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Old things, kept alive

Computers, vinyl, MiniDiscs, hardware nobody makes anymore — if it's old and it still works, it's fair game. Deeper archive lives on tooloudtoowide.

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Sony MiniDisc, still in rotation

Why a format everyone else dropped never left my setup.

Yamanooto 8MB, or four times the room

A quick look at the new 8MB revision of the Yamanooto sound cartridge for MSX — more ROM space, one firmware gotcha, and still no simple menu tool.

MSX forever

A note on gathering years of scattered MSX write-ups into one place — the same instinct behind this whole site.

Not Atari, again

Atari has a long history of bad luck — and, it turns out, it wasn't first with MIDI either, same as it wasn't behind the Terminator code.

Hacking the Apple I

Ten hexadecimal bytes, a ROM routine, and a shift-register screen memory that can't be addressed directly — a small, joyful dive into the Apple I's own manual.

The Sinclair ZX81 turns 40

A cheap, flawed, black-cased machine that put a computer within reach of almost everyone — and earned Clive Sinclair his knighthood in the process.

MSX game classics that still hold up

A guided tour of 8-bit classics you already know from Atari, C64 or ZX Spectrum — all playable, and often surprisingly good-looking, on MSX.

What's hiding in the mysterious code shown in Terminator?

The HUD code from the T-800's vision isn't Atari, like fans have claimed for decades — it's Apple II, and the trail leads to a 1984 issue of Nibble magazine.

Is the Amiga the fastest Macintosh?

A viral video claims an emulated Amiga beats a real Macintosh. The claim falls apart the moment you check which Macintosh, and which year, it's actually comparing.