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How Commodore’s lawsuit slowed Jack Tramiel’s Atari computer plans

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The Acorn Risc PC’s multiprocessor dream: Hydra, extra CPU cards and RISC OS reality

The Acorn Risc PC was already an unusual machine. It was modular, friendly, clever and very…

Quake at 30: the PC game that quietly rewired gaming culture

When Quake landed on PC on 22 June 1996, it did not simply give shooter fans…

Commodore 900: the UNIX workstation Commodore almost released

For most people, Commodore means the C64, the Amiga, affordable home computing, excellent custom chips and…

AmigaOS Library Vector Offsets explained: the modular architecture behind the Amiga

The Amiga is usually remembered for the things that were easy to see: bouncing balls, Protracker,…

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