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Semi-automated posting of old computers and videogames. Sometimes other bits of retro aesthetics and design. 12-15 posts a day on normal days, 24 posts on holidays. Following mod, ping mod for bugs/errors/suggestions/requests. Bot typically in English.

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Published: December 21, 2024 12:05

You can beat the market by years, and it doesn't mean anything if you can't do anything with this. Epoch proved this with their Game Pocket Computer, and Retro Game Living Room has the unboxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obsBHkNYhX4

Published: December 21, 2024 02:05

"Here's a short but exciting game for the VIC-20..." Programmed by Steven R. McCloskey, Dragon was a minimalist take on Pac-Man, changing it from a game of clearing the board before you're hunted to chasing down food before you starve. (Source.)

Published: December 20, 2024 22:05

While the Dragon was designed and built in Wales, a licensing agreement with a New Orleans company meant that you could get the Dragon 64, new in box, until 2017, making the Dragon 64 perhaps one of the longest market stays for any micro.

Published: December 20, 2024 16:05

Epyx was one of the first "AAA" publisher-developers, with hundreds of employees, dedicated art and music teams, multiple millions in sales, and big licenses. But just as they were about to step into producing their own console, an ill-timed lawsuit sunk…

Published: December 20, 2024 12:05

If you've got the retrocoding bug but you'd like to save your fingers and your sanity, try this scrolling assembler for the C64 by Dave Van Wagner. https://techwithdave.davevw.com/2019/04/scrolling-editor-for-fast-assembler-31.html

Published: December 20, 2024 08:05

At just sixteen bytes long, the definition of 'rebeccapurple' is a tiny easter egg in CSS4. But this tiny little easter egg in the CSS specification, now ten years old, is a tiny tribute to the human souls who make everything work.…

Published: December 20, 2024 00:05

How did you make music on a C64? That took not just understanding music theory, but understanding what exactly a note is. Granted, it doesn't help that Lftkyro makes typing in assembly in BASIC off the top of your head look simple.…

Published: December 19, 2024 16:05

One of the old greats of MS-DOS multiplayer gaming, Scorched Earth was a shareware artillery combat game that involved launching an escalating arsenal of lasers, dirt bombs, nukes, missiles, and anything else you could buy at your enemy while random events…

Published: December 19, 2024 04:05

While most computers have been monochrome, in 2007, Tulip made a bold stab at the status quo with the Ego - a series of laptops with a hard clamshell case with interchangeable fabric covers, and commanding a fashionable $5,000 price tag to boot.…

Published: December 19, 2024 00:05

ELIZA was one of the most important early demonstrations of natural language processing... but most of us can't scrounge together a IBM 7094 on short notice. Luckily, N. Landsteiner has written an implementation in Javascript that still runs today.…

Published: December 18, 2024 12:05

And now, a programming note. Most content posted by this bot was found on archive.org, the world's biggest library and the only one with quite as dedicated a collection of the last hundred years of programming ephemra. Please support them!…

Published: December 18, 2024 07:10

Doing some digging in the stacks to put together a Christmas playlist for everyone. Man, some companies back then took Christmas far more seriously than others. But I suppose you'll all find out those stories six days from now...

Published: December 17, 2024 20:05

Jack Tramiel wanted a new 64-kilobyte home computer in time for CES in January '82. He notified his engineers of this in late November, 1981. In their own words, the developers talk about the design sprint that followed created the world's best selling…

Published: December 17, 2024 08:05

On December 21, 2023, Games That Weren't released a lost Codemasters game, Stuntman Seymour, for the Commodore Amiga - a distant descendant of New Zealand Story that got lost with management's new top-down design philosophy and went unnoticed for 30 years.…

Published: December 16, 2024 22:05

"It is the year 2101 and war has broken out between Earth and the distant planet Zekloke. This alien power has established a large military complex on Mars which will soon become a great danger to Earth..." Sneak into an alien complex and save humanity in…

Published: December 16, 2024 20:05

Is that a Sega Master System? Is that a Game Boy? No, and yes. James Channel goes over the Samsung Gam*Boy, the way Samsung got into the console market and the way Sega got around the 90s export ban. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88iCywIZuWg

Published: December 16, 2024 14:05

The Mondotheque, an extremely early analog analogue of the Internet, allowing a curated central "International Museum" or "Mundaneum" to allow any person with one of these telegraphs to send, request, and view documents via 'electric telescope' from the…

Published: December 16, 2024 00:05

MvC is barely in this bot's remit, and covers aren't quite on topic. But if you don't make time to share a full jazz orchestra covering the most hype fighting game theme ever made with animated servbots running rampant, why even write a bot? …

Published: December 15, 2024 08:05

Set up to be an independent distributor of the American computer company Osborne, Osborne Computers in Australia continued after their parent company's bankruptcy as an independent entity into the 90s (and still exists on paper).…

Published: December 15, 2024 04:05

Incredibly advanced but notoriously finnicy to maintain, Virtual Worlds eschewed traditional VR headsets by putting players in a "monitor cell" to allow players multiple views of the action, providing international multiplayer at a time home consoles were…

Published: December 14, 2024 22:05

In the Internet Archive's stacks, I occasionally find obviously secondhand books, such as books with a card protector in the back, or handwritten notes. This is probably the first book I've found that was signed. A tiny act of kindness, now posterized. …

Published: December 14, 2024 20:05

Author, magazine editor, teacher, and all-around technologist Margaret Morabito discusses running RUN Magazine and the Computer Assisted Learning Center (on Q-Link, AOL, GEnie, Delphi, and CompuServe) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AwJPl_KVOQ

Published: December 14, 2024 12:05

In the 90s, the future of video games was the backseat of the car. Fujitsu tried to get into the game with the FM Towns Car Marty, a 32 bit console with CD-ROM, satellite navigation - and the full suite of FM Towns Marty software! Well, as long as it…

Published: December 13, 2024 20:05

"I had a guy at Atari tell me that Pac-Man was popular with girls because it was about an eating disorder." In an industry that chews threw programmers and spits them out, Brenda Laurel is an old vet who's still going on strong.…

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