🕹 Atari Lives, IE does not, and the minions are coming - This Geek in Review for 2022-06-24
By goz
Happy 50th Atari!
Of all of the companies that have had an influence in my life, Atari is the most influential. It is the company that gave me my first videogame system. And, more importantly, my first real computer system. (My first computer system was a TRS-80 Color Computer, but I only had it for a couple of years and only had a tape drive for it.) Monday, June 27 marks the 50th anniversary of Atari, Inc. The company isn’t what it used to be, but it is still around.
- Atari Goes WarioWare In Microgame Collection ‘Atari Mania’ Out This Summer - Nintendo Life
- Atari shocks the world with decent-looking game | PC Gamer
Ding dong Internet Explorer is dead
Microsoft has been telling anyone who would listen that Internet Explorer was being taken to the farm upstate to “live” out its days. Unfortunately, some places didn’t get the memo.
Absolutely brilliant
Internet Travels
Geek
Retro
- Trying to Emulate GBA ROMs on My Palm Tungsten E - YouTube
- RadioShack TRS-80 Model 4P - retrohax.net
- Review: Sonic Origins is a tragic example of good classics ruined by greed | Ars Technica
- The PS2’s Jak & Daxter Is Being ‘Ported’ To The PC By Fans
Videogames
- There is currently no way to finish Star Wars: KOTOR II on the Switch - The Verge
- A brief history of (unintentionally) unbeatable games | Ars Technica
- Platformer Toolkit by Game Maker's Toolkit
- How Shredder’s Revenge captures the essence of classic TMNT arcade games - The Verge
Technology
- Hypersonic Plane From Venus Aerospace Will Travel to the Edge of Space
- Commodore 64 Returns As A PC Gaming Powerhouse With An Intel CPU And GeForce GPU | HotHardware
- Microsoft Surface Duo 2 re-review: I get it now - The Verge
- GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
- Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer to Unlock a Quintillion Ops | Tom’s Hardware
- Mighty browsing using a remote machine
Science
- How Harmful Is Social Media? | The New Yorker
- Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down - Scientific American
- A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie - YouTube
- The First High-Yield, Sub-Penny Plastic Processor - IEEE Spectrum
- Everest’s base camp is melting - The Verge
- Either a bird went on vacation or scientists need a tourist to return their equipment - The Verge
- Behold the Magnetar, nature’s ultimate superweapon | Ars Technica
Pop Culture
- LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation | Official Trailer | Disney+ - YouTube
- Morbius finally finds some success…on Vudu - The Verge
- Lego Reveals Classic Castle, Space Sets for 90th Anniversary
Pot Pourri
- Tight budgeters beware: Skip the coffee before shopping I USF News
- Mum says speed of ‘aggressive’ Aldi cashier left her ‘crying and shaking’ | JOE.co.uk
- Why New Jersey and Oregon still don’t let you pump your own gas - CNN
- Dyslexia Simulator - SLD Read
- Amazon Prime Day 2022 dates announced for July 12-13 | Ars Technica