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How SimCity Squeezed a Whole City Simulation into 16 MHz
The original SimCity ran on an Intel 386SX clocked at 16 MHz. The trick behind it still matters for modern games: don't run all your code every frame.
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A 1996 chat room reopens — right inside your browser
The lolchat.rip project recreates the feel of mid-nineties online chatter and hooks into browser-based versions of the Windows 95 and Mac System 7 desktops.
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PlayStation 2 Security Chip Cracked After 26 Years
After four years of work, Canadian enthusiast DiscoStarslayer has managed to read the contents of the MechaCon chip — one of the last unsolved secrets of the original PS2.
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The Strange Interfaces of the Demoscene: A Tour of the Tools
The author of datagubbe.se has assembled a collection of the quirky user interfaces that demosceners relied on across the Amiga, Atari, C64 and PC. These homemade tools grew out of teenage enthusiasm, a habit of tinkering and a desire to make everything just that little bit cooler.