Mark Moxon, a UK-based web developer, has recreated every Acornsoft box screen shot by hand. Moxon says, “I hand-crafted these images during the lockdown of 2020. It was a surprisingly therapeutic experience, and I had plenty of time to devote to making these shots as pixel-perfect as possible. That said, the original box screenshots were … Developer, Mark Moxon, has recreated every Acornsoft box screenshot by hand
Available later this month is Acorn – A World In Pixels, a book showcasing the games history of the BBC Micro and Electron. The book contains 476 pages and featured a foreword by Richard Hanson of Superior Software, and cover illustration by Ste Pickford. Television and radio presenter, Iain Lee also contributes an article ‘Life … New Book: Acorn – A World In Pixels
Like most hobbies, Retro Computing comes with its own set of slang, and fan-created nicknames for products. Sometimes they are affectionate, sometimes derogatory – but one things for sure, if you’re new to the hobby you will have no idea what people are talking about! This document is a permanent work-in-progress and will be … Ashtrays, Bread bins and Toastracks: A guide to retro computing slang
As you might guess from the spelling of colour in the title, I’m from the UK. And in the UK in the eighties only the rich kids had microcomputers with disk drives. The rest of us made-do with cassette tapes. And if you collected computer cassette tapes then there is no way you wouldn’t have … Mastertronic Cassette Colour Codes