Links worth a look, week 41

Halo on Android, a C64 keyboard font, and every lighthouse in the world

A games-leaning week of links from 5 to 11 October, pulled from what I shared over on social.omgmog.net.

There’s been a lot of effort going into decomp and recomp projects lately. I’ve been spending a lot of time playing the gen1recomps, and now Halo is in the mix. I couldn’t have dreamed of this 25 years ago, and now it just works on my Mangmi Air X. I’ll probably be sharing more of these as I come across them. I’m currently trying out The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD.

Brings the SteamOS experience to Android.

DroidDeck

Halo Combat Evolved for the original Xbox, ported to Windows, Linux and Android.

OpenCE

A photo-based reconstruction of the lettering on Commodore 64 keycaps, with desktop fonts, a webfont and editable outlines.

C64 keyboard font

Quake SRP, which I think stands for "Slop Rust port". There's a live demo and the code on GitHub.

Breath of the Wild as a movie

A free macOS app for sharing an Apple Magic Keyboard, Trackpad and Mouse between two Macs, with no Apple ID and no USB re-pairing.

Magic Switch

Every charted navigational light on a night globe, each flashing or sweeping at the rhythm printed on the chart.

Every lighthouse in the world

An interactive 3D museum covering more than a thousand years of art history, with first-person galleries of real paintings drawn from Wikipedia.

A Walkable History of Art

Turns a phone, tablet or TV into a sign. Type a message and it fills the screen, no app or account needed.

BIGWORDS.PAGE

209 animated ASCII pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies.

ascii.rest

A skill for Claude Code and Codex that paints big arrows, boxes and text on a Mac screen, click-through and gone by itself.

big-arrow-on-the-screen

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