I wrote this article. I can't take credit for the 'yes' idea, but some of these scammer's reactions were funny. I feel like I caught a few of them at the end of a long day.

If at first you don't succeed...

A review of Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl, two sports games from the late 80s/early 90s that still have a following.

This is the first time I've used a Lettera 22, and I can see what the hype is all about. It is a true pleasure to type with this machine. This one is even better than I expected, since it has a Spanish keyboard with n-tildes, accents, and umlauts. The cent/@ key is used for semicolon/colon, so I won't be writing any email addresses with this Lettera.

The serial number is 158503.

If anyone has a catalog of Olivetti typewriters they could share, I am curious about their name for this chrome/silver finish.

This dog track is actually on the official state map, listed as Peoria.

Some other "non-towns" like this include the mining town of Gilman, south of Leadville, and Shaffer's Crossing on 285.

Here is the fall 2025 issue of Quarter Up, a free online magazine about pinball and retro arcade gaming.

In this issue, AT Gonzalez interviews Luke "Launch" Tran, a tourney organizer and a fixture of Houston's fighting game community.

Also, Andres Alcoser covers the rivalry between two arcade cabinets of the 2000s: the Taito Vewlix and the Namco Noir.

Later, Lee Tursi goes over Namco's ill-fated ShiftyLook, an attempt to popularize their more obscure titles.

Also in this issue, a preview of this month's Houston Arcade Expo, views from the road, and questions from readers.

Enjoy!

I found this Selectric III at a thrift store in my area, and it was in good enough shape that my repair guy could work on it. I think he did an outstanding job. I bought the paper-ruler thing, he replaced a broken platen knob, and I bought a Prestige Elite element to go with it.

I have been told that the dark brown color is very rare for a III.

I’m not sure if I’ll keep this one or sell it, but it’s certainly one of my top thrift store finds. The hum of the motor is so relaxing while I’m writing. The keyboard feels great, and the text is so clean on the page.

need help

I owned a different Selectric III in the past, and I could have sworn it had a different keyboard setup. I absolutely do not remember the keys for 2 and 3 exponents, or the key in the bottom-left for the paragraph symbol.

Am I imagining things? Did the III have different keyboards?

If you've ever wondered about what it's like to live in the mountains, you might find this article interesting.

Hello freedos,

I've installed FreeDOS 1.3 on a Dell Inspiron 1150, A Windows XP-era laptop. This laptop has an Intel Celeron 2.6 GHZ CPU, and it had 256 MB of RAM when I pulled it out of a bin at the landfill.

The laptop will run FreeDOS in safe mode, but it will not run JEMMEX with no EMS, JEMMEX, or JEMM386. It will only run in safe mode or emergency mode. I upgraded the RAM to 256 MB, this made no difference.

For now, I'm able to run most of the DOS games, and I can use Vim, that's all I really care about. I just wanted to ask if this is normal functionality, or if something is not working right.