https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/05/zx81_at_40/
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-56098808«During the 1980s the BBC ran the Computer Literacy Project exploring the world of computing.A series of home computers known as BBC Micros were created and viewers were taught how to program them.The project helped inspire a generation of ...
Not a bad outcome https://www.facebook.com/5min.crafts/posts/3182117501930813
https://preservingworlds.net/«Preserving Worlds is a documentary series about aging virtual worlds.Virtual worlds are delicate things, and they can vanish with hardly a trace. You can archive the offline software, but a dead world can only tell you so much. It’s just as important ...
«How do you boot a computer from punch cards when the computer has no operating system and no ROM? To make things worse, this computer requires special metadata called "word marks" that can't be represented on a card. In this blog post, I describe the interesting hardware and software ...
Here's the Super Accelerator 1 chip optimized version of Race Drivin' by Vitor Vilela, after around 13K lines of ASM code and a lot of research. The main focus was making the game run smoother, improving the gameplay. «A game that used to run at about 4 FPS now runs at about 30 FPS. The ...
Odyssey, the first home video game console, promises to turn the family TV into an electronic playground (via The Dot Eaters).
lol https://twitter.com/FSouchu/status/1343200216229543937
https://twitter.com/cobbpg/status/1347996272842694658"Another unusual graphical solution in a C64 game (Omni-Play Horse Racing): using hi-res graphics (!) mode for sprite overlays. The horses are bigger than normal sprites, but the extra parts all come from the overlay, so no sprite multiplexing ...
https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Hot_Dog_Homicide!«Hot Dog Homicide! is a mission given to Claude Speed by the Russian Mafia in Grand Theft Auto 2. It is given from the left of the two green phones for the Russian Mafia.MissionA major meat processing company offers to feed the Russian ...
Via Andreas Wallström.
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https://www.videogamer.com/news/devotion-developer-responds-to-gog-cancellation-of-re-releaseFrom Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devotion_(video_game)#Controversy):On February 21, 2019, two days after the game's release, players discovered a fulu talisman decorating a wall in ...
SuperRT - Realtime ray tracing on the SNES (walkthrough and technical overview)https://wccftech.com/snes-ray-tracing-superrt
https://www.facebook.com/BillyMitchellOfficial/posts/713903759258261
«In 1976, Joyce Weisbecker programmed games for an RCA PC and console based on technology created by her dad – a significant achievement that went undocumented until now».https://www.fastcompany.com/90147592/rediscovering-historys-lost-first-female-video-game-designer ...
https://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk/SWHouse_JKennedy.html«When I bought my Jupiter Ace, I was still in my first years in Secondary School and my friends and I were all frothing at the mouth for the newly announced ZX Spectrum. [...] As it turned out, there were delays in shipping the Spectrum, ...
«Sega’s foray into Virtual Reality, Sega VR, was never released — but through the power of source code, we’ve brought it back to life».https://gamehistory.org/segavr/
https://www.howtogeek.com/700661/35-years-of-microsoft-windows-remembering-windows-1.0/
https://twitter.com/MrVGBrowhttp://www.retrogamedeconstructionzone.com/2020/11/the-descent-of-centipede-part-1.html
"Breakfast Time visits rural Warwickshire, where the Darling family - better known as Codemasters - is enjoying dizzy-ing success in the field of videogames".https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/codemasters/zkdfnrdNovember 10, 2020: "Take-Two is buying F1 developer Codemasters for almost ...
"We get the incredible, untold story of the bug that nearly destroyed the Sega Dreamcast's launch with Sega's former director of development technology, John Byrd".https://theretrohour.com/worst-video-game-bug-ever-sega-dreamcast-ep250/
