Category: Retro Computing History
[youtube odzHl0llccI nolink] ‘It’s a Pixel Thing’ Youtube channel has published a video showing the author’s 26 favourite games for the Amiga. He goes over several Amiga classics like Stunt Car Racer, Pang, Fuzzball, Fury of the Furies, Lemmings and much more. It is a pretty good selection that brings good memories. I recommend watching the video, and even better,…
The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, has named the first six games to its new World Video Game Hall of Fame. Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Doom, and World of Warcraft were chosen based on “popularity over a sustained period”, and other criteria. According to the Arstechnica article, the games were chosen by curators, educators and…
The end of the SEUCK Game Competition 2015 has arrived, and the results are in. Presenting its winner (drumroll), Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller. Here is the final result: 1. Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller – 171 points 2. Gigablast by Alf Yngve – 158 points 3. T-UFO by Errazking – 157 points 4. Snatch McBlagger – 156 points 5. S-F-S by…
After Steve Jobs passing, the market was flooded of movies and books about Apple’s co-founder. The best known movie is ‘Jobs’ with Ashton Kutcher, but Steve Wozniak, who everyone would agree knew Jobs closely, doesn’t seem to like it. “I think that there were a lot of weaknesses about the ‘Jobs’ movie, the one with Ashton Kutcher, a lot of…
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge will be holding the ‘Arc-Aid: Cambridge’ event on Saturday 13th June, with the aim of bringing together members of the online arcade community to repair and restore some of the museum’s arcade machines. Engineers from across the country will gather to open arcade cabinets, extract circuit boards, solder, prod and probe until the…
An interesting hack version of Super Mario Bros on the NES has been released. On this version Wario takes over instead of Mario, and the visuals are also following its new protagonist ‘style’. The patch is available to download in the link below but you will need a rom image of the original Super Bros rom, It is a bit…
I’ve just found this link posted on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group, where Christopher Phin writes about his passion to buy vintage computers (mostly Apple in his case). It is a very entertaining and light reading, and at least for me, it reflects very precisely what I feel about vintage computers. The author said his in his 30’s which explains…
Back in January I wrote a review for the Commodore 64 book, ‘Commodore 64: A Visual Commpendium’ by Sam Dyer. The book was a massive success and Sam decided to launch another Kickstarter project for an Amiga version. This was funded within a day of the Kickstarter being live, again another huge success and now everyone should have received their…
FloppyDays has been released with the third part covering the Atari 400/800. This episode will tackle Web sites, emulation, books, software, modern upgrades, connectivity to modern computers, and much more. The episode counts with co-hosts from other Atari/Retro Computing podcasts: Wade from Inverse Atascii, Rob of Player/Missile, Jack of RCR, and Kevin and Brad from Antic (http://ataripodcast.com/ ). Link: FloppyDays
Issue #6 of 880 Gamer, an English pdf magazine for the Amiga user, has been released. In this magazine the following articles: News, Cover Disk, 30 Years Amiga, Game On: Street Fighter II, Pang!, Super Hang On, Silkworm and Toki. Bleeding eyes: World of Commodore, Ray of Hope and Faktory. Cheats and Talk-back. Website: http://www.users.on.net/~stanners/
