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Atari partners with Anstream Arcade for retro gaming

Atari has announced a partnership with retro gaming platform Antstream Arcade. This partnership brings an enhanced and exclusive “Atari Edition” of Antstream’s game streaming service to the upcoming Atari VCM home gaming and entertainment system. The exclusive Atari VCS edition of Antstream Arcade unlocks an instantly-accessible collection of classic video game titles. In addition to an existing…

30 September 2019 Chris Price Gaming

Edinburgh Fringe 'LadyNerd' Keira Daley on the rise of the nerd

The Queen Geek of cabaret, Keira Daley is set to take the Edinburgh Fringe festival by storm this year with her show LadyNerd. An infectious mix of tech anecdotes, wit and belly laughs, LadyNerd sees Keira join forces with musical…

6 August 201222 December 2015 Gerald Lynch Columns & Opinion, Computers, Features, Retro gear, Tech Digest news

RIP Jack Tramiel, computing pioneer and Commodore founder

Jack Tramiel, founder of once-leading computing giant Commodore, passed away this weekend aged 83. A truly remarkable man, the Polish Tramiel was a Holocaust survivor, being interred at both Ahlem and Auschwitz before the 1945 liberation of the camps. In…

10 April 2012 Gerald Lynch Computers, Gaming, Tech Digest news

Tech Digest are GUINNESS WORLD RECORD BREAKERS! WOO!

Tech Digest's wasted youth has paid off; we're now official holders of a Guinness World Record for playing Tetris! Myself (Gerald) and ShinyShiny editor Becca Caddy now hold the record for the "Highest score on Tetris (Nintendo, 1986) for a…

31 January 2012 Gerald Lynch Features, Gaming, Tech Digest news

HANDS ON: World's Largest NES Videogame Controller earns Guinness World Records spot

The Guinness World Record for the largest videogame controller on the planet has been broken! British electrical engineering student Ben Allen along with co-creators Stephen van 't Hof and Michel Verhulst put together a gigantic 12ft x 5ft 3 in x 1ft 8 in, 18 stone NES controller…

18 January 2012 Gerald Lynch Features, Gaming, Retro gear, Tech Digest news

Happy 30th birthday, Commodore 64!

Happy 30th birthday, Commodore 64! The bulky brown home computing box of choice of the 1980's hits the three decade landmark this month, and is fondly remembered by many a tech fan (including this very Tech Digest writer) as their…

4 January 20123 March 2018 Gerald Lynch Computers, Features, Gaming, Tech Digest news

Commodore 64 reborn as 1.8Ghz dual-core C64x

The much-loved Commodore 64 PC is to rise like a phoenix from the flames this summer, reborn as the souped-up C64x Housed in the same old-skool casing as the original Commodore 64, the updated C64x will have specs fit…

7 April 2011 Gerald Lynch Computers, Retro gear, Tech Digest news

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