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A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

The original logic board of a 1975 Cray and Twitter on a ZX Spectrum are among our photos from the UK's first vintage computer festival, held at Bletchley Park Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Bletchley Park loads 2,000 for vintage computer festival

...in the early 1980s, the event included the launch of a new Amiga computer, live music from chip-tunes maestro Pixelh8 and '80s synth kings... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Amiga lives: AmigaOne X1000 PC hits beta

...an Arduino from the year 2025. Only it'll also be an Amiga from 2011. And if you still can't see the point of... Read more

8 August, 2011
<endeca_term>Amiga</endeca_term> LayerClock 1.0

Amiga LayerClock 1.0

The Amiga Layer Clock shows you the current time in a cool retro related... Read more

27 August, 2011
<endeca_term>Amiga</endeca_term> Radio 1

Amiga Radio 1

Amiga radio is internet radio that streams music from the demoscene Amiga and... Read more

5 February, 2011
<endeca_term>Amiga</endeca_term> Explorer (64-Bit) 2010

Amiga Explorer (64-Bit) 2010

Amiga Explorer (64-Bit) can connect with one or more PCs, and access... Read more

6 July, 2010
<endeca_term>Amiga</endeca_term> Explorer 2010

Amiga Explorer 2010

Amiga Explorer can connect with one or more PCs, and access Amiga resources... Read more

6 July, 2010
The outer limits of vintage tech uncovered

The outer limits of vintage tech uncovered

...the Vintage Computer Festival reminiscent of the 1980s micro scene. A new Amiga — the X1000 — got launched. Well, not really launched: it had been announced... Read more

25 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...the C64 became the best-selling computer ever. In 1984, Commodore bought Amiga Corporation. Around the same time Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, who had just... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer
Intel's victims: Eight would-be giant killers

Intel's victims: Eight would-be giant killers

...be used by Commodore, but the company went for Motorola and the Amiga design instead. A last gasp, the 32-bit Z80000, turned up much... Read more

4 December, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
The Unarchiver 3.2

The Unarchiver 3.2

...remember. Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, 7-Zip, Rar, LhA, StuffIt, several old Amiga file and disk archives, CAB, LZX, stuff I don't even know... Read more

10 May, 2012
BarbaBatch 4.0.59

BarbaBatch 4.0.59

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3 May, 2012
Python 3.2.3

Python 3.2.3

...runs on many brands of UNIX, on Windows, DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga. If your favorite system isn't listed here, it may still be... Read more

18 April, 2012

Remembering Jack Tramiel, father of the Commodore 64

...choice: Apple used it in the Lisa and Macintosh, Commodore in the Amiga, and Tramiel's Atari in the 520ST. Motorola thought it was going... Read more

12 April, 2012

Open Sauce and McSoft Fries (An Intro to Buss. Models)

...hobby, they code and start projects, and also make free Linux or Amiga or even Win32 based Operating Systems, but companies do this too, like... Read more

17 May, 2011

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

8 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

13 hours ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

22 hours ago by DarkDown on Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds
Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

2 days ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

2 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

3 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

3 days ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everything
Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

3 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloads
Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

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