Category: Retro Computing History
As I like to say, we are living another golden era for the retro computing and gaming enthusiasts, and one of the things that prove that to be true is the incredible number of events happening every year across the Globe. To keep track of that many events, many initiatives are in place on Facebook and some of the most…
Kick-Off II is one of the most difficult football (or soccer, if you’re NTSC) games to master. Oliver Stender and Frank Fuhrmann have done just that, though, and their skill has lead to them being two of the highest ranked players to take part in the Kick-Off II World Cup — championships that are still being held today. AJ and…
This is been around for a couple of days on Facebook and Twitter, so you all might have heard of the sad news of the passing of Chuck Peddle, the electrical engineer that was the main designer of the ubiquitous 6502 CPU and the Commodore PET, among other great inventions and products that helped to shape the computer industry. The…
The Mega65 (a C64/C65 compatible computer) team has announced on its website a new version of the DevKit, which is a version of the Mega65 aimed for developers to create programs for the machine and make them ready for when the final product is released. The board was lowered to leave more room for cables and programmers which required for…
Birgit “Bigi” Lechtermann is a German TV moderator, book writer and media trainer which talks in this interview about pioneering in television with computer shows aimed towards the youth with German computer shows “Computer Corner” & “Technik-2000″ which she did back in the 80s and 90s with journalist Klaus Moeller) in which she brought the home computers closer and more…
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines is a Russian private institution that has the objective of keeping a collection of arcade game machines in working condition in a permanent exhibit in Moscow where the visitors can not only see them but also interact and play with the more than 200 machines. As part of the ticket, the visitor receives a…
This is the second part of the interview with Randy Linden, featured on the Retro Hour podcast episode 190. Read the first part here. Bleem! Retro Hour: Well, when did you get this kind of stroke of genius to run PlayStation games on the PC. How did that start? Randy Linden: I was just thinking one day about what to…
Roman Werner is an Amiga developer who developed games for the Amiga and participated with his music to many Amiga games back in the days! Among those are his jump’n’run Traps ‘n’ Treasures, music for Leonardo on the Amiga and the Eliminator intro music on the Amiga. He also created the one button controller and type-in BASIC game developer! Not…
Kick-man was developed for the Atari 2600 back in 1983. Set to be published by CBS Electronics, the game was cancelled and never saw the light of the day. For all these years, it was in every Atari 2600 enthusiast wishlist. Following the old saying “better late than never”, and thanks to the efforts of Dutchman2000 and Thomas Jentzsch, the…
This year, my annual trip to Brazil coincided with the time when the biggest game show in Latin America takes place: Brazil Game Show. This year’s edition had more than 300,000 people walking the aisles, checking the 400 booths featuring giant players like YouTube, Facebook Games, Epic Games, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and many others. Although I like and play games…
