Tag: Retro History
The Story of Commodore 64 in Pixels by Chris Wilkins, is a new Kickstarter Project that is Live as of today! The Book will feature 25+ Memoirs from the programmers, musicians and artists who made these games part of our childhood. Featuring new photography of the C64 range of computers and hardware. Art from Zzap! 64, including Oliver Fray’s amazing…
Exactly one year ago, on July 6th 2014, we started our podcast, exactly today 1 year later, July, 6th 2015, we present no#9! This time with a famous and high profile video game composer again! Dave Lowe AKA Uncle Art and his daughter Holly! Listen to this awesome podcast episode at Podcast Episode #9 – Uncle Art: Dave Lowe and…
Jimmy Maher wrote a blog about the evolution of Epyx games. In this story Jimmy tells about the American home computer industry in the eighties. He talks about the Epyx games Summer Games, Winter Olympics, Summer Games II and California Games. Website: http://www.filfre.net/2015/06/the-evolution-of-the-epyx-games/News Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl
The National Museum of Computing in UK is trying to get help to maintain its collection of BBC Micro, first launched in 1981. Most of the collection is used on an interactive exhibit, and the need for maintenance also includes peripherals like CRT monitors. The museum, which is located on the Bletchley Park estate, has about 80 BBC Micro computers,…
A lot of things happening! Scene World Magazine released today podcast episode #8 with famous hacker, blueboxer, and EasyWriter author John ‘Crunch’ Draper who came to Mannheim to visit his friends! :) http://sceneworld.org/blog/2015/06/21/podcast-episode-8-john-draper-aka-captain-crunch/ We also talk about our gig happening on Wednesday at 6 PM CEST which is an interview with famous game music composer Chris Huelsbeck happening in the…
My passion for computers started in 1983, when I briefly used one at school. It wasn’t until I was looking through a national newspaper, when I became drawn towards a Rumbelows advert for a Sinclair ZX81. I can remember begging my parents to get me one for my 13th birthday, it was affordable and looked to be a great start…
