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 interviews, magazines and the developers' surviving work.
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 challenged, embodied, and complicated gendered ideas about tech, agency, and desire.
A brisk tour from the blocky simplicity of Windows Write to today's generative-AI assistants. How the tools changed what writing looks like, who writes, and what it means to be an author - with practical strategies for keeping your voice and agency intact.
The 3DO was a strange, expensive, beautiful little console that invited risk and rewarded curiosity. Here are ten underrated 3DO gems you probably missed - and a practical guide to playing them on modern emulators while staying on the right side of the law.
Outright bans of Game Boy titles were rare - but the handheld era still produced a surprising number of edited, withdrawn, or regionally forbidden releases. This piece unpacks the most notable controversies, the laws and moral panics that caused them, and what those decisions mean for preservation and play today.
Should Dell mine the gold of its past - beige boxes, chrome logos and reassuringly clunky keyboards - or keep sprinting toward an ever-sleeker future? A debate-style examination of brand, business, and design, with perspectives from industry practitioners and market data.
The Amiga 1200 arrived with a whisper of promise and a chorus of missteps: better graphics, lukewarm marketing, poor timing, and a parent company in freefall. This article unpacks the strategic and economic choices that turned one of gaming’s most beloved machines into a commercial puzzle - and the surprising ways it still shaped games and culture.
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, adapt, and use WordPerfect macros (with practical recipes and ready-to-use templates) to speed today's workflows.