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    Travel Through Time - ZX Spectrum Arcade Style Racer

    This game is more than a year old. But I did not see it before. The framerate is fantastically good. Compared to oldies like outrun, that have music while you drive, but drive in slomo, here you actually get a sense of motion, and there's so much attention to detail. The cutscenes tell a good...
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    Retro Games that never were (www.gamesthatwerent.com)

    I found a website that keeps track of game anouncements of games that were not released. A nostalgia fest! https://www.gamesthatwerent.com
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    ENU: Nim with Godot... Turtle/designer pencil in 3D

    Draw a square in either classic or object oriented ways: forward 10 right 10 back 10 left 10 or: 4.times: forward 10 turn_right() Interested to see how it looks like? Just look at the images in the github page: https://github.com/dsrw/enu Want to try it out? Download a build...
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    Power On: The Story of Xbox

    I jumped into chapter 4: But just start with chapter 1: it goes up to chapter 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1h--43R8Oo
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    Hardening the Pyra (by hardening systemd services). Intended audience: Linux intermediate

    The Pyra, which has a modified build based on Debian, has systemd. The Linux Journal, now resurrected, has a nice article about hardening your Linux Installation. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/systemd-service-strengthening Basically you can run the following command to check what the...
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    CosmicPI: Detecting Cosmic Rays with a Raspberry Pi

    1616266021 And another rPI project, a casette tape with ZX-Spectrum:
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    TI is closing the processors.wiki.ti.com wiki

    The pandora uses the OMAP3530 https://www.ti.com/product/OMAP3530 However, processors.wiki.ti.com is shutting down: NOTICE: The Processors Wiki will End-of-Life in December of 2020. It is recommended to download any files or other content you may need that are hosted on processors.wiki.ti.com...
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    Game Boy Studio - create your own games

    A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system. https://www.gbstudio.dev/ Opinions? Is this cheating?
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    Preservation effort for Flash games (flashpoint)

    Adobe is killing Flash at the end of 2020, but Flash games are an important part of internet history. Thankfully, a community project called Flashpoint is stepping up to save them. Here’s how you can keep playing all your favorites for the foreseeable future. The article...
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    4 eyes principle using tmux/screen. Share your xterm with somebody else. Collaborative Coding.

    If you work in IT and need to share your screen with a colleague, there are some options in most communication programs to share your screen. But the screen is compressed, and typing on an xterm really unreadable. Now to share your session, as seen in the link below, you not only can chgrp, but...
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    Release Ansible 2.9.0 (Portable-Ansible v0.4.0)

    It has been one week sinds I packaged Ansible 2.8.5 and now that I look, 2.9.1 came out 4 days ago. Ansible development really goes fast. Grab it from the OpenPandora Software Repository. Changes: I have included a playbook that reduces the header sizes from 80 columns back to our 78 on the...
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    Commodore 64

    From eastereggs to using the Random number Generator, with certains seeds, many words can be made visible. Want to play around with the code? Here's a link to code: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4416/how-did-commodores-anti-microsoft-easter-egg-work
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    [SOFTWARE] Portable-Ansible on Pandora (instructions)

    We have Python on the Pandora, that means that we can run Ansible on top of it. You can grab the PND from the repo: http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=ansible 2019-10-10 Version: 2.8.5.1 : First upload to the Repo. 2019-11-17 Version: 2.9.0.0 Upgraded Ansible from 2.8.5 to 2.9.0...
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    Mari^H^H^H^H DMCA Royale! Multi player RACE (browser game)!

    Mario Royale it is now called DMCA Royale The story: https://www.polygon.com/nintendo/2019/6/22/18713685/super-mario-battle-royale-website-takedown-dmca-royale-infernoplus The game: http://www.infernoplus.com/royale/#main
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    Programming: Monads for the Rest of Us

    So, what are Monads exactly? Brush up your coding concepts with this article: Still thirsty for more? Watch Uncle Bob: Here are the slides of his presentation (Monads in Clojure): https://github.com/unclebob/WTFisaMonad/blob/master/Monads.pdf And the presentation itself: Not into Monads...
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    Just a free ZX Spectrum game: M. Jones in search of the lost cow (2016)

    Download link at the end of the author's page (bi-lingual page and game, just choose the English version) http://www.bytemaniacos.com/?page_id=2887 There's a donate button at the end of the page, should you like to donate.
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    3D Graphics: From 8bit wireframe to ray-tracing to path-tracing

    An interesting look at the past and future of 3D computing. A very comprehensive video.
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    Software SOX: Question about

    SoX (Sound eXchange; it's in the Pandora Repo) can do a lot of things, for example: When you run it it drops you in a shell, from there, you must first export some environment variables: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/lib export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`/bin export SOX_OPTS="--buffer 4096 -q" Now try to...
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    35C3 27-30 Dec 2018 - The Chaos Computer Club conference

    FYI: https://events.ccc.de/upcoming-events/
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    Software bloat musings: Software Disenchantment

    http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/ I stumbled upon a nice article; that starts off a bit dry but then goes to many places and that leave you thinking. Sprinkled with some humor it's a good read (especially the links here and there)
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