Retro Gaming

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Throaty Mumbo turns his NES into a Windows-like desktop using an FPGA cartridge emulating an old Intel CPU, complete with a CD drive and internet capabilities, all without tearing the NES apart.

Exhaustion with tech market prompt Youtuber to remake their first PC — 1996 build fueled by nostalgia and AI weariness

Fascinating footage captured inside a busy CompUSA retail store in Y2K lets you relive the PC era when translucent acrylic Presarios and iMacs roamed the Earth.

The modern Atari VCS is being officially retired with the firm’s decision to shut down the Linux-based AMD APU-powered machine's software store early next year.

decomp.dev has closed its public index of game decompilation projects, saying AI-driven forks and ports broke the community.

Modder glitch-hacks his Xbox 360 with the help of a $4 microcontroller — operation shows the power of the Rasperry Pi Pico

A fan port of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 runs natively on Microsoft’s 2009 Zune HD media player, with touch controls and saves.

Pre-orders for the Atari-licensed THE 800XL began today. This is a modernized yet claimed to be faithful recreation of the classic 8-bit home computer, popular in the early 1980s.

Doom on a Hasselblad X2C

The latest version of this professional camera costs nearly $8,000.

Madlad applies DLSS 5 to the original Duke Nukem and Pong — 50 games tested with outcomes ranging from trippy to genuinely interesting

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