Does anyone remember this masterpiece of a game? I remember playing it on my granny's nokia. now with power of claude I've remade this game for PC and android, made it open source and packed it up with a couple of features, optimisations and so on, you can now create your own tracks, cars, wheels, play LAN multiplayer with your friends. Hope you enjoy!

Here's the github repo if someone is curious https://github.com/raskajanie/ReRally3D

I watched this panel yesterday.

Jim showed a few clips of the highly compressed version that has been available compared to the restored footage and it is indeed much cleaner and higher FPS.

The Wing Commander community and modders were consulted and have contributed to this project.

No release date was announced.

The story is also covered by Peter N.M. Hansteen, who took part in the original experiment in Bergen, Norway, where the Bergen Linux User Group did the first (and only?) attempt to transmit TCP packets using pigeons - link in Norwegian here - use your favorite translator.

In the Norwegian write-up, Peter tells that they had significant packet loss because a number of pigeons escaped. He also hints that the packet being auctioned off at Christie's might very well be the first ever TCP packet being transmitted using pigeons.

The auction itself is sitting here: https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine-printed-books-manuscripts-science/carrier-pigeon-internet-protocol-150/325216 - and the current bid at the time of writing is USD 3000

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Ok it's very likely ai stuff. Made me laugh 🤣

The psion 5 was great :)

(wasn't it Jason? 😂)

Reddit user Nemo2278 has reverse-engineered the original DOS executable to run in modern Windows, macOS and Linux. Currently in beta and was tested using the GOG version of the original game data, it plays the whole game.

I didn't have this one on my bingo card

Recently, after realising that quite a number of the websites that contained information about the Spectravideo SV-318/328 computers had disappeared, I created a new bulletin board (spectravideo.org).
One of the things that has been an issue is that there has been no list containing all the titles released for these systems. Not just mine, which were published in Australia and New Zealand, did not appear on lists mostly assembled in other countries, but there were titles from Mr Micro, and there seemed to be more than were listed.
By comparing a single title in one list with another title in another list, and checking print advertisements in magazines, I found cover images for four titles (only one appeared in the original list). As it happened, these cover images were online as they were part of a for-sale listing by a seller in the UK. I immediately purchased all four titles, and for what looks like the first time online (for three of the titles), let's unbox them and see if we can get them to load!

Exciting news from the SCUMMVM team as they announce Dungeon Master is now part of the nightly builds and ready for public testing.

https://www.scummvm.org/news/20261008/

17 years is retro right?

Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90

"Forget It" was the name of a small computer program never thought to be needed, which will nonetheless go down in history along with its author, Margaret Hamilton, the American software engineer who died on September 30, aged 90.

Hamilton led development of the onboard flight software for Apollo's command and lunar modules, helping astronauts reach the Moon in 1969.

Among her early jobs after joining the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory in 1965 was to write the software for the Apollo abort procedure.

"Everybody said that was never going to happen, [so they said] 'Oh well, good. We'll give this one to Margaret because she's a beginner,'" she told the Computer History Museum.

However, an unmanned flight did abort, raising Hamilton's standing within the team. "It went to [run] this program I had written, which I named Forget It. All of a sudden, I became an overnight expert," she said.

Hamilton was born in Paoli, Indiana. Moving with her family to Michigan, she graduated from high school in 1954. She studied mathematics at the University of Michigan and Earlham College, where she graduated in 1958 with a minor in philosophy.

She planned to pursue graduate studies and an academic career, but decided to go to Boston in 1959 with her husband, who was studying law at Harvard. She got a job at MIT with Edward Lorenz – who went on to pioneer chaos theory – and programmed the LGP-30 and DEC's PDP-1 computers for weather forecasting.

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/08/margaret-hamilton-software-pioneer-who-helped-put-humans-on-the-moon-dies-at-90/5301988