Exciting news! An extract from Curious Video Game Machines – the book I wrote last year – has been published online in The Guardian, and you can read it right here:
How one engineer beat restrictions on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia
The extract is from a chapter on the Galaksija, a wonderfully clever little computer designed by Voja Antonic in 1983. It was difficult to get hold of computers in Yugoslavia at the time as a result of the country’s strict import laws, so Voja came up with the idea of a low-cost computer you could build yourself, then published the instructions for how to make one in a magazine.
I’ve already seen a welcome boost in book sales thanks to the extract being published – and if you’d like to read the book yourself, you can order it direct from the UK publisher right here, as well as via Amazon UK, WH Smith, Waterstones, Blackwell’s, Hive, and various other book stores.
If you’re in North America, you can order Curious Video Game Machines direct from the US publisher Casemate, and it’s also available through Amazon US and Barnes and Noble, among others.
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 
Leave a Reply