This Month On Edge

When we weren’t doing everything else, we were thinking about stuff like this

The things that caught our eye during the production of E285

Amiga games deliver a potent hit of nostalgia, but revisiting

them used to require either the bulky original hardware or fiddly emulation. The Armiga Project aims to provide a compact, hassle-free conduit for that dusty collection of 3.5-inch disks in your attic. The slim machine comes in two variants, one with a

built-in floppy drive, but both can run ADF images of Amiga games (the larger one automatically creating and storing them on an SD card). It’s still a prototype, and there are a few issues

as a result – there’s no 360 pad support yet, while playing a game that requires mouse control proves frustrating at best – but if you’re prepared to put up with teething issues, there’s

plenty to recommend it, not least Lotus Turbo Challenge II.

TWEETS

Why do the teenagers in Until Dawn all look like they’re 35 years old? (Unless you look at their hands, which belong on a 75-year-old) Bennett Foddy @bfod QWOP and GIRP developer “Yes I can totally take on this massive illustration project whilst simultaneously finishing up a videogame” – An idiot, 2015.

Olly Moss @ollymoss Illustrator, Campo Santo artist Words on Revolver Ocelot’s MGS wiki page: 12,349 Words on Charles Darwin’s actual Wikipedia page: 9,372

Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant

Journalist To people out there with real problems: I’m sorry the whining of a newly wealthy programmer gets more attention than yours. Stay strong.

Markus Persson @notch Gentleman of leisure