Vintage Computing and Gaming

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Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.

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Sep 12, 2024	My dead father is “writing” me notes again	Enlarge / An AI-generated image featuring my late father's handwriting. Benj Edwards / Flux reader comments 61 Growing up, if I wanted to experiment with something technical, my dad made it happen. We shared dozens of tech adventures togeth...
May 23, 2024	EmTech Digital 2024: A thoughtful look at AI’s pros and cons with minimal hype	Enlarge / Nathan Benaich of Air Street Capital delivers the opening presentation on the state of AI at EmTech Digital 2024 on May 22, 2024. Benj Edwards reader comments 21 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts—On Wednesday, AI enthusiasts and experts ga...
May 15, 2024	Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console	Enlarge Benj Edwards reader comments 0 Ars Technica AI Reporter and tech historian Benj Edwards has co-written a book on the Virtual Boy with Dr. Jose Zagal. In this exclusive excerpt, Benj and Jose take you back to Nintendo of the early '9...
May 1, 2024	The BASIC programming language turns 60	Enlarge / Part of the cover illustration from "The Applesoft Tutorial" BASIC manual that shipped with the Apple II computer starting in 1981. Apple, Inc. reader comments 158 Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning,...
Apr 22, 2024	After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip	Enlarge / A cropped portion of a ca. 1980 ad for the Microsoft Z80 SoftCard, which allowed Apple II users to run the CP/M operating system. Microsoft reader comments 134 Last week, chip manufacturer Zilog announced that after 48 years on th...
Apr 10, 2024	New AI music generator Udio synthesizes realistic music on demand	Enlarge / A screenshot of AI-generated songs listed on Udio on April 10, 2024. Benj Edwards reader comments 63 Between 2002 and 2005, I ran a music website where visitors could submit song titles that I would write and record a silly song a...
Mar 29, 2024	OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tech due to misuse concerns	Enlarge Getty Images reader comments 120 Voice synthesis has come a long way since 1978's Speak & Spell toy, which once wowed people with its state-of-the-art ability to read words aloud using an electronic voice. Now, using deep-learni...
Jan 24, 2024	Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made	Enlarge Benj Edwards / Jonathan Zufi / Apple reader comments 118 Forty years ago today, Apple released the first Macintosh. Since that fateful day in 1984, Apple has released hundreds of Mac models that run the gamut from amazing to strange...
Jan 16, 2024	Why I hope the Atari 400 Mini will bring respect to Atari’s most underrated platform	Enlarge / Retro Games' THE400 Mini console. Retro Games / Benj Edwards reader comments 102 Last week, UK-based Retro Games, Ltd. announced a mini console version of the Atari 400 home computer, first released in 1979. It's called "THE4...
Nov 6, 2023	VideoPhone 2500: FaceTime Your Friends With this Costly Device From the '90s	Joseph Henry, Tech Times 06 November 2023, 12:11 pm Before iPhones, people had their own version of FaceTime with a retro device from the '90s. We can imagine the phones back then to have a curly cord and there's no way you can see your fri...
Oct 10, 2023	Adobe’s AI image generators get beefy updates, including vector graphics	Enlarge / An AI-generated vector graphic of a barbarian and a landscape generated with Adobe Illustrator. Benj Edwards / Adobe reader comments 92 with On Tuesday, Adobe announced major updates to AI image synthesis features across several p...
Aug 27, 2023	Интернет 90-х: когда после 20 часов в онлайне тебе пишет президент ISP	«Проверяя систему сегодня утром, я заметил, что вы были авторизованы более 20 часов», — так начиналось письмо, которое в декабре 1998 года я получил от президента компании-провайдера коммутируемого доступа в интернет. — «Мы предоставляем бе...
Jun 9, 2023	I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing	Enlarge / A photo of the 2023 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia on the author's family room shelf. Benj Edwards reader comments 249 with These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Inter...
Mar 24, 2023	Egad! 7 key British PCs of the 1980s Americans might have missed	Enlarge reader comments 75 with Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit If you grew up in America, the early history of home computers in the UK might not be familiar to you. But Great Britain produced innovative...
Dec 14, 2022	Как смотрели нюдсы на древних компьютерах?	Формат JPEG представили в 1993 году, а GIF — в 1987-м. Но тогда непонятно, как смотрели фотографии девушек на этой прекрасной машине образца 1983 года? Такой вопрос пришёл мне от читателя обзора портативного компьютера Compaq Portable. Отве...
Dec 1, 2022	My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop	Enlarge / Benj Edwards' computer running The Cave BBS in 1994. Benj Edwards reader comments 56 with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Thirty years ago last week—on November 25, 1992—...
May 27, 2019	An original Apple I in a briefcase just sold for nearly $500K	Most people wouldn’t think too much of a computer crammed into a briefcase — but if it’s one of the few remaining examples of the first computer ever built by Apple? That’s a whole different story. An original Apple I from 1976 — as hand-bu...
Oct 17, 2018	The RetroBeat: Check out these awesome homemade retro arcade sticks — that you can buy	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. It’s 2018, and we’re long removed from the Super Nintendo‘s prime days of the early ’90s. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have an awesom...
Mar 5, 2015	EA closes SimCity studio Maxis after 29 years	It was a good run. EA has shut down Maxis Emeryville, the dearly loved (and, much more recently, hated) main studio behind the mega-hit franchises SimCity and The Sims, among other games. The world found out the CA-based developer was closi...
Jul 18, 2014	What to Think, Ep. 13: Resurrecting Prodigy	In this episode, Dylan Tweney and Jordan Novet speak with Benj Edwards, a journalist who is digging up screenshots from the old Prodigy online service. We talk about the challenges and joys of digital archeology. If you want to know more, c...
Apr 14, 2011	Dot Obits: Inventor of the Video Game Cartridge	Jerry Lawson, who is responsible for the development of the video game cartridge, died Saturday in Mt. View, California, of a heart attack. Lawson was 70 years old. He was a pioneer not just in video games but as a black engineer in an over...
Aug 28, 2008	ROM hacks: Incredible pseudo-sequels to your favorite retro console games	I love retro games, and although part of what I love about them is the nostalgia, going through the same worlds, thinking “oh yeah, I remember when my brother beat that guy for the first time,” all that. But another part is the simply class...
Nov 26, 2007	Familator lets you play Famicom games on your DS Lite	If the Game Boy Advance slot on your DS Lite isn’t getting much use, this adapter might be just the thing to bring it out of its funk. It’s called the CYBER Familator Lite and it allows you to play Famicom games and, with yet another adapte...
	Today’s Google Doodle features a Silicon Valley trailblazer who knew Steve Jobs and Wozniak—and ‘was not impressed with them’	Today’s Google Doodle highlights a little-known piece of Silicon Valley history. The animation recognizes tech and gaming pioneer Jerry Lawson, one of the few Black engineers working in the tech industry in the 1970s. Lawson, who died in 20...
	Jerry Lawson is one of the most important Silicon Valley pioneers you’ve never heard of — here’s why	Video games are a nearly $180 billion industry. And if you’ve ever played one before, you might not realize the debt you owe to a man named Jerry Lawson. Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, who died 10 years ago at the age of 70, isn’t a household name ...

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Parsers VC has collected 26 articles mentioning Vintage Computing and Gaming, among them “My dead father is “writing” me notes again” (Sep 12, 2024) and “EmTech Digital 2024: A thoughtful look at AI’s pros and cons with minimal hype” (May 23, 2024).

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