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The 6502 CPU is a fondly-remembered CPU* for good reason: along with chips from Motorola, Intel and Zilog, it helped create the personal computer business in the 1980s. However, this project is affection on a grand scale: some US enthusiasts are creating a transistor-for-transistor replica of the chip's design using discrete components. It's a good thing we're in the era of surface mount components, because even with small components the 3,218 transistors, 1,019 resistors and various other bits of the MOnSter 6502 need a four-layer PCB measuring 12” x 15” with components mounted on both sides. Because a big, slow,...

by Eddie Makuch on April 21, 2015 The William J. Clinton Library has posted a photo of Hillary Clinton doing what so many others did in the early 1990s: playing GameBoy. The photo you see below was taken on April 6, 1993 on her flight from Austin, Texas to Washington, DC. At this time, Bill Clinton was President and she was the First Lady. Hillary Clinton, the former US Secretary of State, is now herself running for President in the upcoming 2016 election. She announced her bid earlier this month and has been on the campaign trail since. It's tough...

Who has bought Nintendogs and how much do you know about the bark mode? I just gave my child Nintendo DS today for a birthday present. This is a handheld game unit with a special game cartridge called Nintendogs. This evening, I've learned it has a special feature called bark mode. When this is enabled. Anyone in our neighborhood, if they are also playing with a Nintendog game, can send their dog into my child's handheld for the dogs to play together. When this play date occurs, the child's name and birthdate are acquired. Now I'm reading more about it...

The swallows come back to San Juan Capistrano every year, the Olympics happen every four years, and old video game consoles get junked every five years. Which means that the game industry is due for a shake-up any quarter now. The current crop of consoles--Sony's PlayStation 2, Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube--all have been on the market for about four years. Each manufacturer wants to squeeze as much market life as possible out of the current machines, so they won't spill too many details about future consoles for fear of making the current ones look outdated. But information on next-generation...

<p>TOKYO -- Nintendo's Game Boy Advance hand-held machine will work as a videophone with an attachment that comes with a digital camera, earphone and microphone and is expected to go on sale in December only in Japan.</p> <p>The Campho Advance from Kyoto-based Digital Act, which makes mobile and Internet equipment, slips into the top of the Game Boy Advance just like any video-game cassette.</p>

LONDON (Reuters) - The use of gadgets such as mobile phones and GameBoys has caused a physical mutation in young people's hands, according to a British Sunday newspaper. New research carried out in nine cities around the world shows that the thumbs of people under the age of 25 have taken over as the hand's most dexterous digit, said The Observer. The change affects those who have grown up with hand-held devices where the thumbs are used for keying in text messages and emails. "The relationship between technology and the users of technology is mutual. We are changing each other,"...