The Sakhr AX-170 is not the kind of computer that usually dominates retro computing history. It…
Month: June 2026
The USS Yorktown Windows NT disaster: one zero value, one helpless warship
A US Navy cruiser is not supposed to be brought down by a bad number in…
Before Hackintosh, there was Brazil’s forbidden Macintosh clone
In the mid-1980s, the Macintosh was still young, expensive and fiercely protected. Apple had not built…
FinalWriter 7.3 released for AmigaOS 3.1 with PDF export and modern printing
At the beginning of June, FinalWriter 7.3 was reported as a major new update for AmigaOS,…
PS5 firmware 7.61 opens new door for Linux on Sony’s console
The PlayStation 5 has moved another step closer to the kind of flexibility normally associated with…
Ultima V for Atari 8-bit: version 0.16 brings the classic RPG closer to completion
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny has long been one of the great missing pieces in the…
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night PC port revives the Xbox 360 classic
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has gained an unofficial route to modern PCs through NocturneRecomp, a…
Linux boots on Sega Mega Drive in impressive 16-BIT console hack
The Sega Mega Drive was built to run fast arcade games, blast out crunchy FM synth…
Commodore Amiga 2000 history: 10 facts about the big-box Amiga that meant business
The Commodore Amiga 2000 occupies a strange and important place in computer history. It was not…
The forgotten story of Tetris, Game Boy and the first videogame in space
There are many ways to measure the success of a videogame. Sales figures, review scores, influence,…
Commodore LCD: inside the lost portable computer that nearly reached production
In the mid-1980s, Commodore had a portable computer almost ready to go. It was not a…
Art of Fighting 3 R could be the SNK remaster retro fighting fans were waiting for
SNK is returning to one of its strangest and most technically ambitious 2D fighters with The…
ShadPS4 tests ShadNet online service for PS4 emulation on PC
ShadPS4 is moving into a new and more complicated phase of PlayStation 4 emulation on PC.…
DICE before Battlefield: how Digital Illusions grew from the Amiga Demoscene
Battlefield made DICE famous, but it did not make DICE interesting. The more revealing story begins…
Creative Labs vs AdLib: the sound-card war that changed PC gaming
Before PC gaming had surround sound, positional audio, orchestral scores and cinematic voice acting, it had…
The $25,000 Microsoft BASIC deal: the smartest deal Commodore ever did
Switch on a Commodore 64 and the machine does not greet you with a logo animation,…
Donkey Kong 64 comes to Windows, Linux and macOS with high FPS and mods
More than 25 years after its original release, Donkey Kong 64 is getting the native PC…
Dark Lands for PlayStation Vita brings dark fantasy combat to Sony’s classic handheld
There are games that disappear quietly, not because they failed, but because the platforms they lived…
The forgotten professional side of the Commodore Amiga: SAS/C Development
There is a familiar version of the Amiga story. It is the one filled with bouncing…
Russia’s 16-Bit console boom had a secret weapon: The Pro 16 Bit
The Pro 16 Bit is not the kind of console that usually appears in the clean,…
Don Matrelli’s Legacy brings new life to classic DOS racer Grand Prix Circuit
Some retro releases arrive with big promises and very little understanding of the machine they are…
Argentina’s Family Game empire: how Famiclones outsold the real NES
In Argentina, the 8-bit console most people remember was not always called a Nintendo. It was…
Why China dominates retro handheld gaming: inside Anbernic, Miyoo and Powkiddy
Pick up a modern retro handheld and the first impression is usually emotional rather than technical.…
How Sony almost bought the Amiga and changed computer history forever
In the summer of 1984, the Amiga was not yet the Commodore Amiga that many computer…
The microprocessor price war started in a hotel room: the wild Story of the MOS 6502
The story sounds almost too neat for the history of computing: a new microprocessor, priced at…
Sega tried to launch VR in the 1990s. It went exactly how you think
Before virtual reality became a living-room product, a fitness gadget, a workplace experiment and, occasionally, a…
The AARD code story: Microsoft’s quiet attack on DR-DOS compatibility
In the early 1990s, the PC was still a machine you negotiated with. You did not…