Atari Jaguar emulation sits at the crossroads of cultural preservation and copyright law. This article untangles the legal threads - ROM distribution, BIOS/firmware, reverse engineering, DMCA exemptions - and offers pragmatic ethical guidance for both users and developers.
The Apple Newton was more than a famously fallible PDA - it became a fertile playground for hackers. This piece unpacks the open-source and homebrew community that grew around the Newton MessagePad, the technical and social lessons it leaves for modern developers, and a practical path to getting hands-on with Newton-era hacking today.
A technical and historical exploration of the Atari Jaguar: why the console failed commercially, what made its hardware unique, and how modern emulators and preservation projects overcome the Jaguar’s unusual architecture to keep its games playable today.