• Atari
• Commodore
• Genesis

California Games – C64 vs Atari 2600 vs Sega Genesis

Posted March 5, 2017 by willwilliams68k

The mission: to review the same game on three different systems. The rules: I have to own an original copy to play on the original hardware. No fair! I hear retro gamers cry, an Atari 2600 (VCS) again... Read More

• Commodore

A Very Merry Commodore Christmas

Posted December 11, 2016 by willwilliams68k

Like most families, my own spent the holiday season visiting relatives we seldom saw during the rest of the year. One particular cousin was the target of a special kind of envy. While I had friends wi... Read More

• Amiga
• Commodore

Only Amiga Makes It Possible

Posted July 24, 2016 by willwilliams68k

You never forget your first A500. Mine was a A500+ that I saved up my paper round money to buy, my pride and joy parted ways for a year or so in 1997 until I bought it back from a friend. It was final... Read More

• Commodore

8-bit Domination

Posted March 19, 2016 by willwilliams68k

No other machine has sold as many as the C64, 17million units by some accounts (beat that Apple!). It amazes me the run Commodore got with this chipset and how many incarnations the 6510 had…. C... Read More

• Amiga
• Commodore

The Killer App

Posted March 19, 2016 by willwilliams68k

As a kid I dreamed of owning the mighty Video Toaster and wondered at all the cool clips I could make with it. 20 years on I’m not even sure I could input a signal to it.... Read More

• Commodore

1541

Posted March 19, 2016 by willwilliams68k

I had a cousin back in Perth who had the original breadbox C64 with a 1541 drive. At that point the only other computers/game systems I had seen were either running off of cassette tapes or it was a A... Read More