That’s a common thing for old people to say. That everything was better in the past. Much, much better. Easier, quieter, friendlier, politer, greener. Being Greg McRetro, this is a thing worth investigating. It seems pretty much all the old folks from all generations think that, one way or the other, everything was better in the past. What’s going on here? Read more…

In our world, events go by and never return, they end up in a huge receptacle called The Past. Most of us desperately try to cling onto The Past by taking pictures, shooting videos, writing in diaries. All to save and archive memories. In the end however, most everyday stuff will get lost and inevitably be forgotten. For some, yours truly included, that’s difficult to accept. Being Greg McRetro, I find myself constantly searching for ways to deal with this crap. Read more…

In my previous post I was talking about the creativity needed to see a castle and a moat in a rectangular shape with a line underneath, as depicted in a fictional retro game. As a kid, I didn’t have any problems seeing the castle and the moat. And therefore thoroughly enjoyed playing these games. 30 years later, that’s different. Read more…

One day, somewhere in the second half of the 80s, my dad came home with that infamous bread bin and from that point on, things changed. I learned how to program in BASIC, even tapped direclty into the C64 core with some assembler code, which definitely was the foundation for me being a software engineer nowadays. Aside from the obvious educational purposes, having a computer with a 16 color display and a 6581 SID sound chip on board made it suitable for another, very pleasant, form of pasttime: gaming. Read more…