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Gaming / Retro Computing

Finding a broken trace on my old Mac with the help of its ROM diagnostics (downtowndougbrown.com)
Time Traveling Exploitation: Remote Code Execution in a 10,000 Day Old Game Protocol (youtube.com)
NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001) (tuxnes.sourceforge.net)
Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi (ninakalinina.com)
Getting started with Playdate on Ubuntu (sethmlarson.dev)
Play the Monty Hall game (monty.donk.systems)
Writing an NES emulator in Haskell (arthi-chaud.github.io)
Ancient Greek geometry (sciencevsmagic.net)
(My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming) (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape (spinellis.gr)
The "UNIX v4 tape" running in simh PDP11 emu on IRIX (oldbytes.space)
The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC) (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
Exposing game servers over Tailscale (chameth.com)
8-bit Boléro (the world’s most ambitious chiptune?) (linusakesson.net)
Emulating Prolog in an IBM PC APL environment (dl.acm.org)
Sorting Algorithms Visualized on the Commodore 64 (imapenguin.com)
Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025 (zerotrickpony.com)
Rats Play Doom (ratsplaydoom.com)
Cycle-accurate YM2149 PSG emulator (github.com)
A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway’s Game of Life (woodrush.github.io)
What makes a game tick? Part 8 - Data Driven Multi-Threading Implementation (mropert.github.io)
Helldivers 2 - 85% reduction in install size with minimal performance impact (store.steampowered.com)
Bazzite - The operating system for the next generation of gamers (bazzite.gg)
Sinterklaas Likes Playing On The Game Boy (brainbaking.com)
Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
PocketMage Is an E Ink PDA For the Modern Era (hackster.io)
On recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On (git.sr.ht)
Why WinQuake exists and how it works (fabiensanglard.net)
33 days, new WR in speedrunning a fan translation of a long-lost game (aeongenesis.net)
Server Survival: 3D simulation game where you play as a Cloud Architect (github.com)