They say that if you let a million monkeys type on a million typewriters, they will eventually write the works of Shakespeare. While not quite the same thing [bbenchoff] (why does that sound familiar… [+1386 chars]...
Read moreIf William Gibson and Bruce Sterling had written an arcade scene into “The Difference Engine”, it probably would have looked a lot like [Pete Wood]’s Meccano Martian Mission, as illustrated in the vi… [+2250 chars]...
Read moreWhen a man wearing an Atari T-shirt tells you he’s buying Commodore it sounds like the plot for an improbable 1980s movie in which Nolan Bushnell and Jack Tramiel do battle before a neon synthwave su… [+1758 chars]...
Read moreFinding Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data TL;DR, heres the GitHub repo This project generated around 30 Billion individual 4kB files of random data. These files were winnowed down to about 10,… [+38437 chars]...
Read moreAnnounced at CES in January 1987, the Mega ST was Ataris first attempt at creating full-fledged workstation for professional users. There is some conflict as to whether these are called Mega STs or … [+5673 chars]...
Read moreCreating a game that runs smoothly across different vintage and modern computers is a complex and ambitious challenge. Can I achieve it? Let me tell you the story so far; the process, obstacles, and… [+7241 chars]...
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