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Day: 25 June 2026
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How PageStream turned the Amiga into a desktop publishing workstation
Mention the Amiga today and most people picture games, demos, sampled sound, joysticks, pixel art, tracker…
UniBIOS: the Neo Geo upgrade that unlocked AES and MVS hardware
The Neo Geo was never a small, sensible machine. Whether you met it as an MVS…
Inside Virtua Racing: Sega’s SVP chip and the Mega Drive’s most ambitious cartridge
There are games that show off a console. Then there are games that quietly cheat, in…
The PS3 OtherOS lawsuit: when Sony removed Linux support from the PlayStation 3
There was a time when the PlayStation 3 looked less like a games console and more…
Windows 98 launched 25 June 1998: the good, the bad and the ugly
Windows 98 launched on 25 June 1998, arriving at a moment when the personal computer was…
Amiga Ranger: the cancelled super Amiga Commodore never shipped
There is a particular kind of computer history that still hurts a little. Not because a…
The Acorn DeskLite and the future Acorn nearly entered
The Acorn DeskLite prototype is not the sort of machine that shouts for attention. It does…