Most snack bowls never see this kind of afterlife. Maker JSK-koubou split a walnut along its natural seam, finished the meat, and then spent at least a few hours of careful shop work turning the empty halves into a living room remote that talks to air conditioners, TVs, lights, and fans.
KyTyPS5 just turned a pair of PlayStation 5 holdouts into the week’s most watched PC clips. Bluepoint’s 2020 Demon’s Souls remake, a game Sony never sold on computers, is now running real combat at 40 to 50 frames per second in a closed build, with scenery that looks close to the console original. Twelve days after Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine launched on September 15, the same project can open that game’s start screen on a desktop, even if the menu crawls.
Action Retro just sat down with Pico Micro Mac v3, and the little board did the rare thing cheap retro kits keep promising. Power went in, a smiling Macintosh face appeared, and a real System desktop came up ready for a USB mouse. His video calls it a tiny 90s Macintosh. Software-wise it is closer to the 128K and Plus years. The charm is that the desktop is genuine, clickable, and running on a microcontroller you can cover with two fingers.
Nintendo 64 owners spent 1996 lining up hang gliders over Little States and hoping the analog stick would forgive a late flare. Nearly thirty years later, Pilotwings 64 Recompiled puts that same flight school on Windows and Linux as a native program you launch like any other PC game.
