Collaborate Disseminate
While it might not be accurate to say VHS is dead, it’s certainly not a lively format. It continues on in undeath thanks to dedicated collectors and hobbyists, some of …read more Continue reading Video Tape Hides Video Player
We did explicitly ask for projects that use a 555 timer for the One Hertz Challenge, but we weren’t expecting the 555 to be the project. Yet, here we are, …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: A 555, but not as we know it
We loved keygens back in the day. Our lawyers advise us to clarify that that’s all because of the demo-scene style music embedded in them, not because we used them …read more Continue reading Remembering Chiptunes, the Demoscene and the Illegal Music of Keygens
We loved keygens back in the day. Our lawyers advise us to clarify that that’s all because of the demo-scene style music embedded in them, not because we used them …read more Continue reading Remembering Chiptunes, the Demoscene and the Illegal Music of Keygens
The Z80 might be decades obsolete and a few years out of production, but it’s absolutely a case of “gone but not forgotten” in the hacker world. Case in point …read more Continue reading SymbOS Is a Funhouse mirror look at a future that never was
Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have …read more Continue reading PicoGUS adds CD-ROM Emulation to ISA Bus
Have you ever seen a toy and said “That wants to be a deck”? [Attoparsec] did, when his eyes fell upon the Little Talking Scholar, a punch card driven toy …read more Continue reading Punch card controlled Cyberdeck Lives In 80s Toy
Homebrew bills itself as the package manager MacOS never had (conveniently ignoring MacPorts) but they leave the PPC crowd criminally under-served, to say nothing of the 68k gang. Enter [that-ben] …read more Continue reading MR Browser is the Package Manager Classic Macs Never Had
What has 8 ARM cores, 8 GB of RAM, fits in a pocket, and runs NixOS? It’s no pi-clone SBC, but [MWLabs]’s smartphone– a OnePlus 6, to be precise. The …read more Continue reading 8-Core ARM Pocket Computer Runs NixOS
3D printing is arguably over-used in the maker community. It’s just so easy to run off a quick prototype and then… well, it’s good enough, right? Choosing the right plastic …read more Continue reading This Service Life Study Really Grinds Our Gears