Vintage Computing and Gaming
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The Retrogaming and Retrocomputing Blogazine since 2005. Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
Vintage Computing and Gaming
3d ago
Clip art collections from the early 1990s are today’s forgotten cultural time capsules, freezing life three decades ago as digital illustrations full of obsolete tech, vintage fashions, and more. Just for fun, let’s explore computer art from a time just before the Internet hit it big. [Benj’s note—I wrote this piece years ago, and it ..read more
Vintage Computing and Gaming
1w ago
Platform Studies book from Zagal and Edwards launches May 14, 2024. Attention video game fans! I co-wrote an MIT Press Platform Studies book called Seeing Red: Nintendo’s Virtual Boy with Dr. Jose Zagal, and it’s coming out May 14th of this year. You can pre-order it now on Amazon if you’re wild about stereoscopic red ..read more
Vintage Computing and Gaming
2w ago
[Benj’s note — I originally wrote this in 2020 and had it sitting around until now. I still think it might be useful to someone in the future, so I decided to publish it.] Many Americans alive today witnessed one of the most dramatic cultural transitions since the invention of the printing press: The rise ..read more
Vintage Computing and Gaming
1y ago
In August 2022, I joined up with Ars Technica as their AI and Machine Learning Reporter. Of course, even while documenting one of the wildest cutting-edge stories in tech at the moment, my heart never strays far from the subject of this site: vintage technology and the history behind it. In between writing about AI ..read more
Vintage Computing and Gaming
1y ago
Atari founders circa 1972-73 (from left to right):Ted Dabney, Nolan Bushnell, Larry Emmons, and Allan Alcorn [ Atari Pong turns 50 years old today, and I thought it might be fun to revisit an article I wrote about the game’s creation for Edge Magazine (Issue 248) back in 2012. Since the web version of that ..read more
Vintage Computing and Gaming
2y ago
[ Phillip Heller is a member of the Prodigy Preservation Project. Here, he writes about his progress since Part 1 in January. –Benj ] Reverse engineering Prodigy is not without challenges. Though the patent describes the communications protocol and the TBOL language well, it lacks detail of the application protocols – that is, the communications ..read more
Vintage Computing and Gaming
2y ago
“Now computing can be fun and easy for the entire family.” The Tandy Sensation was an early attempt at a specialized Multimedia PC. In this case, Tandy came up with a 25 MHz 486SX computer with a 107 MB hard drive, built-in CD-ROM drive, stereo sound card, a voice/fax modem, SVGA color graphics, and more ..read more
Vintage Computing and Gaming
2y ago
In Memoriam: Clive Marles Sinclair (1940-2021) British inventor, Founder of Sinclair Research, Creator of Sinclair computers — See Also: RSOTW: Where’s the Bits? (2008) RSOTW: Memotech ZX81 Modules (2014 ..read more
Vintage Computing and Gaming
2y ago
In the mid-1990s, my dad gave me a Hewlett Packard HP 95LX he bought from a friend and never used. The HP 95LX (1991) is a really cool handheld PC that runs DOS from ROM. While looking for 95LX software around 1997 (according to the file dates, although it’s very possible I grabbed them earlier ..read more
Vintage Computing and Gaming
2y ago
I joined How-To Geek in February 2020, and I’ve been regularly writing tech history-related features in addition to my usual how-to pieces. At the moment, they’re usually published every Monday or on special anniversaries. Since my first post and second post detailing my history-related How-To Geek articles, I’ve written 46 more pieces that may be ..read more