Today's outages, hacks, phones, gadgets and fixes, plus the tech you grew up with, picked daily by Chris Pirillo for the pros everybody calls.https://lockergnome.com/en-ushttps://lockergnome.com/rpcs3-ps3-emulator-80-percent-games-playable/https://lockergnome.com/rpcs3-ps3-emulator-80-percent-games-playable/The free, open-source PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 crossed 80% of the PS3 library rated Playable, after fixes to CPU, GPU and PS Move emulation, including a texture cache bug that broke Gran Turismo 5.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:43 GMTGamingretroemulationplaystationps3open-sourcepc-gaminghttps://lockergnome.com/coop-anything-ai-agents-turn-single-player-games-like-deus-ex-into-online-co-op/https://lockergnome.com/coop-anything-ai-agents-turn-single-player-games-like-deus-ex-into-online-co-op/Co-op Anything is an MIT-licensed playbook, skill set and MCP server that tells Claude Code, Codex or another coding agent how to research, reverse engineer, test and package a co-op mod; its first release revives the 2019 HX mod so two friends can play all of Deus Ex over Steam's relay.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:38 GMTGaminggamesai-agentsopen-sourcemoddingdeus-exhttps://lockergnome.com/fast-food-tycoon-2-decompiled-ghidra-agent-4046-functions/https://lockergnome.com/fast-food-tycoon-2-decompiled-ghidra-agent-4046-functions/Healey decompiled the 2001 pizza-shop sim, let a GPT-6.1 Sol agent drive the running game, and wrote up how its renderer stamps hidden people before drawing the walls in front of them.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:13:51 GMTGamingreverse-engineeringgamesghidraairetrohttps://lockergnome.com/smashcat-arduino-uno-races-beam-manic-miner-pac-man-two-resistors/https://lockergnome.com/smashcat-arduino-uno-races-beam-manic-miner-pac-man-two-resistors/Scott Porter's composite-video engine for the 8-bit Uno already ran Manic Miner, Scramble and Space Invaders with no framebuffer. Its newest port is a five-minute score-attack Pac-Man with scrolling mazes at a locked 50 fps.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:13:51 GMTGamingarduinoretrogamesopen-sourcehardwarehttps://lockergnome.com/glider-4-mac-game-ported-pascal-to-typescript-claude-golden-master/https://lockergnome.com/glider-4-mac-game-ported-pascal-to-typescript-claude-golden-master/The TypeScript port of John Calhoun's paper-airplane game rebuilds enough of the Macintosh Toolbox to run with no ROM, keeps the original's bugs on purpose, and has Calhoun's blessing.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:13:35 GMTGamingclassic macgliderclaudetypescriptemulationhttps://lockergnome.com/blocks-switzerland-1-to-1-minecraft-manifold-swisstopo/https://lockergnome.com/blocks-switzerland-1-to-1-minecraft-manifold-swisstopo/Manifold's Blocks turns Swiss terrain, glacier and building data into a walkable Minecraft Java world at one block per metre, and it needs the Cubic Chunks mod on version 1.12.2 because regular Minecraft stops at 384 blocks.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:02:39 GMTGamingminecraftopen datamapsgameshttps://lockergnome.com/respring-32-bit-iphone-games-peggle-koi-pond-modern-ios-codex/https://lockergnome.com/respring-32-bit-iphone-games-peggle-koi-pond-modern-ios-codex/Dylan McDonald's Respring project runs seven 32-bit iOS games, including Peggle, Koi Pond and Chuzzle, on current iPhones through a modified touchHLE runtime. He says an AI agent wrote most of the code.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:21:00 GMTGamingretroiosgamespreservationaihttps://lockergnome.com/retro-pc-shop-repair-bench-backwards-capacitor-bang/https://lockergnome.com/retro-pc-shop-repair-bench-backwards-capacitor-bang/A free, PS1-looking shop sim set in 1997 now walks you through real repairs with a multimeter, soldering iron and desolder pump. Every mistake lowers the odds the part lives, and you can run the shop with up to five friends.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:13:00 GMTGaminggamespc buildingitch.ioretrohttps://lockergnome.com/civilization-neo-geo-pocket-color-port/https://lockergnome.com/civilization-neo-geo-pocket-color-port/Chris Ahchay is writing a Civ-style strategy game in C for SNK's 1999 handheld: a 64-by-64 world map, three computer rivals, research and specialists. There's no game over yet, so a player who loses every unit and city keeps watching the others take their turns.