The Memory Shortage Could End the Era of Physical Games

Memory costs are ballooning across every industry, and it means game publishers have far fewer reasons to pay for physical ...
Hackaday

Turn ‘Em On: Modern Nintendo Cartridges May Have A Limited Lifespan

Cartridge-based consoles have often been celebrated for their robust and reliable media. You put a simple ROM chip in a tough ...
Hackaday

Your Own Core Rope Memory

If you want read-only memory today, you might be tempted to use flash memory or, if you want old-school, maybe an EPROM. But there was a time when that wasn’t feasible. [Igor Brichkov] shows us how to ...
Computerworld

BIOS

A computer’s basic input/output system (BIOS) is a program that’s stored in nonvolatile memory such as read-only memory (ROM) or flash memory, making it firmware. The BIOS (sometimes called ROM BIOS) ...