Remember the days before beautiful CGI was everywhere? Newtek's Video Toaster was revolutionary, now largely forgotten.
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10:34 am Mon
Dec 3, 2018
The Newtek 'Video Toaster' was pretty exciting
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Buying a Commodore Amiga 30 years later, just to play games
Thirty years after its mostly-European heydey, the Commodore Amiga remains a cult favorite with a huge library of excellent and often weird games to discover. But what if emulation isn’t your idea of fun? This guy went out and bought a real one. The Amiga still has an active and faithful community, and it’s thanks […]
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Edit and merge PDFs easily with this game-changing Mac app
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