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https://marincomics.com/ Writing about the demoscene, retro computing, comics and hackathons

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 "s…

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.…

DataGubbe has slowed down publishing new articles this year, so I love it even more when he releases a new one!

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 personalit…

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://s…

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, t…

Another really cool but unfortunately too expensive musical toy by the wonderful folks from Teenage Engineering.

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 a…

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.

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 wante…

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 c…