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Old things, kept alive

Computers, vinyl, MiniDiscs, hardware nobody makes anymore — if it's old and it still works, it's fair game. Deeper archive lives on tooloudtoowide.

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Core War Studio: a battlefield in my pocket

Today I finished Core War Studio with full implementation of ICWS '94, and the arena now fits in my pocket. Want to test it? The TestFlight group is open now.

Not Atari, again

Atari has a long history of bad luck — and, it turns out, it wasn't first with MIDI either, same as it wasn't behind the Terminator code.

Hacking the Apple I

Ten hexadecimal bytes, a ROM routine, and a shift-register screen memory that can't be addressed directly — a small, joyful dive into the Apple I's own manual.

What's hiding in the mysterious code shown in Terminator?

The HUD code from the T-800's vision isn't Atari, like fans have claimed for decades — it's Apple II, and the trail leads to a 1984 issue of Nibble magazine.

From memories, mathematics, and sentiment, to Action!

How a twelve-year-old's multi-year wait for a home computer ended with an Atari 800XL in June 1986 — and, eventually, Action!

Is the Amiga the fastest Macintosh?

A viral video claims an emulated Amiga beats a real Macintosh. The claim falls apart the moment you check which Macintosh, and which year, it's actually comparing.