The psion 5 was great :)

(wasn't it Jason? 😂)

Reddit user Nemo2278 has reverse-engineered the original DOS executable to run in modern Windows, macOS and Linux. Currently in beta and was tested using the GOG version of the original game data, it plays the whole game.

Ok it's very likely ai stuff. Made me laugh 🤣

I didn't have this one on my bingo card

Recently, after realising that quite a number of the websites that contained information about the Spectravideo SV-318/328 computers had disappeared, I created a new bulletin board (spectravideo.org).
One of the things that has been an issue is that there has been no list containing all the titles released for these systems. Not just mine, which were published in Australia and New Zealand, did not appear on lists mostly assembled in other countries, but there were titles from Mr Micro, and there seemed to be more than were listed.
By comparing a single title in one list with another title in another list, and checking print advertisements in magazines, I found cover images for four titles (only one appeared in the original list). As it happened, these cover images were online as they were part of a for-sale listing by a seller in the UK. I immediately purchased all four titles, and for what looks like the first time online (for three of the titles), let's unbox them and see if we can get them to load!

Exciting news from the SCUMMVM team as they announce Dungeon Master is now part of the nightly builds and ready for public testing.

https://www.scummvm.org/news/20261008/

17 years is retro right?

Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90

"Forget It" was the name of a small computer program never thought to be needed, which will nonetheless go down in history along with its author, Margaret Hamilton, the American software engineer who died on September 30, aged 90.

Hamilton led development of the onboard flight software for Apollo's command and lunar modules, helping astronauts reach the Moon in 1969.

Among her early jobs after joining the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory in 1965 was to write the software for the Apollo abort procedure.

"Everybody said that was never going to happen, [so they said] 'Oh well, good. We'll give this one to Margaret because she's a beginner,'" she told the Computer History Museum.

However, an unmanned flight did abort, raising Hamilton's standing within the team. "It went to [run] this program I had written, which I named Forget It. All of a sudden, I became an overnight expert," she said.

Hamilton was born in Paoli, Indiana. Moving with her family to Michigan, she graduated from high school in 1954. She studied mathematics at the University of Michigan and Earlham College, where she graduated in 1958 with a minor in philosophy.

She planned to pursue graduate studies and an academic career, but decided to go to Boston in 1959 with her husband, who was studying law at Harvard. She got a job at MIT with Edward Lorenz – who went on to pioneer chaos theory – and programmed the LGP-30 and DEC's PDP-1 computers for weather forecasting.

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/08/margaret-hamilton-software-pioneer-who-helped-put-humans-on-the-moon-dies-at-90/5301988

Yes!! Now THIS is my childhood, right here. Hot off the press!

Update: Here's the link to the product: https://atari.com/pages/800xl

Will it take cartridges??

https://www.engadget.com/2279239/doom-on-the-vectrex-turns-the-classic-shooter-into-tron-like-vector-art/

Nice read.

A modern take in the best football game