RetroOct 29Wi-Fi Stands for Nothing: 'Wireless Fidelity' Was a Tagline Its Own Founder Calls a Mistake, and the Name Nearly Lost to Trapeze
RetroOct 29Windows Uses Backslashes in File Paths Because IBM's DOS 1.0 Utilities Had Already Taken the Forward Slash
RetroOct 29NESPC Turns an Original NES Into a Desktop PC With a Start Menu, a File Manager and Minesweeper
RetroOct 28Nintendo's 1985 NES Test-Market Warehouse in Hackensack, New Jersey, Is Still Standing, and Three NES Historians Found It
RetroOct 28B3ta Cofounder Rob Manuel Drew 81 Jokes Using Only the ZX81's 64 Characters, and Put Them in a 240-Page Hardback
GamingOct 28Andrew Healey Pointed an AI Agent and Ghidra at Fast Food Tycoon 2's 4,046 Functions and Found How It Kept Customers Visible Through Walls
GamingOct 28Smashcat's Arduino Uno Now Plays Pac-Man Championship Edition on a TV, Drawing Each Line Just Before the Screen Does
RetroOct 28Sun's First Workstation, SGI's First Workstation and Cisco's First Router All Started From One Stanford 68000 Board
RetroOct 28A $15 Thrift-Store TRANZ 330 Credit Card Terminal Now Uses Its Z80 and a GPS to Work Out Where the Planets Are, Then Prints It Like a Receipt
RetroOct 27Meatloaf, an ESP32 on a Commodore 64's IEC serial port, loads programs from any URL and presents them as a period floppy drive
SoftwareOct 27TitleArt Rebuilds 1997-Era Microsoft WordArt in the Browser and Exports It as SVG, GIF or Video
RetroOct 27A 1990s St. Louis BBS cropped its borrowed ANSI logon screens to 17 lines and cut off the artists' signatures, and Josh Renaud traced them back
RetroOct 27MattKC ran the Philips CD-i off a USB-C phone charger by building a board that asks for 9 volts and flips part of it to the minus 5 volts the console needs
GamingOct 26Respring Brings 32-Bit iPhone Games Like Peggle and Koi Pond Back to Modern iPhones by Translating Their Old ARM Code
GamingOct 26Retro PC Shop's repair bench makes you discharge the PSU capacitor first, and a capacitor soldered in backwards goes bang
GamingOct 25Civilisation Pocket Squeezes Civ Onto the Neo Geo Pocket Color, and Losing Everything Just Leaves You Watching the Rivals Play
SoftwareOct 25ZacOS 9 redraws the whole Mac OS 9 desktop for Debian Linux, with a SheepShaver for the real classic apps
GamingOct 25One Must Fall 2097 Remastered Rebuilds the 1994 Robot Fighter in TypeScript and WebGL, With F2 Swapping VGA and HD Mid-Fight
GamingOct 23Quake Now Runs on the Atari 8-Bit, Five Days After Kweepa Fit It on the Commodore 64 as Wireframe Rooms and Stick-Figure Monsters
GamingOct 23A Kumité Player Asked for Fighter Faces That Bleed in Stages. Polytricity Added Them to His New Commodore 64 Karate Game 18 Hours Later.
GamingOct 23REA Let Codex Rebuild 1996's DX-Ball From the .exe, and All 270 Functions Compile Back Byte for Byte
