Category: Books
Kevin Tilley just gave us the heads up on some fantastic News regarding the latest issue of Reset Magazine. We will very soon be taking pre-orders for the printed version of Reset #09. It is the first time we have professionally printed the magazine. It is printed as a high quality, A5 booklet and you can also purchase an optional…
Commodore VIC 20: A Visual History is a book about the computer that made Commodore enter the home market, with all its early peripherals. The VIC 20 was the first colour home computer to cost less than $300, the first to sell one million units, the first to have a modem for under $100, and the first approach to personal…
VICE.COM has published an excerpt from the book Electronic Dreams – How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer by Tom Lean. The book was recently published by Bloomsbury Publishing and tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time turning it into a user-friendly domestic technology. It also covers the other side of the history with the…
Backing a Kickstarter usually comes with a certain degree of risk, since the project can fail and be gone with you money. This is not the case here! Commodore 64: a visual Compendium Second Edition by Sam Dyer from Bitmap Books. He has proven he is capable of delivering a high-quality product, sometimes surpassing any expectation and with this campaign, that already…
For most of us, if not all of us, getting books from the 80s in PDF form is nothing really new, as we are used getting them from several different sources, including Internet Archive, Bombjack.org and many others. Nonetheless, it is newsworthy when a publishing house decided to post his 1980s catalog for free. The books are mostly targetted to…
Bitmap Books has certainly found its niche and a lot of success there, not without deserving it. The publisher has been releasing many fantastic books about retro gaming like Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium. Now they just released a new book called Super Famicom: The Box Art Collection, which shows, as the name suggest, the box art of almost 250 classic Super…
The Digital Antiquarian, Jimmy Maher, has been converting old blog posts to eBook format, making it easier to everyone to have a pleasant off-line reading session about the history of video game and computer entertainment as a whole. Jimmy Maher is well-known for many projects, including The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga. He has The Digital Antiquarian blog where he keeps…
In 2014, Bitmap Books launched a campaign for the first book, Commodore 64: a visual Compendium. After its astonishing success, a new edition was planned and a Kickstarter campaign launched four days ago. Today, the campaign is already 100% funded. Actually it has passed the first target by 50% already. This can only be explained by the excellent quality of…
ZX Spectrum Games Code Club Book is a new book written by Gary Plowman, containing nothing less than 20 games for you….TYPE-IN! Yes, after the Colouring Books popping up everywhere, now it is time for us, retro computer enthusiasts to have our good old days back. From Amazon’s website: “The book does not go over code line by line, but rather…
UPDATE: Unfortunately Apple2Scans removed the downloads “The volumes of Micro on the Apple have been removed following a request from the copyright holder” Apple II Scans has made available the scans of the three volumes of Micro on the Apple, consisting more than 600 pages of Apple II programming articles that were first published in the pages of Micro Magazine. “…contributions by…
