Saving the Masters of the Elements From Getting Lost to Time: Epilogue.
My mission to save one of my childhood favorites from getting lost to time comes to an end: Here are the patches.| fabulous.systems
My mission to save one of my childhood favorites from getting lost to time comes to an end: Here are the patches.| fabulous.systems
It’s been 6 months since we announced BioMenace Remastered, and we’re getting closer to the planned release window (December). We’d like to keep you in the loop as we’re moving towards the finish l…| Lethal Guitar
A strange thing happened on the way to trying to open a Haunted Arcade at bavastudio, someone gave me an original Commodore 64C.* I’ve never seen the re-design of the classic breadbox version of the C64, so it was definitely … Continue reading →| bavatuesdays
While working with the game files of Masters of the Elements, I found something exciting hidden in one of the script files: Multiple, undocumented cheat and debug codes.| fabulous.systems
Welcome, dear reader. After more than a decade of writing this blog, it struck me that I’ve never stopped to tell a bit about myself. What follows is, in many ways, a tribute, not just to the games and computers I’ve spent a lifetime exploring, but to my parents, whose own journeys through technology shaped […]| Retro365
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
