About

Vintage is the New Old (formerly known as CommodoreBlog and then Commodore is Awesome) was created back in April 2011. Back in the day, CommodoreBlog was just a small website on blogger.com. The site gained popularity very fast, and lots more people volunteered to run the website, with new interesting ideas including a large collection of scanned downloadable PDF Commodore magazines, such as Amiga Format and CU Amiga. As well as magazines, we had our own scanned Commodore box art and a large downloadable collection of the very best games and scene demos for all the Commodore systems. In time, CommodoreBlog was to be known as: Commodore is Awesome, The website about all things Commodore!

Since the CiA days we have come a long way. In 2014, we lost our complete database, due to a rogue admin deleting all our hard work. We spent countless hours repairing the website to a decent state. Unfortunately, some staff members chose to go their separate ways and we never completely recovered from this setback. Instead of giving up, we decided to press on and continue to rebuild the website, recovering as much lost data as possible. During the same year, despite the low amount of manpower, we created a sister website called “Vintage is the New Old.” As retro gamers, Commodore isn’t our only forte, in fact we have much knowledge and love for other retro systems too.

Creating another website seemed like a good idea at the time and it gave us motivation to keep on at it. Both websites proved to be very popular, however after a year or so it was becoming hard work for just two people, so we made a decision to merge the two websites together into one Retro Gaming News website. We took the latter name “Vintage is the New Old” and we think it was one of the best moves we have made so far. The website is now more popular than ever – we even have website awards to prove it!

Another Temporary Ending

One can always try but making everyone happy sometimes seems to be a fallacy. Obviously, we have tried over the years to do so, but then the abruptness in which pointed arrows come flying is sometimes unexpected and unwarranted. Paulo, who was our trusty administrator and curator, finally had enough arrows being flung so he made the decision to shut down.

A New Hope – Call-A.P.P.L.E.

While not quite Commodore, the folks over at Call-A.P.P.L.E. answered our desire to keep the “Vintage is the New Old” website running. With CommodoreBlog administrator Sarah, Bill Martens of A.P.P.L.E. rebuilt the entire site, streamlining its functions, and the result is this site. Now much faster and much less scattered, the new site aims to continue the goal of providing Vintage Computing news and information to the masses.

Vintage is the New Old is a product of pure love and dedication for Retro Computing, and most of all, a hobby. We hope you take the time to enjoy it as we do! ;-)

Current Writers: Bill Martens, Sarah Christina, Brian Wiser, Louie Dimovski, Michael Sly, Fredrik Ramsberg, Glen McNamee and Joerg Droege.