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The Brick Testament: The Bible Told In Lego
via Retro Thing by bohus on January 31, 2008
... One of my favorite scenes is the great flood depicted with a mass of blue bricks, with only the Lego people's heads afloat. There have been detractors to the project, while others have praised Smith's interpretive efforts. In addition to his website, his work has been published as a series of picture books. Could faith-based Lego playsets be far behind? Thy Downloadable Scr...
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Guitar Hero Now Shredding On Commodore 64
via Retro Thing by bohus on March 12, 2008
... that it can do anything. I've seen the C64 burn a CD, spool video clips off of a hard drive, even control a robotic cat... so clearly the 1980's powerhouse C64 can keep up with the times.I guess that I shouldn't have been surprised that someone figured out how to not only create a credible Guitar Hero copy (a free download called Shredz64) on the Commodore, but also use the pop...
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The Harmonium: Amazing Analog Computer
via Retro Thing by james on May 01, 2008
This thing is so gorgeous it makes me want to cry. The Harmonium is a mechanical computer designed to perform sine wave synthesis and Fourier Analysis (in other words, it draws and analyzes sine curves). This complex gadget is the brainchild of 64-year-old Dutch inventor Tatjana van Vark, who has a long history of building complex gadgetry (there are several shots of an oscilloscope on his...
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Kodak's First Digital Camera
via Retro Thing by james on May 06, 2008
... CCD image sensor (now commonplace) and took 23 seconds to record a crude 100 line black and white image onto cassette tape. Sasson explains, "On the side of our portable contraption, we shoehorned in a portable digital cassette instrumentation recorder. Add to that 16 nickel cadmium batteries, a highly temperamental new type of CCD imaging area array, an a/d converter implementation ...
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Pingus: Lemmings Goes Open Source
via Retro Thing by james on April 29, 2008
Pingus is a modern open source version of Lemmings, a brilliant graphic puzzle game first released for the Amiga in 1991. The goal is to save a gaggle of dimwitted little creatures that drop out of a trapdoor in the sky by guiding them to an exit. To complicate matters, the little critters have the awkward habit of cheerfully walking off cliffs whenever given a chance. The original game was...
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