Why Sony Can’t Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models

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Sony cannot bring back its classic Walkman models due to the scarcity of original parts and the outdated technology that no longer meets current manufacturing standards. Additionally, producing these devices now would be cost-prohibitive and incompatible with modern consumer expectations, making a faithful revival impractical.

https://obsoletesony.substack.com/p/why-sony-cant-bring-back-classic-walkman

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Thin Ice Is a “Fun New Arcade Action Experience For The Commodore 64” From Ex-Gremlin & Core Design Devs

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Thin Ice, a new arcade action game for the Commodore 64, is set to release digitally on July 22nd. Developed by Christian Shrigley and Terry Lloyd, veterans of Gremlin Graphics and Core Design, the game features the Ice Dragon Binky navigating caverns to defeat various enemies by pushing ice blocks and activating fire breath abilities. Published by Thalamus Digital, it will be available as a D64 file compatible with retro hardware and emulators, with a physical edition planned soon.

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/07/thin-ice-is-a-fun-new-arcade-action-experience-for-the-commodore-64-from-ex-gremlin-and-core-design-devs

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Remembering the Best 1980s Computers for Gaming

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The article highlights key 1980s home computers that significantly influenced gaming and coding culture, including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC 464, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga 500, and IBM PC/MS-DOS clones. These systems offered innovative graphics, sound, and expandability that shaped early PC gaming, and modern recreations like the Speccy, Commodore 64 Ultimate, and A500 Mini enable contemporary players to experience their classic game libraries. The piece emphasizes how these open, experimental platforms provided alternative gaming experiences alongside popular consoles of the era.

https://www.keengamer.com/articles/features/remembering-the-best-1980s-computers-for-gaming/

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A New Retro and Gaming Exhibition Arrives Next Month at Kingston University

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Kingston University will host a free retro and gaming exhibition from August 5th to 11th, showcasing over 60 playable machines from the 1970s to today, including iconic consoles like the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Sega Megadrive, and Atari 2600. Organized by the Archive of Retro Computing, the event celebrates gaming history and the impact of early home computers and consoles in making computing accessible to the public. Following the exhibition, a permanent Archive of Retro Computing will be established at the university’s Penrhyn Road campus in London.

https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2026/07/21/a-new-retro-and-gaming-exhibition-arrives-next-month-at-kingston-university/

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Museum Of Endangered Sounds

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The Museum of Endangered Sounds, created by Brendan Chilcutt in 2012, aims to preserve the distinctive audio signatures of vintage technologies like VHS VCRs and Windows 95 startup sounds that are disappearing with modern digital devices. The site invites visitors to listen to these nostalgic sounds, emphasizing the cultural and technological loss as older machines become obsolete. Chilcutt plans to catalog these sounds thoroughly and develop a system to reinterpret them as binary compositions, highlighting the importance of preserving auditory aspects of computing history.

https://savethesounds.info/

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Macintosh Icons

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This visual catalog showcases 75,052 icons from retro Macintosh software, allowing users to explore a vast collection of classic application and document icons. Hovering over each icon reveals detailed information such as file name, country of origin, media source, and for Finder files, file type and creator codes. The catalog also provides links to the original software media hosted at Macintosh Garden for further exploration.

https://www.marciot.com/mac68k-visual-catalog/

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The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal

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In 1988, Scottish hi-fi maker Linn Products developed the Rekursiv, a custom silicon computer that implemented hardware-checked memory safety, garbage collection, and a unified persistent object store, embodying advanced concepts that only became mainstream decades later. Although it was commercially unsuccessful due to the rapid advancement of commodity RISC processors and economic factors, its architectural ideas have since re-emerged in modern systems like Arm’s CHERI and workload-specific processors. The Rekursiv’s story illustrates how innovation can be ahead of its time, with its principles now shaping current and future computing architectures.

https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/

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Before Alien: Isolation, a 1980s Commodore 64 Game Nailed First-Person Terror

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Released shortly after the US version, the UK-made Aliens: The Computer Game for Commodore 64 and other platforms took a distinct approach by stepping away from the film’s plot to deliver a more intense and frightening experience, pioneering first-person terror gameplay in the 1980s. Developed by Southampton-based Software Studios, this version differentiated itself through its atmospheric design and gameplay style, predating later survival horror titles like Alien: Isolation.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/before-alien-isolation-a-1980s-commodore-64-game-nailed-first-person-terror/

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Favorite Scam

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The advance-fee fraud or “419 scam,” often epitomized by emails from supposed Nigerian princes needing help to transfer large sums, traces back centuries to confidence tricks like the 19th-century Spanish Prisoner scam. Adapted over time to fit evolving communication technologies, these scams exploit narratives of corruption and political chaos, playing on stereotypes and Western cynicism about globalization and African nations, while often involving low-level scammers who are themselves marginalized in corrupt systems. Despite their notoriety and cultural impact, the scammers are usually minor actors, with the greatest profits flowing to higher-level figures engaged in complex fraud and corruption.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-history-of-the-internets-favorite-scam/

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More Emulation Goodness, an Intel Itanium (IA-64) Emulator That Boots Windows!

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An Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator named SKI, developed by Yufeng Gao and collaborators, has reached version 0.1 and is capable of booting the Itanium versions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP 64-bit, though performance is currently slow. While support for OpenVMS, HP-UX, and Linux/BSD is not yet available, this marks a significant milestone in emulation of the Itanium architecture, historically used mainly for HP-UX and OpenVMS systems, and no commercial emulators have existed so far. Additionally, a QEMU fork reportedly running Server 2008 on Itanium has emerged, pointing to ongoing developments in IA-64 emulation.

https://raymii.org/s/blog/Intel_Itanium_IA-64-Emulator_that_boots_Windows.html

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