[ad_1] Ars Technica reporter Sam Machkovech wrote about Salvador’s work. By chance, one reader chimed in the comments to say they had shared the article with a retired chemical engineer who had worked for Chevron in the 90s. That person found a single 3.5-inch floppy disk with a copy of the game on it. After disappearing for a couple […]
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Long-lost ‘Days of Thunder’ NES game recreated from 30-year-old floppies
[ad_1] Unreleased video games tend to show up in ready-to-play forms, but a recent discovery required decidedly more effort. The Video Game History Foundation has reconstructed a lost NES adaptation of the Tom Cruise stock car movie Days of Thunder (one of the blockbuster hits of 1990) using 30-year-old source code floppy disks from the […]
Virtual PC game box collection helps relive the heyday of floppies and CDs
[ad_1] If you’re a gamer of a certain age (cough), you probably have fond memories of the elaborate boxes PC games once had — sometimes more memorable than the gameplay itself. You don’t have to hunt down a copy on an auction site to indulge in some nostalgia, thankfully. Benjamin Wimmer has been running a […]
British Museum makes over half of its collection viewable online
[ad_1] You can’t visit museums in person during pandemic lockdowns, but you might not have to for one of the most prestigious institutions. The British Museum has made (via Motherboard) images of more than half its collection (4.5 million objects) available online, with 1.9 million images available through a Creative Commons 4.0 license. You can […]
Roku is giving away 30 days of premium video
[ad_1] You can find the channels by either visiting The Roku Channel or checking areas like “Featured Free.” As usual, this is as much about promoting the services (be sure to cancel any you don’t want to keep) as it is giving people something to do when they can’t go outside. If your idea of […]
Recommended Reading: Dead Sea Scroll fragments in DC are fakes
[ad_1] Exclusive: ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeriesMichael GreshkoNational Geographic When the Museum of the Bible opened in Washington, DC in 2017, it funded a research project that examined pieces of what was thought to be Dead Sea Scroll fragments. In 2018, the museum announced that all five sections […]
Google’s latest VR app lets you gaze at prehistoric paintings
[ad_1] Chauvet: Meet the Ancestors contains 54 curated exhibits with over 350 digitized assets. These include 3D models of the iconic The Horses Fresco painting and a bear skull that was left behind by some of the cave’s inhabitants. In addition, Google has created a 10-minute VR experience called Chauvet: The Dawn of Art for […]
Time Magazine is recreating the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in VR
[ad_1] For many people, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington and the famous “I Have a Dream” speech exist as little more than photos and soundbites — only the 200,000-plus people who were there can give you a sense of what it was really like. Time Magazine, however, hopes to recreate that experience […]
Sonar drone helps find a WWII Japanese aircraft carrier
[ad_1] The search process was familiar, but arguably more necessary than ever given the scale of the project. An autonomous underwater drone (AUV) searched with preset criteria for up to 20 hours at a time, returning with data that could hint at ships or other unusual features. After that, a remotely operated vehicle dives down […]
Astronomers believe the young Milky Way once swallowed a dwarf galaxy
[ad_1] Astronomers previously believed that the galaxy was made of two separate sets of stars, but exactly how or when they came together was a mystery. Using the Gaia space telescope, these researchers were able to take more precise measurements of the position, brightness and distance of roughly one million stars. They also looked at […]