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:17:00 GMTGamingretrogaminghomebrewneo geo pocket colorhttps://lockergnome.com/one-must-fall-2097-remastered-typescript-claude/https://lockergnome.com/one-must-fall-2097-remastered-typescript-claude/Jared Woodruff's remaster plays the original game files in a browser or a desktop app, redraws more than 3,200 images in HD, and lets one key flip back to the 320-by-200 original at any moment. He credits Claude as his AI coder.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:52:09 GMTGamingretrogamingdosopen-sourcehttps://lockergnome.com/block-blast-lethal-puzzle-fires-when-ad-pays-more/https://lockergnome.com/block-blast-lethal-puzzle-fires-when-ad-pays-more/Data scientist Ayo Omolewa took apart Block Blast on Android and iPhone and published the code: a downloaded rule waits for three good rewarded ads, a loaded ad priced at 3.5 times the last one, and a score 1,000 past your record, then asks for a hand no placement can finish.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:52:03 GMTGaminggamesmobileadshttps://lockergnome.com/quake-c64-atari-8-bit-wireframe-demake-kweepa/https://lockergnome.com/quake-c64-atari-8-bit-wireframe-demake-kweepa/Steve McCrea's Quake64 rebuilds the first seven levels of id's 1996 shooter in 3D wireframe for the Commodore 64, and on October 23 he shipped an Atari 8-bit version too. The gun that looks rendered is a sprite.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:12:00 GMTGamingretrocommodore-64atarigaminghttps://lockergnome.com/kumite-c64-karate-game-bleeding-faces-18-hours/https://lockergnome.com/kumite-c64-karate-game-bleeding-faces-18-hours/Kumité is a free, brand-new full-contact karate tournament for the Commodore 64. A player asked for bloodied portraits in the comments; 18 hours later all eight faces went from clean to cut, bloody and battered.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:16:42 GMTGamingretrocommodore-64gaminghttps://lockergnome.com/rea-codex-rebuilt-dx-ball-from-exe-byte-for-byte/https://lockergnome.com/rea-codex-rebuilt-dx-ball-from-exe-byte-for-byte/REA is a free MCP server that hands a coding agent Ghidra, Hopper or IDA. One user pointed Codex and REA at DX-Ball 1.07 and got readable C that recompiles to the original game's exact bytes.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:16:42 GMTGamingaiagentsreverse-engineeringretroopen-sourcehttps://lockergnome.com/permit-pending-simcity-public-hearings-lawsuits/https://lockergnome.com/permit-pending-simcity-public-hearings-lawsuits/Peter Cai's browser game makes you an elected mayor, not a god: the economy is real, but every project goes through hearings, objections, lawsuits and a seven-seat council before the next election.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:05:00 GMTGaminggamesbrowsersimulationhttps://lockergnome.com/horror-drinking-game-demo-pulled/https://lockergnome.com/horror-drinking-game-demo-pulled/Alliance Arts was going to release a public Steam demo of Drunken Goddess Reflux on October 19, and then it canceled it.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:15:00 GMTGaminggamingaihttps://lockergnome.com/super-mario-64-dining-table/https://lockergnome.com/super-mario-64-dining-table/Michael Steil has turned Super Mario 64 into a living diorama for Apple Vision Pro.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTGaminggamingapplevrhttps://lockergnome.com/duke-nukem-3d-rp2350/https://lockergnome.com/duke-nukem-3d-rp2350/Duke Nukem 3D now runs on a microcontroller.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTGamingretrogamingraspberry-pihttps://lockergnome.com/wafel-wii-u-storage-check/https://lockergnome.com/wafel-wii-u-storage-check/The Wii U's weak spot is its internal storage, and a tool called Wafel Installer can now test it from the console's own web browser.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTGamingretrogamingnintendohttps://lockergnome.com/ps2-games-in-a-browser-recompiled/https://lockergnome.com/ps2-games-in-a-browser-recompiled/PlayStation 2 games are running in a web browser, their main processor's code translated ahead of time instead of emulated.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:00:00 GMTGamingretrogamingemulationwebhttps://lockergnome.com/valve-old-radeon-cards-faster-linux/https://lockergnome.com/valve-old-radeon-cards-faster-linux/Timur Kristóf, of Valve's Linux graphics driver team, moved old AMD graphics cards from the legacy Radeon driver to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, and he presented that work in Toronto at XDC 2026.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:40:00 GMTGaminglinuxgpugaming