There's no source code of the original Pong, at least not in a software sense. No ROM exists, there's no CPU. Code? None. In 1972, Pong was created by Atari using Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL). The game logic is hardwired. The closest to the source code is the blueprint.

If you ever played Space Invaders you surely noticed that each time you killed an alien the game went faster. But, if you checked the source code from one of the arcade machines, you would find nothing related to this. That's because this mechanic is a hardware accident. The

From the DEC RK05 disk drive maintenance manual (DEC-00-HRK05-C-D) Fount via @[email protected] on Mastodon

But are you this old? 😂😂😂

Computer Science is not science, and it's not about computers. Got reminded about this gem from MIT the other day

Imagine losing first authorship because you got hit by a blue shell on the last lap 💀

This isn't DOSBox. This is Prince of Persia on a real 486 from 1993. No Sound Blaster. Just PC speaker. But when your graphics looked THIS good... it was enough. Real hardware. Real rotoscoping. BOOM! #retrogaming #princeofpersia #dosgaming

Among other prerequisites...

It’s incredible how awful my 2020 Intel Macbook Pro became after upgrading to MacOS Tahoe 26 #itjustworks

Had every iPhone since 2007 and just found out about this feature today. I’m sick.

Flight attendant comes over intercom: “your flight is oversold, I need two volunteers to take a flight this afternoon for a $300 voucher.” I spring into action. I was born for these moments. This is why I studied game theory. Literal tingles. I pull out my megaphone and address

What it's like to watch AI fix a bug

Run For Your Lives... Central & South America!  Iron Maiden have announced further dates for the Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026.  October 2026  5 San Salvador, EL SALVADOR – Estadio Jorge “Mágico” González  8 San José, COSTA RICA – Estadio  11 Bogotá, COLOMBIA – Vive Claro

How we accidentally buy aircraft kits, models, dioramas...

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really looking forward to giving this keynote! imo the best reverse engineers also deeply understand compilers; I’ll be getting into the weeds with LLVM for this one

Eric Lippert interviewed a database dev at Microsoft. Asked how he'd generate a unique integer without the database feature. The guy never thought about the fact that somebody had to write that code. hanselminutes.com/1031/

someone built a Linux CPU scheduler that makes scheduling decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs it actually works haha: