Zork Typewriter Hack

It looks like someone by the name of Jonathan Guberman has hacked an Electric typewriter to play Zork. That is incredibly impressive.
Check out the video:

A new way to interact with fiction from Jonathan M. Guberman on Vimeo.

SNES controller modded to run on Android Tablet!

Check out the enterprising mod by Collin Meyer to modify a Super Nintendo game controller to play emulated SNES games on a Dell Streak Android tablet:


He has also provided a HOWTO, for those that are so inclined.

Bravo!

Android 2.2 (Froyo) and Google Marketplace on Archos tablets

Archos has officially made Android 2.2 available for its generation 8 tablets (Archos 28, Archos
32, Archos 43, Archos 70 and Archos 101). The firmware is available here, or you can select Settings->About device->Firmware update.

Once you have upgraded to Android 2.2, you can also install the Android Marketplace, by following the directions in this forum post.

Also, here is a video showing off Android 2.2 and the Android Marketplace:

Pandora Console - More videos ...... and colored Pandora Consoles?

Seeing as there are now 12 videos from the "one vid per day" collection in the original slew of videos post, I figured that I'd start a new thread with the additional videos. Also, these videos are embedded using the iframe tag, so you should be able to watch these videos using HTML5, if you desire.

As an added surprise, recently some pictures were posted of colored Pandora case samples. No word on the actual availabilty of colored Pandora Consoles.

Video 13 (Remote Administration):


Video 14 (Homebrew Games, Part 1):


Video 15 (Homebrew Games, Part 2):


Video 16(Websurfing):


Video 17 (C64 Emulation):


Video 18 (Audio Players):


Video 19 (Neo Geo Emulation):


Video 20 (Multitasking):


Video 21 (Sega Emulation):


Video 22 (Applications, Part 1):


Video 23 (Applications, Part 2):


Video 24 (TV out Quality):


Video 25 (GBA Emulation):


Video 26 (MSX Emulation):


Video 27 (GP2X Emulation):


Video 28 (VCS2600 Emulation):

Game Emulation on the Archos 70 Android Tablet

Ever since the announcement of the eighth generation of Archos Tablets, I've been curious about the emulation and gaming capabilities of the platform. Apparently, I'm not the only one. Courtesy of Android Circuit, here are some videos that show off the Archos 70 tablet's ability to play games.


Emulators:

Emulators Demonstration on TV via HDMI:

Gaming (Avatar HD, Hero of Sparta, Angry Birds, Gameboid)

NEWLUG November 2010 Presentation: Mac OSX

Here is the video from the November 2010 NEWLUG meeting, courtesy of the NEWLUG blip.tv channel.
Subject: Mac OSX
Presenter: Josh Goldman

Here are the slides from the presentation:

Mac OSX - Presentation for NEWLUG - Nov. 2010

View more presentations from NEWLUG.

This Week in Google: Android Tablets

Courtesy of twit, here is an episode of "This Week in Google", presenting some hands on video and discussion of the Android Tablets: