Music-X, Making Music in the 1980s
Making computer music in the 1980s could be an expensive affair but in 1989 Music-X arrived to answer the prayers of bedroom musicians everywhere.
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Building a Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Machine – Part 3 Adding Games
We’ve been enjoying our Raspberry Pi retro games machine and now we’re ready to load up all our old favourite games, we just need the ROMs, where can we get them?…Woah there, not so fast, there’s a problem.
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Retro Electronic Games: Bambino Lucky Puck
Much like mobile phones today electronic games were status symbols to young gamers in the 80s. Bambino’s Lucky Puck may not have earned you instant respect but it had a secret weapon…
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New Retro: Snake ’97 for Mobile
Early mobile phones may not have been ‘smart’ but they did have Snake and they fitted in your pocket. Read on to see how you can get proper retro Snake on your modern phone.
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Recently Retro: The Code Red Worm
Fortune favours the brave. Not for email users receiving random pictures of Anna Kournikova in early 2001 it didn’t…and that was just the start.
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Classic Joysticks: Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro
The SideWinder Force Feedback Pro is a classy old timer retro joystick. It’s Well built, comfortable and available cheap on eBay, sounds good, but there is a problem…
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Take to the High Seas with your C64
Fresh from clearing the Mid-Atlantic of enemy ships with our trusty ZX81 we’re taking to the waves again, this time with Battleships on the Commodore 64.
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Take to the High Seas with your ZX81
It’s the summer holidays, your mate’s gone to Skegness for the week, it looks like rain, there’s only one thing for it, let’s fire up the ZX81 and type in a game.
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Retro Games: Doom Shareware
Taking on the hoards of hell never felt so good as it did with Doom Shareware. It was fun, free and politically incorrect. What’s not to like?
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Retro Tech: The Sinclair Oxford 300 Calculator
If you think Sinclair just made home computers (and dodgy electric cars) think again. They also made calculators that took the fear and loathing out of mathematics in the mid 70s.
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