The unknown variable called time
If there is one thing today that we have got in great quantities in retrocomputing, it is resources to draw on. The Internet offers us countless opportunities to retrieve documentation, books, magazines, guides and manuals for our beloved computers. It’s so easy to find both digital and traditional material.
Categoria: English Issues
RetroMagazine World #10 – Eng – October 2021
The deception of Moore’s law
But then, after so many years spent in buying increasingly powerful machines, we suddenly stopped our race and started another one… backwards! We are now buying older and older machines, even more primitive and consequently slower ones…
RetroMagazine World #09 – Eng – July/August 2021
The problem of the fourth player at poker
What is a chess player’s worst nightmare? It’s obvious, isn’t it? Not having anyone to play against. And that of three friends around the green poker table? Also simple. The fourth player is missing to start a nice evening with chips, cards and the inevitable glass of whiskey.
RetroMagazine World #08 – Eng – June 2021
Més que un Magazine
“Més que un club”(more than a club) is the slogan proudly displayed by Barcelona FC in the stands of its football stadium.
With equal pride we can say that RetroMagazine World is more than just a magazine reserved for a group of enthusiasts.
RetroMagazine World #07 – Eng – May 2021
“Seeing” retrogames through their sounds – Everyone tells me that I always try to “see” the beauty of things and I turn the difficulties I encounter into my strengths. And now I’m here, 40 years old, playing, having become blind, with my head full of 8-bit memories.
RetroMagazine World #06 – Eng – March 2021
Memories of a past present
The dim light of the lamp illuminates the room as shivering shadows of the evening pass swiftly over the walls. Life can be strange sometimes: one joke leads to another and here I am writing my first editorial for this fantastic magazine.
RetroMagazine World #05 – Eng – January 2021
8-bit Christmas Holidays. After a year like this one, spent mostly indoors or with a mask over your face, you may not feel much like celebrating the Christmas holidays, if for no other reason than the staggering number of victims of this damn virus.
RetroMagazine World #04 – Eng – November 2020
A “therapy” for Covid-19? We have the solution! When we were kids, even cartoon monsters could scare us to death.
RetroMagazine World #03 – Eng – October 2020
The driving force of retrocomputing. The passion that we all share and call “retrocomputing” (including perhaps not entirely rightly the term “retrogaming”), like any other passion, leads us to spend a lot of time in the search for vintage hardware, original game…
