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tomek's blog
Personal blog · blog.rekawek.eu · on HN as t0mekprogramminggameshardware
tomek's blog is a personal blog at blog.rekawek.eu about programming, games and hardware. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-26, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Readers link tomek's blog for hobby engineering write-ups, such as building a Game Boy emulator over 1.5 months and resurrecting a Macintosh Plus.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-02-12
- Radio AdBlock2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-09
- Resurrecting a Macintosh Plus2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-12-08
What Hacker News says?
I used DSP to recognize the commercials in the radio broadcast on my stereo receiver and turn down the volume automatically ("adblock for the radio broadcast"). I described it here: http://blog.rekawek.eu/2016/02/24/radio-adblock/
Comment linking /2016/02/24/radio-adblock/
on “Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?”Submitted Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017) as a story · 617 points
HN discussionThis blog made my morning. Started reading about this Gameboy emulator - really cool project. Then read through a few of his other posts including the one about resurrecting a Macintosh Plus: http://blog.rekawek.eu/2016/12/08/mac-plus/ Hoping he'll post more soon.
Comment linking /2016/12/08/mac-plus/
on “Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)”Submitted Resurrecting a Macintosh Plus as a story · 6 points
HN discussionA few years ago, I spent a fair share of time trying to copy files from and to a Macintosh Plus. I decided to use a 100 MB ZIP drive (actually two of them, SCSI for the Mac Plus and USB for a modern computer) and later a serial port connection with terminal software [1]. Now there's a much better and cheaper option: BlueSCSI [2]. It's a SCSI HDD emulator that allows to mount .img files stored on a SD card as HDD dis…
Comment linking /2016/12/08/mac-plus
on “How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop”Submitted Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYet another Game Boy Color emulator, written in Java: https://github.com/trekawek/coffee-gb It's quite compatible and brought me a lot of fun. Blog post describing it: http://blog.rekawek.eu/2017/02/09/coffee-gb/
Comment linking /2017/02/09/coffee-gb/
on “Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?”Submitted Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was able to create an ad-block for my Yamaha stereo receiver: http://blog.rekawek.eu/2016/02/24/radio-adblock/ No need to use AI, just FFT and cross-correlation. It was easier though, because every commercial block starts and ends with the same jingle pair.
Comment linking /2016/02/24/radio-adblock/
on “Deep Learning ‘ahem’ detector”Submitted Show HN: Rollback netplay for Game Boy emulator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Radio AdBlock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a multiplayer Gameboy emulator with rollback netplay as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resurrecting my Macintosh Plus as a story · 1 points
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