Robert Smith created an alternate version of the iconic Whac-A-Mole arcade game for the generation that both remembers arcades and knows why the save icon looks the way it does, as spotted by Hackaday ...

The progress of hard disk drive technology is reviewed, and future storage technology is observed. First, areal density growth, and improvement of performance such as data transfer rate and access ...

CSX2589, the last 289 Cobra, uniquely features an automatic transmission. Originally owned by Carroll Shelby, it underwent ...

Faux86 should also run on the Raspberry Pi Zero, but is not believed to run reliably on Raspberry Pi 5 boards. As far as SD cards go, I always use branded microSD cards with the R ...

Don't skimp on the price (Image credit: What Hi-Fi?) It may be tempting simply to use your old DVD player, the disc player on your PS5 or a cheap CD-ROM drive, but we wouldn't go for the cheap option ...

Can Flash Drives Die?. USB flash drives are an efficient way to physically move data between devices, but aren't ideal for backing up vital data because the devices have a substantial chance of ...

I spent an enormously disproportionate amount of my childhood playing one game: Buggy Boy. I have learned, in preparation for this article, that this arcade classic had a different name in the U.S.

Despite the Series X featuring a disc drive, the company is treating physical discs like a relic of the past, and it’s starting to feel more like a decorative feature than a supported option. Adding ...

Tue 10th Jun 2025 @themightyant Don't you have to download the game from the disc to the hard drive anyways to play the game? 1 12 BAMozzy Tue 10th Jun 2025 It does seem pointless to even bother with ...

This paper reports a new fabrication process and designing method to integrate MEMS piggyback actuators on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer with magnetic read/write heads of hard-disk drives. Large ...