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Category Archives: Retro
Commodore The Final Years
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
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Retro computer museum
Having visited the Centre for computing history in Cambridge on Saturday I decided to continue driving up to Leicester to take good look at the Retro Computer Museum. Retro Computer Museum Leicester I’ll start with this statement, it’s totally different that … Continue reading
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Centre for computing history
Early in September while on holidays in London I had a couple of free days available and decided to head north to Cambridge to visit the Centre for Computing History which was having an event day. Hidden away in an … Continue reading
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In the beginning ‘The Dawn of the Computer Game Industry’
The 11th of October 1978 is an essential date in the history of personal computers and the gaming industry as on this day A voice boomed out “Welcome to Adventure”. The opening words of the text adventure game AdventureLand written … Continue reading
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Commodore from the inside
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
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Woodwork adventure
I received a pleasant surprise in the mail today from CLOPAS. Who is CLOPAS you may ask, well it is the new company formed by Scott Adams (no not the Dilbert man) but the grandfather of Adventure Gaming on microcomputers. … Continue reading
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Kickstart my past
Over the past few years, there has been a large number of retro-themed products based on the 1970’s and 1980’s, everything from books, documentaries to remakes of classic computers and consoles from that time. It’s been a reinvention of my … Continue reading
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Beyond the Borders
I was a big fan of the Atari ST range of computers released in the mid-1980’s which lasted through to the release of the Falcon in 1993 and while in Australia it was popular and gained a decent level of … Continue reading
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Classic Adventurer
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
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The beginning of computer gaming
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
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