Memory's a weird thing, isn't it? Your brain records every moment in your life and locks it away forever. And then suddenly, a sound, a smell, a piece of beige plastic can send you tumbling back to a ...

Microcontrollers are cool, but sometimes the user interface options they can deliver are disappointing. The platform in question may not have the horsepower required to drive a decent screen, and ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note 4/10/12: Jack Tramiel died on April 8 and will always be remembered as a computing industry pioneer and founder of Commodore. The Commodore 64 was one of the most popular PCs of all time ...

It may be 29 years later, but I can still remember looking at what was about to be my Commodore 64, up on a shelf at a Long's Drugs near my father's house. This wasn't my first computer--that had been ...

Commodore 64 fans who want to take a stroll down memory lane should take a peek at Cloanto’s emulator C64 Forever ($15 for download, $20 for standalone; free demo). C64 Forever features the same multi ...

Back to 1980s gaming, when it were all (blocky) fields round here. Cult of Mac: What does the C64 mean to you, personally? Stu from Manomio: My first computer was actually an Atari 800XL and this was ...

If you're like me (old), you might have an interest in retro-computing. Personally, I spend a lot of my free time watching YouTube channels dedicated to old hardware and software, and many of those ...

Scientifically speaking there is still plenty of time to do some last-minute Christmas shopping, but even if you’re returning stuff on Boxing Day, The C64 is a keeper. And it was understandable. This ...

There is a mystery at the heart of Too Much Fun, the new book about the history of the Commodore 64 by the Danish academic and game designer Jesper Juul: Why is the C64—by far the best-selling home ...

A new retro games console, dubbed the C64, bucks the trend of recent retro games boxes, being a full-sized recreation of the machine on which it's based: the Commodore 64 (which originally launched in ...

Hardware company Retro Games will be launching The C64, a Commodore 64 with a full-sized working keyboard, later this year. The retro home-computer will include 64 pre-installed games, such as ...