Mad Genius Brings Flappy Bird Back From the Dead on Dreamcast Memory Card. As Sega’s Hail Mary pass on hardware, the Dreamcast wasn’t exactly the miracle the company prayed for.

But the long- dead console still has a massive fanbase, as a clever hacker who managed to port the infinitely addictive Flappy Bird to the Dreamcast’s interactive memory card recently demonstrated. The VMU, or Visual Memory Unit, was an oversized memory card that plugged into the Dreamcast’s controllers to store game data, or serve as a second- screen for some games using its built- in monochrome LCD display. The VMU also featured basic controls, and could be used as a portable gaming device if you refused to just buy a Game Boy. Dmitry Grinberg’s hack of the Dreamcast VMU includes developing an ARM chip emulator for the tiny, under- powered gaming device, allowing it to run the (infamously discontinued) mobile game Flappy Bird—very, very slowly. You might assume the game would be much easier running in slow motion, but the controls are equally unresponsive, as this video of Grinberg failing to get past the first obstacle demonstrates. If it were solely up to their creators, both the Dreamcast and Flappy Bird would have likely gone the way of the dinosaurs.

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But fans, like life, always find a way.[You. Tube via Hackaday].

Facts About 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'The first of Maya Angelou’s seven autobiographies, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, deals with weighty issues like rape, identity, and racism. When it came out in 1. ANGELOU WAS MUTE FOR 5 YEARS AFTER A SEXUAL ASSAULT. Much of Caged Bird centers on trauma Angelou experienced as a child. When she was 8, her mother’s boyfriend raped her. She testified at his trial, but though he was convicted, he only served one day in jail.

Soon after, he was beaten to death, most likely by Angelou’s uncles. I thought my voice had killed him,” she later said. So I stopped talking for five years.” Finally, a neighbor named Bertha Flowers insisted that Angelou read poetry aloud, which helped her regain her voice. A DINNER PARTY WITH JAMES BALDWIN LED TO A PUBLISHING DEAL. Getty Images. By age 4. 0, Angelou had had many careers, working as a journalist, poet, civil rights activist, and singer. She was also a member of the Harlem Writers Guild, where she became friends with author James Baldwin.

In 1. 96. 8, Baldwin took her to a dinner party at the cartoonist Jules Feiffer’s house. Angelou charmed guests with stories of her childhood; the next day, Feiffer’s wife called editor Robert Loomis at Random House and said that he should get Angelou to write a memoir. When he brought it up, Angelou said, “Absolutely not.” Loomis replied, "It’s just as well, because to write an autobiography as literature is just about impossible.” Angelou, who liked a challenge, said, “I’ll start tomorrow.”3.

HER WRITING RITUAL INVOLVED A DECK OF CARDS AND A BOTTLE OF SHERRY. To get her stories out on paper, Angelou created an elaborate writing ritual.

She got up at 5 a. I take a hotel room and ask them to take everything off the walls so there’s me, the Bible, Roget’s Thesaurus and some good, dry sherry, and I’m at work by 6: 3. She wrote on yellow legal pads while lying on the bed, sipped sherry, and played Solitaire when she needed a break.

I stay until twelve- thirty or one- thirty in the afternoon, and then I go home and try to breathe; I look at the work around five; I have an orderly dinner—proper, quiet, lovely dinner; and then I go back to work the next morning," she told The Paris Review. THE TITLE CAME FROM A PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR POEM. African- American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of Angelou’s favorite writers. The title comes from his poem "Sympathy": I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee,But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings –I know why the caged bird sings. ANGELOU WAS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE STREETCAR CONDUCTOR IN SAN FRANCISCO. Caged Bird covers some interesting trivia: At 1. Angelou decided to become a streetcar conductor in San Francisco because she liked the uniforms.

When she went to the office to apply, they wouldn’t give her an application because she was black. So Angelou’s mother told her to go every day and sit in the office until they gave her a job. The plan worked. You can see Angelou telling the story to Oprah above. CAGED BIRD CHANGED ASSUMPTIONS THAT BOOKS ABOUT BLACK WOMEN DIDN'T SELL. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was a bestseller for two years. It challenged the publishing world’s stereotype that “black women’s lives were rarely worthy of autobiography,” according to The New York Times.

The success of Caged Bird helped pave the way for other black writers such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange. READING A POEM AT BILL CLINTON'S INAUGURATION INCREASED BOOK SALES 5. PERCENT. In 1. 99. Angelou read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration. While Caged Bird had always sold well, after the inauguration, sales shot up 5.

ANGELOU CO- WROTE THE MOVIE VERSION OF CAGED BIRD. Starring Diahann Carroll and Constance Good, the TV movie I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings aired on CBS in 1. Angelou co- wrote the screenplay with Leonora Thuna.

You can watch the movie here. CAGED BIRD IS FREQUENTLY BANNED OR CENSORED .. Despite being widely taught in schools, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is often removed from reading lists for sexual content, language, and drug use. The American Library Association (ALA) listed I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as the third book on The 1.

Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1. Angelou has been called the most banned author in the U.

S. 1. 0. .. AND WAS THE CATALYST FOR BANNED BOOKS WEEK. According to a post on the ALA's Intellectual Freedom Blog, a display featuring Caged Bird in a "miniature prison cell at the American Booksellers Association 1. Banned Books Week." During Banned Books Week—which will be held this year from September 2. October 1—a number of organizations, including ALA, American Booksellers for Free Expression, and the Association of American Publishers, celebrate the freedom to read. In 2. 00. 9, Angelou told The Press- Enterprise that "I'm always sorry that people ban my books .. M]any times my books are banned by people who never read two sentences. I feel sorry for the young person who never gets to read. LOL Full Movie here.

Open the library. Let him or her go in.

And the adult, the teacher or the parent, should be strong enough to be asked, 'What does this mean?' And brave enough to say, 'Well, I don't know if you can get all of this right now, but I can tell you this. And then later on you'll come to me again, or when I think you are ready, I'll raise it myself.'"1. ANGELOU'S LAST PROJECT WAS A HIP- HOP ALBUM CALLED CAGED BIRD SONGS. Music producers Shawn Rivera and Rocc. Starr worked with Angelou on Caged Bird Songs, an album that blends her poetry and lyrics with hip- hop beats. The title was, of course, taken from.

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. It was one of the last projects Angelou worked on before her death in 2. Watch Tetsuo: The Bullet Man Online Mic.