Hacker News with Generative AI: Retro Gaming

Station: Travel Through the Four Seasons (1994) (gingerbeardman.com)
After reaching 1 million files in my Macintosh Magazine Media project, I thought it would be cool to post about something I found recently in those discs. I get a real buzz rediscovering something like this after more than 30 years have passed.
An Ode to the Game Boy Advance (brainbaking.com)
In March 2001, Nintendo introduced an advanced portable model to the gaming market with the release of the Game Boy Advance (GBA, codenamed Advanced Game Boy or AGB). Equipped with a modernized 32-bit ARM CPU running at twice the speed of the Game Boy Color (GBC), this small device was more than capable of playing SNES-like games—still at the price of only two AA batteries.
U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years, spent $100K+ designing parts (tomshardware.com)
In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio (newslttrs.com)
So there I was, minding my own business, doom-scrolling my way through Facebook posts when I happened upon one that hit me straight in the nostalgia. A photo of a 1980s home computer, a cassette player and some tapes. The text underneath proclaimed "In the 1980s, people could download video games from radio broadcasts by recording the audio onto cassette tapes. These tapes could then be played on computers to load the games".
Amiga Online Emulator (oszx.co)
Hi There :) Thanks for visiting my site! I created this site because I have a lot of good memory's of the Amiga system. Growing up my Amiga was the first decent computer I owned and I had alot of fun learning its secerets and playing really great games such as alien breed, another world, flashback and so many more... I hope you get half as much enjoyment playing these games now that I got playing them "back in the day"...
A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C (github.com/SAT-R)
⚠️ This project is not completed and still under active development
Golang on the Playstation 2 (rgsilva.com)
I always wanted to do some weird stuff with consoles. I’m not sure why, but making devices do unexpected things is always an interesting topic for me. And the same applies to the PlayStation 2, the 2000 console released by Sony.
Glider for Apple II (colino.net)
A lot of people my age that touched Macintoshes in the nineties know that game, Glider, written by John Calhoun. I recently started wanting to try and program a game for the Apple II as it is something I never attempted before, and I wanted to see if I got good enough at 6502 assembly for that.
Let's Make a Space Shooter with Nintendo Family Basic – Leaded Solder (leadedsolder.com)
I picked up a complete Nintendo Family BASIC package for my freshly composite-modded Famicom. Let’s see if I can remember enough BASIC to take advantage of this package and build a horizontally-scrolling space shooter game. Oh, and fix the cartridge first, of course.
Chrono Trigger Still Blows Me Away 30 Years Later (kotaku.com)
Occasionally the stars align and a once-in-a-generation group of creatives come together to make something spectacular and ahead of its time. That’s how Chrono Trigger was made, an RPG for the SNES that came out 30 years ago this week and still blows me away.
Playstation Mod Turns the PSOne into a Crustacean (gizmodo.com)
“Playstacean” is more than a pun, it’s a meme that’s transformed into an actual console, and it may be the cutest, working version of Sony’s long-defunct PSOne in the 25 years since its initial launch.
Ultima III for the Vic-20 (wordpress.com)
VIC 20 Ultima III is a faithful conversion of the original C-64 version. All game logic is included as-is. VIC 20 specific graphics and sound routines were created from scratch. The 16×16 pixel tile graphics from the C-64 version were carefully adapted to 8×16 resolution, flat-pixel tiles on the VIC 20.
The Vectrex Computer (amigalove.com)
Believe it or not, the Vectrex stand-alone unit can now be transformed into a home computer!
The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate (filfre.net)
The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate (filfre.net)
US Atari parts store still open after 41 years, spent $100K+ designing new parts (tomshardware.com)
Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web (github.com/smparsons)
Retro Boy is a simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust that can be played on the web. Try it here.
In 1997, Age of Empires was just coming out. My job was to design a new RTS game (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years (tomshardware.com)
SNES consoles have been quietly overclocking themselves for 35 years (gamesradar.com)
Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite (homeip.net)
The Amiga 600 was one of the last Amigas, and it became a symbol of everything wrong with Commodore and the product line.
Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected and why it's a problem (arstechnica.com)
Cheap, unreliable ceramic APU resonators lead to "constant, pervasive, unavoidable" issues.
Copyright and the Demoscene (Scandal Amiga Demo) (datagubbe.se)
Being eight years old and not speaking any English whatsoever meant that my early understanding of Amiga games was somewhat patchy. Nevertheless, some things will make an impression no matter what. Take German cracking group Unit A's 1988 cracktro for the flight simulator Interceptor, for example.
How to Beat NES Mario in 5 Microseconds [video] (youtube.com)
Game Boy Advance Architecture – A Practical Analysis (copetti.org)
The internal design of the Game Boy Advance is quite impressive for a portable console that runs on two AA batteries.
Let's Make a Space Shooter with Nintendo Family Basic (leadedsolder.com)
I picked up a complete Nintendo Family BASIC package for my freshly composite-modded Famicom. Let’s see if I can remember enough BASIC to take advantage of this package and build a horizontally-scrolling space shooter game. Oh, and fix the cartridge first, of course.
Installing Windows NT on the Nintendo Wii [video] (youtube.com)
My Colony Memoir (2005; about 1988 3D Mac game) (croquet.zone)
GameBoy retro games to play online (on IPFS to stay there forever) (dweb.link)
The CRPG Renaissance, Part 4: Long Live Dungeons and Dragons (filfre.net)
In December of 1997, Interplay Entertainment released Descent to Undermountain, the latest licensed Dungeons & Dragons computer game. It’s remembered today, to whatever extent it’s remembered at all, as one of the more infamous turkeys of an era with more than its share of over-hyped and half-baked creations, a fiasco almost on par with Battlecruiser 3000AD or Daikatana.