Project: Home Arcade – A Living Room PC for Classic MAME & Console Gaming
UPDATE – Oct 29, 2017 – I’ve swapped out the Asus PC and Windows, replaced them with a Raspberry Pi 3 with RetroPie and I am really happy with how it turned out. You can...
Category: Retro
In Defense of the Atari 1200XL
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...
My First Modem – The Atari 1030
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...
Gamechanger – Eastern Front (1941)
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....
The Amiga “Boing Ball” Demo Animated GIF
As an old Amiga-geek, this little GIF here makes me smile. The bouncing “Boing Ball” demo was an amazing thing for its time, as is the lore behind it. Consensus seems to be that...
Happy Doomsday!
20 years ago today, id Software unleashed Doom, and video gaming has never been the same since. Polygon has a good article on the significance of Doom, while Wired has a great interview with...
Gamechanger – The Original Voodoo Chipset by 3Dfx Interactive
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...
3Dfx Voodoo 2 – The Original SLI!
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...
