My second computer was a genuine IBM-PC. Two floppy drives, a color monitor, but no hard drive! In 1983 it cost about $5500. While I’ve been on a retrocomputing kick, I decided to try to see what it takes to emulate an original IBM PC. I found Pico-XT, which runs on Windows. (I’d rather have one [...]
The current generation of video games are beyond belief, but sometimes I want my old Asteroids back. My favorite arcade game was Omega Rage, a derivative of Asteroids. I tend to like vector graphics games the best. Now, who hasn’t spent countless hours with Space Invaders?
Playing clones or knock-offs don’t always feel as good as [...]
