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Favorite new apps of 2023
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My Favorite New Apps of 2023 (Premium)

I went into this article knowing full well that 2023 was a year of change…

Digital Eclipse emulation

Atari Acquires Digital Eclipse

Atari announced that it is acquiring retro gaming firm Digital Eclipse for $4 million in…

Atari Age

Atari Buys Retro Online Community

Atari announced this week that it will acquire the Atari Age online community as part…

Dennis Austin

PowerPoint Co-Creator Has Passed

Dennis Austin, the co-creator and key software developer of Microsoft PowerPoint, has passed away at…

Commodore PET 2001
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Tech Nostalgia: Vertical Integration (Updated) (Premium)

UPDATE: I added a reference section I inadvertently left out at the end of the…

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Tech Nostalgia: 8-Bit (Premium)

Credit Atari for realizing early on that it needed a sequel to the VCS video…

Quake, by Id Software

Review: John Romero’s Definitive History of Wolfenstein 3-D, DOOM, and Quake

I recently finished reading John Romero's autobiography, Doom Guy: Life in First Person, and want…

Karateka with an Apple II

Interactive Classic Video Game Documentaries are Coming to Xbox

Digital Eclipse will release a series of interactive classic video game documentaries on the Xbox…

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Tech Nostalgia: Intelligent Television (Premium)

When Atari announced its VCS video game machine in 1977, established game makers rushed to…

Bill Gates in the Commodore booth at Winter CES 1979
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Tech Nostalgia: Bill Gates, Jack Tramiel, and BASIC (Premium)

Most readers are probably familiar with the near-mythical story of Bill Gates' improbable rise to…

Atari VCS
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Tech Nostalgia: VCS (Premium)

Any discussion about personal technology nostalgia has to begin with the Atari VCS, which is…

Shadow of the Beast for the Commodore Amiga
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Tech Nostalgia (Premium)

After some internal debate, I've decided to launch an open-ended series of articles about classic…

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