Monthly Archive: October 2026

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Alterego Finds #003: Small Machines, Bigger Ideas

An NES Doom prototype, a musical second life for the PS Vita, and new tools for familiar machines. Alterego Finds #003 explores homebrew games, ambitious ports, hardware experiments and preservation projects, celebrating the people who keep finding fresh possibilities in old technology.

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Games That Weren’t: Inside Gaming’s Lost-and-Found Department

Cancelled games do not always stay lost. Games That Weren’t tracks down forgotten projects, preserves their stories and sometimes brings them back to life. From disks hidden behind a radiator to painstakingly rebuilt adventures, this is gaming history with unfinished business.

Two knights study a treasure map occupied by a green dragon, with a sailing ship and coastal castle beyond the archway. 0

Alterego Finds #002: The Past Keeps Playing

Cooperative knights, unlikely ports and new adventures for classic machines. Alterego Finds #002 brings together 41 discoveries spanning homebrew games, practical tools, hardware projects and forgotten gems, because the past still has plenty left to play.

A smiling collector sits among Amiga, Atari and Commodore computers while lemmings climb a mountain of floppy disks towards an unimpressed laptop. 0

Alterego Finds #001: Old Computers, New Tricks

Lemmings invade modern Macs, classic games get fresh engines, and vintage computers refuse to retire. Alterego Finds #001 rounds up retro revivals, clever tools and new hardware, with enough floppy disks to postpone tidying up indefinitely.

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C64 Dev Machine: The Game You Never Got Around to Making

That Commodore 64 game you always wanted to make might finally have a starting point. C64 Dev Machine combines visual programming, graphics editors and music tools in one workspace, offering an approachable way to explore assembly language and turn an old idea into something playable.

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Visual Basic Still Has Something to Say

A grey window, a button and an idea: sometimes that is enough to lose an evening in the best possible way. VB6 Studio Web brings the familiar pleasures of Visual Basic into your browser, inviting returning tinkerers and curious newcomers to make something small, useful and entirely their own.