sfchronicle.com
The self-taught engineer without a college education was behind one of the most significant inventions of the century: the first video game system with interchangeable cartridges, which revolutionized the burgeoning industry of home video gaming.
imgur.com
For my wife’s birthday, I modified her car (2015 Subaru Impreza) to play “Africa” by Toto if she forgets her keys in the ignition. It can also play a selection of her other favorite songs.
This project was inspired the legendary Volvo 240 video by Chris NG and 8 Bit Universe with a similar “Africa” door chime feature.
neustadt.fr
This essay is my attempt to show you what the small and independent web can look like, why it’s different from the the sites that dominate web traffic today, why it’s worth exploring and how easy it is for anyone to be a part of it.
morphcatgames.itch.io
Micro Mages is a platform game developed for the original 8-bit NES console.
Entire game in 40KB. Includes a detail video showing some of the tiling and sprite tricks used to save space.
johndcook.com
A lot of work went into the production of the posters themselves, but the amount of hard-won knowledge the posters represent is mind-boggling. One little arrow on one poster might represent a career’s work.
bfi.org
During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work.
herman.bearblog.dev
That’s what I want from my products. I want to putter about, feel connected to the process, and have fun doing so. I want to make things that don’t scale. To see people tuck into them and enjoy them as people, not as stats.
fatherly.com
This psychological dissonance is kind of a hat-trick in the context of 1982, but when you watch it now, it’s more poignant. In 1982, there was no internet in a mainstream sense and the idea that a person could have a second identity in a digital realm, wasn’t just science fiction, it bordered on outright fantasy.
jcs.org
Last year after writing a lot of C on my Macintosh Plus, I had the itch to write a new BBS server so I could move my BBS to run on another Mac Plus. As with all software development projects, it took quite a bit longer than expected, but last month I finally got far enough with the development to deploy the new BBS on a Mac Plus.
archive.boston.com
“Honey,” I said. “You’re not going to believe this, but I just got off the phone with a guy who’s in charge of video game world records, and he said the world record for Game Boy Tetris is 327 lines, and he wants us to go to New Hampshire this spring so you can try to break the world record live in front of the judges at the world’s largest classic video game tournament.”