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A browser aquarium makes you grow filter bacteria before you can keep fish alive

Floppy disk vs. microSD card: 2TB equals about 1.36 million standard HD floppy capacities

RetroNov 5

Fred Cohen’s 1983 virus demo got full system rights in under five minutes at its fastest

A free app shares one mouse and streams Windows apps into Mac windows over direct connections

A free browser tool turns shortwave warbles into weather maps and cuts out the web player’s gaps

Disc Image Studio burns visible pictures into ordinary blank discs

Hyperbutler runs Docker on Windows without WSL, reporting 319 MiB at idle

Game Boy Pocket kept 160 × 144 pixels and cut rated playtime from 30 to 10 hours

Hacks & BuildsNov 5

An ESP32 GTA countdown clock takes pixel-art drive-by breaks

RetroNov 5

An old iPod touch backup surfaces early apps with their version numbers intact

An ISP’s DNS interference gave itself away when an encrypted lookup returned another address

Hacks & BuildsNov 5

A desktop laser harp times each pluck and triggers its own fog machine

RetroNov 5

Microsoft Word had so many shortcuts it collided with the Mac’s emergency abort keys

RetroNov 5

The Mac’s four-voice sound demo squeezed two values into each register

RetroNov 5

The Macintosh team’s pirate flag went up with rusty nails and survived a Lisa-team heist

NES vs. Nintendo 64: a huge CPU-clock leap still left a cartridge slot

NullPlayer runs Windows Media Player skins on a Mac, scripts included

oldTunes puts a current iCloud library behind the iTunes 2005 interface

OLED vs. Mini-LED: one dark pixel can switch off, a dimming zone has neighbors

OpenRA brings Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 into one free modern engine

RetroNov 5

The original Mac shipped a hook for a little man who never fit

A Pentium Pro with modern chess software won 78 games against an old engine on a new PC

A Python smartwatch’s free RAM rose from 7.1 to 12.4 KB after filesystem work

PiPedal turns a Raspberry Pi into a guitar-effects box controlled from a phone