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EVER fancied playing classic arcade games on your home PC? Or putting your face on one of the characters in Doom? Or perhaps you’d really like to install a fully functional PlayStation console in your car?

These are just some of the ingenious tricks to be found in Gaming Hacks by Simon Carless, a book dedicated to squeezing every last byte of fun out of the average computer game. The book contains no fewer than 100 “hacks”, from simple tricks and advice to hard-core hardware and programming projects.

For example, readers can quickly learn how to run old Atari 2600…

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