Category Archives: Books

Over the past 5 years, I have backed via Kickstarter and purchase from specialist book publishers like Bitmap Books a number of extremely high-quality books about my favorite topic retro gaming and computers. With each new book, I await the delivery with … Continue reading →

I came back from holidays last week and found the final book in the History of Commodore Business Machines had been delivered while I was away. Commodore The Final Years by Brian Bagnall. In only a few short days I’ve … Continue reading →

The long-awaited story of what was happening within the worlds largest computer retailer has finally been written. Last week I took ownership of the newest and probably the only book written about Commodore by someone who was there on the inside. … Continue reading →

Three issues in at the time of this post and I can easily say that Classic Adventurer is a magnificent publication, in fact, a quality magazine dedicated to Adventure Games hasn’t been available since the early 1980’s when Micro Adventurer was published. I … Continue reading →

The beginning of the computer gaming revolution was launched back in the late 1970’s on machines that were small in memory, slow in processor speed but developers were high with spirit and imagination. Break Out is the story of how the Apple II … Continue reading →

As you might be able to tell from my other posts I’ve been a big fan of the old school text adventure games which dominated the gaming industry back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Recently I stumbled across … Continue reading →

The History of the BASIC programming language Discovered this book by accident, one of those random searches on Amazon results in often finding little gems.  The History of the BASIC programming language is one of those gems. With just a … Continue reading →