Collaborate Disseminate
Over on Retro Recipe’s YouTube channel, [Perifractic] has been busy restoring an old promotional video of how Commodore computers were made back in 1984 (video below the break). He cleaned up …read more Continue reading Commodore Promotional Film from 1984 Enhanced
[Noel’s Retro Lab] has looked at retro chip testers before, but in a recent video you can see below he’s looking at the Chip Tester Pro, a preassembled chip tester …read more Continue reading Chip Tester Knows if Your Old Chips are Working
Got a retrocomputing itch? So does [David Given], and luckily for us all he indulged it by writing POLF: a first-person 3D game for the Commodore PET that uses only …read more Continue reading POLF: Retro 3D Game Uses Only a Character Display
It’s a morning ritual that we guess most of you share with us; before whatever work a new day will bring to sit down with a coffee and catch up …read more Continue reading Books You Should Read: Bil Herd’s Back Into The Storm
Imagine the ultimate homage to 1980s 8-bit home computers. It might look like [David Murray] aka The 8-Bit Guy’s Commander X16. As a core group of geeks, hackers, and developers …read more Continue reading Commander X16: A Dreamy 8 bit Computer Comes Closer To Reality
In 1986, a group of NASA engineers faced a difficult choice in solving their data processing woes: continue tolerating the poor performance of PC architecture, or pony up the cash …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Amiga Pips the PC for Mission-Critical Computing at NASA
The idea of having software translation programs around to do things like emulate a Super Nintendo on your $3000 gaming computer or, more practically, run x86 software on a new …read more Continue reading Yo Dawg, We Heard You Like Retrocomputers
For all the fancy features of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, sometimes you just want to wrap yourself in the comfortable nostalgia of classic games. If you don’t have the original machine still yellowing in your attic, you can buy modernized mini… Continue reading Amiga 500 Mini retro console emerges from the archives
Commodore machines are well-loved around here, but usually when you think Commodore, you think about the Commodore 64, or maybe the PET or Amiga. But the Commodore 64 had an …read more Continue reading Inside the VIC-20
Well, that de-escalated quickly. It seems like no sooner than a paper was announced that purported to find photographic evidence of fungi growing on Mars, that the planetary science and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 9, 2021