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Lee Felsenstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Felsenstein
Homebrew Computer Club, designer of the Osborne 1, Sol-20[1] computer, ...

Nicolas Mailloux
Organiser of VCF Montreal 2026!

Good thing I have a slow iPhone 8, so I could click on that menu.

Hmmm, bluetooth joysticks? I wonder if a PS5 joystick would work with it. Apparently it does, https://appleinsider.com/inside/iphone/tips/how-to-play-classic-arcade-games-on-your-iphone-or-ipad And that PS5 Bluetooth sync (hold PS ...

In the change log for the 2026.01.11 version of the Internet Adapter, there's a note about using bigger boot ROMs:

- Lastly, while this update does support RevB, it is not recommended for daily driving. This is because the RevB ROM is 8k, pushing the ORG of homebrew to a higher address, unlike the ...

There's a new NABU emulator in town, and this time it runs in a web browser!

The announcement post is at:
https://gamemaking.social/@SpindleyQ/115868841908742018

And the actual web page with the emulator is at:
https://www.information-superhighway.net/nabu/

It's based on the Marduk emulator, a ...

Correct, that's a Ruby programmers instance / community on Mastodon. I signed up there when I was working more intensively on my less evil social media with forgiveness experiment in Ruby/Rails. But ended up talking about many other topics.

More appropriately for you would be a Canadian instance ...

I’ve cross posted your posters to Mastodon, https://ruby.social/@AGMS00/115838920380748816
Hope they get some attention!

Nope, tried an all upper case URL and it still hits the web server every access, despite having cached the content.

Congratulations, you are the first person to run Nth Pong Wars on a real Nabu! Nice to hear that it works, thanks for testing.

Well, easy to win because I have a lot of work to do on the game-play (currently you can move too fast and just trash the AIs), and improve the AIs. But when it's ready, I ...

I was able to successfully emulate the NABU on my iOS 16 iPhone 8-Plus! And run my NthPongWars game!

There are a few steps. Download the "ArcadeMania" application, it's published by Infinite Evolution Technologies, and currently implements MAME 0.283. Upload the NABU ROMs to the iPhone. It has ...

Noticing that the cache is all uppercase file names, I wonder if it is a bug related to names in the cache being compared to mixed case for the URL?