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Photos from Revival, Wolverhampton, May 2013

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1 day ago
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I have uploaded some photos of the event to this sites facebook page. Please check them out! (And feel free to ‘Like’ the facebook page)

Revival 2013

Revival 2013 Photos

Blanka playing Street Figher 2 as Blanka

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This has to be one of my favorite photos from Revival so far. One of the Cosplay entrants came as Blanka from Street Fighter 2.

Here he is playing as Blanka on The Centre for Computing History’s Super Famicom.

Blanka playing Street Fighter 2

Cambridge move for Suffolk computing history museum

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2 months ago
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A museum documenting developments in computing over the past 50 years is to move to Cambridge.

The Centre for Computing History is to relocate to the city from its base in Haverhill, Suffolk, and could be open by the summer.

The charity has been looking for new premises for two years.

Director Jason Fitzpatrick said: “It’s important to be in Cambridge because of the city’s history and the part it has played in the home computing era.”

Read the rest of the BBC News article here : Cambridge move for Suffolk computing history museum

Usborne Computer Books

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3 months ago
by Andy in ,

Here are some scans of the Usborne computing books I own. Did you own any of these?

  • How To Make Computer Model Controllers
  • Usborne Guide To Computer Jargon
  • Practice Your BASIC
  • Simple BASIC

SEGA of Japan Launch Range of Console-Themed Laptops

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3 months ago
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Hot off the press – SEGA of Japan Launch Range of Console-Themed Laptops.

Sega Laptops

SEGA of Japan have teamed up with ebten to launch a range of SEGA NOTE PCs. The laptops are themed around 3 SEGA consoles with an additional SEGA-themed laptop. The 3 consoles are Mega Drive, Saturn and Dreamcast which you can see in the above image.

As the laptops are Japan exclusive they will probably be very expensive to import.

For more info, visit the SEGA Driven website : SEGA of Japan Launch Range of Console-Themed Laptops

8 bit chip tune from one line of code on Linux

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5 months ago
by Andy in

Chiptune_by_curpoplikI stumbled across this great tune today that is created by one line of code!

Just copy any paste the code below into a text file, make it executable and run it.

echo "main(i){for(i=0;;i++)putchar(((i*(i>>8|i>>9)&46&i>>8))^(i&i>>13|i>>6));}" | gcc -x c - && ./a.out | aplay

Many thanks to Martin Holec for creating the code, and Rob Kendrick for linking to it on Google+.

Enjoy!

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