Tech Nostalgia

MS-DOS 4.0

Microsoft Open Sources MS-DOS 4.0

Well, this came out of nowhere: Microsoft and IBM have open-sourced MS-DOS 4.0, a legacy…

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Arrives on March 13

Digital Eclipse revealed that its second interactive game and documentary, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story,…

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

Digital Eclipse Announces Its Next Interactive Documentary, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will include 42 classic games from 8 different 1980s and…

Half-Life 25th Anniversary

Original Half-Life is Free This Weekend to Celebrate 25th Anniversary

Valve has issued a 25th Anniversary Update for the original Half-Life alongside a new hour-long…

Brad Wardell at CeBIT 1995

Stardock at 30

When I think about the Windows software makers that have been around the longest and…

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…

The Making of Karateka

The Making of Karateka Interactive Documentary is Now Available

The Digital Eclipse interactive documentary The Making of Karateka is now available on PC, Xbox,…

Atari 2600+ video game console

Atari 2600+ Looks Like Original VCS, Will Play 2600 and 7800 Cartridges

The hits just keep on coming: Atari today announced the Atari 2600+, a retro video…

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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…

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