This card looks like a good addition to a Maker made retro MAME cabinet, it runs classic games in their native 15Khz – “Connect your 15Khz arcade cabinet monitor to your PC with NO special configuration or special driver software in either DOS or Windows. Now you can also connect an ordinary PC monitor and […]
James @ Retro Thing reviews a movie making kit from the 1930’s – “Inside the box are several complete scripts, special props mentioned in the scripts, title cards, even pre-made animated titles to splice in! Since home movies had no sound abilities, the scripts play like old silent films. This strikes me as a quite […]
Simon Quernhorst develops new software for old systems, like the Atari 2600, here’s a new game he just released (there was a limited edition of 55 made) called A-VCS-tec Challenge – “You find yourself located on a plain field and can barely see a small pyramid on the horizon. The sun is burning and before […]
Peter writes – “The best way to get 8-bit sounds is to employ a real NES system or Game Boy for fifteen bucks and go to town — nothing else sounds quite the same. But for the next best thing, and the ability to do evil things to those sounds within a serious host, this […]
Here are a few dandies – what’s new, from the old – over at Modern Mechanix… Sea sickness the “real terror of the sea” may have been solved in 1933 with this auto-leveling bed. Stylish homemade radiation suit for bicycling.
Here are some Popular Electronics covers and cover complete stories/article from 1955 to 1975 – “Popular Electronics was started by Ziff-Davis in October 1954 as a magazine for students and experimenters. It became the “World’s Largest-Selling Electronics Magazine” and proudly listed the circulation figure on the Contents page, (240,151 in April 1957 .) In later […]
Neat collection of hundreds of photos of old handheld games, including box art – “Browse through pics & details to more than 660 boxed handheld and tabletop games, from the 70s and 80s. Check for the game you had as a child, or be amazed by the endless variety of portable, old-school electronic toys. “ […]
