Towards the end of October, a couple of friends and I decided to take a trip to the North East to check out Game On 2.0 at the Life Science Centre in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Game On 2.0 is the first major international touring exhibition to explore the history and culture of computer games. It …
Becoming a WRC Rally Driver is hard. It’s not so much the ability to drive at break neck speeds on some of the most difficult terrain the WRC calendar has to offer … It’s funding. Louise Cook knows all about funding, and the enormous challenge of securing enough to compete in the WRC. She is …
About a week ago, I received my copy of Commodore Amiga: A visual Commpendium by Bitmap Books. This is the second book to be released by Sam Dyer, the first of course being Commodore 64: A visual Commpendium. Like the C64 book, this book also celebrates the visual side of the Commodore Amiga, from the …
In November of last year, I mentioned in amiga phase v blizzard post that the hard drive in my Amiga 1200 had given up the ghost and I had to replace it. My concern was that I had pixel art on the drive which I had spent hours creating as a teenager using Deluxe Paint, …
A couple of weeks ago, I posted on Twitter that I had successfully got a Commodore 64 emulator up and running on my JXD 7800b Android tablet gaming device. This happened to generate a lot of interest from retro gamers and fellow JXD 7800 owners asking me how I achieved this, so I thought I …
