Interview with YouTuber / hardware designer Taki Udon, on getting analog video output just right, adding a new UI to the open source MiSTer and dealing with the chaos of tariffs and AI-driven manufacturing shortages.
lol glad they weren't a turn-off for a new reader. Since I write this as a newsletter that ends up in lots of inboxes, it doesn't have the structure of a typical single-topic article, which probably makes for an odd first impression when it gets shared someplace like Hacker News. I'm always psyched to get my little passion project in front of new readers though!
If you didn't catch the link, a couple issues earlier in the newsletter I did quite an in-depth dive into how emulator developer Nemesis spent the last 15 years finally making it possible to emulate LaserActive games! Much longer than the MAME story if you enjoy the technical stuff :) https://www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-first-the-16-year-o...
(And if you don't enjoy the technical stuff, well, now you can actually download some of those laserdisc games you apparently didn't get to play as a kid, haha!)
Some exciting stuff has already happened in the week since I wrote the interview. Here's Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kih42KlocII