In November 1979 – 30 years ago – the Atari 400 and 800 computers went on sale to the public. The Atari 400 and 800 were both based on the 6502 CPU and had a number of custom chips that definitely pushed the envelope in the late 70s and meant that close descendants of these [...]
Sometime in late 1983 the owners of Sinclair Spectrum home computers in Europe were witnesses to the debut of the first true isometric 3D computer game – Ant Attack. The game was simply a revelation! The author, Sandy White, has a page up about the Making Of of Ant Attack, and there you can also [...]
When I switched off my Windows PC for the last time about a year ago, there was only one piece of software left that I knew I would be missing on my Mac: Flight Simulator. Thanks to its learning curve and complexity, most people will never even know what an amazing application the MS Flight [...]
Here’s a history of video game consoles in pictures. It’s almost scary how many childhood memories were surfacing while I scrolled through this parade of now-ancient consoles. Ahh… to be young and having time to waste…