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Music-X, Making Music in the 1980s

September 11, 2016September 11, 2016 by castaway
A screenshot from Music-X on the Amiga.

Making computer music in the 1980s could be an expensive affair but in 1989 Music-X arrived to answer the prayers of bedroom musicians everywhere.  
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Recently Retro: The Code Red Worm

August 20, 2016August 24, 2016 by castaway
A website defaced by the Code Red worm

Fortune favours the brave. Not for email users receiving random pictures of Anna Kournikova in early 2001 it didn’t…and that was just the start. 
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Take to the High Seas with your ZX81

August 10, 2016August 12, 2016 by castaway
Some Sinclair ZX81 code.

It’s the summer holidays, your mate’s gone to Skegness for the week, it looks like rain, there’s only one thing for it, let’s fire up the ZX81 and type in a game. 
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Retro Tech: The Sinclair Oxford 300 Calculator

August 8, 2016August 8, 2016 by castaway
The display on a Sinclair Oxford 300 calculator.

If you think Sinclair just made home computers (and dodgy electric cars) think again. They also made calculators that took the fear and loathing out of mathematics in the mid 70s.  
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The C64 – The Commodore 64 is Coming Back to Resume Hostilities with the Speccy

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 by castaway
The C64 a new Commodore 64 clone.

Pinch me, I’m must be dreaming, the world’s gone into retro gaming hardware overdrive. Here’s a new Commodore 64 clone to add to the list of consoles that’ll soon be hanging out of the back of your telly. 
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A New ZX Spectrum is Coming Your Way

July 29, 2016August 2, 2016 by castaway
The new ZX Spectrum Next.

Dust off your cassettes, commandeer the family TV and call up your mates. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is back, beefed up and looking good. Whatever Next? 
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Recently Retro: Mac OS X – March 2001

July 20, 2016July 20, 2016 by castaway
Screenshot of small section of a Mac OSX kernal panic.

We’re currently on version 10.11 of Mac OS X (“El Capitan”) but Apple’s operating system actually started life back in March 2001 and, as with most things in life, it wasn’t all plain sailing at first (even for Apple) . 
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