Max Glenister

Max Glenister

2026

August

DONKEY.BAS shipped with early IBM PC DOS as a demo of color graphics and sound in BASICA. It was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Neil Konzen in 1981 (version 1.10 in 1982). You only switch lanes — avoid the donkey, or BOOM.

This page recreates the original CGA gameplay in JavaScript with some liberties.

DONKEY.BAS — IBM PC (1981) Play DONKEY.BAS in your browser — the classic IBM PC game by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen, for the 45th anniversary of the IBM PC. donkeybas.com

I've spent five weeks with the Hidizs AP30 Music Boy, a DAP that looks like a tiny Game Boy. Better audio hardware than the price suggests, firmware that's still being fixed, and no, you can't run games on it. I checked thoroughly.

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/hidizs-ap30-music-boy/

The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy — Max Glenister I saw the Hidizs AP30 Music Boy on Reddit and got curious enough to reach out to Hidizs to see if they’d send me one to review. It’s a palm-sized DAP that la... blog.omgmog.net