For anyone who has stuck with this blog since its earliest days thank you , it is no secret that I like talking about keyboards. When it comes to modern keyboards, I have merely dipped a toe into the ocean of manufacturers, switches, keycaps and other options. Until this year I have been using IBM...

   The Game Boy and Game Boy Color systems have had a very active quot;afterlife. quot; Screen mods, homebrew games and clone consoles are just some of the developments that have gained prominence in the past years. The idea of cloning a Game Boy or Game Boy Color is not a new one, hardware...

   The company ModRetro has released their Chromatic, an FPGA handheld console which simulates a Game Boy Color and plays Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. It retails for , which may seem rather pricey but to attract buyers ModRetro developed a new version of Tetris and bundled it with the...

   The Atari Lynx was a groundbreaking handheld console, as it was the first color handheld console ever made. Unfortunately it was not a great success but it was neither a footnote as games were officially released during lifetime . One of its more unique games was Dracula the Undead,...

   Two attempts to murder Sherlock Holmes, the left much more freely usable historically than the rightSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle wrote and published Sherlock Holmes stories from to , a span of forty years. That broad period has some unusual implications for the copyright of the stories...

   The Nintendo has had devices such as the Bung Doctor V which allowed games to be played unofficially almost from its release. The s saw the introduction of the first flash cartridges for the console such as the EverDrive . Flash cartridges have come a long way and now can run almost...

   The Sound Blaster Live represented Creative Labs return to products which could compete with other sound cards designed for the PCI Bus. First released in , the Live was Creative ;s first quot;real quot; PCI sound card. Things had changed, competing chipsets had improved in quality,...

   Dungeons and Dragons in all its forms and editions requires you to create one or more characters to play the game. The process by which this has been done has changed over the years, gradually increasing in complexity edition by edition. In this blog article today I would like to focus on how it...

   In Tandy released a software package called DeskMate. DeskMate was a basic suite of office productivity software and Tandy would bundle the software with its computers or sell it in Radio Shack stores and via mail order for a relatively low price. DeskMate, while little remembered today, was a...

   The Gotek Floppy Drive emulator is a diamond in the rough as it comes from the factory. While cheap, the common Goteks only emulate a single type of floppy. While this may be all you need if you only need a DOS or Windows boot disk, running floppy disk images on vintage computers is quite...

   Montech MKey Full Size Darkness Stock My first post on this blog was about keyboards, namely the IBM Model M keyboard. At the time I thought it was the greatest keyboard that was ever made or will ever be made. As a mechanical buckling spring keyboard it was one increasingly few such keyboards...

   Updated The Ultra HD K Blu ray format has been around since . As the next generation in video disc formats, it has certainly not seen the level of success of DVD or even Blu ray in terms of adoption or sales. Streaming platforms have posed a challenge for physical media ;s sales, and...

   Roland Sound Canvas emulation has long been a quot;white whale quot; of DOS emulation. While there have been several efforts from Roland over the years to emulate the Sound Canvas line, they have not targeted the modules used by most DOS games, the SC and SC mkII. Other emulation methods have...

   The Apple IIc, while a great little system, has a great deal of upgrade potential. In a previous blog entry I talked about the Mockingboard c, which is one of the most interesting upgrades for the system, but there are other upgrades worth discussing that may not be worthy of a full blog entry. So...

   Sony PVMs and BVMs are probably the most desired CRT displays for all retro gaming. They were high end monitors and cost a lot of money to purchase when they were sold. I recently acquired one of them, a PVM Q, at reasonable cost. This monitor is very versatile in that it has both Analog and...

   Portable or handheld devices which play retro video games are very common these days. Companies like Anbernic and Powkiddy make multiple consoles which can emulate some very advanced video game consoles. The Steam Deck and the Nintendo Switch can also emulate or run retro video games. These things...

   Nintendo ;s consoles have, for the most part, been somewhat high priced over the years. The company likes to keep it that way, you will not see a Nintendo console in a bargain bin or heavily discounted, even toward the end of its lifespan. The maintenance of price contributes to its...

   KQ Box, courtesy of MobyGamesWhen we think of PC Compatible games, thoughts of freedom may pop into one ;s mind. Intel, nVidia, AMD, gamers generally have a choice of which hardware to use in their systems. PC games have been, generally speaking, not tied to any particular manufacturer ;s...

   Among the Apple II models, the IIc is undoubtedly the restricted of the bunch. The system integrated just about every necessity for mid s computing, a built in disk drive, serial ports for printing and telecommunications, an external drive and a joystick mouse port. The Apple II line has been...

   Baseball amp; Famista ; Baseball Yakyuu has had a long history in Japan. Imported from the United States before World War II, Japan built leagues and fielded players that have maintained the popularity of the sport more or less ever since. When video games became accessible to the Japanese...

   Doctor Who has had a very lengthy history on optical media. From the first release of The Five Doctors in to Series Specials, many, many discs have been stamped of Doctor Who related content. Not all discs have been error free, and some errors have come down to more subtle issues than...

   On October of this year Palladium Books announced a Kickstarter for a new edition of their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles based role playing game quot;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness quot;. The Kickstarter campaign was well timed and shrewdly presented, tapping on a vein...

   As we all know, Nintendo introduced the Famicom in , ported it to the west as the Nintendo Entertainment System in and after the last licensed games were released in Nintendo retired the system. But that does not mean that the hardware underlying the system was dead, the hardware...

   The PC Engine has had something of a reemergence in the past few years. In Konami announced the PC Engine Mini and TurboGrafx Mini consoles and miraculously released it in . Also in bitdo released their PCE . g Wireless Gamepads and Analogue announced the availability of the...

   The quot;c quot; in the Apple IIc stood for compact. The Apple IIc was designed to be the epitome of the Apple II series, providing the options most people used in a realistically portable form factor but sacrificing the internal expansion slots which made the predecessor models in the Apple II...