Before ribbons, before cloud sync, there was WordPerfect macros - small, repeatable miracles that turned hours into minutes. This piece revives those techniques for modern writers: how to record, adap… more
A close look at the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer: what it did differently, which exclusives it offered, and why it ultimately lost ground to Sega and N… more
A comparative look at how two search outfits-Infoseek, the hopeful 1990s portal, and Google, the academic upstart-chose… more
A passionate look at why tripods have mattered to film photographers for a century - the technical reasons, the tactile… more
A new generation of tinkerers, coders and artists is pulling the Nintendo 64 out of the attic and putting it back on the… more
How a blue blur, a small Japanese team, and a handful of design audacities turned platformers inside-out. A look at the Genesis Sonic trilogy’s technical innovations, level design… more
retrotech AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) did more than deliver messages - it taught a generation how to be presen… more
retrogaming Is running an Atari Lynx ROM in an emulator theft, preservation, or something in between? This artic… more
retrogaming A clear, provocative guide to the legal landscape of emulating Sega Game Gear games: what emulators… more
