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Someone simulated a Commodore 64 pin by pin, so you can break it on purpose
A developer who goes by antirez put c64-hw-sim on GitHub, and it simulates the Commodore 64's motherboard pin by pin.
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The man who put Lemmings on the Palm Pilot just put his whole Palm OS toolbox on GitHub
Aaron Ardiri, the developer behind the Palm OS port of Lemmings, just published about a gigabyte of old Palm OS development material on GitHub.
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Windows 98 just got USB 3 and Thunderbolt drivers, 28 years late
Windows 98 went on sale on June 25, 1998, according to Wikipedia, and in 2026 it can read a Thunderbolt NVMe drive.
Retrohackaday.com
One hobbyist built a working laptop around a 6502, the chip inside the Apple II
A maker who goes by TechPaula built a laptop around a 6502, the 8-bit chip from the 1970s that Hackaday points out was in the Apple II, and now they've finished a second one.
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Apple's cancelled future now opens in a browser
Apple cancelled Copland in August 1996, and you can now boot it in a browser tab.
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Two Commodore 64 sound chips get a USB connection to modern computers
A maker who goes by LouD built a board that plugs real Commodore 64 sound chips into a modern computer.
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JawnCon put its conference schedule inside an emulated Macintosh Plus
JawnCon, Philadelphia's hacker conference, built this year's schedule as a HyperCard stack and runs it "in a Macintosh Plus, in a 68k emulator in your browser," according to the event's schedule page, though a plain web version is there too for anyone in a hurry.
Retrogithub.com
Duke Nukem 3D now fits on a tiny RP2350 board
Duke Nukem 3D now runs on a microcontroller.
Retrohackaday.com
A tool called Wafel checks whether your Wii U storage is failing
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.
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You can play PS2 games in a browser now, recompiled from the original code
PlayStation 2 games are running in a web browser, no emulator attached.