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This week in retro, minus the hype.
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This homebrew relay computer took eight minutes to calculate three digits of pi, and that’s the point
Eight minutes of clattering electromechanical relays to produce three digits of pi is not, by any conventional measure,…
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Fed up waiting for a CoCoVGA, this modder built his own pixel-perfect HDMI for the Color Computer 2
Scott Baker wanted HDMI on his CoCo 2. The two commercial options, CoCoVGA and CoCoDV, were both sold…
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Someone built an open-source Macintosh 512k, and it boots without a single floppy disk
A Mac 512k with no floppy drive and no SCSI bus sounds like a contradiction, given that the…
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Sunsoft is bringing back the Famicom game that invented the word for “terrible game”
In 1985, Sunsoft put out a Famicom game called Ikki, a top-down peasant-revolt action title so punishing that…
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My Arcade’s Gamestation Retro Go finally has a release date, eighteen months late
My Arcade first showed off the Gamestation Retro Go at CES in January 2025, promising a Switch-shaped handheld…
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Someone is rebuilding Grand Theft Auto from scratch for the Amiga, and it already runs at 60fps
Developer Grzegorz Korycki has released v0.0.2 of AmiGTA1, a from-scratch engine reimplementation of 1997’s Grand Theft Auto, built…