The history of the game Zork is a long and winding one, starting with MUDs and kin on university mainframes – where students entertained themselves in between their studies – …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/21/microsoft-open-sources-zork-i-ii-and-iii/)

It’s Hard to Make a (Good) Oscillator
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/its-hard-to-make-a-good-oscillator/

There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts with the old joke that if you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/its-hard-to-make-a-good-oscillator/)

Baby’s First Synth was Daddy’s First Project
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/babys-first-synth-was-daddys-first-project/

We absolutely adore inspired labor-of-love tales such as this one. [Alastair] wanted to build a synth for his daughter’s third birthday in spite of having no prior hardware knowledge. It …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/babys-first-synth-was-daddys-first-project/)

Why Do We Love Weird Old Tech?
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/why-do-we-love-weird-old-tech/

One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ubiquitous LCD and the vanishing CRT, the plasma TV had its …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/22/why-do-we-love-weird-old-tech/)