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Scott Manley showing how he landed a spacecraft on the moon using a ZX Spectrum home computer from the 1980s
Enthusiast ‘lands’ on the moon using hardware from the 1980s

By Jowi Morales Published

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

By Ben Stockton Published

An extra 10% trade-in credit is being granted for these old-timers until March 21

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

By Mark Tyson Published

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

By Mark Tyson Published

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

By Les Pounder Published

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

By Mark Tyson Published

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

By Mark Tyson Published

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

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‘Mad scientist’ visualizes Atari 2600 fetching data from ROM for mesmerizing light show

By Mark Tyson Published

A spectacular new CMOS FET level visualization of an Atari 2600 loading data has been shared by a 'mad scientist.'

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Developer creates real-time 3D shader demo for the Game Boy Color

By Mark Tyson Published

A canny developer has managed to coax a Game Boy Color into running an interactive, user-controlled, real-time 3D shader demo.

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ZX Spectrum flies simulated spacecraft using BASIC, Python, and serial

By Les Pounder Published

"Houston, we have R Tape loading error, 0:1 problem"

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