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The Teleguide, an Obscure and Forgotten Machine Transformed into a Retro Gaming Computer #piday #raspberrypi

  Simon Pettersson on Reddit got his hands on a new-in-box piece of failed computer history. He then set out on a mission to make a retro gaming setup. Via Reddit: This is a Telegu...

Retro gaming PCs are booming in 2026, and not just for nostalgia — Here's the story behind it and how to build your own...

With modern hardware costs exploding and modern games leaving a lot to be desired, many PC gamers are returning to retro games. The barrier to entry is quite low, and I'm here to h...

Ever wonder what vintage computers were like? This virtual museum lets you try hundreds

The Virtual OS Museum is a huge retro-computing archive with more than 1,700 ready-to-run installations, covering everything from 1948’s Manchester Baby to classic Mac OS, early Wi...

60fps video on a CGA display? Yes, using the GlyphBlaster

GloriousCow on Blogger writes about 1980s IBM PC CGA graphics: There’s a certain genre of retro-hardware hack that everyone recognizes is technically cheating, but has a certain au...

The Commodore 64C Returns: How FPGA Tech is Perfectly Recreating the 1980S Classic

The Commodore 64C Ultimate, scheduled for release later this year, revisits the iconic Commodore 64C with a focus on preserving its original experience while incorporating modern t...

A hackable retro computer built on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350)

Japi Base — Jan’s Pico Projects Base is a well-documented, hackable retro computer built on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350). Japi Base provides all the basic I/O of a small computer...

ZX Spectrum basic interpreter remade from scratch on the web

My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, with all of 48 kilobytes of RAM, and as long as it lasted I obsessively typed in BASIC programs to see what I could get it to do. It was powerf...

Two computer giants of the 80s - the Spectrum and C64 - are being turned into pocket-sized handhelds by the makers of Ev...

If, like me, your childhood was one of Masters of the Universe and Rainbow Brite rather than a strange computer-generated man poking his head out a toilet, prepare to ready the nos...

MC6850 ACIA Tester using the Raspberry Pi Pico #raspberrypi

Save your vintage project some headaches with this MC6850 ACIA Tester. Shared by DQuadros on Hackster.io: The MC6850 is a popular serial interface for retro computers. We use a Ras...

Legendary emulator ZSNES rewritten from scratch

My first experience of emulation was ZSNES in the late 1990s, letting me return to what then seemed like ancient history: the early 1990s. I could finally finish Secret of Mana! An...

The Virtual OS Museum Lets You Emulate 1700+ Operating Systems From as Far Back as 1948

The history of computing at your fingertips.

I joyfully reunited with my first Linux distro at the Virtual OS Museum

Feeling nostalgic? From Amiga Unix to XVM/RSX, anyone can run over 570 extinct OSes. Try it now on Linux, MacOS, or Windows.

Amiga 500 Vs 600 Upgrades In 2026

Are Amiga 500s really harder to upgrade than the Amiga 600? A real-world look at ACA500plus, PiStorm, CF storage, RAM upgrades and modern Amiga setups in 2026.

A virtual museum runs 570 operating systems in your browser

Andrew Warkentin has spent over twenty years collecting old operating systems and getting them to run. The result is the Virtual OS Museum, a launcher and Linux VM that boots 570-o...

The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors

A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them

I miss when tech looked cheap, plastic, and honest

Old plastic gadgets were chunky, strange, and sometimes ugly, but they had a tactile clarity modern tech keeps sanding away.

I Resurrected My Favorite Childhood Games Using Gemini Vibe Coding

Retro gaming can cost a fortune. I vibe coded "demakes" of my favorite games for free.

World’s oldest computer revealed: A YouTuber’s data leads scientists to new insights into 2,000 years of computing histo...

Taking A Punt On An Untested Amiga 1200 From eBay

I took a punt on an untested Amiga 1200 from eBay, cleaned it up, upgraded it with RAM and a hard drive, and turned a gamble into a fully restored retro machine.

I built a retro gaming PC for less than $500 — Complete guide to hardware, software, and how to start gaming without spe...

More PC gamers are stepping away from AAA titles and modern hardware as prices continue to rise, and they're finding refuge in classic retro games. Here's how you build your own de...

Atari acquires Implicit Conversions to expand retro game preservation efforts

Atari has acquired emulation specialist Implicit Conversions in a push to bring classic games to modern platforms. The studio is known for its proprietary Syrup engine, which enab...

Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00

Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes Antiques code show  Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This tim...

These new Spectrum And Commodore64 Gaming Handhelds Come Preloaded With Games

Two unique bits of hardware from the '80s are making a comeback, as the Commodore 64 and Spectrum are being remade as handhelds. Expected to launch later this year, the two handhel...

Take a nostalgic trip through the early internet with Wayback Machine

There’s something weirdly magical about the early internet with its clunky fan sites, pixelated GIFs, and blogs with neon text. And while most of it vanished years ago, the Wayback...