While googling the current footprint of MapSkip on the web, as I do on a regular basis, I stumbled over this on Twitter: picture this: two of my boys -arms around each others’ shoulders – reading your kids Mapskip comments; smiles; joy in their lives; thank you I immediately called Kazumi over and showed her [...]
Whenever I think I have too many too complicated projects I find something like this on the web… here is the Toaster Project. Thomas Thwaites is attempting to build a toaster from scratch, starting with iron ore, crude oil and other raw materials. It’s an interesting project, based on some very interesting and deep thoughts [...]
Jason Scott over at ASCII has a rather hearty rant about the Cloud we are supposed to put all our data in. And he is absolutely right. In fact, it couldn’t be said better! Over the last few years we’ve all been trained to entrust a large number of companies and organizations with a lot [...]
If you’ve used an original Atari Joystick back in the 80s, you know that there was something very special about that joystick. I could never figure out what it was, and undoubtedly the ergonomics of every other later joypad/analog stick thingy was far superior. But still… there was something to that old square box, all [...]
While I was doing some research around the behavior of Atari ST hardware, I found several interesting sites with quite amazing hardware projects around the ST. There are several people who are in the process of building complete Atari clones based on VHDL (programmable logic chips)! Here’s a few very promising projects: S Like Suska [...]
It’s interesting to see developers open their programming process to the world on their blogs. Here are two recent examples that I found while looking for resources on emulator programming (ahem!) – Miggy is a blog from Bristol in the UK and the owner, t0ne, started work on a Amiga emulator in Java in October. [...]
With the speed increases in computers and browser code, a new class of emulators is slowly growing to significant levels: Emulators built in JavaScript! I wrote about this recently when I found Matt West’s cool Spectrum emulator on the web, and since then I’ve been looking around a bit to see what else is out [...]
Just stumbled over this one: Google now hosts scans of more than a million LIFE photos from the 1800s up to today. From a first glance, there are endless opportunities for research and just idle Googleing. Hundreds of images from the Yangtze in the 1940s, the San Francisco Conference, historic shots of the National Parks, [...]
This is a little bit geeky, but for the late-thirties/early-forty Euro JavaScript crowd (all five of us) this should be interesting: Matt West just announced the release of his ZX Spectrum emulator completely written in JavaScript. From my perspective, this counts as OMG-WTF Cool! Excellent coding with a very worthy goal. I’d found a working [...]
We’ve added a new feature to MapSkip: Sounds of the World. This has been something I’ve been playing with on MapSkip since the beginning – geolocating sound recordings. We still only have a few recordings on the site, but I hope that by adding a special feature page, we can attract more people to add [...]