Amiga Visual Compendium on Kickstarter
Sam Dyer, a graphics designer from Bath, UK, and the force behind Bitmap Books, has created a Kickstarter campaign for a very cool looking book, “Commodore Amiga – a visual Commpendium“. Sam already has a...
Sam Dyer, a graphics designer from Bath, UK, and the force behind Bitmap Books, has created a Kickstarter campaign for a very cool looking book, “Commodore Amiga – a visual Commpendium“. Sam already has a...
It is an “Edsel“? An “Avanti“? Or, is it something in-between? The Atari 1200XL has always had a sullied reputation with the Atari community; thought of as a crippled machine that was too expensive...
Released in 1983, and designed to match the newly launched Atari 1200XL, the Atari 1030 modem was an interesting piece of hardware. The modem’s device-driver was burned into ROM, enabling it work with any Atari...
In 1981, Chris Crawford was riding high (little did he know that in just three years, he’d be looking for a job). Since joining Atari in 1979, he had become a full-fledged star programmer....
As an old Amiga-geek, this little GIF here makes me smile. The “Boing Ball” demo was, for its time, an amazing thing, as is the lore behind it. Consensus seems to be that RJ...
Often, timing is everything. In late 1996, the timing was perfect for 3Dfx Interactive, a developer of 3D video acceleration technology. As prices for EDO memory were crashing and id Software‘s Quake was becoming a massive hit...
I was a fortunate computer gaming geek that got to experience the heyday of 3DFX’s hardware injection into the PC gaming scene. At first I thought having a dedicated 3D card was crazy talk...
Antonio Prohias was the most celebrated cartoonist in Cuba, winner of multiple awards, and especially known for his biting political cartoons. In 1959, Fidel Castro honored Prohias personally, but, but by 1960, Castro had,...