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22 March 2024

Fantasy pixelated desktop

Once, almost at the very beginning of this website’s existence, I shared a link to the Pico8 project, an “imaginary game console” characterized by pixelated… Read more

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12 February 2024

RetroFun.pl state and direction

Hey everyone 🙂 I want to share how much I appreciate that since I posted articles on mastodon, and one of them was shared on… Read more

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Fragment of the historic first ad for Borland Turbo Pascal
11 February 2024

Limitations of 8-bit Turbo Pascal 3.0, case study

Background In the previous post, I’ve acknowledged that Pascal emerged in the 70s, and Turbo Pascal existed even back in the 80s, which in theory… Read more

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    The way I remember early Pascal was as…
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3 January 2024

Late 70s and the 80s: Forget BASIC, we had Pascal and C

Update 2024-04-01: I’ve just learned, day after publishing this, that Niklaus Wirth, the creator of Pascal, has died on January 1st 🙁 + added a… Read more

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    In the early 80s, I was not a…
  • robert aleksic
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    Nice and comprehensive article. I think that good…
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    Matthias Neeracher
    Some nitpicks: * BASIC was not a "compiled…
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fragment of source code of the Crystals program for Atari
18 December 2023

Was BASIC that horrible or… better?

Why did E. Dijkstra hate BASIC as mutiliating “beyond hope of regeneration”? It’s a pretty fascinating rabbit hole (as everything in computing is, if you stay curious).

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    I am a curator for a retro computing…
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    Ludovic Kuty
    https://yvanscher.com/writing/7_cobol_examples
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    Nice :) I wrote about it not long…
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1 November 2023

Another Atari acquisition

Atari continues to aggressively acquire everything related to sustaining their legend. We recently wrote about the acquisition of AtariAge, and now resources have expanded with… Read more

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27 October 2023

Compile your own IBM 8088 XT BIOS!

Two weeks ago the first version (v1.0.0) of the BIOS for systems based on the Intel 8088 processor was tagged on GitHub! [8088_bios on GitHub]…. Read more

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PETSCII Side-Scrolling Platformer cover, including the header with name and a small game preview
18 October 2023

CBM PET gets an Italian-plumber-lookalike game!

First a digression! While the Polish word “hydraulik” clearly derives from the Greek hydro- for things related to water, have you ever wondered why in… Read more

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10 September 2023

Atari acquires AtariAge

AtariAge, an online community and store for retro gaming enthusiasts, has been acquired by Atari. The founder of AtariAge, Al Yarusso, has also become a… Read more

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30 June 2023

Behind the schedule

The second part about MEGA 65 is going slowly, but it’s going. I need to finally record the most important materials, but my retro desk… Read more

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