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Pong debuted on this day in 1972
By Mark Tyson published
The Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972.

DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, packing iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and Ammo into 3-pin parts
By Mark Tyson published
KiDOOM is a version of DOOM that runs within a PCB design application.

A 34-year-old Apple Mac crash bug ‘would have gone undiscovered for all eternity,’ but the accuracy of the MAME emulator shone a light on it
By Mark Tyson published
On real hardware, the Motorola 68030 executed an undocumented instruction to prevent a system crash at boot, but it caused problems with the emulator.

N64 cartridge-playing Analogue 3D finally gets a ship date
By Kunal Khullar published
Analogue’s 3D console faithfully recreates the Nintendo 64 using FPGA hardware for perfect accuracy, 4K output, and VRR support.

Tiny386 emulator turns tiny microcontroller into a full i386 PC
By Bruno Ferreira published
Tiny386 emulator turns an ESP32-S3 microcontroller into a full i386 PC

Clean-sheet open source 8-bit console launching in 2025
By Mark Tyson published
There’s a new open source contender being prepared for the 8-bit console arena.

Vectrex Mini retro console shatters Kickstarter goal within minutes
By Mark Tyson published
The Vectrex Mini vector retrogaming console blasted past its €100,000 funding goal within just 15 minutes

Atari 2600+ Pac-Man Edition released at $169
By Mark Tyson published
Atari 2600+ Pac-Man Edition games console released in striking, vivid yellow livery.
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