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MindFlareRetro takes a look what he thought was a junk Commodore 64 to be scavenged for parts. Instead he decides to clean it up and tries bringing it back to life. Check out the video below. [youtube RSUjcupjCgk nolink] Website: mindflareretro.com Twitter: @MindFlareRetro
This is what I call retro gaming archeology commitment! Ed Fries, who worked at Microsoft and was one of the people responsible for the development of the original XBOX Ed Fries, who worked at Microsoft and was one of the people responsible for the development of the original XBOX, is an avid Arcade collector that goes beyond playing with them. At…
Cult of Mac has published this article talking about Jason Scott’s quest to find and archive all software ever published for the Apple II. Jason works for the retro computer enthusiast’s best friend, the Internet Archive. Although it is something that many people have been doing over this years, it is reassuring that the Internet Archive has someone dedicated to such task. “I tell…
Well it’s been a nightmare few weeks for me, As some of you know I was hit hard with the flu a couple of weeks ago, my father is in hospital again (won’t go into details but he’s doing ok), a few weeks ago I was made redundant from my so called ‘Secure’ job, and last the few days, I lost…
The Digital Antiquarian is back with a new article where he discusses one of the best adventure games ever made (the best in my opinion!), The Secret of Monkey Island by Lucas Film, and created by Ron Gilbert. Entitled “Monkey Island (or, How Ron Gilbert Made an Adventure Game That Didn’t Suck)” the article goes back and forth with historical data…
I love retro computing history and every time I see a new book coming out I get excited and hope it is really good! Yesterday a new book came out – Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation. The history of Atari is already told by the excellent Atari Inc. Business is Fun. However, a more straightforward approach to Atari 8-bit computers…
It all started back in 2015 when a new Amstrad CPC game was revealed here on VITNO. Although the game development was never abandoned, there was very few information throughout the last two years. This month, we finally have more updates about the game created by 4Mhz for AMSTRAD CPC, coded by JGNAVARRO, music and sound fx by MCKLAIN and graphics by SAD1942. The…
Arstechnica has published the article WordStar: A writer’s word processor which talks about the iconic word processor released in 1979 for CP/M and later on for DOS and Windows. The author tries to show why the text based editor is still the tool of choice for many writers, like George R. R. Martin, that wrote A Song of Ice and Fire using the DOS-based…
Scene World Magazine did 2 interviews with 2 German IT TV journalism pioneers: Wolgang Back from the WDR Computerclub and before that in the Hobbythek http://scene.world/backgerman (in German, English version will follow) And founder of NEUES, the IT news show on the German TV Channel “3Sat” (This is part 1 of a series with him. Part 1 : Writing books…
The day is here…. my new game Ooze will be released later this afternoon. People to thank on this one…. David Saphier, the legend who worked out how to add music to AGD games has been on fine form adding not 1 but 2 tunes to this game as well as a fantastic menu and game over screen (For when…
