Tasty » Adam Sampson's history bookmarks

Electrokinetica - Welcome edit / delete

London-based electromechical technology museum: they collect and restore things like generator sets and lifts. I came here via the excellent section on Compton church organs (the British equivalent of Hammond, using interestingly different technology).

to compton electric electronics history london museum organ retrotech ... on 27 August 2016

Hidden Palace edit / delete

"The Hidden Palace is a community dedicated to the preservation of video game development media (such as prototypes, hardware, source code, artwork, and more)." Very much console- and 90s-focussed.

to games history retrocomputing source ... on 09 July 2016

Southwest Museum Of Engineering, Communications and Computation - Arizona's Radio and Television Museum - Also History Of Computers and Computation (SMECC) edit / delete

The antidote to horrid Web 2.0 sites. (Semi-seriously -- there's lots of interesting stuff here!)

to history museum radio retrocomputing retrotech tv ... on 21 June 2016

unMAMEd arcade games edit / delete

Games that aren't in MAME -- in some cases because they don't actually exist ("Rhinoceros Bar Command").

to arcade emulation games history mame ... on 01 May 2016

David Haywood's Homepage | MAME work and other stuff edit / delete

Blog from one of the MAME authors with detailed descriptions of what's new in each release -- the yearly summaries here are great.

to arcade games history mame retrocomputing ... on 01 May 2016

CHIPFLIP | chipmusic and 8-bit art edit / delete

Various interesting articles about the demoscene and its impact on modern music. The "where are they now" list is very interesting...

to demo demoscene history music retrocomputing ... on 31 March 2016

Aaron's MAME Memories edit / delete

Some anecdotes on early MAME development.

to amusements emulation history mame ... on 19 March 2016

Nitrate Film Interest Group | Flickr - Photo Sharing! edit / delete

A project to identify unlabelled films -- with a remarkable amount of success. Plus the screenshots are interesting to look through.

to film history media retrotech ... on 19 March 2016

Global Mariner edit / delete

Lots of pictures of ships from the 1950s-1970s -- everything from enormous tankers down to Chinese junks.

to history maritime retrotech ships transport ... on 16 March 2016

Taybus Vintage Vehicle Society edit / delete

If you see a suspiciously old bus around Dundee, it's probably this (Arbroath-based) society...

to bus dundee history retrotech transport ... on 16 March 2016