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DONKEY.BAS, the IBM PC’s Original Donkey Game

donkeybas.com ↗ · Weird Finds · score 82.0
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A browser recreation of the 1981 IBM PC game written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen.

Why it surfaced

You switch lanes, avoid a donkey, and occasionally go BOOM. The page preserves the original CGA-era experience in JavaScript, with CRT and sound options, while documenting the game’s place in early IBM PC history.

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The Largest Cat Has No Number

August 14’s newborn domains include an unnumbered giant among thirteen catalogued glossy cats, a shareable Visual Snow Syndrome simulator, two independent Colombian relief directories, and a snail farm with races, courtship, and its own Gazette.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-14 Domain Arrivals issue.

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Neco Cat, a Catalogue with Holes in It necocat.fun

An investigative catalogue of small glossy cats: thirteen numbered entries, one unnumbered giant, and a photograph nobody can fully explain.

 Iron Protocol: The Wargame Where Seeing Is Hitting ironproto.app

A free, CC0 hex-grid tabletop wargame about mechanized combat, with a rulebook, printable record sheets, and an offline browser battle tracker.

 Snail Empire, a Whole Slow-Motion World snailempire.com

A browser game about raising snails on a small farm, feeding and training them, recruiting wild prospects, and entering them in town races.