RetroMagazine World n° 42 – Marzo 2023

…RetroMagazine World ha in progetto da diverso tempo ormai di mettere online tutti gli articoli che sono stati pubblicati sulle pagine della rivista.
Stiamo quindi cercando qualche volontario che vorrebbe far parte del nostro team aiutandoci alla trasposizione degli articoli sul sito…

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RetroMagazine World n° 41 – Dicembre 2022

Il 2022 sta volgendo al termine ed è naturale fare qualche riflessione. Come se non bastasse la pandemia, poi è scoppiata una guerra che forse si trascinerà a lungo. Infine, la paura di rimanere al freddo e senza soldi con una inflazione strisciante che mangia i nostri sudati risparmi.
Ci si aggrappa a RetroMagazine World come a una provvidenziale scialuppa di salvataggio in un mare tempestoso di avvenimenti…

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RetroMagazine World #15 – Eng – July 2022

We at RetroMagazine World have always made this quote from Charles Darwin our mantra. In our nearly 6 years of existence, changes have been occurring systematically to make sure that the magazine and everything around it, could always evolve into something better. Yet another step to continue this evolutionary path was the creation of the RetroMagazine World – NPO.

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RetroMagazine World #14 – Eng – April 2022

But what would happen if we decided to leave the comfort zone? What would happen if we decided to try to use and learn those unfamiliar systems? Certainly, at the beginning, we would pay the price of lack of knowledge.
Well, if we are able to do this, unexplored worlds will open up before us, where the joy of discovery could make us return to those children we were 30/40 years ago.

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RetroMagazine World #13 – Eng – February 2022

RetroMagazine World, with every issue in two versions, Italian and English, registers an ever-growing number of readers and arouses constant interest in the topics we cover. Our choice to avoid the distribution of printed copies, brings some advantages, …, not least of which is that we can continue to guarantee the complete gratuity of the magazine, and allows us to reach anywhere in the world with a simple URL.

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RetroMagazine World #12 – Eng – January 2022

I won’t make budgets….
So what? What will you tell us?
Well, I want to tell you about our satisfaction in having realized and in continuing to realize our dream of when we were kids. All the guys on the editorial staff of RetroMagazine World, dreamed of being part of a magazine like the ones they used to buy in the 80s and 90s.

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RetroMagazine World #11 – Eng – December 2021

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.

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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…

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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.

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