Mark your calendars for September 29 – October 1, 2023, and get ready to relive the glory days of Tandy computers at Tandy Assembly 2023. Springfield, Ohio – Retro Tandy computing enthusiasts, mark your calendars and start dusting off your gear because Tandy Assembly 2023 is just around the corner! From September 29 to October 1, 2023, Springfield, Ohio will…
The evil Doctor Jose Antonio Malvado is trying to turn all the citizens of WeepingTown into mutants! Help Batmanolo stop him! Your suit is ruined but you can recover it for a little while and be more resistant, jump higher and throw your weapon to discover hidden rooms or paralyze enemies. Gather all the mutagen that’s spread all around WeepingTown,…
To celebrate the return of Vintage is the New Old, our friend of the program and creator of the VITNO is Back logo, Daniel Henderson, has created a free Apple II game for the readers of the site. Oubliette 4 – Sir Edward Goes Forth is a puzzle game involving keys and gates and you must help Sir Edward get…
Hello have we met before? I seem to be back on Vintage is the New Old! This all feels a little surreal. I can’t believe it’s been nearly six years? Oh how time flies by… Most of you will know me as CommodoreBlog from Twitter. I also run commodoreblog.uk, another website that has recently returned from the dead! Anyway enough…
For those of you who were as shocked as this author about the shuttering of the Vintage is the New OId website, you will be happy to know that there are a number of people who came together to keep the site alive into at least the immediate future. We must thank those who had a hand in bringing this…
The first edition of ViTNO Writer’s contest ended on June 30. We got to a verdict after some discussions with our judges, Randy Kindig (Floppy Days Podcast) and Kitty (@CommodoreBlog). All four entries were for the non-technical category and were about something that left a good memory for the writers, which was very nice since, depending on your past experience…
Clube MSX is starting this Monday (07/03) the pre-sale of My Sacred Place and The 4 Masters of Melody Ex in cartridge for MSX. Each game comes with a box, manual and gifts and can now be purchased in the Clube MSX virtual store for R$ 179.00 (promotional price for each game) plus shipping costs (international orders must be made…
Author: Anthony Albert Date: June 30th, 2023 Category: Non-technical When My Father Took Me to Night Class In the summer of 1982, my father signed up for a night course at the local high school. He wanted to learn about computers and maybe use one to help the family business out – specifically, with accounting software. This is because my…
Author: Tyson Rek Date: June 30th, 2023 Category: Non-technical ONLY A GAME Gather around my fellow Nineties Brothers and get ready to turn back the Way-Clocks as we board the express train of yesterday moving backwards at full steam through the green warp zone time tunnels all the way back to The Good Years. Back to the days before the internet…
Author: Supercruiser Date: June 14th, 2023 Category: Non-technical So to put things into context and the memories all tend to get a little blurred the further things go on, but this is how I recollect the below. I come from a small town in the regional area of South Australia, and my first dial up experience was with a…
