Retro Programming

URISC is an abstract computer designed to have a minimal instruction set, only one instruction. URISC is an abbreviation of Ultimate RISC, a...

The aim of a  programming game  is to write a short program that competes towards a goal, usually destroying all opponents or capturing a fl...

The computing highlight of June will be the Vintage Computer Festival at The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park.  Held on 19-20 Ju...

The U.K. has a number of dedicated computer museums while a few other museums have permanent computer history collections. If you're int...

Here's my latest gadget, a SLS ELT II development board with Altera MAX II picked up for £1.20 on eBay :-) It provides 240 programmabl...

Recently I started to look for an alternative programming font after spending far too many hours staring at Courier New. I needed to find a ...

Anyone who owned a home computer in the 80's would have been intimately familiar with the character set. Although it was possible to red...