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Gaming / Retro Computing

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Advent of Code on the Z-machine (entropicthoughts.com)
Installing and using HP-UX 9 (thejpster.org.uk)
Natural Language, Semantic Analysis, and Interactive Fiction (2006) (worrydream.com)
Challenges and Benefits of Upgrading Sea of Thieves From C++14 to C++20 (youtube.com)
Unix V4 tape found at The University of Utah (discuss.systems)
State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions (jeffquast.com)
"Monster Splash" a double-hires demo for Apple IIe (deater.net)
react-native-godot: React Native Godot - Embed Godot Engine in React Native apps (github.com)
Beautiful, concise explanation of why a cycle-accurate 6502 emulator is easier than not (github.com)
Interview with the creator of ZSNES (youtube.com)
Traveling Salesman Game (prolog.univie.ac.at)
Teddy Bear Trash Compactor (internet.place)
Reminiscing about Turbo Pascal (ilearnt.com)
rlsw v1.0 - An OpenGL 1.1-style software renderer implementation (github.com)
TRIPUTER: NS32000-family systems on an FPGA (cpu-ns32k.net)
486Tang - 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board (nand2mario.github.io)
The Sipeed Tang 138K FPGA hosted by a retro console-style breakout board is available for around $120, or a bit more if one wants a fancy case. This Verilog implementation lacks an FPU and the '386 chip's virtual '86 mode, but might be of interest to operating system developers who want to get fu...
The Greatness of Text Adventures (entropicthoughts.com)
The emulator's gambit: Executing code from non-executable memory (redops.at)
StarGrid: Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025 (quarters.captaintouch.com)
Perfect Jumps in SM64 - Arctan Straining Explained (youtu.be)
Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware (ajxs.me)
Micro Machines BIC-23 PCB with hardware ROM patch (forums.nesdev.org)
Joe Decuir Engineering Notebook 1978 (archive.org)
Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver (righto.com)
The World's Fastest Scrabble Program (1988) (dl.acm.org)
Unfair Flips World Record Strategy (graham.build)
Recreating the Canon Cat document interface (lab.alexanderobenauer.com)
GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal (piunikaweb.com)
Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering (cv.co.hu)
Avian Physics 0.4 (joonaa.dev)