20110311 Nerdstalgia

While I was developing the first version of Instantanea I had a sudden idea: there should be a retro camera application too! I meant retro in the retro-computer way, not in the lomo-helga-etc way. I searched, but there wasn’t any such application (apart from some app that produced some sort of libcaca ASCII renderings). So [...]

20091108 Web archaeology

If you ask me if there is anything that fascinates me as much as computers do, it definitely is Archaeology. Being able to go somewhere, dig up a few layers of soil and then elaborate a list of facts about the habits of whoever used to inhabit that place seems to me almost magical. If [...]

20061105 At Game On!

Yesterday we went to the famous and highly anticipated Game On exhibition at the Science Museum. We spent like two hours and something playing frantically with all sorts of systems, from old coin-ups to newer consoles; at the end my hands hurt like when I spent hours and hours playing videogames some years ago. Vectrex [...]

20060529 Real time Fairlight

I was coming back home past wednesday by St James’s Park and I suddenly found this scene which reminded me to something I had seen before: What it was, I couldn’t remember, until yesterday that I was feeling like playing some old games and downloaded some Amstrad CPC games. Then I remembered, when opening “Fairlight [...]

20060311 Así me gusta a mí, cd single original

Hace algunas semanas, trace me enseñó este vídeo de YouTube: Lo cual fue como una señal para que procediera a hacer el post que tenía en mente: mostraros la reliquia que tengo en casa, el CD single original de Así me gusta a mí de Chimo Bayo. En realidad, el cd sigue estando en Valencia, [...]