Music-X, Making Music in the 1980s
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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Computing
Recently Retro: 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
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
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
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
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
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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