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TAR News Archive

A collection of our news articles and updates, spanning over 20 years!


Legacy News #1048

It occurred to me, the acronym CGA - for Classic Gaming Archive - also stands for Colour Graphics Adapter, a computer display standard on the PC back in the early 80s.

"CGA could display 8025 or 4025 character text in 16 colours, 640200 pixels bitmap graphics in 2 colours or 320200 in 4 colours, consisting of two palletes: either cyan, magenta, black, and white or green, red, yellow, and black" - from Wikipedia

I'm not sure if they've got anything quite that old, but still an interesting...

Legacy News #1047

The big new item today is: Diskworld and Classic Games have shut their doors, with the guys behind those sites joining forces to bring us a new project: Classic Gaming Archive. Of course, seeing as Diskboy is a part of the team I'm sort of contractually obliged to say how great this site is. So go and take a look!

Elsewhere in the world of Abandonware, The Joystick, Abandonware Long Polish Name and XTC have each added a few games. Dosgames Online has implemented a comments system, Abandonro...

Legacy News #1046

Today sees the return of The Gaming Depot, after 3 months offline. We're aways glad to have another quality side on-board here, tho if any of the team is reading this: the screenshots aren't showing up in Mozilla for some reason...

We also have a number of updates from our regulars... see above. I can't be arsed to run though 'em all tonight, but keep up the good work guys!

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