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Vintage Computer Festival 7.0 The
seventh annual Vintage Computer Festival will be held on Saturday, November
6th through Sunday, November 7th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View, California.
Issue 4 of Armchair Arcade has been released This
issue showcases a professionally illustrated cover featuring The Rise and
Fall of Game Audio article and The System Ranking Matrix (Ratings for 75
US Games-capable machines). Other articles include Violence in Videogames,
Scorched Parabolas, Atari 2600 Mega-Mini Reviews (Video Feature), In Defense
of Retro Gaming: A Discussion of Abstraction, Head-to-Head with Popeye the
Sailor, Sequential Access: Essay Nybbles (a 5 essay collection), and the
first Hot Topic Editorial - Games for Grownups. Visit www.armchairarcade.com to check it all out !
CGE UK - Classic Gaming Expo - Photo & video reports The
first annual "Classic Gaming Expo UK" took place on the weekend of 24th and
25th July 2004 at Fairfield Halls just south of London. Follow the link if
you want to know how it was (pictures & videos)
Apart
from the Compaq logo, the Compaq Portable 386 was externally identical to
the Portable III, but the inside was a true revolution in the portable computers
field of the time. Its Intel 386-20 processor offered more speed, power and
capabilities than ever before...
A
classic pong from Roberts with four games (hence the name of the system)
and detachables paddles. Made in Japan. The difference between the Rally
IV and Paddle IV are unclear. Can anyone help ? Both systems seem identical
despite a different cosmetic design
The
8C was the last and most improved Apple II clone version produced by the
Bulgarian Pravetz Co. The 8C was actually designed in Bulgaria but most of
them were manufactured in Tasjkent, former USSR...
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