(This is about a German magazine, so it’s in German.) 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 the Sacred Flame of Hestia, Island und […]
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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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On 4 December, Vintrospektiv celebrated its 2nd birthday. While I am happy with the new direction my life has taken, and ultimately with the decision to end Vintrospektiv as my main job, I couldn’t help but wonder (as I sometimes do) what I could have done differently. I still believe that there is simply not […]
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So here’s the final part of this little series. Again, see the first part for more information on its background. For my original promotions covered in the previous 4 parts, I was beginning to struggle to come up with new ideas by the end of February 2021, and since there had been a rather disappointing […]
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On to the next promotional texts. As before, see the first part for more information on the background of this series. The Vintrospektiv Social Media Archive, Part 4: Retrogaming Trivia – The Editions (Twitter) While thinking about trivia items to post, I had the idea that it might be nice to have an overarching topic every […]
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And the story continues. See the first part for more information on the background of this series. The Vintrospektiv Social Media Archive, Part 3: Retrogaming Trivia (Twitter) At the same time I started my “curiosities” series on Instagram, in December 2020, I also launched this series, with the same mode: one post per day, except for […]
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Time for the next part. See the previous article for more information on the background of this series. The Vintrospektiv Social Media Archive, Part 2: Curiosities from My Collection – Infocom (Instagram) When I ran out of ideas for general curiosities, I continued with my Infocom collection, which had a surprising wealth of material that could […]
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At the Vintage Computing Festival Berlin on 8-9 October this year, I will give a workshop on composing on the C64 with Chris Hülsbeck’s Soundmonitor. Details to follow, but I can tell you already that I will provide a USB drive with emulators for Windows and Linux and the Soundmonitor file for everyone to follow […]
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Vintrospektiv used to be a multi-channel project (though mainly focused on videos), and so I was also active in social media. In particular, I started out with some promotional features on Instagram and Twitter (see this post for more information in German). Since both channels have been closed in the mean time, I’ve decided I […]
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A few months ago, I finally published my first book, the one that I had been talking about for almost one and a half years. So why did it take that long? As anybody who has written a book will tell you, it’s a long and tedious process, and it’s not the writing part that […]
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