Dan Clarke—head of design agency Arkotype—is a graphic design legend and he’s working on a personal project: redesigning the Nintendo Switch OS.
Category: Cool Links
There’s an Appalachian Pinball Museum in North Carolina and it looks so cool: Two large rooms house roughly 65 pinball machines—some rare, most playable—and a separate video arcade holds 15 or so more games. The oldest machine, a 1947 Gottlieb Marjorie, predates having flippers on the playfield.
It looks like TheGammaSqueeze has got a version of Android 13 working on the TrimUI Smart Pro which I might try out: GammaOS Core is a minimal version of Android 13 TV (based on LineageOS) suited for low powered devices with chipsets such as the Rockchip RK3566 and with no touchscreen required.
PDF files just got even better thanks to ading2210 and their doompdf project which allows you to play Doom in a PDF.
I’m a little late to the party but Taki Udon has already announced his upcoming FPGA PS1 called the SuperStationᵒⁿᵉ and it’s available for preorder for $179.99 (as of 6th Feb 2025): The world’s first affordable FPGA gaming console. A recreation of the best console of the 90s. Open source from day 1.
ICYMI: The Video Game History Foundation Library is live and free to access with hundreds of video game magazines, artwork, and more. I’ve already read a couple of magazines and it’s been amazing to travel back in time.
Tiny Best Selector is a tool to help you combat choice paralysis when you have a lot of games to play. Based on the Tiny Best Set: GO! set of ROMs for a variety of consoles (Google it to find the link).
