Category: Retro Computing History
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver known for their work as video game developers. They began to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school, contributing their first type-in game to a magazine in 1983. They worked with publishers Codemasters for a number of years following their first collaboration Super Robin Hood, most…
News Updates from Vintage is the New Old.Robert Joy from Ram Retro Arcade Memories has sent over his latest batch of Arcade reviews for Vitno. Some classics there for you all to enjoy! You can read the reviews below on our Reviews Page, as well as many other ones by Rob and Stuart Johns. Operation wolf Buggy Boy The Newzealand…
You have to read this! It is a two-part article telling the story about the Amiga, but also touching its main competitors: Atari and Apple Macintosh. At the beginning the article doesn’t start as I was expecting: The Amiga, especially in its original 1985 incarnation, was a terrible computer. The operating system that shipped with it was painfully buggy. If…
Stuart Johns has sent in a new Acorn Electron game review. For Stuart’s second review on Vitno, he has chosen the game ‘Starship Command’ by Acornsoft. Like all our reviews you can find it on our Reviews Section of the site. Many thanks Stuart ;) Source: Starship Command by AcornsoftStuart’s Website: http://www.myacornelectron.com
A new episode of the Personal Computing podcast is available. In this episode: David and Jeff talk about computer magazines from 1974 until 1980. They talk about the magazines: ROM, The Transactor, Compute!, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Creative Computing, Byte, Kilobaud and Interface Age. Website: http://www.historyofpersonalcomputing.com
The PiDP-8 is a project to replicate the hardware of the 8/I in a modern format. Instead of hundreds of Flip Chips, this PDP-8 is powered by a Raspberry Pi running the SIMH emulator. The 40-pin GPIO connector on the Pi is broken out to 92 LEDs and 26 toggle switches on a large PCB. The creator of the project…
Ready Player One is a science fiction novel by Ernest Cline. The book was published by Random House on August 16, 2011 and tells the story of Wade Watts, a teenager in the year of 2044, where the most played game is a virtual reality world called OASIS. The game is full of riddles based on pop culture from the…
[youtube ugLH_ZiDtng nolink] Chris Wilkins, author of ‘The History of Ocean Software’ said on Facebook that he is feeling nostalgic, so he’s selling the book for 50% off, or only £10. It is a great deal, even after adding the shipping cost. To be able to get the discounted price, head over Fusion Retro Books website, add the book to…
It is out the episode #33 of FloppyDays. This month, Randy Kindig is covering the Atari 400/800. Here is some of the subjects covered during the podcast: New Acquisitions: Raspberry Pi – http://www.raspberrypi.org/ A2CLOUD – http://appleii.ivanx.com/prnumber6/category/a2cloud/ A2SERVER – http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/ News: Electric Dreams BBS Podcast – http://www.edbbspodcast.com/ – Mike Whalen and Jeff Salzman Link: FloppyDays
We would like to welcome Stuart Johns, a new reviewer to the Vitno team!Stuart will be reviewing all things Acorn electron which is his passion. His first review on AMX Art by ACP/PRES is now up on Vitno in the Reviews Section. Many thanks Stuart, a superb first review! Source: AMX Art ReviewStuart’s Website: http://www.myacornelectron.com
