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Gaming / Retro Computing

Play the long game when learning to code (2020) (stackoverflow.blog)
What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential TV? (nicole.express)
SDL_mixer 3.2.0 (stable) is out (github.com)
Notes on writing a voxel game in Dyalog APL (homewithinnowhere.com)
Cambridge Battlecode: Code bots that compete in a turn-based strategy game (battlecode.cam)
Sinclair 4K BASIC for the ZX80 (troypress.com)
Roguelike music algorithm showcase by Nifflas (youtu.be)
Play the New York Times Connections puzzle with DuckDB (github.com)
Kill cats with JavaScript (RTS game) (yare.io)
Introducing wgsl-rs (renderling.xyz)
DOS Memory Management (os2museum.com)
Building a Quake PC (fabiensanglard.net)
Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces (+ hyperbolic geometry) (happel.ai)
C64 copy protection (commodoregames.net)
snakes.run, massively multiplayer Snake over SSH (snake.eieio.games)
15 Years of Indie Dev In 4 Bits of Advice (pentadact.com)
Offlining a Live Game With .NET Native AOT (sephnewman.substack.com)
RetroTick, browser-based Windows emulator (retrotick.com)
Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp 1st-person game (2017) (forums.tigsource.com)
snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh (eieio.games)
Introducing Lyte2D: A comfy little game engine (lyte2d.com)
Text-Based Google Directions (gdir.telae.net)
The Road Ahead for LocalStack: Upcoming Changes to the Delivery of Our AWS Cloud Emulators (2025) (blog.localstack.cloud)
I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games (calebleak.com)
“Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything” (unsung.aresluna.org)
Permacomputing (permacomputing.net)
x86CSS - An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS (lyra.horse)
Hemmi/Post 1460 Versalog (Sliderule emulator) (thingsabove.github.io)
How I made a shooter game in 64 KB (youtu.be)
Top 20 worldwide with social-engineering and a cheat that's still undetected (ud2.rip)