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Not Just for Messages: Non-Obvious Uses of SMS in 2025
In an era dominated by feature-rich messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger, it’s easy to dismiss the humble SMS (Short Message Service) as a relic of the past. We primarily associate it with simple text conversations from a bygone mobile era. But declaring SMS dead would be premature. In 2025, this resilient technology is…
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Crystal Kingdom Dizzy 2025 – Long awaited Dizzy redux arrives on the ZX Spectrum 128k!
Dizzy fans it’s time to really celebrate Dizzy in a really big way, as a very special Dizzy redux of ‘ Crystal Kingdom Dizzy ‘ on the ZX Spectrum, has only moments ago just appeared in our news feed. The original CKD was first released in 1992 on a multitude of systems in a completely…
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Crystal Kingdom Dizzy 2025 – Long awaited Dizzy redux arrives on the ZX Spectrum 128k!
Dizzy fans it’s time to really celebrate Dizzy in a really big way, as a very special Dizzy redux of ‘ Crystal Kingdom Dizzy ‘ on the ZX Spectrum, has only moments ago just appeared in our news feed. The original CKD was first released in 1992 on a multitude of systems in a completely…
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How to Plan the Ultimate Geeky Date Night
Some couples want candlelight, roses, and a live violinist. Some are into the standard Netflix and chill, and then others want pizza, Mario Kart, and a two-hour argument about why Aragorn is the real king of Middle-earth. If that third one sounds a little more your style, then yeah, it is pretty clear a regular…
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Retro Self-Discipline Methods – How People Stayed Focused Before Productivity Apps
Today, people have so many ways to stay disciplined. They have time-management apps and self-exclusion programs. They also use parental controls (even outside of the parent-child scenario) to restrict access to content they find distracting. However, how did people focus in the past? Sure, there were fewer distractions. Smartphones weren’t around, there was no internet,…
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Anguish – Amiga classic *Agony* by Psygnosis is getting an unofficial spiritual sequel by Lionagony (+Demo)
In 1992, Psygnosis with development by Art & Magic, released the gorgeous owl flying shoot em up of AGONY, for the Amiga system. It was a very impressive game for its time using features such as scales of colors done with raster lines, halfbrite graphics mode for the between-level pictures, three layers of parallax scrolling…
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C64 Game Maker – A tool that allows you to generate C++ source code for simple video games
We’ve featured many game engine updates throughout the years, from the C64 with SEUCK, to a constant array of updates for the Amiga with either Backbone, Redpill or our personal favorite from Earok called The Scorpion Engine. Well here we are with another game engine news story, as thanks to a good friend of ours…
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Shipwrecked – Take on the role of a crew commander leading eight astronauts on a mission to Mars (C64)
Another cool game has appeared in my inbox, as I’m pleased to tell you that the same creator of the awesome Commodore 64 game of Battle for Cronos, Deathflood Dungeon of Doom, and devolution has made available the Commodore 64 game of ‘Shipwrecked’ via the ka-plus.pl website. A game in which you take on the…
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The First Ever Stern Pinball Factory Tour Video?
Earlier today I thought to myself, I wonder what would happen if I scrolled back to Stern Pinball’s first Facebook post. Yes, these are the sorts of things that go through my mind lol. So I figured out to go back in time…all the way back to September 22, 2009. The first post Stern…
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Burger Time – An Arcade like conversion for the Commodore Amiga 500 by JOTD
Some more Amiga news for you all, as we’ve just been given the heads up, that JOTD who was behind great conversions such as Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, Super Bagman, Galaxian500, Pooyan, Super Xevious, and the upcoming Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja, has now turned his attention to the 1982 game of Burger Time. A new Amiga…
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