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Linux in the wild original ↗

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Retro Gamedev Is Hard original ↗

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Game Engine to Functional First Game the Hello World of Gamedev original ↗

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Agon Light Joystick Interface - How Not to Program Hardware original ↗

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Agon Light Joystick Interface original ↗

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Axis Aligned Bounding Boxes - Collision Detection Without Physics original ↗

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State Machines - How to Engineer Better Software original ↗

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The Reason You Quit Coding Projects and What to Do About It original ↗

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The Dark Art of DOS Audio: PC Speaker Tricks and PWM Madness original ↗

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Writing a Roguelike in C Part 1 original ↗

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Digital Graffiti - Programming 1990s PC Demoscene Effects original ↗

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A Retro Game Made With 21st Century Thinking Gamedev the Hard Way original ↗

11 Jun 2025

My Game Engine Has a Fatal Flaw - Here's How I Found It : #Gamedev the Hard Way original ↗

21 Apr 2025

Stealing Ideas From Doom original ↗

19 Apr 2025

MS DOS Programming the Mode X Deviation original ↗

29 Mar 2025

Mode X Madness original ↗

22 Mar 2025

Can I Program VGA Graphics in MS DOS? (Watch Me Struggle!)original ↗

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Retro MS DOS Coding - Recreating the Iconic Award BIOS Screen original ↗

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Davinci Resolve Collaboration original ↗

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Borland C Dos Programming original ↗

27 Feb 2025

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Let's recreate a 90's PC BIOS Boot Screen original ↗

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Nostalgic DOS Development Part 1 - FreeDOS, DJGPP, RHIDE and other madness.original ↗

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Nostalgic DOS Development - Setting up the machine original ↗

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Bring back physical buttons!original ↗

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Emulation Sucks original ↗

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Making Computers Fun Again original ↗

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Gamedev the hard way - doing it all myself original ↗

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Stealing the Secrets of the NES - Agon Light Tilemaps in C original ↗

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Programming Bitmap Graphics - Agon Light using C original ↗

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Sonoff Hacking to install Tasmota original ↗

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26 Apr 2024

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Agon Light Graphics Tests original ↗

26 Mar 2024

Calculating Pi using Python - Gauss-Legendre and Monte Carlo methods - #piday 2024 original ↗

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Learning how to draw things on the Agon Light original ↗

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Agon Light Joystick Test 1 original ↗

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Cellular Automata - Simulate life from chaos and code original ↗

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Agon Light C Programming - An Introduction original ↗

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Happy 2024!original ↗

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The Dark Art of Programming - Writing Cursed Code original ↗

31 Oct 2023

estimating Battery Runtime Using Home Assistant original ↗

28 Oct 2023

FORTH - Better than BASIC?original ↗

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October Solar Stats original ↗

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Sinclair BASIC vs BBC BASIC - How to fit an entire devkit inside 64K original ↗

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Tying ChatGPT up in knots original ↗

21 Sept 2023

It looks like you are using an ad blocker original ↗

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September Solar Usage original ↗

16 Sept 2023

1990s Web Culture - How the Internet used to be original ↗

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How a CPU really works original ↗

25 Aug 2023

Solar battery usage original ↗

24 Aug 2023

How trying to make pocket calculators do complex maths accidentally invented modern computing original ↗

11 Aug 2023

Why the 1880 US Census lead to the invention of the computer original ↗

28 Jul 2023

RC2014 Raspberry Pi Pico VGA Terminal Self-Build original ↗

26 Jul 2023

Wang Tiles and other ways to tile a plane original ↗

14 Jul 2023

ICONICA 1000W 12V Hybrid Solar Inverter Fan Replacement original ↗

9 Jul 2023

Repairing my Ryobi drill battery original ↗

25 Jun 2023

DIY VGA Serial Terminal original ↗

8 Jun 2023

Shut up you noisy inverter original ↗

7 Jun 2023

DIY Solar - is it worth it?original ↗

16 May 2023

Federated Madness original ↗

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Gamedev, music, art and being creative original ↗

25 Mar 2023

Hacking IoT Smart Plugs original ↗

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Chat GPT pretending to be a BBC Micro original ↗

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BBC BASIC in RiscOS on a Raspberry Pi is really cool original ↗

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Samsung SDP-860 Document Camera Thing original ↗

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How to disable Chrome’s ssl and hsts warnings original ↗

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When did Linux get so complicated?original ↗

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Hacking Smart Home Devices - Literally original ↗

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2022 Review original ↗

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SO my network broke…original ↗

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