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Nostalgia Nerd
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Nostalgia Nerd is a personal blog at nostalgianerd.com about games, history and hardware. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The great Commodore brand heist”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for retro computing history, with commenters citing its posts on Commodore, Atari, Nintendo, Timex, Amstrad and the Tomy Tutor. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
YouTuber, Twitch Partner, Author and Retro Fanatic Specialising in Gaming, Computing & Dryness
Most-linked posts?
- The great Commodore brand heist2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-04
What Hacker News says?
I'm endlessly fascinated by the stories that come out about the execs dealings during that period. How they were offered and passed on being the American distributor for the NES (all because the exec saw Donkey Kong running on a Coleco Adam at CES). [0] And how they funded but f'ed up the deal with the Amiga chipset (it should have been theirs but Commodore stole it at the 11'th hour). [1] Or how they were illegally…
Comment linking /the-amiga-story/
on “How Nintendo bled Atari games to death”Submitted The great Commodore brand heist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI believe my first "computer" could have been the toy version of the Tomy Tutor: https://www.nostalgianerd.com/tomy-tutor/
Comment linking /tomy-tutor/
on “After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor”Submitted The Pains of Installing Windows '98 on a "Modern" Machine (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnd some trace the history of Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings back to this factory and the local boom in computers it produced, with one of the Rockstar North founders working in the Timex factory before creating his first game: https://www.nostalgianerd.com/from-dma-to-gta-the-story-of-d...
Comment linking /from-dma-to-gta-the-story-of-dma-design/
on “March 5, 1981: Timex Sinclair ZX81 Launched (2018)”This wouldn't be complete without mentioning the enhanced CGA version a lot of Europeans experienced via Amstrad/Schneider PCs in the 80s (they tended to be the cheapest way to get a PC here, back then). "The Amstrad used an "enhanced" CGA graphic mode, which could display 640x200 pixels with 16 colors (or grayscale)." http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=183&st=1 http://www.nostalgianerd.com/amstrad-p…
Comment linking /amstrad-pc1512
on “How CGA Graphics worked [video]”You accept the level of effort that you feel comfortable with. If it's too much, point to your contributor guidelines, which can literally just be a few lines like "We accept pull requests, but only if they're narrow and clean and can be easily understood and reasoned about." Or even, "Because of the surge in AI PRs, this project sadly but mostly happily no longer accepts external pull requests. Don't make us pull t…
Comment linking /on-the-internet-nobody-knows-youre-a-dog/
on “AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere”They don't own the trademarks, there's a lot of interesting history [1] and it seems a company called Polabe Holding [2] does. The allegation seems to be that they acquired Commodore USA assets which included a license to use the trademarks [3], but the company they were licensed from did not actually own the trademarks [4] and lost a lawsuit over it. I think this only scratches the surface, it seems like a delightf…
Comment linking /commodore-heist/
on “Commodore Branded Kickstarter Gets Hit by IP Troll”