Tag: archives

• Stacks, a modern Hypercard player (September 26, 2026)

  Stacks by Jeff Halter is a modern macOS application for loading and playing ancient and wonderful Hypercard stacks. It includes a browser of the Internet Archive’s Hypercard collection, which is how I have here queued up The Manhole, the Miller brothers’ 1988 precursor to Myst. (Via Daring Fireball )

• Every Katamari thing (September 25, 2026)

  Explore (and export) all 1,680 low-polygon models from Katamari Damacy, including the sound effects that some of them make when you roll them up. The sound of panicked salarymen mashing keyboards and shouting into their phones when you finally become large enough to roll up entire office towers is still music to my ears, decades later. (Via Kottke )

• Hooting Yard on the Air (July 31, 2025)

  A complete archive of Hooting Yard on the Air, hosted by the Internet Archive. Bizarre and beautiful short fictions, presented as half-hour radio shows, written and presented by Frank Key. Sort of a drily deranged Prairie Home Companion, with its locus in the murkiest boroughs of London.