Shovel Knight, a retro-themed game, was initially released for Wii U and 3DS, which arguably makes it a retro game itself.
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Here's a polyglot double-quine!
It's a valid ISO disc image as well as its own source code.
When read as an ISO, on it are two identical copies of itself named "quine.iso" and "quine.asm". When assembled with NASM, the output is also itself.
Charlie StrossThis new Commodore flip-phone:
The demo/promo shots emphasize WhatsApp. That's another privacy-intrusion app from Mark Zuckerberg's company town.
And their app store is curated to keep out things Commodore disapproves of, including—ironically—social media apps.
Hard pass. *HARD* pass.
Preparing a patch NetBSD userland tools to accept long options if, and only if, preceded by an emdash. If we're going to do it, we do it properly.
Now with two more targets! 🎉
...to facilitate which I rewrote the rendering (across all targets) to use maps and tiles, since the Game Boy and Game Boy Color do not support bitmaps!
They all use the same tiles, map and palette - the latter is organized in 4 columns roughly in luminance order such that the indices also work as grayscale values.
David GerardThere should have been an op-ed here but you filed AI slop
https://www.cityam.com/there-should-have-been-an-op-ed-here-but-you-filed-ai-slop/
Jonathan PerkinDelighted to announce the first 1.0.0 release of bob, and import it into pkgsrc for general use in time for pkgsrc-2026Q2.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2026/06/12/msg348092.html
One of the reasons for the name is in honour of my dad, who has later stage dementia.
I've poured a lot of effort into making this program be the best it can be, so that it is befitting of its name.
It's something I've wanted for many years, and I'm thrilled that it's now available. I think it's pretty great, and I hope you do too.
It works on real GBA hardware too, except the Everdrive GBA doesn't skip the logo check, so I had to add that back in, borking the DOS header.
That means a GBA+DOS/Win32 polyglot is not possible on real hardware. Bummer.