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One Television, One Kilobyte
Something set me thinking about the Sinclair ZX81 today — the first computer I ever touched, when I was twelve. The sublime manual, the housework I did to earn telly time, the tape that never loaded, the RAM pack that lost everything, and the unbridled joy of the first program that was properly mine.
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Why I Keep Rebuilding Arcade Games
Three tributes and counting. Not because the world needs another Centipede clone, but because some things are worth remembering with your hands, not just your head.
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Building a Star Raiders Tribute in a Single HTML File
How I rebuilt my favourite 8-bit space sim using Canvas, Web Audio and 2,288 lines of JavaScript — informed by an extraordinary reverse-engineered source code that made the impossible feel achievable.
Retro
Old computers and classic arcade games. 3 notes.