Category: Books
After successfully producing the book Atari: A visual Story, Darren Doyle just launched a new Kickstarter campaign, this time around covering arcade games. Coin-Op: The Arcade Guide promises to be a visually rich guide for arcade classics Chase h.q., Outrun, Galaga, R-Type II and many more games that cost us so many of our hard-earned money! The book will be…
In recent years, I became more conservative posting about crowdfunding campaigns, not because they are not worth but because I felt the retro scene was somehow overflooded by many different projects. The increase is natural and many of the recent projects I’ve seen seem to be very good. This time around I’ve decided to make an exception to my own…
Holger tells us about his time publishing and writing books and software for the Amiga under Data Becker and later on other publishing houses. He talks a lot about the atmospheres and little stories and background about the times of computer book / software publishing in the 90s and throughout his book publishing today including the books for the C64…
The Mega65 (a C64/C65 compatible computer) team has announced on its website a new version of the DevKit, which is a version of the Mega65 aimed for developers to create programs for the machine and make them ready for when the final product is released. The board was lowered to leave more room for cables and programmers which required for…
That’s not the first time Fusion Retro Books does a promotion like that, but it is always welcome to see good books for free or very cheap. Some of their “In Pixels” books are free, including C-64 In Pixels and The Story of the ZX Spectrum In Pixels Volume 1. The next two volumes of the Speccy series are only…
I love the Internet Archive and all the tools they provide us to view/download their digital collection, but sometimes I found the interface a bit overwhelming if you want to browse about such a broad subject and are not looking for something specific. Coming to your help, the Internet Archive invited the podcaster and Atari historian, Kevin Savetz to write…
Our very own Andrew Fisher, the gaming prof looks at the book “Hey Listen!” so enjoy this review guys! :) https://scene.world/heylisten
I confess I was unaware of this project until I saw the news on Call A.P.P.L.E. Thanks to them, ViTNO can share the good news. The CRPG Book Project is a collaborative, non-profit effort to create a free, easily available ebook on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games. The project started in 2014 and finally, late last year was finished….
This is a quick “heads up”. Fusion Retro Books is giving away the PDF version of “The Story of the Commodore 64 in pixels”. I have the printed version and it is a gorgeous book, full of great images. If you didn’t buy it before, this is a great opportunity to get the digital version for free. To download it,…
The other day I saw on Amazon a new book for the Commodore 128 entitled “Vintage Commodore 128 Personal Computer Handbook: 2019 Survival Edition” that was released last March and immediately added it to my wishlist (yeah, I stopped buying books months before I will have time to read them :) ). Today I saw an announcement on Facebook from…
