80’s 1337ness
12-2008 [Go there]
Score: 5.0 (Number of votes: 1)
Tags: retro, history, poster, commercial
12-2008 [Go there]
Score: 5.0 (Number of votes: 1)
Tags: retro, history, poster, commercial
...and sells HalfLife 1 for 98 cents until the 21. November 2008. You've got to be quick.
11-2008 [Go there]
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A private collection of old computers from 1977 - 1990. The special feature of this museum is, that the computers are "hands-on" ready - you are allowed to play with the and run old software.
11-2008 [Go there]
Score: 5.0 (Number of votes: 1)
Tags: retro, vintage, exhibition, history
With a big smile on my face.
09-2008 [Go there]
Score: 4.0 (Number of votes: 1)
The first half of the documentary "we call it techno" is online. [via myoon] UPDATE: The video seems to be temporarily unavailable, but you can enjoy this video meanwhile.
09-2008 [Go there]
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Tags: music, documentary, history
"To ensure that the big and small events in these fledgling worlds are not forgotten, erased or overlooked, the University of Texas, Austin has kicked off a project to study the best way to preserve their history."
08-2008 [Go there]
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A text about the history of the legendary low-budged games publisher Mastertronic. Remember this good old games on cassette tape?
08-2008 [Go there]
Score: 4.0 (Number of votes: 1)
"The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1978–2002. So if you want to find out more about lights in the sky over Waterloo Bridge, near misses by pilots, crop circles - and what the UK government thought of it all - this is the place to start. The files are in PDF format."
05-2008 [Go there]
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Tags: history, gamedesign
This is absolute fabulous stuff! Larry Cuba made the computer-animations for the screens in the early Star Wars movies. Also click the link to get more and see the Star Wars related making of.
04-2008 [Go there]
Score: 4.0 (Number of votes: 1)
The trailer of the BBC News from 1954 to 2008, always with a solid taste of futurism.
04-2008 [Go there]
Score: 4.5 (Number of votes: 2)
This is nerd-culture! A small documentary on Maniac Miner and its creator, also responsible for Jet Set Willy. Spectrum ZX.
01-2008 [Go there]
Score: 5.0 (Number of votes: 1)
Tags: zx, history, documentary, 8-bit
Podcast interview with Jack Tramiel on the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64 (7. Dec 2007). Jack by the way is the man who founded Commodore.
12-2007 [Go there]
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An incredible old videogame on the Atari2600, but I find it really convincing how the enemies are designes that really can drive the gameplay.
12-2007 [Go there]
Score: 5.0 (Number of votes: 1)
Tags: gamedesign, history
An old Spectrum ZX Commercial. Awful music, fresh graphics.
12-2007 [Go there]
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"Developed in the early 1980s by greedy video game tycoon William Jennings Wellworth as an expensive prototype robot capable of human feeling, Wolfgang was also extensively analog-programmed with an encyclopedic knowledge of the popular music of the era, with the idea of creating the world’s first robot pop star, capable of writing hit songs."
12-2007 [Go there]
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"Exile is an example of a game where the developers left non-graphical data visible in the display buffer to gain additional memory space."
10-2007 [Go there]
Score: 4.7 (Number of votes: 3)
"Yet, in 1992, Enforcer was published by a German magazine called 'Golden Disk 64' as a low budget game. In the opening titles of the game, the programmer and graphic artist was just named 'The Master', but the end game credits actually tell us that 'The Master' is Mr. Manfred Trenz himself."
10-2007 [Go there]
Score: 4.0 (Number of votes: 1)
This page provides 'best-of' and full sets of creator-approved, Creative Commons licensed music for some of the best artists and groups from the .MOD music scene on the PC and particularly Commodore Amiga computers, from around 1988 to the present day.
10-2007 [Go there]
Score: 4.5 (Number of votes: 2)
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