The Verge's retrospective on technology and the internet in 2004.

Can't hide my intrigue when I learned about this because I knew when I was a kid that BASIC was not the only way to program the C64 and there was another mysterious way of creating programs and games that was much more powerful.

I thought I knew BASIC programming when I was a kid. This is on a totally different mind-blowing level.

I still remember the first time I saw a computer running Deluxe Paint.

HyperCard clone that works inside the browser. Creates portable HTML files.

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. You can try it in your web browser right now.

FLOSS text mode, pixel art, games, tools and music

Textmode is a broad term for art made with a monospaced font on a uniform grid.

Textmode encapsulates art like ASCII, ANSI, PETSCII and many others which have their own specific restrictions.

This site contains 29257 unique* 88x31 buttons that I scraped from the GeoCities archives compiled by the incredible ARCHIVE TEAM before GeoCities' demise in late 2009.

Web-based pixel art editor modeled after Deluxe Paint. Opens Amiga files.

MS DOS game from my childhood. You can play it in the browser.

Hercules is aiming to achieve immortality by completing the task the Gods have set him. His task is presented as a platform adventure set in ancient Greece, featuring a variety of enemies as you play it through.

The history of Lemmings

On the C64, you always have access to all of the fixed 16 colours provided by the hardware. I like working in Hires, which on the C64 is 320x200 pixels. This is divided into "chars" of 8x8 pixels and each such char can only contain two colours at any one time. This limitation provides for quite a bit of fun and challenging puzzles.

BASIC adventure games

Lovely retro website of Victor Fakhoury showcasing his coptic icons. Lots of ancient Egyptian motifs.

This site is dedicated to great pixel graphics made with the Commodore Amiga from 1985 to 1995. An uncountable number of graphics were made during this time period, but there are quite a number of noteworthy images that, I believe, shouldn't gather dust on some harddrive, hidden in some extra level inside a game that never gets played or on a PD collection disk that is almost unknown. I want to make these graphics accessible again from the comfort of your own internet browser by showcasing them on this site.

A pixel font that supports both English and Arabic. Made due to the frustration of not finding a solid Arabic pixel font option during a previous game dev project.

Hosting service for Arabic forums and a directory.

Parts for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Personal Computer

<>Looking for retro video games? You've come to the right place! You will find tons of roms, isos and games here. Download and play them with an emulator or play them right inside your browser window! <<<<

Thousands of cassette tapes from Egypt in the 80s and 90s.

Related: [[Tapedeck]]

A beautiful gallery of cassette tapes.

We used to design similar greeting cards at school.

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Website full of Peugeot catalogs from 70s, 60s and 80s.

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PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser called SPLORE.