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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Kaleidoscopico (A Demo for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2)

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www.tomshardware.com 2y ago

Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports

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www.wired.com 2y ago

Retro Hackers Are Building a Better Nintendo Game Boy

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blog.danielwellman.com 3y ago

Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs

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www.tomshardware.com 3y ago

Raspberry Pi Powers Commodore 64 Expansion Cartridge, Plays Doom

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www.science.org 3y ago

Multivalent nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against all known flu virus types

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appleinsider.com 4y ago

'Joe Danger' crashing back into iOS after appeal from parent of autistic child

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bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com 5y ago

Variable Screen Placement: The Vic-II’s Forbidden Technique

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phys.org 5y ago

Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit

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www.cnbc.com 7y ago

Microsoft’s biggest business segment includes its Azure cloud

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www.traveller.com.au 8y ago

Qantas Dreamliner takes off, fuelled by biofuel on LA to Melbourne flight

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www.antipope.org 9y ago

Charlie Stross: “Paging Agent 007” (or “Where do our leaders REALLY come from?”)

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arstechnica.co.uk 9y ago

Apple File System (APFS) is coming soon

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www.wired.com 10y ago

AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next

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thinkaurelius.github.io 10y ago

Amazon Releases DynamoDB Storage Back End for Titan

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cen.acs.org 11y ago

Record-Breaking Nanowire Transistors [using Gallium Arsenide]

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musiclub.web.cern.ch 12y ago

Les Horribles Cernettes – The First Band on the WWW

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www.appcelerator.com 15y ago

Appcelerator and PayPal Team Up to Make Cross-platform Mobile Commerce

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Long time Space:1999 fan here. I've been thinking about this a lot over the years and I agree with you; the show is best looked at as The Twilight Zone in Space. Well - first season anyway. You REALLY have to pick through the dung of second season to find a few "well, that bit was alright" moments.

I think the show worked best when it was a review of variations of loneliness.

* Dragon's Domain - Tony Cellini is burdened by the loneliness of a demon no one else sees. * Guardian of Piri - John Koenig is surrounded by the best of the best in his senior staff. But under the "spell" of the Guardian, he has disagree with all of them and make some very lonely decisions. * Voyager's Return - Ernst Queller is burdened by the memory of his mistake many years ago with development (and many deaths) of the Queller Drive. And it comes back to haunt him in real life, not just his imagination. * End of Eternity - The alien Balor shows us that immortality could be the ultimate form of loneliness.

* LFT (Linus Åkesson) project - check.

* Demo with nice visuals and music - check.

* Bit-banged video with his own hardware out to VGA - check.

* Assembly coded - check.

* Didn’t go the obvious ARM instruction set path and went RISC-V instead - CHECK!

I've noticed that hotel hallways in Norway worked the same way. While on a tour, I poked my head out of my room quite early to begin the day - it was pitch black but only for a moment. My motion clearly set off the detectors and the hallway fully lit up.

I kinda wish this was the norm in other countries for apartment buildings, hotels, etc.

Gonna have to agree that at the very least, the immune system is way up there! After reading Philipp Dettmer's book "Immune" (recommended), I couldn't help but think, "Wow, the API and protocols that this thing has..."

I had a chance to attend An Event Apart ... er, event, in Chicago somewhere between 10-15 years ago and it was downright inspirational. There was a real sense of being together with other professionals to better learn about our craft. And there was so much back then that was still new! Amazing times

This isn't the first time I've seen work in this area - the author of the article is in good company. Ian Bogost over saw a group of students to add CRT simulation (phosphor glow, color bleed, etc.) to the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella.

http://bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator/

His article on the effort is pretty high level with no real meaty-details. Probably would have to look at the source code for Stella for that.

Pimp My BBC Micro 4 years ago

That statement is somewhat analogous to what is said about software development (in the tone of JFK's "moonshot" voice), "...we do things things not because they are easy but because we thought they would be easy..." :)