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Home Coders – Matthew Hall 15 Commodore 64 Games Rescued from Decaying Cassettes

Home Coders – Matthew Hall 15 Commodore 64 Games Rescued from Decaying Cassettes

  Thanks to the wonders of Aldi stores’ increasingly strange bargains, Matthew Hall of KlickTock has just saved a bundle of his early games for the Commodore 64 from impending demise. Popping into Aldi for some supplies there amongst the groceries was Aldi’s...
Australian Pioneers: Did Britain’s bad weather breed a culture of tinkerers and crackers?

Australian Pioneers: Did Britain’s bad weather breed a culture of tinkerers and crackers?

  Melbourne House and Beam Software Director Alfred Milgrom sees “Vast cultural, societal difference in what consumers wanted from electronic games” between the mass markets for games in American and UK in the early days. “American consumers were happy to pay for...

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