13+ hour, 11+ min ago   (41+ words) [Artificial-Age] has built a rather unique way to play old Game Boy games. It's an emulator, but it doesn't work in quite the way you might think! Since the Game Boy is a relatively simple 8-bit mach......

2+ day, 14+ min ago   (235+ words) Hackaday These days there are emulators for all the great consoles of yesteryear, as well as old retrocomputers and arcade machines and so much else to boot Now, though, a particularly popular MP3 player has an emulator of its own—by…...

2+ day, 12+ min ago   (40+ words) This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and privacy advocacy? Where are we on a true Tor browser on iOS? And what's the i......

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (232+ words) Hackaday The Quest virtual reality headset gets a fully unlocked bootloader thanks to the QuestStack tool, which automates a complex process of privilege escalation to provide stable, privileged access to the hardware This solidly frees the headset from its existence…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (196+ words) Hackaday Many pieces of consumer electronics are build down to a price, and the corners cut show up in their performance The Gameboy Advance from Nintendo is no exception: its audio is a PWM stream that sounds awful through the…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (35+ words) [caption id="attachment_1139860" align="alignright" width="400"] It's arguably adult-sized. (Credit: Sam Barker, YouTube)[/caption] A staple of old movies featuring railways, many handcars - also cal......

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (41+ words) There's no actual data, but if we had to guess the least-favourite Disney movie of former Amiga owners would have to be Frozen, because none of them will ever be able to "Let it Go". The Amiga-derived......

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (224+ words) Hackaday A time-honored tradition in the electronics repair business is to make many into one, specifically a stack of broken devices into one that works So too with a triplet of heavily corroded and bug-infested WiiMote controllers that [eWastelander] dug…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (33+ words) Over recent years there have been a range of classic 16-bit consoles coaxed into running familiar operating systems, with -nommu Linux being a favourite. But the 16-bit era had its own operating syste......

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (39+ words) The Steam Controller is a device capable of many interesting feats. It's intended to act simply as an input device, and yet, it can run games all on its own. As [Owen Feldman] has demonstrated, by hav......