Tucked in the hills and forests of Brown County, Indiana, about halfway between the relatively bright-lights of Bloomington and the small town of Nashville, is a an unlikely place to find one of the...
In addition to his fantastic Atari 8-bit font collection, Steve Boswell has created some incredible photo-realistic icons based on classic Atari 8-bit computers. These icons are in PNG format, and work with Windows, Macs...
In 1999, both SETI@Home and Folding@Home debuted launching the concept of volunteer computing. This allowed individuals interested in the research to donate computer time to help work through the large datasets each project had....
Over the years, I’ve written a few articles on different solutions to bring retro gaming into my living room. Starting with an mini-PC, and then transitioning to Raspberry Pi’s for the job, I have...
Now that the hardware in the Atari VCS 800 has been upgraded, and the system and controllers patched and updated, it is time to put all of that extra storage space and RAM to...
Upgrading the RAM and adding an SSD to your Atari VCS 800 will greatly improve the performance of the entire system, no matter what you plan on doing with it. Even more so if...
Steve Boswell has painstakingly recreated classic 8-bit Atari fonts in modern formats, based off fonts originally developed for Windows and Mac systems by Mark Simonson. Steve’s version has over a hundred variations, including for...
The Apple IIGS was intended to expand on the capabilities of the massively successful Apple IIe by adding enhanced graphics and sound, while also improving the system speed. Central to the project was bringing...
In 1997, Apple released System 8 with a considerable makeover for the GUI emphasizing color. Susan Kare updated her famous Welcome to Macintosh boot-up splash screen with another inspired design; the “2-face” Happy Mac....
