News (2026)
We published an interview with Petr Tuček and his games
Petr Tuček - born in 1970 in Prague - is the creator of several small ZX Spectrum games from the late 1980s, all of which we preserved in 2026. We have published both the interview and the games themselves on our website.
An article about a Czechoslovak television game prototype
At this year's ByteFest, we unveiled a rare TV tennis prototype from TESLA-VÚST. Jiří Bernášek wrote an article about this rarity on our website, summarizing its history and explaining how it works. We scanned and published the magazine Doupě
After a summer break, we're bringing you another scan of a Czech game magazine, this time it's Doupě. Doupě began in the summer of 1999 as an online game magazine published by Computer Press. Starting from 2005, it evolved into a monthly print publication coming out eleven times a year. Předělali jsme náš Discord!
Předělali jsme náš Discord! V rámci hledání nových dobrovolníků jsme předělali náš Discord, který je teď přehlednější a doplněn o nové komunitní funkce! Robot Karel on a vinyl record and a video about his digitization
Tomáš Bartovský, author of the Czech version of Robot Karel, donated two vinyl records with usage instructions to our archive last year. After thorough digitization, which also involved Jan Heřman, we managed to extract several old programs from the records. A video was created about this digitization process. We have created a cleaning mechanism for 3,5″ floppy disks
Following the one for 8″ flopies, for 3,5″ floppies too we have made a cleaning mechanism in cooperation with Birdbrain. Compared to previous solutions, it provides capability for cleaning floppy disks from both sides. Become a volunteer for the Herní historie association!
Within our association, we've been working for 11 years to popularize and preserve both local and global game history. Our activities are principally nonprofit, and that's why in the long run, we're relying on the activities of volunteers, who contribute to the group's activities in their free time. And now's the time when you can join in too! We created a cleaning mechanism for 8″ floppy disks
Recently, in collaboration with Birdbrain, we created a cleaning mechanism for 8″ floppy disks. You can also print the mechanism on your own 3D printer. We digitized journals of the Prague Hi-Fi club
Some time ago, we received on loan for digitization the journals of the Prague Hi-Fi club from 1972-1997. Thanks to its focus on consumer electronics, it occasionally contains interesting observations about computing technology, and the club also played a small role in the prehistory of video games in Czechoslovakia. We gave our game magazine database a new look
We improved our game magazine database. The new database naturally has a better and clearer user interface, but most importantly, you can find in it links to magazine scans (both from us and from other sources). Video about our IQ 151 by Andrew Tesla
We recently got our hands on a special piece of the IQ 151 computer, which doesn't have the classic keyboard made from telephone buttons, but features a beautiful mechanical keyboard. This IQ was borrowed by the Andrew Tesla channel, who made a video about this beauty. We digitized the entire PSM2 magazine
PSM2 started publishing in Czechia in February 2002 by the same publisher as the Official PS Magazine and Score. The editor-in-chief was Jan Bludr Modrák, same as OPSM. The price was 99 CZK, but there was no demo disc included. Only 16 issues of PSM2 were published, the last one in May 2003. We digitized the entire magazine. We are participating in the exhibition Disc Cannot Be Read
We have received the opportunity to participate in the exhibition Disk nelze načíst (Disc Cannot Be Read) - an exhibition by the Vašulka Kitchen team focusing on the history of analog, (pre) digital technologies, media, and artistic experiments from around the early 1990s.