December 21, 2004

C64 All-in-One Game Joystick Story

New York Times has a good article on how a 30 year old high school dropout designed the 30 games in one Commodore 64 joystick and her life-long journey following her passion.

Her efforts in reverse-engineering old computers and giving them new life inside modern custom chips has already earned her a cult following among small groups of "retro" personal computer enthusiasts, as well as broad respect among the insular world of the original computer hackers who created the first personal computers three decades ago.