Homeworld, the slow-burning deep space strategy game, is one of my favorites of all time. Coldly evocative of the artwork of Chris Foss, Peter Elson, John Harris and others, the…
The tone is angry ("Poorly Analyzed US-Centric Garbage") but the point is a salient one: the European world of 8-bit and 16-bit computer gaming is improbably excluded from retrospectives. Put…
The engineers squeezed as much performance as they could from the 16-bit processors of yore and then turned the job of optimization over to coders. Such was the hunger for…
HP is famed for a long history of powerful and useful computer stuff, but its inket printers might better be considered infamous for how hostile they are to customers. Locked…