#retroreading — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #retroreading, aggregated by home.social.
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Always saw myself as a #YourSinclair guy personally. #SinclairUser just seemed to be trying too hard to be pre-90s edgy. But in reading through old computer mags for my #RetroReading, it seems that they were ALL trying too hard to do that.
So this month I'm giving Sinclair User another chance, with the October 1987 issue.
Long story short - it's not as bad as I remember it being. Though I don't think it had gone full "Kamikaze Bear" yet...
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Always saw myself as a #YourSinclair guy personally. #SinclairUser just seemed to be trying too hard to be pre-90s edgy. But in reading through old computer mags for my #RetroReading, it seems that they were ALL trying too hard to do that.
So this month I'm giving Sinclair User another chance, with the October 1987 issue.
Long story short - it's not as bad as I remember it being. Though I don't think it had gone full "Kamikaze Bear" yet...
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This month's #retroreading is #Crash from July 1987. It's a fairly pedestrian issue, typical mid-summer fare with few big releases. They seemed to be in a minor flap about the emergence of quality budget games, with some of the letters page reflecting the kind of prejudice you see in modern "triple A" gaming talk.
There's freebie copy of Oink comic (terrible), and a first look at the NES, which they seemed decidedly unimpressed with (except Julian Rignall, unsurprisingly).
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This month's #retroreading is #Crash from July 1987. It's a fairly pedestrian issue, typical mid-summer fare with few big releases. They seemed to be in a minor flap about the emergence of quality budget games, with some of the letters page reflecting the kind of prejudice you see in modern "triple A" gaming talk.
There's freebie copy of Oink comic (terrible), and a first look at the NES, which they seemed decidedly unimpressed with (except Julian Rignall, unsurprisingly).
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This month's #RetroReading is a C+VG magazine from March 1988.
It's a mostly uneventful month, at a time when C+VG was mostly focused on the 8/16 home micros (and a far cry from the bombastic style of its 90s incarnation).
But this double-paged #MasterSystem ad really ticked the nostalgia bone...
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This month's #RetroReading is a C+VG magazine from March 1988.
It's a mostly uneventful month, at a time when C+VG was mostly focused on the 8/16 home micros (and a far cry from the bombastic style of its 90s incarnation).
But this double-paged #MasterSystem ad really ticked the nostalgia bone...
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Flicking through #YourSinclair from October 1986 and, amid the dizzying waves of nostalgia, I happened on the Pen Pals section... It's astounding to me that teenage boys and girls happily provided their names and addresses like this, and that YS printed them! A different time indeed...
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Flicking through #YourSinclair from October 1986 and, amid the dizzying waves of nostalgia, I happened on the Pen Pals section... It's astounding to me that teenage boys and girls happily provided their names and addresses like this, and that YS printed them! A different time indeed...
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Et encore un post ! (ouais j'en avais plusieurs en attente depuis un moment)
Cette fois-ci, un peu de retro-reading avec le n°752 de Science & Vie (Mai 1980)
https://lanterne-rouge.info/2025/01/retro-reading-4-science-and-vie-ndeg752-mai-1980
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If passing numbers through computers made of through-hole parts is #retrocomputing , then gleaning stories from marks on ancient papyros sheets is #retroreading .
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If passing numbers through computers made of through-hole parts is #retrocomputing , then gleaning stories from marks on ancient papyros sheets is #retroreading .