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Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video](youtube.com)89 points by zdw 4 months ago | 38 comments
I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video](youtube.com)119 points by cyrc 5 months ago | 39 comments
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