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id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine
By Mark Tyson last updated
35 years ago today, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons - Episode 1: Marooned on Mars was released by a dev team including John Carmack and John Romero.

Commodore International challenges Italian rival’s trademarks in escalating brand dispute
By Luke James published
Revived Commodore entity says European registrations held by Commodore Industries were improperly granted and are legally invalid.

This scratch-built, period-correct Portable Commodore 64 is a love letter to an alternate Commodore history
By Mark Tyson published
An industrial designer with a love for old computers has created a working prototype of a Commodore 64 laptop.

A 10-year study indicates that treated surfaces turn yellow more severely than untreated plastic parts
By Jowi Morales published
Retrobrighting a Sega Dreamcast console yielded poor results after 10 years.

My Arcade launches portable Pac-Man 45th anniversary-themed retro arcade games
By Jowi Morales published
My Arcade has launched a couple of retro gaming consoles to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the legendary Pac-Man arcade game.

Pong debuted on this day in 1972
By Mark Tyson published
The Atari Pong arcade machine made its debut on this day in 1972.

DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, packing iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and Ammo into 3-pin parts
By Mark Tyson published
KiDOOM is a version of DOOM that runs within a PCB design application.

A 34-year-old Apple Mac crash bug ‘would have gone undiscovered for all eternity,’ but the accuracy of the MAME emulator shone a light on it
By Mark Tyson published
On real hardware, the Motorola 68030 executed an undocumented instruction to prevent a system crash at boot, but it caused problems with the emulator.
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