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Wondering if this is how people felt back in 1968, when humans first went around the Moon—because watching it happen again today, 58 years later, it certainly feels like the first time.

I'm alive!

Move over, AMD vs.

Just days after I posted an article listing at least 5 brand new computers based on the Z80 CPU, I see this toot: The notification Z84C00 is the only CPU listed in the Classic products -> Z80 category of Zilog’s homepage.

While the site is dedicated to the 8-bit era, it is worth noting that not all 8-bit computers are old.

Once, almost at the very beginning of this website’s existence, I shared a link to the Pico8 project, an “imaginary game console” characterized by pixelated graphics combined with modern programming methods, attracting talented creators who write incredib…

Hey everyone 🙂 I want to share how much I appreciate that since I posted articles on mastodon, and one of them was shared on HN, there are regular visitors who find the content interesting. <3 To be even more transparent about it, I will share some data on

Background In the previous post, I’ve acknowledged that Pascal emerged in the 70s, and Turbo Pascal existed even back in the 80s, which in theory should change programmers’ life quality if compared to BASIC (this is an important assumption).

Update 2024-04-01: I’ve just learned, day after publishing this, that Niklaus Wirth, the creator of Pascal, has died on January 1st 🙁 + added a link to a post about Turbo Pascal UI + updated the section about reasons to pass return values via registers +…

Everything was fine until BASIC entered the picture.

Atari continues to aggressively acquire everything related to sustaining their legend.

Two weeks ago the first version (v1.0.0) of the BIOS for systems based on the Intel 8088 processor was tagged on GitHub!

First a digression!

AtariAge, an online community and store for retro gaming enthusiasts, has been acquired by Atari.

The second part about MEGA 65 is going slowly, but it’s going.