20120425 Late Spectrum tribute

Sorry for being late to the Speccy 30th anniversary party. Life got in the way. But I’m sure you understand.

20120409 WebGL VGA

For some odd reason, I happened to remember a little demo that came with the first 16 bit computer I ever used–an Amstrad PC 2286. It was meant for showing off the capabilities of the new and shiny Paradise VGA graphics adapter that the 2000 line of computers incorporated. 256 simultaneous colours! 640×350 graphics! So [...]

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 [...]