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Games That Weren’t: Inside Gaming’s Lost-and-Found Department

Cancelled games do not always stay lost. Games That Weren’t tracks down forgotten projects, preserves their stories and sometimes brings them back to life. From disks hidden behind a radiator to painstakingly rebuilt adventures, this is gaming history with unfinished business.

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Alterego Finds #002: The Past Keeps Playing

Cooperative knights, unlikely ports and new adventures for classic machines. Alterego Finds #002 brings together 41 discoveries spanning homebrew games, practical tools, hardware projects and forgotten gems, because the past still has plenty left to play.

A smiling collector sits among Amiga, Atari and Commodore computers while lemmings climb a mountain of floppy disks towards an unimpressed laptop. 0

Alterego Finds #001: Old Computers, New Tricks

Lemmings invade modern Macs, classic games get fresh engines, and vintage computers refuse to retire. Alterego Finds #001 rounds up retro revivals, clever tools and new hardware, with enough floppy disks to postpone tidying up indefinitely.

Commodore 64 and CRT displaying a platform game beside a laptop with visual programming nodes, a joystick and handwritten game sketches. 0

C64 Dev Machine: The Game You Never Got Around to Making

That Commodore 64 game you always wanted to make might finally have a starting point. C64 Dev Machine combines visual programming, graphics editors and music tools in one workspace, offering an approachable way to explore assembly language and turn an old idea into something playable.

Retro illustration of a beige CRT computer and modern laptop displaying Visual Basic-style interfaces beneath the headline “Visual Basic Still Has Something to Say”. 0

Visual Basic Still Has Something to Say

A grey window, a button and an idea: sometimes that is enough to lose an evening in the best possible way. VB6 Studio Web brings the familiar pleasures of Visual Basic into your browser, inviting returning tinkerers and curious newcomers to make something small, useful and entirely their own.

Vampire V4+ board, CompactFlash card and Amiga Workbench setup illustrating boot, storage, update and recovery troubleshooting. 0

Vampire V4/V4+: The Survival Guide

Vampire V4 or V4+ refusing to boot, ignoring your CF card or misbehaving after an update? This practical troubleshooting guide covers storage, display, peripherals, graphics, software compatibility, firmware updates and recovery, starting with the safest checks first.

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The Past Has Other Plans

Three retro projects prove old games still have new tricks: Mega Drive VR gives classic 16-bit worlds fresh depth, Monster World RPG turns Wonder Boy nostalgia into a fan-made adventure, and BBC Micro reverse-engineering opens the code behind the magic.

Windows Remote Desktop settings greyed out, with Group Policy, Intune, Windows edition, services and firewall shown as possible causes. 0

Remote Desktop Greyed Out in Windows? The Causes and Fixes

Remote Desktop greyed out in Windows? This guide ranks common causes, from Group Policy and Intune to Windows edition, services and firewall issues, and shows Microsoft-recommended fixes and accepted support solutions.

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The Great Commodore Treasure Hunt

Three tools make Commodore collections easier to navigate. Master Bookmark Computer finds useful resources, D64 Hunter searches archived files, and D64 Cataloger indexes your local collection.

Kyvos graphical frontend taming QEMU complexity with a glowing Amiga-inspired virtual machine cube and configuration interface. 0

Kyvos: The Amiga Cube That Tames QEMU

Kyvos brings order to QEMU-powered Amiga emulation, offering a friendly GUI, guided setup and extensive documentation for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS virtual machines.

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Still Booting

Commodore folded in 1994. The Commodore 64 never got the memo. Meet C64 OS: the mouse-driven, multi-desktop, app-store-equipped operating system that one determined developer built for a 40-year-old machine with 64 kilobytes of memory, and keeps updating for free.