Playdate Handheld Turned Typewriter

The Playdate is an interesting gaming system. It’s a handheld, has a black and white screen, and superficially reminds us a little bit of the original Game Boy, right down to the button layou…

The NES Gets Its Own OS

Until recently, most video game systems didn’t need their own operating systems in order to play games. Especially in the cartridge era — the games themselves simply ran directly on the…

Building A GameCube Mini Because Nintendo Never Did

Nintendo never made a GameCube Mini, with the console’s form factor remaining the same until the eventual launch of the Wii in 2006. [Bringus Studios] decided to build one of his own instead.…

Restore Your Formerly Useless Ouya Console

Plenty of electronics end up in the junk drawer or even landfill after their useful life ends, but in the modern world of planned obsolescence a lot more devices are thrown out simply because of la…

ESP32 Gets A Nifty Serial Console Library

Sometimes you need to get a project to talk to you, so you can see what’s going on inside. The ESP32 console Arduino library from [jbtronics] promises just that. The library adds a simple ser…

Remote Screen Viewer Is Text-Only

Have you been slowly falling down a rabbit hole of Stallman-like paranoia of computers ever since installing Ubuntu for the first time in 2007? Do you now abhor anything with a GUI, including brows…

The search for the developer of Aquavanture

The origins of the original Aquaventure prototype are a bit hazy. It is thought to have been discovered by a collector at a flea market in central Florida in the mid 1990s.

How To Run A Command After The Previous One Has Finished On Linux

You can run a command after the previous one has finished running, depending on the previous command's exit status or regardless of this.

Microsoft says it has never made a profit from the sale of an Xbox console | VGC

Company claims it always sells devices at a loss as part of Epic vs Apple trial…

Zellij Is A New Terminal Multiplexer Written In Rust

Zellij is a new terminal workspace and multiplexer (like tmux and screen) written in Rust, available for macOS and Linux.

Oh My Git! Is An Open Source Game For Learning Git

The game is free and open source, it's built using the Godot game engine, and is available for Linux, macOS and Windows.