6 points by splorp 13 days ago | discuss
PC DOS Retro - Information and history about PC DOS and MS-DOS (historical msdos pcdos repository archive) (gitlab.io)
5 points by bmonkey325 15 days ago | discuss
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (historical beos filesystem retrospective deepdive) (arstechnica.com | ia)
8 points by bmonkey325 15 days ago | 1 comment
Apple's sillyballs (1988) (historical apple c sillyballs demo) (devnonsense.com)
7 points by bmonkey325 15 days ago | discuss
Mind-blowing graphical tricks in classic games (historical education game classics programming) (youtu.be)
1 point by bmonkey325 16 days ago | discuss
The lost secrets of webOS (2014) (historical webos lg palm hp) (theverge.com)
5 points by bmonkey325 16 days ago | 1 comment
A look back at Mozilla from source code release to Netscape 6 PR1 (1998–2000) (historical netscape mozilla screenshots) (mozillazine.org)
4 points by Lammy 20 days ago | discuss
Time Traveler : Sega's Holographic Arcade Game Was Pretty Strange (historical sega holographic game) (kotaku.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 23 days ago | 1 comment
How Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death (historical atari nintendo tengen legal) (mit.edu)
1 point by bmonkey325 26 days ago | 1 comment
Microsoft's Win 95 startup sound immortalized in the Library of Congress (2025) (historical microsoft win95 startup sound) (tomshardware.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 31 days ago | 1 comment
Q&A with: Game designer Steve Meretzky (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) (game historical retro) (spillhistorie.no | ia)
4 points by Retrogamingpap 34 days ago | 4 comments
Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM (historical ibm mainframe system360 360) (ieee.org | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 35 days ago | discuss
Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020) (historical conway fractran programming) (raganwald.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 35 days ago | discuss
A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund (historical game broderbund gary carlston interview publishing) (spillhistorie.no | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 37 days ago | discuss
Museum digs up Digital Equipment Corporation's dusty digital equipment (2025) (historical dec pdp exhibition uk) (theregister.com | ia)
4 points by splorp 40 days ago | discuss
The Soul of an Old Machine (historical mini book datageneral west retrospective mv80000) (substack.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 41 days ago | discuss
The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild (historical c compiler source unix lore ritchie) (github.com | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 50 days ago | 1 comment
Technical analyses of Free-X’s “Bert & Ernie” XBOX Dashboard font exploit (2003) (historical microsoft xbox font exploit homebrew) (sega-dc.de | ia)
4 points by Lammy 52 days ago | 1 comment
ESDI Adventures (2025) (historical esdi mass storage pc seagate) (os2museum.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 54 days ago | 1 comment
What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9 (historical plan9 belllabs unix os geoffcollyer) (adi.onl | ia)
5 points by splorp 55 days ago | 4 comments
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