Retro Computers

Just watched Gameswipe – what a cool program! Some class games were shown. #gameswipe is even a trending topic on twitter!

If you missed the program, you can now watch it on the BBC iPlayer. (UK Only)

Some of the computers in the show were supplied by The Centre for Computing history. Make sure you check out their website and support this museum.

Taken from The Icon Bar.

And so farewell to another part of RISC OS; as noted in our forum, longtime RISC OS news and articles website Drobe has closed… or, rather, entered “archive mode”. (Note to all other websites: please do this, rather than just disappear, taking your content with you.)
 
A full announcement is to follow, but it’s been clear for a while now that the time to run the website just hasn’t been there. Many thanks to Chris Williams, original founder Peter Price, and everyone else involved in Drobe over the years; for all the occasional controversy, Drobe did a fantastic job at covering RISC OS online, comprehensively and intelligently. And that’s a harder and more time-consuming job than it looks.
 
UPDATE @ 22:40: And here is that announcement. Whilst the main news and articles service is ceasing, the plan is to build the site up as a RISC OS resource site; anybody interested in helping with this is encouraged to get in contact. User webspace will also continue, and a new message board is planned. Any future updates to the site will be announced on their new Twitter feed.

Back in March I was handed a letter from a colleague at work with the words “I think you’ll like this”. It was a letter and flyer from Gordon Sinclair about his event called Retro Reunited. Upon closer inspection as well as being right before my boyfriend’s birthday it was up in bloody Huddersfield! Us Londoners are certainly spoilt by gaming events.

This didn’t deter me, not only did the event celebrate the history of gaming and give attendees the chance to play a wide range of weird and wonderful games, but it was all in aid of the Charity Shelter. Not one to pass up an opportunity to be a geek for a good cause and do some good work for Ubisoft, I gave Gordon a call. I think I gave him a bit of a shock at first but we soon got chatting and over the next few months we arranged a space for me to take some of our TMNT themed games to play and I was also asked to do a talk on the history of Ubisoft

Continued…

Taken from BBC News – Technology

A group of French video game enthusiasts are lobbying authorities to set up a dedicated museum of retro-gaming in the country.

The group, called MO5, say the new museum should be interactive, allowing users to play the old game systems.

The proposed “National Institute of Digital Sciences” would have an original working version Pong, one of the earliest games released in 1972.

However, the group acknowledged it would take time to actually happen.

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The centre for computing history have released the video of Steve Furber’s talk at Acorn Work / Retro Reunited on Sunday 13th September 2009.

He talks about his involvement with the Mk14, SC/MP controlled fruit machines, the design of the BBC Micro, the development of the ARM processor and his latest project : SpiNNaker.

You can watch the video here.

Ive updated my “About Me” page. Feel free to take a look.

http://retrocomputers.wordpress.com/about-2/