Category: Retro Computing History
Games That Weren’t has just announced that the collector Ken “Dutchman2000” Van Mersbergen has found and preserved the long lost AtariSoft conversion of Joust, a successful arcade game released in 1982 where you control a knight riding a flying ostrich. The game was ported to many platforms, like the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Lynx,…
Like many places that rely on public gathering, the Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle was hit financially hard after it had to temporarily close its doors back in March. Unfortunately, the closure now is permanent. Early this week, the museum organizers announced that they made the very difficult decision to suspend all operations of Living Computers: Museum +…
As we know, now Microsoft loves open-source software. Regardless of the motives Microsoft has, the giant software company unquestionably played an important part in the personal computer history, since the initial release of the BASIC interpreter made for the Altari 8800. To be fair, Microsoft has been very helpful in the effort to preserve this history of personal computing for…
Steve Strowbridge has published today on his YouTube channel, the Original Gamer, a two-part video teaching how to emulate the TRS-80 Color Computer using MAME, the multi-purpose emulation framework. Although MAME is very powerful, it is not necessarily easy to set up for a specific machine if you are used to it, so Steve’s tutorials come to fill that gap…
The Digital Retro Park is one of the premier museums of digital culture. Falk Heinzelmann and Stefan Pitsch are the guys who started it all, and they’ve taken some time to talk to AJ and Joerg about the museum, as well as take us on a virtual tour while we’re all stuck at home! (interview starts at 10:05) https://scene.world/drp
The traditional Apple II enthusiasts summer camp is following the trend and moving the event to the virtual world. Although the event happens in July, the organizers rightfully decided to cancel the face-to-face gathering due to the current pandemic. Initially it was hoped that the world and national situation would be sufficiently improved by July that we could proceed as…
ArsTechnica has posted a video where Jordan Mechner talks about the development of his most successful game, Prince of Persia. In the 20-minute video, he shows some interesting bits of the development process when he was a college student, including the famous technique to design the human-like animation for Karateka and Prince of Persia and tricks used to make Prince…
The once mythical Nintendo/Sony prototype console can now be yours, my deep-pocketed friend! The auction for the console found in 2009 is now live and the current bid is US$23,000. The story started in 2009 when Terry Diebold struck the best luck when he bought a lot of abandoned property of a former Sony executive of an auction and the…
Intellivision was one of the absolute pioneers in the video game industry, starting all the way back in 1979 with the original Intellivision console. Now in 2020, they’re back with a new console called the Amico, which promises to rekindle some of the actual fun that video games used to be. AJ and Joerg talk to Intellivision CEO Tommy Tallarico…
World of Commodore is an annual gathering for …err… Commodore computers enthusiasts. The 16th edition happened last December 7th, 2019, in Toronto, Canada. I was suppose to go but at the last minute I had to cancel and was pretty annoyed to miss it. Thankfully, the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG), show organizer, just published the presentation videos on YouTube….
