Classic technology

I was delighted to learn that Commodore had been acquired by an enthusiast who then…

Microsoft announced today that it has open sourced the code for the first three Zork…

Microsoft announced that it has open sourced the source code for 6502 BASIC, one of…

Nintendo invented the 30 percent fee structure for its NES videogame cartridges. But unlike Apple,…

Raven delivered a fun surprise at QuakeCon this week: The original 1990s versions of Heretic…

Commodore announced its first new computer in over 30 years, the Commodore 64 Ultimate. You…

Amiga Forever and C64 Forever are the official Commodore/Amiga preservation, emulation, and support suites for…

I woke this morning to the sad news that GUI pioneer Bill Atkinson has passed…

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company in the most…

Last week, Microsoft revealed the inevitable and announced it would finally kill Skype. So let's…

A researcher has recovered the oldest known machine-readable version of Unix yet, an early Unix…

The first personal and home computers booted into a ROM, or read-only memory, that usually…

Most are familiar with the story of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, BASIC, the MITS…

Apple released its first iPad mini in November 2012, and it was precisely the iPad…

I'm reevaluating the devices I use for reading and will write about that soon. Meanwhile,…

Two recent open source projects highlight another major game reservation push, in this case to…