You’ve all heard of Jeff Minter, but what is his story? We’re about to find out in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, which is heading to Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, and PC next month. Minter, of course, is synonymous with Llamasoft, and published some of the most unusual games of theRead More →
Support C64: Polish Pixels in Video Games and learn about the secret life of the Commodore 64! When we think of C64 games, we mostly consider the titles released in the USA and Western Europe. But back in the 1980s and 1990s, behind the Iron Curtain, the computer had anotherRead More →
New documentary The Commodore Amiga 500 Story features is the new edition of AA. My favourite print magazine Amiga Addict is back on newsstands this week, with a feature on upcoming documentary The Commodore Amiga 500 Story and a retrospective on Wolfchild. Amiga Addict chats to Gracious Films Ltd toRead More →
Two of my favourite things – retro computer magazines and Lara Croft – are combining in issue 18 of Pixel Addict, out in early February. Available to pre-order now, Pixel Addict #18 not only sports Lara Croft on the cover, she is the focus of the mag’s main feature, whichRead More →
The Atari Anniversary Soundtrack is coming out on vinyl, to coincide with the annual Record Store Day. Microids Records is thrilled to commemorate 50 years of iconic video game history with the release of “ATARI® 50 – Anniversary Soundtrack,” a special vinyl collaboration with Atari. This landmark collection marks theRead More →
We think of artificial intellignce as a contemporary technology, but it has been around for decades. The large language models of the 2020s are just the latest stage of research that began years ago. In Pixel Addict 17 you can learn about the CM-1, the 1980s artificial intelligence supercomputer knownRead More →
The latest issue of Amiga Addict is released in the New Year, and its main feature is a look at Aminet. Aminet is the world’s largest archive of Amiga-related software and files, which started out hosted on university FTP sites. Also available on CD-ROM and on the web, as ofRead More →
Remember Firebird? An upcoming book delves into the history of one of Britain’s early software houses. Launched in 1984, Firebird was owned by British Telecom, a recently privatised entity that is now more comonly referred to as BT. it managed to issue a succession of well-received games in the UKRead More →
The Pixel Addict Christmas 2023 edition is now in shops, boasting “stories of computer Christmases past!” Published by the same people behind Amiga Addict (which also has a Christmas 2023 edition) and the recent Amstrad Addict special, Pixel Addict is a digital culture magazine that regularly looks at forgotten systems,Read More →
