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LowSpecGamer on “The First LowSpec” Processor
By the "first LowSpec" processor it means the 6502. This video is a retrospective on its origins (27 minutes). With its manga-styled illustrations of key players interspersed by stock footage and the occasional meme, It's not my favorite style for a […]

Illuminating BSC 2025 talk by Wassim Alhajomar on vehicle simulation for game developers.

Wassimulator -- Programming Vehicles in Games
BSC 2025
https://youtu.be/MrIAw980iYg?si=y7NaGKOpjJ111Pj-

Illuminating BSC 2025 talk by Wassim Alhajomar on vehicle simulation for game developers.

Wassimulator -- Programming Vehicles in Games
BSC 2025
https://youtu.be/MrIAw980iYg?si=y7NaGKOpjJ111Pj-

A sign with text in Italian that says: Museum of Papyrus International Institute of Papyrus

A room in the museum. Two statuary busts are in front of an open window framing a bright blue sea.

A courtyard with a well with two small papyrus plants in front.

@ryanfb and others who work with papyrus:

If you find yourself on the island of Ortigia in Syracuse in Sicily, there is a small interesting papyrus museum. It is not really about manuscripts, it is about papyrus itself, how it is made, its history etc […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

@colin_mcmillen Wow! Great work.

After this talk, you might finally understand quaternions.

* actual understanding may vary

"Quaternions" by Freya Holmer
Nordic Game Jam 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMvIWws8WEo

It never fails. The ultimate Atarians are always from Poland.

"Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer"
Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/polish-engineer-creates-postage-stamp-sized-1980s-atari-computer/

Fascinating discovery.

"In Paper Mario, the Dry Dry Ruins dungeon is laid out in an extremely curious manner internally. ... the rooms are not centered on the coordinate origin. ... they form a cylinder, as seen in the images from various angles." […]

It is to my lasting shame that I only learned of this song today. What an astonishingly rich pastiche of, and tribute to, Zappa.

"Weird Al" Yankovic
Genius In France
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwFf9vGRqcs

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games

"Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)" by the splendid and cool Noel Berry, who worked on some (or many) of your favorite indie games.

https://noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025/

Thanks to Ian Brumby.

This is a lovely biography of Roe Adams III by Hiromasa Iwasaki. Little has been written about Roe, and while his credits are short, they include both foundational CRPG pillars, Ultima and Wizardry, which is incredible. Read how he revitalized a stagnant genre […]

GitHub - goldnchild/mame at frob MAME. Contribute to goldnchild/mame development by creating an account on GitHub.

Fork of MAME with FROB functionality by Goldnchild:
https://github.com/goldnchild/mame/tree/frob

frob · main · retroabandon / apple2-re · GitLab Apple II disassemblies etc.

Reverse-engineered FROB by Bradley Bell and Curt J. Sampson:
https://gitlab.com/retroabandon/apple2-re/-/tree/main/frob

Thomas Cherryhomes is on a roll. He recently started posting information about The FROB, an Atari 2600 debugger that used the Apple II as a host. Now two community members have managed to reverse-engineer the hardware, and another has it running in MAME.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkfZBKysvFE

Speaking my language: "Programmers take a bug and find a fix for it. We are going to take a fix and find a bug."

The Secret Update of Super Mario Bros. 3
Behind the Code: Version Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOOlcSVU3p0

How can you not love Lizzo?

Lizzo: Love in Real Life/Still Bad Medley (Live) - SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qob2dZ2B5ig

Cheryl Hines pouting like a toddler after being snubbed by Trump during a UFC photo op. Her husband RFK, Jr. looks amused.

Trump voters.

I'm feeling confident AI will destroy us in the stupidest ways possible.

The Steam Controller, pictured nicely next to a Steam Deck.

breaks my heart that the most innovative controller of the last twenty-five years has passed out of the conversation with barely a notice

Capcom’s Weird Save Data Checksum System In GBA Zeldas
Skawo reports on an odd bug in both the Capcom-made Gameboy Advance releases of Zelda games A Link to the Past and The Minish Cap. It's explained, as is frequently the fashion, in a ten minute Youtube video, here […]

Justice - Neverender (Starring Tame Impala)
Live at Accor Arena 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9uMoTMbyrQ

This Microsoft Muse promotional image shows a screenshot of a Generative AI version of Quake 2. Most of the image's color has been drained to express lifelessness. Dominating the image is an enlarged Windows 95 recycle bin icon that suggests the best place for the product.

Hey. You don't need to try that idiotic generative AI Quake 2 thing. It is at least as bad as you imagine and probably much worse. There is no joy in it and it is an unimaginably colossal waste of resources. Please do not reward these arsonists with your attention.

@bigbluewaveusa.bsky.social He said this in 2020 in response to George Floyd protests.

Kaze Emanuar: "I analyzed every Shader in Mario 64, Here's how they work"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJJC6FJKu58

moshboy (@moshboy@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image explore, commodore pet (1979) https://mocagh.org/loadpage.php?getgame=explore

Peak computing.
https://mastodon.social/@moshboy/114283491111692611

Look, Dear ImGui, I'm real happy for your success, but you've made searching for general IMGUI knowledge basically impossible.

A plot of a self permeating 2-dimensional manifold with the caption: my blanket, when I try to find the long side at 3 am.

#MathMemes

Digital delivery of games remains extremely problematic from a rights perspective but Nintendo's Virtual Game Card system is a step in a positive direction for once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwyh74MXXY