Abit Siluro Geforce Ti4200 OTES – Why so special?
What’s significant about this 13 year old video card you ask? It was the first card to feature a blower style cooler that vented hot air from the GPU outside of the back of...
Category: Retro
“Commodore Amiga: A Visual Compendium” Book Review
I have received my Amiga Visual Compendium1 book package from Bitmap Books/Kickstarter, and, WOW! This book is incredibly beautiful; chock full with edge-to-edge screen-captures of some of the most famous and believed Amiga software...
This Old Game – Shadow President
How’s this for an unusual premise for a game … The President of the United States is not actually the President… Well, they are, but that’s just a show for the public. Real power...
Project: Home Arcade – 8 Months Later
UPDATE – January 2, 2025 – Project Home Arcade continues to evolve. This time, I’ve upgraded an Atari VCS 800 system and am using it. UPDATE – Oct 29, 2017: I’ve swapped out the...
Amiga “Boing Ball” Wallpaper
Ever since its debut demo along-side the original Amiga, the Boing Ball has been a beloved icon for the Amiga community. The demo, put together in just hours; and within hours of the Amiga’s...
Amiga “Checkmark” Logo from Workbench 2 & 3 Wallpaper
When the Amiga was first released in 1985, Commodore choose to brand the new computer with a new logo, a multi-colored, rainbow, double-checkmark. On Amiga hardware, this logo was only featured on the original...
Amiga “Workbench 1.3 Disk” Icon Wallpaper
Prior to Workbench 1.3, in the user interface, system disks would appear as generic, blank-white, silhouettes of a 3.5in floppy. Released in 1988, to go with the new Amiga 500 and 2000 computers, Workbench...
Atari ST “Busy Bee” Icon Wallpaper
Continuing the run of the Atari ST’s clever icons in the TOS operating system, the ‘system busy’ state was represented by the Busy Bee. This downloadable ZIP file contains a 400×400 transparent PNG, and...
