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There was a time I had Amiga 600. Very good machine 🙂 Very good graphics and sound! Do you remember the game Another World? It was probably the first game in the world in which the character was animated by real actor. I spent on it many, many, many hours. Orginal intro of the game. And now look at the new version prepared by the Polish company MNONO, director Bartek Hławka (www.mnono.pl/index.php/en/p/about_us). Theys spent on this project about 800 hours […]

1984 (as in Orwell), Iron Maiden came to a concert in Poznan Arena. Musicians stayed overnight at the hotel Merkrury and as true Heavy metal players they decided to drop out for a drink. The closest active restaurant (remember this was 1984) Adria was located right next to the hotel and Poznan Fair. It turned out, however, that there is a problem to get inside due to a wedding party. The name of the band acted as an „open sesame” […]

„In 1776, while America was declaring its independence from England, and bodies were piling up in the American revolutionary war, a priest and grave digger in the small Polish town of Czermna, (a kilometer to the north of Kudowa Zdroj) were also busy piling up bodies, but for a very different purpose” [1]. The chapel was built in 1776 by the Czech local parish priest Wacław Tomaszek. It is the mass grave of people who died during the Thirty Years’ […]

Following wikipedia: The Fiat 126 (Type 126) is a city car introduced in October 1972 at the Turin Auto Show[1] as a replacement for theFiat 500. Some were produced in Bielsko-Biała, Poland as the Polski Fiat 126p until 2000. It was replaced by the front-engined Fiat Cinquecento in 1993. Nowadays it is almost imposible to find it on Polish roads… 🙁 I had one… bascially it was a piece of @#$@#!@#!@#