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British Software's Golden Age depicted through a composition featuring a ZX Spectrum, cassette tapes, and an Amiga set against a blurred 1980s British home computing environment.

British Software’s Golden Age: How UK Game Studios Changed the World (and Still Shape It Today)

21 July 2025 Tom Davies 0

Dive into the heart of British Software’s Golden Age, exploring how vintage computing culture and limited hardware sparked unmatched creativity and innovation in the game development scene.

Tech Brief - 16 July 2025 portrays an 8-bit pixel art scene with a central motif of a stylised computer and smaller objects like a vinyl record, USB stick, and tiny hydrogen car, all illustrative of the key topics discussed in the tech brief.

Tech Brief – 16 July 2025: MoD cyber breach, hydrogen cars, vinyl revival

16 July 2025 Tom Davies 2

Tech Brief – 16 July 2025 reveals urgent updates across digital security, transport technology, and retro hardware. It keenly addresses significant data breaches, the pivot from hydrogen vehicles, and a resurgence in vinyl culture, highlighting the evolving interplay between legacy systems and new technologies.

Part 5: Hack the Dictator – Spain’s Wild 8-Bit Golden Age

31 May 2025 Tom Davies 0

In 1980s Spain, kids didn’t just play games — they copied them, hacked them, and built a golden age of bedroom-born code. This is the punk history of Spain’s homegrown 8-bit rebellion.

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