Most retro gamers use emulators to play old school games on their Android device, but iIf you still have your old floppy disk games and a USB floppy drive ($11 at Amazon) you can play them on your ...

Owning a smartphone means you have thousands of games at your fingertips, but capturing the nostalgia of playing a game saved on a floppy disk isn't as simple as downloading an app. Reviving floppy ...

Holding on to a cache of old floppies because nostalgia? Us too, and this might be the coolest possible use for ’em. While it’s fun to imagine that he wrote a compression algorithm to fit a lossless ...

I daresay that many of you reading this have never had to encounter the days of gaming on a floppy disk. If so, lucky you. The load times were terrible and it was often all for a game that would be ...

Every piece of hardware that uses an electronic motor can make a specific tone. Mad hardware scientist Paweł Zadrożniak is not the first person to take advantage of this fact to create music using ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Ah, the good ol’ YouTube cover, where no song is too sacred to screw with. There are screaming goat remixes of Bon Jovi and Alicia Keys, a shooting range rendition of the Cups ...

Bottom line: We may live in an era of incredibly powerful GPUs, virtual reality, and lifelike graphics, but the retro gaming market is as popular as ever. There are numerous current and upcoming "mini ...

In 1999, Darude released “Sandstorm.” On the internet, that year is referred to as 0 PS, or post-Sandstorm — the year everything changed. Over the next 17 years, the internet has mostly existed as an ...

This doesn’t really have anything to do with metal, but it’s pretty neat and the whole goddamn world has Star Wars fever right now on account of Rogue One, so we thought we’d share it. A dude named ...

Enlisting the help of floppy disk drives to play music is not a new concept. But this Star Wars example is still very impressive. What is the one sound that can compare to a symphony orchestra in full ...

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