"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
My recent playing with the Gameduino had me thinking more about games like Space Invaders, and while I was searching around for bitmaps, I kept thinking about the sound effects. I didn’t realize this, but they were not digital sounds, but sounds produced by triggering a series of analog circuits. The schematics and some analysis […]
Super Mario Brothers is 25 years old today. Which means that I was 21 when it was released. I feel old all of a sudden. Still, time to celebrate, perhaps with a bit of nostalgic MIDI music from vgmusic.com.
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