Saturday, December 6, 2025

Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

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Way back (well, six months ago, anyway), when I was wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board , we talked at length about this 1978 arcade g...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

Rebecca Heineman has died

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"Burger Becky" did a lot of great games, first at Interplay (Bard's Tale, Wasteland), then later at Logicware, where she and o...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

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I try not to write anything even vaguely political on this blog because we have a variety of views on a variety of subjects and no one is ...
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Sunday, November 2, 2025

They call it Mister Pibb (again)

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As Pibb is the official beverage of Old Vintage Computing Research, no doubt to the profound chagrin of the Coca-Cola Company, I feel compel...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

The Apple Network Server MacOS ROMs have resurfaced

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The 1996 Apple Network Server was Apple's first true Unix-through-and-through server (the Apple Workgroup Server 95, actually a Quadra...
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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Back to the Southern Hemisphere Commodore 128DCR

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Pretty sure this will end up as one of my longest-term restoration projects, but I'm back in the Southern Hemisphere for a little whil...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

The end of AOL dialup

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America Online has ceased offering dialup access since first doing so in 1991 ( using GeoWorks ), and presumably any systems attempting to d...
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Thanks for reading. -- Cameron Kaiser