Explore Clemens Schotte's retro computing stories, from Commodore and Amiga hardware to classic DOS games and rebuilding CaveRace for Windows and macOS today.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about bringing the original CaveRace back to life. That became CaveRace 1.5, a modern Windows and macOS version of the little DOS game …
There is something strangely satisfying about opening source code that is almost three decades old. Not because it is beautiful. It isn’t. Not because you …
The box arrived today, just in time before the holidays, sitting on my doorstep like a time capsule. The moment I saw the familiar Commodore logo on the …
A personal history in a few very nerdy chapters Pac-Man The first “computer” that really knocked on my brain wasn’t even called a computer. It was an Atari 2600 …
I learned all my basic computer and programming skills on Commodore computers, like the C64, Amiga 500, and 1200. Twenty-eight years ago, I upgraded my Amiga …
CaveRace began in 1997 as a maze-based action game I created with a group of fellow students. We were inspired by Dyna Blaster (Bomberman), a game I loved …
