What a great way to package the CD of the C64 Orchestra I blogged about earlier: the CD package is formed after the C64 keyboard.

My copy should already be on its way.

(Via Bright)

I did not realize I was getting that old, but this news arcticle made me aware that the Sinclair ZX Spectrum is celebrating its 25th birthday this month!

Oh the nostalgia! This is the machine I started to learn computers on, programmed my first lines in BASIC on, spend countless hours waiting for the games to load from tape... great memories!

I still own a working (albeit not my original) ZX Spectrum, and of course emulators on my phone, PSP and PC.

So thanks Clive for starting the 8 bit revolution at prices everyone could afford!

(Via Tweakers.net)

Some more retro stuff after the break (click read more).

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I recently bought a new PC with these specs:

Want your own favourite free suite of applications everywhere you go independent of the software installed at the PC you happen to be working at? Meet Portable Apps Suite! This gives you a complete office suite of applications running from an USB stick.

Portable Apps Suite Contains: Portable Firefox (web browser), Portable Thunderbird (email client), Portable OpenOffice.org (office suite), Portable AbiWord (word processor), Portable NVU (web editor), Portable Sunbird (calendar & task list), Portable FileZilla (FTP client), Portable Gaim (instant messenger) and will fit on a 256Mb USB thumbdrive.

Another brilliant flash about those days were 16 kB were enough to make a great game.

(Via Flabber)

For those times I am in a sentimental mood I still like playing my all time favourite Commodore 64 game: M.U.L.E. Click on the [read more] link below for some nostalgia.

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A month ago I bought myself a new PC (only didn't have time to put this message online before).

For those who are interested these are the specs of my new PC:

- CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+

- Mainboard: MSI K8T Neo FiSR2R

- Video: MadView Radeon 9800 Pro 128 Mb

- Harddisk: 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 120 Gb (Total: 240 Gb)

- Memory: 2x Infineon DDR400 512 Mb PC3200 (total memory 1 Gb)

- Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro

- DVD-Rom: Samsung SD616QEBB

- DVD-RW: Plextor PX-708A/T3B DVD+/-RW drive

- Floppy: Sony MPF920E

- Cooler: Cooler Master DK8-7I52D-01

- Case: Antec Sonata Piano Black Quiet

- Monitor: Iiyama E431S-B 17" TFT

- Keyboard & mouse: Logitech Cordless Desktop MX

- Modem: Etech FM56PCI-CTR21

- Router: Etech Professional VPN router

Together with my old PC I have now a nice home mini LAN ;-)