Victim of Success
a Customer Success Manager's Notes to Self
Ahold Delhaize’s cyber incident has disrupted online shopping and access to loyalty rewards, putting customer trust under pressure. For Customer Success teams, it highlights the importance of clear communication, practical workarounds and follow-up throughout recovery.
AI is helping Customer Success teams save time, but its business value remains harder to measure. ChurnZero’s latest study highlights the gap between reducing manual work and demonstrating better customer outcomes.
Gloom Reforged 2.4.0 improves performance and compatibility for the classic Amiga shooter, with support for ECS, AGA and Picasso96. This version remains free, while future releases will move to paid distribution on itch.io.
Doom’s corridors have a new visitor: Descent’s spaceship. Doomscent blends familiar demon-infested levels with cockpit combat and free flight, with support extending to Heretic, Hexen and Chex Quest.
Windows93 is still evolving. Following its V3 launch earlier in 2026, the browser-based operating system parody is now on version 3.2.0—another excuse to explore its wonderfully strange mix of retro computing, digital art and internet mischief.
Time Crisis comes to Windows and Linux through an unofficial arcade port, bringing widescreen visuals, mouse controls and light-gun support. Part of the namco22-decompile project, this community effort gives Namco’s classic shooter a new home on modern PCs. Players must supply their own original game ROMs.
The Secret of Monkey Island has found an unexpected home on the Apple Lisa. An experimental port using the SCUIRRELS interpreter brings Guybrush’s adventure to Apple’s pioneering business computer, exploring what its 5 MHz hardware can do. Performance remains limited, with further improvements under consideration.
Super Mario Bros. CD is still in development, FamicomCD has confirmed. The team behind the fan-made Super Mario World ROM hack thanked fans for their continued support and promised more news when the time is right, without announcing a release date.
Win95GPT gives modern AI a Windows 95 makeover, complete with dial-up sounds, classic desktop tools and CRT effects. Using your own OpenAI API key, it pairs real-time AI conversations with the sights and sounds of 1990s computing—no actual dial-up connection required.
AnyPS5 aims to bring PS5 games to Windows and Linux through executable conversion, replacement system libraries and Vulkan graphics translation. The experimental open-source project offers an intriguing approach to compatibility, but early developer-reported progress is not yet proof that a wider library of games will run reliably.
A surprising retrocomputing experiment has surfaced: an NDIS 5.1 network driver made for Windows XP / Server 2003 reportedly running on Windows 98. It is an eye-catching compatibility breakthrough that hints at new possibilities for networking on vintage PCs—while also raising questions about how far this kind of driver support can really go.
Homebrew developer Game of Tobi pushes retro hardware with an ambitious 3D platforming prototype. Simplified worlds, tight storage limits and rough performance reveal the compromises behind the experiment—and the ingenuity involved in making old machines do something new.
Impossible Mission NEO puts a familiar retro name in your browser. Discover the web-based project and revisit the Commodore 64 classic that combined robot-dodging platform action, hidden password fragments and puzzle-solving against the clock.
Amiga Unix is back. The AmigaUX project is reviving Commodore’s AMIX with support for 68040 and 68060 systems, modern accelerators, networking, SCSI, RTG graphics and a new package manager.
GoldenEye 007 PC Port 0.2.2 puts the Nintendo 64 original on Windows, Linux and Steam Deck as compiled game code, not an emulator wrapper. The Agent campaign runs at a reported 60fps with modern controls, but players still need their own US ROM—and widescreen, cutscenes and audio remain unfinished.
FXChainPlayer expands its Amiga music support, from classic MOD files to executable tunes, with improved playback and tools for extracting old soundtracks. Free for Windows and macOS, it also supports C64, Atari, Nintendo and Sega music formats, combining retro listening with modern effects and audio export.
After the Ghibli-inspired image craze, AI photo makeovers are heading back to the 1980s. Think big hair, neon lights, rock-star poses and holiday outfits best left in the family album. We explore the trend and share prompts to recreate these looks, with a detour into the jazz clubs and glamour of the 1920s.
RPCS3 has expanded direct PlayStation 3 disc playback to Linux, macOS and FreeBSD, letting users run original PS3 games from compatible Blu-ray drives without first dumping the entire disc.
A cyberattack on TeamSystem’s Contabilità in Cloud exposed personal data, IBANs and accounting records, creating serious risks of phishing, supplier impersonation and payment-redirection fraud. Here is what happened, what remains unclear and how affected businesses should respond.
The Mirari, a new community-driven PowerPC mainboard designed with AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS in mind, is moving closer to wider availability. The board combines the PowerPC platform with more modern hardware features including NVMe...
