Retro gaming’s future is no longer a side story about dusty cartridges and aging consoles. It…
Month: January 2026
Intel’s MMX technology: why some 90s games required it—and why it failed
In the mid-1990s, the personal computer was changing faster than its hardware architecture could comfortably support.…
Was the Y2K bug overhyped? The real story behind the Millennium bug
As the twentieth century drew to a close, the world found itself gripped by a peculiar…
The Windows 95 revolution: how one operating system reshaped society
On 24 August 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95 — a new version of its personal computer…
Strange anti-piracy tricks in video games that made cheaters regret it
Video game piracy has been a persistent shadow over the industry since the earliest days of…
MAME emulator new update: what you need to know about the latest release
The latest release of MAME continues the emulator’s steady evolution from an arcade-focused tool into a…
System Shock Amiga port in development revives a landmark PC game
In 1994, System Shock arrived as a provocation. Developed by Looking Glass Studios, it rejected the…
The inconvenient truth about the Amiga’s end: Petro Tyschtschenko was the final nail in the coffin
It has become a sport to blame Mehdi Ali for everything that went wrong in Amiga…
Why the ModRetro M64 could be the most authentic Nintendo 64 revival yet
There’s a peculiar energy rippling through the retro gaming community in early 2026 — one that…
Final Fantasy VII returns to Steam in 2026 — here’s how it improves on the 2013 PC version
For more than a decade, the 2013 PC release of Final Fantasy VII on Steam has…
Quarx: a modern columns-style puzzle game for the Commodore 64
In an era dominated by hyper-realistic visuals, real-time ray tracing, and AI-generated worlds, a modest puzzle…
Hail to the King, Baby: Duke Nukem 3D at 30 — the FPS that gave games attitude
Thirty years ago, a wise-cracking action hero kicked down the door of the PC gaming scene…
MiSTer FPGA’s new N64 Turbo Core boosts performance by 17.5%
There’s a particular kind of magic that happens when retro gaming collides with modern engineering. It’s…
Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior gets new life on Atari 8-Bit computers in 2026
Some games refuse to stay buried. No matter how much time passes, they keep clawing their…
AmiSSL 5.26 strengthens TLS and HTTPS support for AmigaOS
When people talk about keeping classic computer platforms alive, they often mean preservation: running old software,…
The woman behind JPEG: Belgian mathematician Ingrid Daubechies
Every time a photo loads instantly on a phone, slips into an email attachment, or travels…
Spilled liquid on your Amiga? What to do immediately (and what not to do)
Spilling liquid on a computer is never good. Spilling liquid on an Amiga is worse—not because…
Modern tools, vintage power: inside today’s Commodore 64 game development
The Commodore 64 was never meant to outlive floppy disks, CRT televisions, and most of the…
How Pac-Man was made: Namco, Toru Iwatani, and a radical idea
In the crowded, noisy arcades of 1980, video games were obsessed with destruction. Aliens fell from…
Counter-Strike origins: how a simple mod changed multiplayer games forever
In the late 1990s, while the games industry chased bigger budgets and flashier spectacle, the most…
Amiga 1200 and Amiga 600 PCMCIA port: why it was both brilliant and broken
When Commodore released the Amiga 600 and later the Amiga 1200, one small rectangular slot quietly…