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Re:Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:12PM (#49957934)
Yes, and don't call me Shirley!
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @07:00PM (#46641254)
https://marincomics.com/

Writing about the demoscene, retro computing, comics and hackathons

Re:Retro Gaming Museum in Vienna, Austria on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @01:57PM (#46049336)
A visit to the Retro Gaming Museum in Vienna reveals a surprisingly lively underground bunker packed with playable consoles, home computers and arcade classics. With a 90-minute "speedrun" ticket, you can blast through decades of gaming history in one concentrated hit.
Re:The HTML Hobbyist on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @07:24PM (#44740723)
Loved the article. It inspired me to write my own related article on my website: https://marincomics.com/bringing-back-the-weird.html

Not sure my site qualifies as hobbyist enough. It is the work of an enthusiast (me) but I used Bootstrap for styling and layout. I use some JavaScript. The site also starts with an animation I made using Tumult Hype. All this is probably too much for a true hobbyist site. Still, I regard my site as my hobby.

Re:Copyright and the Demoscene (Scandal Amiga Demo) on Friday March 14, 2025 @02:37PM (#43365758)
DataGubbe has slowed down publishing new articles this year, so I love it even more when he releases a new one!
Re:What Does Your Drawing of a Tree Say About You? Applying Koch's Bau... on Monday January 20, 2025 @09:41PM (#42775829)
During a psychological evaluation decades ago, I was asked to draw a tree. I later learned this seemingly innocent exercise was a gateway into the labyrinth of someone's personality. Recently, I decided to revisit that moment and draw another tree, this time with an iPad and decades of life experience in hand. Let's see how the Tree Drawing Test holds up.
Re:Pilet Open Source Portable Computer on Monday December 30, 2024 @08:54AM (#42549266)
Dang... I should have checked before posting. There were quite a few people who already posted about the Pilet. But the video is new.

Here are some more infos about this: https://soulscircuit.com/pilet

Re:Pilet Open Source Portable Computer on Monday December 30, 2024 @08:51AM (#42549239)
This Pilet looks interesting. Still early days though.

Probably quite useful for makers, developers, and tech enthusiasts. It has a Raspberry Pi5 or CM5 in it. Fully open source, the Pilet seems to be customizable and to be available in multiple form factors. I personally like the tablet form with the attaches keyboard beneath it (though I hope that it is nicer to type on than it looks in the pictures.

They are launching a Kickstarter soon. I'm apprehensively excited.

Re:Teenage Engineering OP-XY on Friday November 15, 2024 @02:14PM (#42149909)
Another really cool but unfortunately too expensive musical toy by the wonderful folks from Teenage Engineering.
Re:Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @06:05AM (#41718919)
Hi there, I'm the writer of the article. Apologies for the inconvenience. I have now replaced the image with the most naked women with a less naked one. Furthermore, I have added an NSFW badge to the top of the article (next to the date). Sorry again. It was thoughtless of me not to add some sort of label. I hope this remediates it now.
Re:Want to know what it's like at a demoparty? Here's my article about... on Friday August 23, 2024 @01:11PM (#41330820)
The 25th edition of Evoke in Cologne just ended in August 2024. Here's what happened, which demos won the competitions and what the real magic of the demoscene is.
Re:Making Compo Graphics for the Evoke 2024 Demoparty on Monday August 19, 2024 @08:02PM (#41295562)
At Evoke 2024, an awesome demoparty, I participated in three of the graphics competitions. Here is how I created my submissions and alternative graphics that taught me what I wanted to do. Tip of the hat to all the marvelous and creative folks I had the privilege to meet!
Re:Love Letter to Time Bandit on the Atari ST on Monday August 05, 2024 @06:41PM (#41166276)
In the year, the Atari ST was introduced, on of the first games for it was Time Bandit, an arcade action game with puzzle and text adventureelements. This is a love letter to the colorful world of time gates, two players and surprising arcade worlds!
Re:Turning a Palm and foldable keyboard into a distraction-free writin... on Thursday May 30, 2024 @06:01PM (#40529203)
I took a Palm m125 and a Palm Portable Stowaway keyboard to make a great distraction-free writing tool. This helps sustain the flow state that many writers of prose and long articles seek to achieve. This epic article includes a short video and a hidden section about PalmOS Hacks.
Re:Psychedelia syndrome: the pixels and code of Jeff Minter's 'Psyched... on Sunday April 21, 2024 @11:35AM (#40106573)
This is a beautifully written book. Immersive, detailed, and well-written. Halfway through and loving it so far!
Re:Monodraw on Monday March 11, 2024 @08:08AM (#39667117)
I love MonoDraw. It is a amazing tool with a great UI. Just a breeze to use!
Re:How Doom didn't kill the Amiga on Sunday February 04, 2024 @06:15AM (#39249352)
Loved the Amiga. Great machine.

If the argument that Doom killed the platform is valid, it can only be true for gaming (which was a very large portion of home use). After a great headstart, Amiga fell behind in many other areas: business and productivity software, networking and collaboration, multimedia and realtime-3D graphics.

And regarding gaming, let's not forget that the SNES and the Sega Megadrive/Genesis were going strong when the Amiga was fading away, and it took a while for them to get a version of Doom.

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