NES-inspired synthesizer doubles as a working game console — luggable polyphonic synth plays chip tunes and NES cartridges, too

A maker with a love for synthesizers and retro gaming has showcased their latest project, the NES-SY2.0.

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Dev showcases ‘seamless, massive world with zero loading screens on N64 hardware’ — 30-year-old Nintendo retro console coaxed into draw distances matching the scale of Skyrim

A developer has demonstrated an open-world engine in a Nintendo 64 game, which offers a ‘seamless, massive world with zero loading screens’ on original hardware.
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Enthusiast ‘lands’ on the moon using hardware from the 1980s — ZX Spectrum home computer with 3.5 MHz CPU and 48KB of memory power Kerbal space flight

YouTuber Scott Manley demonstrated using a ZX Spectrum home computer launched in 1982 to land a spacecraft on the Kerbal Space Program spaceflight simulator.
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End of an era for decades-old PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U as GameStop officially declares them retro — change means faulty or ‘aesthetically unfortunate’ consoles that can still power on are now accepted for trade-in

GameStop has declared that the Sony PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U are now officially retro consoles, with the change now allowing trade-in of any console that still powers on, even if they are faulty or “aest…

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Remember the Nokia Twist and Motorola Flipout? This handheld brings their weirdest trick back

Anbernic built its name on retro clones, but a new leak shows the company trying something original. A video reveals a square Android handheld with a screen that swivels to expose hidden controls, borrowing the Flipout’s mechanical trick for emulation….

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385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated

A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been “100% backed up!”
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40-year-old Arcade classic shoot ‘em up Gradius gets pure ASCII PC remake — you can even save your gaming screenshots as .TXT files

A developer has rebuilt the classic Gradius arcade game from the ground up, using ASCII.

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ATAboy bridges old IDE drives to the 21st century with Open Source USB host bridge — powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2350 and with custom “Award” BIOS menu

Using the power of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2’s RP2350, ATAboy bridges the hard drives of old, with the computers of today.
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Ambitious developer showcases slick triple-level Quake-like game stored in tiny 64KB executable — every game asset tucked inside what could be a ‘rounding error’ in modern app payload terms

Developer Daivuk has released QUOD, a 64KB ‘boomer shooter’ with an uncanny resemblance to id Software’s seminal FPS title, Quake.
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You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum — Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games

Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games via a new online portal.

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