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Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on
On its 30th anniversary, we look at the groundbreaking product's enduring legacy.
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That time Roger Ebert said games will never be as worthy as movies
From the archives: 15 years ago around Thanksgiving, Ebert set video game Internet ablaze.
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Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
From the archives: IBM doesn't make consumer desktop OSes anymore for a reason.
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A history of the Amiga, part 12: Red vs. Blue
Amiga was now an independent company again, but trouble was brewing.
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A history of the Amiga, part 11: Between an Escom and a Gateway
The Amiga didn't go away with Commodore, but its future was uncertain.
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The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died
A new Amiga computer emerges that is both modern and an Amiga.
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A history of the Amiga, part 10: The downfall of Commodore
The Amiga was a machine ahead of its time, but Commodore was in trouble.
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People still use the Amiga today, and new Viva Amiga documentary shows why
Debuting at MAGfest this weekend, new film gathers devs and fans across Amiga decades.
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A history of the Amiga, part 9: The Video Toaster
Jeremy Reimer's long-running History of the Amiga series is back to tackle the killer app.
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Heirs of Infocom: Where interactive fiction authors and games stand today
Mobile devices are helping authors present their stories to a new audience.
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A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene
Where else could you have "a hand in creating things that were so damn cool?”
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1998’s most intriguing OS, 15 years later: Hands-on with Haiku alpha 4
Nostalgia runs high, but is the BeOS reboot more than an interesting diversion?
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From Altair to iPad: 35 years of personal computer market share
Data shows that smartphones and tablets have been adopted far faster than PCs.
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Butterfly milking and pig nibbling: building the strange world of Glitch
The Web-based, free-to-play, massively multiplayer game Glitch is headed by a …
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“For the swarm!” Inside the world of professional StarCraft players
First in Korea and now in the US, StarCraft players have gone pro. Ars attends …
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The Dawn of Starcraft: e-Sports come to the world stage
Ars's own Jeremy Reimer is addicted to StarCraft—not so much playing, but …
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Looking back at the Infocom era: A review of Get Lamp
Jason Scott's Get Lamp is a wonderful documentary about the text-based …
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Shadow of the 16-bit Beast: an Amiga gaming retrospective
The Amiga was born a game machine, but it entered a world where the video game …
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Information Technology
Know anyone who worked as game dev for the Commodore Amiga?
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First look: Opera 10 faster with new features
Opera 10 has arrived and finds itself needing to stand out in an increasingly …
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The prospects of Microsoft Word in the wiki-based world
What will the future look like for office productivity behemoth Microsoft Word …
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Product News & Reviews
A history of the Amiga, part 7: Game on!
In the latest installment of our popular history of the Amiga, Ars looks back …
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Hands on: Opera 9.5 beta 2 improves speed, adds features
Opera has released Beta 2 of the 9.5 version of their web browser, and we've …
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Between black and white: the state of grayware on the PC
Grayware claims to offer a useful service, but unwanted software tags along …
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Product News & Reviews
From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems
From the mainframe to the Mac mini and from BFS to ZFS, Ars explores the past …
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Rogers Unlimited data plan not so unlimited after all
Canadian network provider Rogers has introduced a new "unlimited" mobile …
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A history of the Amiga, part 6: stopping the bleeding
Ars continues its retelling of the history of the Amiga. Part six explores the …
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Hunting trolls: USPTO asked to reexamine broad image patent
An anonymous sponsor has submitted a lengthy request for the reexamination of …
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Bavarian government caught looking for Skype backdoor
The government of the German province of Bavaria has been contracting out the …
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The ocean as watercooler: floating data centers stay cool
A startup called IDS is coming out of stealth mode to announce its plans to …
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Microsoft loosens database licensing for Web Server 2008
A report from CRN points at a new and less restrictive licensing policy for …
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Gaming & Entertainment
Class action lawsuit targets Microsoft for Xbox Live outages
A group of Texans have launched a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for …
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Microsoft patents frustration-detecting help system
A new Microsoft patent could head off computer frustration by using biometric …
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Patently busy: IBM filing 10 patents/day in technology
The annual patent survey by the IEEE shows that IBM had the most software …
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Reality check: what we know (and don’t) about Windows 7
Only a year after Vista first shipped, anxious Windows fans are already …
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