After transfering all my articles from Medium to this website, a few over here still remain untranslated, among them one about Mark Sheeky. Considering how nice Mark was about the original article, including giving his permission to use some of his artworks and his photo, it’s the least I can do to finally provide a […]
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Videos on PeerTube
As I’ve already mentioned on Mastodon, I have transferred all my videos to a PeerTube instance. (You can also find it in the sidebar from now on.) There are many reasons for this move, but also some possible drawbacks, which I would like to discuss now. Let’s start with the reasons: Firstly, the YouTube model […]
Continue ReadingArchive: Why dates in retrogaming are problematic
This was the Vintrospektiv swan song on Medium, a reflection on my article series about the months in retrogaming. When I decided to end the multi-media aspects of Vintrospektiv and turn to more serious activities, I found it would be a good idea to add this analysis as the twelfth and final instalment of that […]
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This was my first article specifically written for Medium in an attempt to find new channels for the results of my research. Since I’ve closed my account there, I’m moving the article to the Vintrospektiv homepage. The British scene The home computer and gaming scene of the 1980s in Great Britain was strikingly different from […]
Continue ReadingArchive: Infocom – The end of a genre (English version)
Continuing my moving of articles from Medium to the Vintrospektiv homepage, this English version of an article from 2021 first appeared over there in October 2021 (but has since been deleted). Infocom: The end of a genre The history of Infocom has been fully explored: from the founding in 1979 for the distribution of Dungeon, […]
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A while ago I mentioned my “Adventure-Ecke” in the German Spectrum fanzine SUC-SESSION. Now that the second instalment is out, I would like to add that there is an English version of the magazine, which you can order for the same price (€ 4,50 for 3 PDF issues or € 23-29 for 3 printed issues). […]
Continue ReadingArchive: A Look at Cinemaware (English version)
This was one of my first articles on Vintrospektiv, originally in German since all of Vintrospektiv used to be in German in the beginning. This English version first appeared on Medium (in August 2021), but since I’m closing my account there I thought it would be a good idea to have everything here on Vintrospektiv. […]
Continue ReadingTours at the Computerspielemuseum
A moment ago I was thinking that I should probably write a post to give a sign of life as it’s been almost half a year since the last one. Then I realised that one of the activities that take up most of my time at the moment is very well suited for an update […]
Continue ReadingSUC-SESSION Adventure-Ecke
(This is about a German magazine, so it’s in German. Update: but there’s also an English version.) Gerade habe ich erfahren, dass vor ein paar Wochen Ausgabe 234 des Magazins SUC-SESSION herausgekommen ist. In dieser Ausgabe erscheint auch erstmals meine „Adventure-Ecke“, in der ich aktuelle Adventurespiele für den ZX Spectrum bespreche (diesmal: The Quest for […]
Continue ReadingArchive: Retro Disco 1
In a few days, I will announce the second instalment of my Retro Disco, so it’s probably a good time to revisit what the first one was like and what you can expect from the next one. I had the idea of the Retro Disco a while ago, and while I was browsing Bandcamp at […]
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