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Technologies of Christmas past

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

The grandest Christmas traditions have been with us for centuries, and many will doubtless stick around for centuries more. Trees, gifts and alcoholic exuberance come to mind.

But we techie types have some more modern rituals too. Online Christmas shopping, for example. Loading up your Sky+ Box or Windows Media Center with films you’ll never watch. And, of course, hiding away in the study while you get to grips with this year’s must-have PC game.

For many of us, these customs are as much a part of the Yuletide season as wassailing and mulled wine; yet the technology that makes them possible has only come into being within the past few decades. And as 2010 comes knocking, I find myself looking back over Christmases of the past and marvelling at the huge advances we’ve made within my lifetime to get here. (more…)

Tags: amiga, Christmas, retro, spectrum, Windows, ZX80

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Video game music: the readers’ favourites

Friday, June 12th, 2009

$The super-catchy theme tune to Bubble Bobble was a reader\'s favourite.$ My recent blog post exploring some of the PC Pro team’s favourite retro game themes sparked plenty of debate – and a whole hatful of fantastic suggestions from readers. So here’s a run-down of some of your favourite gaming music:

The first clutch of responses perhaps gave away the age of some readers, with plenty of people citing C64 classics: Ryan Thomas reminisced about the superb music that often accompanied Ocean games, as well as the themes from Shadowfire, Parallax and Zoids, which is featured in this fantastic video, which crams 100 C64 themes in to frenzied, synth-filled 10 minutes and probably took weeks to assemble.

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Tags: amiga, bubble bobble, c64, homeworld, morrowind, red alert, tetris, theme tune, unreal tournament, worms