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RetroNov 4

A Roland owner dumped the early TR-707 firmware nobody could find

The Colony packed a roaming 3D world onto one Mac floppy; ScummVM is testing it

A Sega programmer’s floppies saved the Tails game that needed four years of art

Sega Master System vs. NES: 4x the RAM (8 KB to 2 KB) and 8x the video RAM

Skykeep puts iCloud’s apps on Linux, with a local library that works offline

RetroNov 4

SQL started as SEQUEL, then a trademark issue took the vowels

RetroNov 4

Steve Jobs brought Mick Jagger a Macintosh; Jade found the fun in MacPaint

SNES vs. PlayStation: 128 KB of RAM against 2 MB, and cartridges against CDs

RetroNov 4

A librarian’s mousepad helped “surfing the Internet” catch a much bigger wave

RetroNov 4

Unix’s spellchecker removed "id" because it kept sheltering a mistyped "is"

RetroNov 4

UTF-8’s diner-placemat design had one demand: find your place in the bytes

Hacks & BuildsNov 4

A wall-sized tube computer needs ten minutes to warm up before the tweaking starts

Classic Winamp fits inside a browser, skins and all

Hacks & BuildsNov 4

An ESP32 camera adds Wi-Fi to a blood-pressure display by reading its digits

Windows kept BOZOSLIVEHERE working after the warning became its name

RetroNov 4

Xerox’s laser-printer inventor needed distance from Xerox management

Atari 7800 added 32 times the RAM and kept the 2600’s sound hardware

Hacks & BuildsNov 4

An Echo Dot’s Hidden USB Pads Became a Route Out of Alexa

Natively can dress up as Terminal, but its screen-share hiding is best effort

CalibRaw carries editable RAW photo adjustments between desktop and Android

AINov 4

Four Minecraft AIs Spent 11 Minutes Appointing a Fertilizer Operator

A diagram skill fetches real logos, then asks twice before putting your stack online

Hacks & BuildsNov 4

A Stranger Things Light Wall Lets a Phone Fix the Letter Wiring

USB-C vs. Lightning on iPhone: the cable in the box is still USB 2 speed