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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Nach fast zwei Jahren seit den ersten Zeilen ist nun endlich mein erstes Buch mit dem Titel 10 GOTO 20 und einem Umfang von gedruckten 130 Seiten herausgekommen. Es ist ab sofort online als eBook für 5,99 € und im Buchhandel als Druckausgabe für 11,99 € zu bestellen. Die ISBN lautet xxx-xxxxxxxxxx (eBook) bzw. xxx-xxxxxxxxxx […]
Continue Reading… and it’s in German. So there’s not much sense in talking about it in English. If you do speak German, however, please feel free to read the next post with a longer description. But just so you know what’s going on: it’s a collection of anecdotes from 35 years in the world of computer […]
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I have just published the concluding article for my series about the months in gaming history that launched Vintrospektiv back in December. I announced that I would be writing this in my farewell e-mail, and in a way it marks the final entry of Vintrospektiv as I originally envisioned it. (Update: The article has moved […]
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After some deliberation, I have decided to discontinue Vintrospektiv. Originally, I had planned on looking back after one year, which would be the end of December, and then make up my mind about how to proceed – but I am so far from any hope to earn money at all, let alone be able to […]
Continue Reading Nach einiger Überlegung habe ich beschlossen, Vintrospektiv nicht mehr weiterzuführen. Ursprünglich hatte ich vor, nach einem Jahr, also Ende Dezember, zurückzublicken und mir zu überlegen, wie ich weitermachen sollte. Ich bin aber so weit von jeder Hoffnung entfernt, überhaupt Geld zu verdienen, geschweige denn genug, um davon leben zu können, dass nicht mehr davon auszugehen […]
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Way back in the summer of 1989, while on a vacation in Düsseldorf, I worked as a backup graphics artist at Rainbow Arts on the promotional (AdWare) game Sunny Shine on the Funny Side of Life – then called Sunny Shine: The L&M Game. It’s a long story. I created one of the locations and […]
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