The Apple II in 2024 – by By Ken Gagne

The Apple II in 2024 – by By Ken Gagne

As the Apple II nears its fiftieth anniversary, it shows no sign of slowing down. The 8-bit personal computer, developed and designed by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, was manufactured in various models from 1977 to 1993, making it one of Apple Inc.’s longestrunning products. Today, not only do hobbyists around the world continue to…

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US: Nintendo Download for 10th December 2020

This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content: Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch PixelJunk Eden 2 – From the mind of Baiyon comes PixelJunk Eden 2, an exploration of life, color and collaboration. Reinvigorate and revitalize the world in a swath of luminescence against a dynamic and vibrant backdrop of mellow, multi-hued visuals. Return…

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Terrifying horror nopefest Phasmophobia combined with immersive room lighting looks like an easy way to give yourself a chronic case of the brown trousers

I’ve been around this game long enough now to have sat through many immersive gaming experiences. VR headsets, racing wheels, game-synced RGB room lighting, bum-rumblers, the lot. But there’s inevitably a point where all this gear transitions from a gameplay-enhancing experience booster into something genuinely terrifying, and I think TikTok user Idaxix may have found…

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Windows is rolling out the ability to handle all app updates from just your OS, but with limited support right now

Good news, an actually good Windows update is here. But it likely won’t be useful for a while. Still, the foundation has been laid for your apps to update themselves thanks to the introduction of the Unified Update Orchestration Platform (UOP). The UOP will “download and install updates based on user activity and system state”….

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A dead Chinese Borderlands MMO based is being revived

In 2015 it was announced that Borderlands Online had been canceled, and a bunch of people asked, “What was Borderlands Online anyway?” That’s because it was planned to be a China-only MMO set in the Borderlands universe, with the kind of free-to-play model publishers used to see as a good way to “crack the Asian…

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