Four words that get used almost interchangeably for the projects bringing old games back to life — what each one actually means, where they overlap, and how to tell them apart.

When my Amstrad PC1640’s original hard drive started throwing file allocation table errors, I needed its files off fast — over a null-modem cable, with Procomm’s Kermit mode on the Amstrad side and TeraTerm on the PC.

Some programming news!

I’m working on a PC port of SNES classic Star Fox, using the asm code from the ultrastarfox project as a base.

Progress is great so far — and I even have a video to prove it! See below.

Gran Turismo 5’s Multi Monitor mode links three PlayStation 3s into one continuous view across three screens — no special hub, and it works in full GT career mode instead of just Arcade.

Back inside the Xbox Series X that kept shutting itself off — this time going all the way to the die itself to find out if the theory from Part 1 was actually right.

My Xbox Series X started powering itself off mid-game, but only in some games. Working out why turned into a proper electrical diagnosis, and it ended up somewhere I didn’t expect.

A Sapphire Radeon RX 580, then a PowerColor RX 6600 XT, wired into a Raspberry Pi 5 over OCuLink — a custom kernel, a patched memcpy library, and Half-Life 2 at 4K on a $60 computer.

An i.LINK Battle mode hidden inside Gran Turismo 3 links three PlayStation 2s into one continuous view across three screens — and, later, one genuine ultra-wide picture stitched from all three.

A GitHub find, a beefy USB-C power supply, and an official Active Cooler — the full story of building Valve’s Source Engine from scratch and getting Half-Life 2 running natively on a Raspberry Pi 5, no emulation involved.