Hi everyone! Allow me shortly introduce myself: Cybercow is the name 🙂 Our Retropal friend Vulturius was kind enough to extend me an invitate to join the Retropals community. Something I have, of course, graciously accepted. Vulturius and myself actually go way back, some 25+ years, back to the day when Retro games were well just … games…
Did you ever dreamt about having your favorite MS-DOS games with you all the time? Imagine that you are on holiday in France enjoying the Provence sun, your wife is sunbathing beside you, your kids are playing in the pool in front of you and in a glimpse of a moment you have a nostalgic…
We had the opportunity to let the Belgian retro community have a go on our RetroLANGaming booth. Although 99% of the visitors are console minded freaks, they are not ashamed to admit they once played games on the PC as well 😉 Without further ado, here is a short recap of what happened. Enjoy the…
In the early nineties, a new way of playing games was introduced: network play. It was something I have never heard of before, because at that time I was just a teenager with only my game computer in my room without any connection to the outside world. It was unthinkable to me that computers could…
Hey guys, A few months ago we made a lot of fuzz around Vulturius’ newest project, RetroLANGaming. Now we are ready to share the trailer with the world. Shot at the small convention Spellewaarde in Belgium, where we had our premiere and it was an instant succes. Pc’s were manned the whole day and we had…
PixelCake.nl just released an interview with Anne Bras, a regular gamer from the Netherlands with a passion for PC Games, who happens to have the biggest PC BigBox collection in the world ! I wanted to share this with you, so you can all look at it with open mouths, and realize that this is…
Hi retro addicts! Remember one of the first posts I made for this blog? It was about a little – well, pretty big – gem I got from AuronnBE, the infamous Admiral PC which came back to life again after a difficult rebirth. I didn’t want the story to end there and decided to upgrade…
Hi retro addicts, A little over a week ago we visited the biggest Retro Convention in Europe as they gladly promote their event. Discover, together with us, all the retro goodies we stumbled upon and the deals we made. This was our first trip to the Netherlands together, to go on our never ending quest…
Hi all, A couple of days ago i’ve found a great post on Vogons by Mau1wurf1977. It seems like he’s almost equally obsessed with Retro DOS machines & Retro DOS games like myself 😉 His post is about creating a VGA Benchmark Database worldwide for DOS computers 😉 It immediately grabbed my attention because it reminded…
Hi guys, While both Vulturius and I are still recovering from New Year’s eve, we stumbled on a very interesting website. The Console Living Room is an initiative of The Internet Archive Software Collection – phew, long names – and offers internet users free access to the gaming era of the 70’s and early 80’s…