For many people, the Amiga 500 was a floppy machine. That is not an insult. It…
Day: 27 June 2026
Retroid Pocket Nova is a pocket-friendly Android gaming handheld built for retro players
The handheld gaming market has not been short of new machines lately. Every few weeks, another…
Acorn A4: the 1992 ARM laptop that was quietly ahead of its time
The Acorn A4 is one of those computers that sounds simple when you describe it quickly,…
OpenTTD 16.0 beta shows why the transport management classic still matters
There is a certain kind of PC game that never really leaves. It may no longer…
Star Wars retrogaming: how Atari, C64, Amiga and PC brought the galaxy home
The story of classic Star Wars games does not begin with high-resolution cockpits, orchestral CD audio…
AmiBlitz 3.13.0b brings smarter memory management to classic Amiga coding
There are software updates that arrive with fireworks, banners and a feature list so loud it…
DekaDuck wants to revive classic action platforming with a robot-armed duck
There is something pleasingly direct about DekaDuck. This is a retro action platformer about a duck…
Sega Mega Jet: the Mega Drive built for Japan Airlines
There are strange consoles, and then there is the Sega Mega Jet. Most gaming hardware wants…
Before the iPad: how Acorn’s NewsPAD imagined the future of tablets
Every so often, the history of computing throws up a machine that looks as if it…
Windows 1.0 and the Golden Vaporware award: Microsoft’s rough start
Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0 in November 1985, but by then the computer industry had already spent…
The Amiga video backup system: when VHS became computer storage
Before backup became a background process with a cheerful little cloud icon, it was work. Real…
When Apple forced GEM to change: the forgotten battle over the PC GUI
In the middle of the 1980s, the personal computer was still learning how to smile. Most…
The forgotten PS1 floppy drive that backed up PlayStation memory cards
The original PlayStation was the console that made CDs feel like the future. It arrived with…