Category: Retrocomputing

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Before the Web Got Boring

The Web Design Museum preserves the internet before templates, conventions and polished sameness took over. Its archive of early websites, Flash games, mobile apps and forgotten design tools reveals a web that was often chaotic, awkward and excessive, but also inventive, personal and full of character.

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The Computer Museum You Can Boot

86Box emulates IBM PC hardware from the original 1981 era to late-1990s systems—recreating processors, BIOS, sound cards, graphics adapters and storage controllers to preserve the messy reality of early personal computing.

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Point-and-Click Adventure Engine Family Tree

Point-and-click adventure engine lineages from Sierra AGI/SCI to SCUMM, ScummVM, AGS, Wintermute, Visionaire, Unity, Godot and modern frameworks—separating true lineages from influences and reimplementations.

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Apollo Vampire Lair and the Many Lives of the Amiga

The Amiga never really died – it fractured into many futures. From Commodore’s collapse to today’s emulators, FPGA projects, PowerPC systems, and Apollo Vampire machines, this article follows the strange afterlife of a beloved platform and the community still trying to move it forward.

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Remember when computing was fun?

Do you remember Commodore? And the Amiga?

Believe it or not, the Amiga is still very much alive. Here is a short whiteboard animation showing how to get started with the latest Amiga operating system available at the time of writing.