Fancy playing a new Commodore Amiga game that smacks of high quality, is fun to play, and well worth keeping an eye on as developments progress, then this game called 'Double Baboon Ninja' by Danlabg…

Late 2000. There is a grey andblue tower PC on my dorm-room desk like nothing anybody who walks into the room has ever seen. The Be logo on the front, a 3.5″ floppy peeking out the bottom of the…

Where the famous 43 quintillion comes from, why a C64 can’t print it the easy way, and a tiny multi-precision multiplier in BASIC that gets every digit right.

Inside Gargoyle Games, one of Britain’s most inventive 8-bit studios The post Inside Gargoyle Games: Stuart Cox on Light Force, Scooby-Doo and ThunderCats – The Retro Hour EP530 appeared first…

Programming the strangely wonderful Commodore 128 The post Programming the Commodore 128 appeared first on Retro Game Coders.

In 1986, Super Mario Bros. Special, a licensed version of Super Mario Bros. for the Japanese NEC PC-8801 and Sharp X1 home computers, was released by Hudson Soft. As was usual for new releases at the…

As I understand it you’re looking for a true bitmap font (not vectorized like all examples on the site), with 256 or 512 glyphs, and it should be available in the correct file format. Those are quite…

Opus 1: The Comedy of Errors In other news, I’m afraid there will be no article next week, as my wife and I do some much-needed springtime home-and-garden work. I’ll see you in two weeks…

Retro Games Ltd has delayed THEA1200 to December 4, 2026. A follow-up Q&A confirms pre-order status, pricing, and product plans. The post THEA1200 December Date Confirmed After Retro Games Ltd…

Marco Finelli of Retro-Gamers.it has released an English guide for setting up Compact Flash storage on Amiga systems. It covers A500, A600, A1200, Workbench, and WHDLoad use. The post Amiga Compact…

A productivity suite that willfully rejects common notions on how such software should behave, on an operating system most haven't heard of, running on a processor 30 years ahead of its time.

How about this great assemblage of nine Italian torpedo boats passing the Ponte Girevole in Taranto between the Mar Grande and Mar Piccolo in the spring of 1960? Leading the parade is the 130-ton,…

kremlin:in 1995 knowing someone’s IP address was indeed exploitable, you could very easily find out their ISP, call them, and allege anything you want and they would disconnect you while they…

never-obsolete:Real.comApril 2001

There is something especially appealing about smaller cancelled games. Not the giant, headline-friendly projects that get brought up every few years whenever somebody wants to lament what might have…

yodaprod:Ebay (2005)

Floppy disk art in one of the computer pools at Martin Luther University.

Here are two fun RANDOS for you today, starting with this particularly pretty photo of Skull Rock, from an image marked "November 1961". The photographer must have had a decent camera, this picture…

Six years have passed since I started building EndBASIC: a retro-looking BASIC interpreter that works on the web, on the desktop, and on embedded hardware—and that allows writing cross-platform…

At a glance this 1991 PC Engine exclusive may appear to be some sort of unspectacular Galaxy Force style into-the-screen …

A couple of months ago I referred to a quote from Infocom's internal ZIL manual: The other four tokens—ON-GROUND, IN-ROOM, HELD, and CARRIED—are incredibly confusing, and no one really understands…

When Epilogue announced the Retrace app for iOS and Android I was over the moon excited. In theory this meant I could archive ROMs from the GB Operator directly to my iPhone where I play the games…

The next TRS-80 Trash Talk live show is Saturday, May 23, at 6:00PM Pacific Daylight Time / 9:00PM Eastern Daylight Time! Delivered by PolitePaul service

The Pixar animated short Lifted was released in front of Ratatouille in 2006: = 2x) and (width >= 700px)" srcset="https://unsung.aresluna.org/_media/this-was-a-user-friendly-computer/yt1.2096w.avif"…

Back in the 80’s and 90’s Hudson would host caravans, events where they drove from city to city with a bunch of famicoms/pc-engines and people would compete for a timed high score in the title for…

Pascal Holdry has provided the manual for the Macrotronics M80 Ham Interface! Thank you, Pascal! Delivered by PolitePaul service

I ran across this article written by Bob Metcalfe in 1991 about 3Com’s losing bets against Novell. This contained an important fact in our research about Ethernet development in the 1980s. To…

COMPLEX BENCH TESTING SETUP NOT WORKING PROPERLY The setup makes use of a breadboard development system, an Arduino Uno, several power supplies, an oscilloscope and my SLT breakout box. The…

The inspiration for this post came from Dave’s Garage YouTube Channel. It featured dbrll/ATTN-11, which used machine learning on a PDP-11 to reverse a sequence of numbers. I’m not (quite) old enough…

There is a particular kind of early-’90s computer game that does not politely introduce itself. It kicks down the door, throws a manual the size of a small regional telephone…

C64 Dev Machine has received another update, bringing a set of practical improvements to its visual coding environment for the Commodore 64. Version V099.61.9 continues the project’s main idea:…

I’ve been working on a PC Engine emulator (aka TurboGrafx-16) after getting the bug to start looking at a new system, and I’ve found it to be pretty interesting hardware-wise. Originally…

[MC Lothlorien, Commodore 64] It has been some time since we talked about MC Lothlorien , one of the oldest and most prolific British wargame…

The Commodore 64 homebrew scene has another roguelike to be enjoyed, as developer BarracudaBits has officially released Broken Crown, a procedurally generated roguelike that pays homage to the…

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March 1943. "Santa Fe R.R. train stopping for coal and water. Laguna, New Mexico." Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Seventy years ago this month, the May 1956 issue of Popular Electronics showed these ideas for an emergency radio receiver. If the power was out, or the radio otherwise out of commission, the…

Hey, look out! this is an addendum to yesterday's post on setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 . all of this is written with the assumption you've followed the setup steps in…

Lately I found myself having a lot of fun with Frontier Elite II on my Atari STe and I found it brought me back to some twenty years ago, when I played that game first. Then, the somewhat extreme…

Buying a second-hand 2020 MacBook Pro for twenty-five dollars and fixing it so that the laptop's non-functional screen and Touch Bar function. Diagnosing and troubleshooting the issues causing the…

CORRECTED FOR BAD FOOTPRINT FOR THE FPGA DAUGHTER CARD As previously discussed, the position of pins segments J3 and J4 were swapped on the footprint, leading to several problems. Most serious was…

I own four old ThinkPads now. I blame the algorithm. It really doesn’t take much, watch one nerdy video and suddenly your whole feed is people doing cool things with old laptops, and a few…

The very first computer I used was a Macintosh which model I have a hard time pinpointing, but something along the lines of a LC 630: nearly my age, big CRT monitor, pizza box form factor, and the…

A few years ago, I developed a regulated power supply with three outputs: +5V, +12V, and -12V, primarily intended to replace the one found in the Prophet VS. The characteristic of this power supply…

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In part 3 we saw how the VTX5000's 8K ROM is structured and how the BASIC program drives the terminal.

I thought you might be interested in seeing how the RDC-M compares in size to some of its brethren. In the photo up there is an Atlas Proto 1000 RDC at the top, in the middle is an Athern RDC, and at…

CatGun: Victory Mission G was a manga-style shoot-em'-up game developed around 1995-1996 by the game developer duo PixelHazard (consisting of programmer Arjen Wagenaar and artist Luc S. Verhulst, who…

When I was a physics undergraduate in the early 1990s, FORTRAN 77 was the standard programming language for

Drain Bamage is back! We’ve been on hiatus for a few years, but on May 16th we’re organizing a party again. Hard and/or fun, as usual. This time you need to sign up to get in, so…