80s kids became coders with ease because 8-bit computers booted into a simple dev environment running BASIC. Computer mags of the era were stuffed with type-in programs that anyone patient enough ...

Retro consoles reimagined as mini emulators are nothing new. The Commodore 64 has had several modern iterations, and you can ...

Classic gaming enthusiasts may have to wait until next year to get their mitts on the a modernized Amiga A1200, but in the ...

In the early '80s, the Commodore 64 was at the forefront of the home computer revolution. Now, retro publisher Ziggurat Interactive is bringing back a selection of the classic games from the C64 era ...

Although the company eventually released a PC with a CD-ROM drive in 1991, the Commodore 64’s heyday was long before CD-ROMs became popular. But that didn’t stop Rainbow Arts from releasing a ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

These days, most of our microcontroller boards come with bootloaders so you can squirt hex into them straight over USB. However, you don’t need to do things this way. If you’re more old school, you ...

We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at ...

The term ‘quantum computer’ gets usually tossed around in the context of hyper-advanced, state-of-the-art computing devices. But much as how a 19th century mechanical computer, a discrete computer ...

Back in January 1982, we were treated to the launch of the Commodore 64, an early computer that was bought by millions of users around the world across 12 years, which is now fondly remembered by ...

One of the most iconic and important computers of the 1980s is set to make a comeback, with an all-new Commodore 64 planned for release later this year. It comes after the successful purchase of the ...