From CinciClassic.org:
CinciClassic is a classic gaming convention located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Our next meeting is April 7-8, 2006 at the Fairfield Convention Center. Admission is FREE! We hope to see you there!
Bitsmack.com and GTIA.com will be there, hopefully with stuff to sell and a contest or two. We’re still in the planning stages, but we will keep you posted.
I found a really cool podcast that specializes in old school beats at Blibb Blobb.
The New Venue has a cool video with 2600 sounds and graphics. I know the video is old, but I had forgotten about it and just recently ran across it again.
Check out the The Old Computer Dot Com Retro TV Commercials.
Check out the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids Comics at the Classic Computer Magazine Archive.
Need your own retro belt buckle? Check out the NES Buckle (and Sega, Atari, and SNES).
Welcome to the GTIA podcast Episode 2
This is GTIA Podcast episode 2. (AAC enhanced version) Getting nostalgic. Music courtesy of the Atari Sap Music Archive, the biggest and only official Atari XL/XE music archive. Song is Carpe Demo 5.
(*Updated: Added enhanced AAC version. Use Quicktime, iTunes or VLC to watch.*)
Ben Heck, the genius behind the Atari XL laptop, was interviews by RetroGaming with racketboy.
Over at Atarimagazines.com you can read the article from compute entitled 21st Century Computing: A World of Technology Makes Your Home Computing Future A Virtual Reality.
Since 2001 was 5 years, I started poking around to try to remember what the start of the 21st century was like. I went to archive.org to use their Wayback Machine to look at ArsTechnica.com’s buyers guide, and clicked on the God Box.
Without an operating system, this could’ve been yours for $7,348!
The Compute article completely misses the boat on the Internet, and puts a lot of weight into voice recognition and technology in the home. I don’t know of any home that has automation features, and voice recognition still hasn’t really taken off. In my opinion, the biggest failure of technology has been ease of use. Computers are still too hard to use, video game systems intimidate non-players, and HDTV is a confusing mess of acronyms.
Kohina offers streams of old school videogames.
Kohina is a free “just for fun” web stream, streaming the classic 8/16 bit computer, arcade, and console music of our misspent youth, as well as the latest scene music from the platforms that remain active.
The streams are mostly .ogg, but they do have an .mp3 stream and you can listen through your browser with Java.
(* Update: I forgot to actually put in the link! *)