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A Contra fan port checks 40,000 frames against the NES original

Doom keeps its random numbers in a fixed 256-byte loop

Duck Hunt Let Player Two Steer the Duck You Were Trying to Shoot

Eternal Darkness’s fake save wipe worried Nintendo about real memory-card damage

Evercade Nexus lets two handhelds share one cartridge without a Wi-Fi network

Floorplan follows an app’s checkout screen into the code behind it

Game Boy Promised Up to 30 Hours While Game Gear Ate Six AAs in About Four

Gitmsg turns every chat message into a Git commit, including the embarrassing edits

Handy puts local speech transcription into the text field you are already using

RetroNov 2

A Zip 100 Held Roughly 70 Floppies, but Couldn’t Read a Single One

Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation could crash laptops, so the fix filtered the music

keybind-find reads the shortcuts you actually configured, then runs the one you pick

Kobodeck Makes a Kobo Find Saved Articles by Pretending USB Was Connected

Hacks & BuildsNov 2

Kube32 gives tiny ESP32 boards pods, kubectl and CrashLoopBackOff

RetroNov 2

MoMA preserves 176 emoji built from twelve-by-twelve pixel grids

Lightpanda saves an agent’s browser work as a script that needs no model to run

RetroNov 2

The Macintosh team put its signatures inside the case mold

RetroNov 2

Apple Hid a Sony Engineer in a Closet While Saving the Mac’s Floppy Drive

Maclet puts its own Rust container runtime inside a Mac’s Linux guest

Magical Share sends files through moving QR codes with the radios off

RetroNov 2

Mariner 1 Lost a Guidance Antenna and a Mathematical Overbar Before Its Destruction

RetroNov 2

Louis Pouzin Named the Shell, Then Colleagues Built It From His Flowchart After He Left

Switch has 40 times the Game Boy’s pixels; battery ratings need a model number

RetroNov 2

Nokia 3210 vs. 3310: the 160 million sales claim doesn't hold up