How a handful of bedroom programmers turned a cramped 48K machine into a creative factory. A close look at the conditions, craft and culture that produced ZX Spectrum classics-drawn from archival inte… more
A look back at the overlooked female-coded androids and cyborgs of 1980s–90s media - from Pris in Blade Runner to Dot in ReBoot - and how they quietly… more
Before ribbons, before cloud sync, there was WordPerfect macros - small, repeatable miracles that turned hours into minu… more
A close look at the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer: what it did differently, which exclusives it offered, and why it ultima… more
Once a Japanese powerhouse revered for arcade-perfect ports, the Sharp X68000 has gone from obscure museum piece to cult… more
A comparative look at how two search outfits-Infoseek, the hopeful 1990s portal, and Google, the academic upstart-chose radically different paths. One chased advertising and portal… more
retrotech A passionate look at why tripods have mattered to film photographers for a century - the technical r… more
retrogaming A new generation of tinkerers, coders and artists is pulling the Nintendo 64 out of the attic and pu… more
culture Cheap, plastic keyboards that once lived in toy aisles are back in studios and playlists. This piece… more
