The author produce a playable PDF, a file that can be read both as a PDF document and executed as a Windows program: https://github.com/mwenge/iatheory/releases/tag/0.1
This is polyglot program
Iridis Alpha is a classic of the 8-bit home computer era. An innovative, side-scrolling shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64 published by Llamasoft in 1985 that was notable then and now for its technical accomplishment.
IRIDIS ALPHA THEORY unpacks the assembly code of the game and pores over it in minute detail. There are also lots of pretty pictures.
Discovered in Paged Out! issue #5
Hugging Face Text-to-Image image generator producing images like animes from the nineties
Fizzlefade is the name of the function in charge of fading from a scene to an other in Wolfenstein 3D. What it does is turn the pixels of the screen to a solid color, only one at a time, seemingly at random.
antirez suggestion to use a different approach:
http://antirez.com/news/113
afl = american fuzzy lop
cf. http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
"Luckily, afl-fuzz can leverage lightweight assembly-level instrumentation to its advantage - and within a millisecond or so, it notices that although setting the first byte to 0xff does not change the externally observable output, it triggers a slightly different internal code path in the tested app."