Smiling Savage Kiosk #3
A list of related, tangental, inspirational, or completely random links shared from this week's browser history
Music
This week’s earworm: Reckless by Leathers
Simply wonderful!
This classic synthesizer looks amazing.
Computing
Mac Source Ports is such a valuable labor of love to run old games on new Apple-silicon Macs. I’m looking forward to trying some Marathon, Diablo, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
How close are we to having quantum computers that can break 256-bit encryption? Not very.
I recommend supporting this Patreon for the author of the Applesauce project to any retro enthusiast.
Flappy Mac is a new game for classic Macintoshes.
I recommend Joe’s Computer Museum for all your BlueSCSI needs.
Here’s a pretty set-up of classic Macs for retro networking. I don’t remember seeing those tilt/swivel stands before.
I completely agree that the Apple IIC is one of the most beautiful computer systems ever made.
That art!
A nice collection of classic Macintoshes.
This is one of a kind — truly. Click through to see the beautiful leather case.
Photography
Mesmerizing.
Writing
Enter two themes at Narrative Device and an AI will write a first paragraph of a story.
Great quote by the developer of C and co-creator of UNIX. It’s true of writing code, words, or music, in my opinion.
I can relate. It can be easy to get caught up in the flaw of ones projects. I try to focus on doing my best and having fun. One can improve along the journey.
![Twitter avatar for @SarahJaneAvory](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/SarahJaneAvory.jpg)
Stories of women of Color in STEM from the Smithsonian Science Education Center.
![Twitter avatar for @FrnzPlanetarium](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/FrnzPlanetarium.jpg)
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Gaming
An easy way to load games from a MicroSD card to a Playstation 2 via the memory card port? Shut up and take my money.
Speaking of which, could a mini PS2 be on the horizon?
No Man’s Sky is coming for the Nintendo Switch. The Switch is such a great machine to kick back with and relax, this should be good fun.
And Joe Danger on iOS — from the same studio as No Man’s Sky — is worth a look.
This portable Sega Dreamcast looks amazing.
Here’s a fun look at retro game Master of the Lamps on both the Commodore 64 and Atari 800XL.
There’s a Golden Axe mod for Doom.
Wordle now exists for the Palm Pilot and the Gameboy (and Analogue Pocket)
Yup. Pretty much.
Electrified transportation
Here’s a neat resource to gauge the distance one can travel via a given mode of transportation over an amount of time. This is the result I got for “bike” and think it will be fascinating to see this tool updated to include “e-bike”.