I'm on a mission to save one of my childhood favorites from getting lost to time. After fixing the game itself, it is time to address the remaining issues.| fabulous.systems
Are you tired of fumbling with your Nintendo 3DS charging cable? Do you wish you could use a modern, reversible USB Type-C connector instead? With a few common tools and...| 4DCu.be
The game I enjoyed the most in my childhood stopped working on Windows 2000, never to be seen again. This is the complete story of how I fixed it - by digging into Windows internals, splitting the light, and eventually learning how to program in Lingo.| fabulous.systems
I’m excited to reveal my latest project: BioMenace Remastered – an official modern re-release of the DOS classic with enhanced graphics, refined gameplay, and quality of life improvements. Wa…| Lethal Guitar
Minimaze: Retrogaming mit der Retrokonsole TIC-80| kantel.github.io
Clip art collections from the early 1990s are today's forgotten cultural time capsules, freezing life three decades ago as digital illustrations full [...]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
Platform Studies book from Zagal and Edwards launches May 14, 2024. Attention video game fans! I co-wrote an MIT Press Platform Studies book called Seeing [...]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
In August 2022, I joined up with Ars Technica as their AI and Machine Learning Reporter. Of course, even while documenting one of the wildest cutting-edge stories in tech at the moment, my heart never strays far from the subject of this site: vintage technology and the history behind it. In between writing about AI […]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
Atari founders circa 1972-73 (from left to right):Ted Dabney, Nolan Bushnell, Larry Emmons, and Allan Alcorn [ Atari Pong turns 50 years old today, and I thought it might be fun to revisit an article I wrote about the game’s creation for Edge Magazine (Issue 248) back in 2012. Since the web version of that […]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
In the mid-1990s, my dad gave me a Hewlett Packard HP 95LX he bought from a friend and never used. The HP 95LX (1991) is a really cool handheld PC that runs DOS from ROM. While looking for 95LX software around 1997 (according to the file dates, although it’s very possible I grabbed them earlier), […]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
The title sequence for ‘Allo ‘Allo! Cartoon Fun! on the Commodore Amiga. ‘Allo ‘Allo! Cartoon Fun! is a side-scrolling platformer based on the classic 1980s BBC sitcom ̵…| caffeinated pixels
Satoe Terashima’s fabulous Vampire Killer, which is the track that plays during the first stage of Castlevania on the NES/Famicom. Castlevania is a gothic-horror themed action-platformer deve…| caffeinated pixels
The Mute City track music from F-Zero on Super Nintendo. The soundtrack was composed by Yumiko Kanki and Naoto Ishida. F-Zero is a fast-paced racing game developed by Nintendo and was one of the la…| caffeinated pixels
The intro sequence to Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf on the Amiga. Desert Strike is an isometric helicopter shoot ’em up developed and published by EA. It was originally developed for the …| caffeinated pixels
In my sporadic “Do you remember…” series, I whack on some rose-tinted specs and wax lyrical about specific aspects of the classic and not-so-classic games of yesteryear. Today, it’s the intro…| caffeinated pixels
The gaming industry is a rather young one, but some games have been around since forever. Check out a selection of the best games turning twenty in 2018!| Sekg
Last time, we looked at where the video signal ends up in my retro capture setup. But how does it get there, and by what arcane magicks can I display fuzzy old console signals in crisp 1080p?| LunarLoony
Welcome to my Totally Not Recommended guide to capturing accurate and authentic footage from your consoles. This is how I’ve got things set up, such that I can easily record and stream from real hardware (with all the real problems that brings).| LunarLoony