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PS5 vs. Xbox Series X: your discs and game library decide before the teraflops
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PiPedal turns a Raspberry Pi into a guitar-effects box controlled from a phone
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A Python smartwatch’s free RAM rose from 7.1 to 12.4 KB after filesystem work
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A Pentium Pro with modern chess software won 78 games against an old engine on a new PC
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The original Mac shipped a hook for a little man who never fit
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OpenRA brings Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 into one free modern engine
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OLED vs. Mini-LED: one dark pixel can switch off, a dimming zone has neighbors
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oldTunes puts a current iCloud library behind the iTunes 2005 interface
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NullPlayer runs Windows Media Player skins on a Mac, scripts included
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NES vs. Nintendo 64: a huge CPU-clock leap still left a cartridge slot
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The Macintosh team’s pirate flag went up with rusty nails and survived a Lisa-team heist
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The Mac’s four-voice sound demo squeezed two values into each register
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Microsoft Word had so many shortcuts it collided with the Mac’s emergency abort keys
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A desktop laser harp times each pluck and triggers its own fog machine
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An ISP’s DNS interference gave itself away when an encrypted lookup returned another address
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An old iPod touch backup surfaces early apps with their version numbers intact
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An ESP32 GTA countdown clock takes pixel-art drive-by breaks
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Game Boy Pocket kept 160 × 144 pixels and cut rated playtime from 30 to 10 hours
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Hyperbutler runs Docker on Windows without WSL, reporting 319 MiB at idle
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Disc Image Studio burns visible pictures into ordinary blank discs
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