Duke Nukem 3D turns 30 years old, brought swaggering FPS action to real-world environments — 1996 release broke the Doom clone mold while adding humor and personality

Duke Nukem 3D smashed the 3D FPS Doom clone mold in 1996.

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DoomBuds ports the 1993 FPS classic to open-source earbuds by streaming JPGs at 18fps — runs on 300MHz CPU with less than 1MB of RAM

A developer has ported Doom to a pair of earbuds, but there were extra hurdles to jump, as the earbuds don’t have a screen.
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Open-source Intel 486 mobo built from scratch in under 6 months for i486 chips — M8SBC-486’s goal was to achieve Linux and Doom compatibility, but it achieves far more than that

An enthusiast has showcased an open-source Intel 486 motherboard that they claim was ‘made from scratch’ in under six months.
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Atari ST enthusiast announces the MiniST with FPGA, MiSTeryNano core, and black TKL case — priced at around $400 each, but the initial run is a mere five units

An Atari computer enthusiast is planning to produce a new TKL-sized FPGA-powered remake dubbed the MiniST.

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Erroneously assembled 1974 Altair 8800 computer gets fixed and enjoys first run in 2026 — Intel 8080 powered machine ran its first program 52 years later

A computer historian has documented the moment a 1974 kit computer successfully ran its first ever program – in 2016. Altair 8800 kit needed a new PSU.
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Doom conquers the kitchen through an electric cooking pot — classic shooter runs seamlessly after a full device firmware refresh

A YouTuber has managed to run Doom on a Krups Cook4Mec smart pressure cooker after dumping and reflashing the firmware on the appliance’s touchscreen control hardware.
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Acemagic presents mini-PCs inspired by the NES and PlayStation 1 — retro shells conceal Ryzen AI 9 465, up to 64GB of RAM, and up to 4TB of SSD storage

Acemagic presents mini-PCs inspired on the NES and PlayStation 1

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Dev uses Claude AI to write a ‘functional NES emulator’ — you can test it now, playing Donkey Kong in your browser

A developer has succeeded in prompting Claude to write ‘a functional NES emulator.’

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Nintendo’s SNES cartridges get a USB-C adapter for playing, backing up, and validation — $59 SN Operator SNES-to-PC device supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, ships in April

Epilogue just announced pre-orders for the SN Operator, a USB-C cartridge reader that lets you play and back up your SNES game library to your computer.
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D7VK reaches version 1.1 and adds new frontend and experimental Direct3D 6 support — Direct3D 7-to-Vulkan translation layer runs old games with native performance

D7VK has added experimental Direct3D 6 support, opening up near-native performance for older PC games without emulation.
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